Do the thing that makes you want to die the most. Go write your book.

It's like how the New Yorker has the Dandy and the Paris Review has Paris, we have Taco Bell's intellectual property. We just make this shit up in the literary world!

Hey all, spent the last two weeks recovering from top surgery! Healing well and getting back into my hobbies like making a Literary Magazine for fun! Responding soon for TBQ8! Still faster than the New Yorker even with a massive chest wound!

I truly hope someone who does this submits a piece to @tacobellquarterly.org, an unaffiliated literary magazine that’s in the library of congress

Add a few Tylenol and you got yourself a proper food pyramid.

Literally ordering Taco Bell right now because of this.

Speaking in my unofficial role as the most official looking Taco Bell account here, everyone quit because work sucks and they don't pay enough

It's the "quarterly" that does it for me

Baja Blasting away from the restraints of gender norms

Damn this explains a lot actually

I never ever thought i'd celebrate a blue check, and now I'm all fuck fuckin' yes!

Lording it over the Paris Review. We are the Literary World's Prestigious, Notable and Recognized Taco Bell Quarterly.

Just make up a literary arts organization and max out a credit card and you too can be a Literary Writer

Band name: Quadraspoon

Literary writing: This might be the one thing you could do better than anyone else in the world!

Spent all day writing a piece I'm certain is going to get rejected. Fuck it. Keep writing. A little rejection is not going to stop me from pounding the keyboard

There is no God, start an academy/university.

We did it @tacobellquarterly.org, we started a lit mag 🔥🔥🔥

Just got a table for AWP. There's only like seven left! I was going to pick the one across from Iowa but there was a $100 premium surcharge! So we'll be in a dimly late corner instead! Come see my midlife crisis in its hometown show!

Sometimes you gotta take an edible, attempt some chaotic notes app poetry, and then say fuck it and send it (and a somewhat unhinged message) to @tacobellquarterly.org 😳 Because why the fuck not? The world is on fire, make the move

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

I didn't know you were allowed to give away this secret.

I casually said “oh that sounds cool, can I get in on that” and I ended up in a book with Bill fucking Watterson somehow. Just go for it.

counterpoint: I know what I'm doing

This is 100% how I got my book deal

Absolutely none of us know what we're doing. Become a writer

just write stuff that no one will ever care about, forever

I didn't know @tacobellquarterly.org had moved into Marina Abramovic-styled art.

It's not a career. It's not a calling. It's a terminal hobby. You will die doing this. Become a writer.

Are you even doing creative writing right if it's not damaging your psyche? The book will not save you. Nothing is salvageable in any of these piles of shit just like usual!

Hey, I'm doing drugs and reading subs. If you have something Literary and your process is last minute and chaotic and you missed the window, email it to me or shoot it through our secret TBQ8 Straggler submittable opening. We pay $150.

Who wants the scale to empire when you could just write silly love poems

🖤🌮Living Más Intensifies🌮🖤

Submitted something to @tacobellquarterly.org on a whim because sometimes, you gotta live más and Baja Blast your shot

Taking a mental week off and then writing each of you back personally telling you my favorite parts and lines in the next couple of months! Let's make TBQ8! If you have something you want to send for consideration and missed the window, who cares? There are no rules. email it to me. We pay $150!

Why is this so true

I turned my book in @scribnerbooks.bsky.social today, and I swear to whoever is running the account, you can add Taco Bell Quarterly next to Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Corporate at Simon and Schuster already said it was already okay to add me in the bio, totally legit

AS WE SPEAK my students are reading works from @angelluiscolon.com, @pauljgarth.bsky.social, @inauthenticity.bsky.social @tacobellquarterly.org @theptessadactyl.bsky.social @shotgunhoney.com @macarrick.bsky.social @melissaragsly.bsky.social and others!

I hate writing and myself. It's great, really.

This is a description of creative writing @theonion.com

Tonight: Unsealing the Taco Bell Tape An 8mm training video. Dated 1-96. English. Spanish. Possibly forbidden. We don’t know what’s on it. But it trained a generation of taco technicians. 9PM Eastern #TacoBell #TrainingTape #LostMedia #VHS @tacobellquarterly.org

My writing degree still advertises its flexible online classes to me in the sponsored section of Gmail is my villain origin story

My book is due in 14 days and then I'm responding to everyone personally telling you my favorite part in your piece

Slow down, you haven't run out of agents to query. Your agent hasn't even decided where they're getting their MFA, and you haven't had the crisis that your book is actually about yet!

You don't have to be cool in the literary world. Don't even worry about it. The ones that think they are cool are the biggest nerds of them all. You're doing fine

The fact that I haven't been sued by Taco Bell is how I know the literary world isn't real and you can do whatever you want. No one will ever hear of this in real life. It's only creative writing. It's fine. Write what you want and live más.

My original headline for this article would have been just “Fuck You” or “shut the fuck up, asshole” but I can’t get away with that unfortunately

This is the summer of writing with self-discipline and pain like taking medicine every day

This post single-handedly destroyed my entire family. Thanks TBQ. #livemàs

Why did TBQ just read me for filth?