Stuck in your writing project? Never underestimate the power of the smallest engagement with your story: read a paragraph, think about it while on a walk, record your thoughts. The smallest engagement can crack open the door to breakthroughs & flow. Whenever you struggle, lower the bar for yourself.

The Bearded Bards of BlueSky are back!!!! Join us online for two readings featuring stellar lineups of amazing poets and writers to raise funds for @translifeline.org. Check out the website for details (including zoom registration link): beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

NBCC member Edna Bonhomme reviewed Yiyun Li's "Things in Nature Merely Grow" for the Berlin Review:

Let's get them fired next.

Chickenshit losers.

Tonight! I'll be talking about animated adaptations of SFF books at Ridgewood Public Library beginning at 6:30! www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/aut...

I'll be reading a story at This Friday, THIS FRIDAY, Sept 26 at Taix in Echo Park, along with Mariah Flores, Jesse Pearson, Nick Plett, Zara Schuster, & Gabby Jones. Show starts at 7pm, and is RSVP only. To RSVP, send $10 to co-host @evanlaffer via Venmo. Hope to see you there!

Saw Pulp Fiction last week & remembered a thing I wrote on my lil blog when Dalkey posted a ridiculous call for an intern (miss u early lit internet ❤️💾), and was surprised to find Vice had reprinted it: The Gimp From Pulp Fiction Applies for Dalkey Archive Internship. www.vice.com/en/article/t...

Thanks to @speculativeinsight.bsky.social for letting me go long on books set in other versions of London, with nods to the work of Alan Moore, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, and @steveaylett.bsky.social.

And ICYMI and want to read it, I had this flash fiction out about space and time and other chances

@1111press.bsky.social @wakeisland.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @kernpunktpress.bsky.social @altcurrent.bsky.social

NBCC member Ron Slate reviewed several books for On The Seawall:

Always love this stage of publication, when your book starts looking like a book! Coming in April 2026 from @masonjarpress.bsky.social!

If @deepdive.audio makes one more sale before midnight tonight PST, we'll hit our goal for the first month.

Would you, yes you, like to review this pretty book at your favorite venue? Or, perhaps, interview its very pleasant* author? *Ymmv

NBCC member Kurt Baumeister reviewed Giano Cromley's "American Mythology" for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

Any recs for books to read aloud in small stretches? I'm making a habit of reading to my daughter each night, but as she's too young to understand also using it as an excuse to read some good books aloud. (Last two were Beowulf [Headley trans.] and David Berman's poems.) Fagles's Iliad next?

So happy to have my words included in this tribute to John Domini. Thanks to Joe Salvatore and the Brooklyn Rail for putting together such a lovely last dance for John. brooklynrail.org/tribute/a-tr...

So happy to have my words included in this tribute to John Domini. Thanks to Joe Salvatore and the Brooklyn Rail for putting together such a lovely last dance for John. brooklynrail.org/tribute/a-tr...

Sports team names that could also be Doctor Who episodes: Hamburg Sea Devils.

NBCC member Kurt Baumeister interviewed Cynthia Weiner for Vol. 1 Brooklyn:

NBCC member and John Leonard Prize reader Claude Peck wrote about poet James Schuyler for Rain Taxi Review of Books on the occasion of the publication by FSG of "A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler" by Nathan Kernan:

NBCC member Robert Allen Papinchak reviewed "Live Fast," written by Brigitte Giraud and translated from the French by Cory Stockwell, in the print edition of World Literature Today:

NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub interviewed Jeff Weiss for The Orange County Register:

NBCC member Kurt Baumeister was interviewed by Ben Tanzer for The National Book Review:

In this Episode 289 clip, @jahmalmayfield.bsky.social⁩ describes the dynamic opening of his thoughtful and action-packed novel. Buy the riveting Smoke Kings from @melvillehouse.bsky.social: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743062... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

If you're not still experiencing childlike wonder at Taco Bell I'm sorry but that's on you

Super grateful to @ajc.com for this insightful review of the "delightfully morbid and sardonically humorous" ALL TRAP NO BAIT! Coming soon to a Printers Row Lit Fest near you... www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

Over at @barrelhouse.bsky.social I interviewed @austinross.bsky.social about his truly awesome paranoid thriller of a novel, GLORIA PATRI, the process of writing the book over many years, how much querying agents sucks, January 6, and Patrick Swayze movies. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/an-inte...

Wasn't Trump CONVICTED of mortgage fraud himself?

The next writer I’d like to thank for writing a blurb for my novel is @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social...

My first short story in, like, two years is out today. The only true thing in this story is that I did once see Ron Goldman's dad in a mall.

@1111press.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @altcurrent.bsky.social @xraylitmag.bsky.social @fullstopmag.bsky.social @johnreedwrites.ft.com

these targeted ads are starting to get my attention

Baltimore friends, it would be amazing to see you next Saturday! www.theivybookshop.com/event/hannah...

Still stoked about the Arabic translations of my sci-fi series Orange City and Lemon World released in Egypt. They’re just so purdy.

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAYS are for book covers ❤️ Contributor @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social has a cover reveal for their forthcoming book EVERY GALAXY A CIRCLE from @jacklegpress.bsky.social ✨ buff.ly/bOusSjV

Guys, if you haven't already, would you puh-lease consider buying a copy and/or leaving a rating/review of TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? Puh-lease? Writers need this stuff, like seriously. If you've already done one, two, or all of the above, you have my eternal gratitude. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Guys, if you haven't already, would you puh-lease consider buying a copy and/or leaving a rating/review of TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? Puh-lease? Writers need this stuff, like seriously. If you've already done one, two, or all of the above, you have my eternal gratitude. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

NBCC member Kelly Schoenegge, the editor of Broad Ripple Review, shares that the magazine is looking for a reviews/interviews editor. Current NBCC membership is preferred. Interested writers can apply here:

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New SpotLIT up at @wcp.bsky.social today! Lots of shout outs, including @bookbent.bsky.social's new novel on the top of my TBR pile! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7694...

NBCC Vice President/Online Michael Schaub talked to Jonathan Parks-Ramage about "It’s Not the End of the World" for The Orange County Register:

Thank god the natl guard is here at the Nats stadium to protect us from *checks notes* *checks notes* *checks notes* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Correction: that’s not a reporter.

I love that the cicada hordes arrived a year late here in Maryland. I don’t blame them.

My delivery order of “the abyss staring back at me” just arrived!