Teaching a fiction workshop on abolition. (All writing is political. Writers make political arguments whether we want to or not.) Anyway, found an amazing flash piece for the workshop and wanted to share it. Daily reads: Megan Giddons in @theoffingmag.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/fiction/the-...

Drop an old person you’re going to turn into in the future

Man...this topic was the last straw that ended my relationship with my twins' father. The fact that he didn't understand why I couldn't work two jobs, breast feed two babies, and finish my degree at the same time.

really excited about this grant! please apply if you're a queer nature writer who would like $500!

You're so close! Just a little push and you'll make it! 🚀 Keep going, you’ve got this! 💪✨ #SFFWriters #AlmostThere #KeepWriting

Friday is August 1st and the kick-off for this year's Sealey Challenge!! buff.ly/9GbHZii

Trains approach them like ghosts, the way a husband returning after midnight slips under the covers, keeping his cold feet at a distance. ~from "Small-Town Stations" by Luljeta Lleshanaku (trans. from the Albanian by Ani Gjika) AGNI Online

"The sky is deepening into sunset, and a breeze raises goosebumps on Robyn’s arm, as if she’s been touched by a ghost. The whole beach, she feels suddenly, is full of ghosts." Daily reads: Jenny Williamson in @terrainorg.bsky.social ❤️

"Her ex-boyfriend said it would make it easy to pick her out of a lineup, would make it easy for him to track her down if she ever left him, which, of course, she did. " Daily reads @christinaltudor.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social ❤️

"For a moment, Eleanor stood quiet, thinking about Moxies I through VII and the curse of living longer than one’s pets. How much love made sorrow worthwhile?" This story is weird, disturbing, delightful! @authorthealiu.bsky.social @unchartedmag.bsky.social

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Passionfruit" by Jen Feroze (@jenferoze.bsky.social‬) #tbt stonecirclereview.com/passionfruit/

Lightning Response Weekend is BACK! We're reading nonstop for 72 hours—every piece submitted between Friday & Monday gets a response within 24 hours. Get your work ready and submit when the window’s open! 👉 Submit: fahmidanjournal.submittable.com/submit

"Tonight I miss you a vacant lot. Most of all after moonbathing when our shadows blistered and we peeled them off each other like snake skins. The oyster shell moon is no help and I say so. Also wrinkly: our clothes on the shore." @rorty.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️

"The leviathan is lonely, but only in two of its hearts. It feels the loneliness creep toward the third, and fears how it might change, if it were to reach." Daily reads: Rachel Sudbeck in @smallwondersmag.com ❤️

My thing is...if you dated a MAGA cop, why do we have to know about it? Like keep that to yourself...

Went to a fairy disco this past weekend 🧚‍♂️

Sometimes a writer titles a poem so brilliantly and apropos of your feelings, you’re compelled to read it. Then you realize that it’s not just the title but the whole poem that speaks to you. “All the fucks I give (are so, so many)” by Maia Brown-Jackson @andyetpoetry is out Sunday, July 27th!

These are straight-up "Nazi concentration camp back when they were just passively killing the inmates through horrible conditions" conditions.

After some gentle re-wiring and soldering, the website is back! If you missed Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi's poem, now's an excellent time to read it. smallwondersmag.com/piece/i-beg-...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest opens Aug 1st! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

ICYMI today's story is Black-Red by Nora Esme Wagner. Please follow the link and enjoy #flashfiction #shortstory #writingcommunity fictivedream.com/2025/07/18/b...

"For now it was all adventure and discovery. And such a discovery she would make this day. She heard singing by the river and ran to the edge and there she found the head pushed up into the mud." Daily reads: Jennifer Marie Brissett in Vice ❤️ #blackfemmespec www.vice.com/en/article/a...

My hope, brittle, shatters as things look dark tonight The black music sings. No one is happy tonight. The last time I saw you was in the market aisle And I’m nostalgic as I think of you tonight. Read more by Ayiyi Joel in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch

"“Grockles” they call us here, meaning those of us from another place. The dogs are in the back seat of the car, panting, impatient for the beach, for a run on the sand, for a lick of the seaweed." Daily reads: @kerryhp.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social ❤️

Almost 10 months without our @tinu.bsky.social and this still hasn't been finished for her family! Please, if Tinu, her life and legacy meant something to you, please help get this done for her family! We're so close to the end now! If you can't help, please share!💖 www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-t...

Authors who are parents? Slow clap to you if you were able to write anything at all while your crumbsnatchers were running around causing havoc this summer. You deserve an award and maybe a glass of wine

Still trying to raise enough money to pay my bills for the rest of the month! Please share. #transcrowdfund ko-fi.com/dare2dream/g...

New from Reckoning 9, "The Pelican in its Piety" by @slharris.bsky.social, a monster story, about as dark as we ever get, about oil spill cleanup in the Gulf of Mexico, orthodoxy, parental expectations, and doing something despite everything: reckoning.press/the-pelican-...

"I drape myself over the ship’s mermaid figurehead (tiny and unimportant compared to her vast beauty) and patiently wait. I want to be the first to watch her arrive, dulse-tangled hair, shipwrecks caught between her teeth" Daily reads: Avra Magrariti in @smallwondersmag.com ❤️

We have a great new piece today from Titi Kusumandari! Check out “The Wins I Can Afford at 40.” lost-balloon.com/2025/07/09/w...

"I hope you don’t remember the red, like my red cheeks from too much wine, your red rage, or the red exit-sign glow on your way through the roof-access door" Daily reads: @sarlynh.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social ❤️.

"My mother once told me, when I was twelve and too quiet at dinner, “You don’t have to hide if no one’s looking for you.” She said it like a matter of fact, like it was scientific law. The frog hasn’t moved." Daily reads: @mizukiyamagen.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social ❤️

"They bloom if you do this. She takes your other hand, presses it against her breast, pushes the whole thing up. Flowers thrust up out of the once-barren fields and a river flows off the tip of her nipplel." Daily reads: Naomi Day in khōréō ❤️ www.khoreomag.com/fiction/home... #blackfemmespec

"sharing the three hearts among them, each passed from great-grandfather to great-grandson, births and burials on the same day." Love how this follows its own internal logic. Daily reads: Naomi Day in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social www.uncannymagazine.com/article/ance... ❤️ #blackfemmespec

Seeking more speculative fiction written by Black femmes. I've always wanted to tell supernatural stories. Prior to my MFA most of my writing was speculative. I'm grateful to the MFA in a nebulous way I might one day be able to explain. But rn, I'm trying to write and read differently.

"Who do you think you are? My own personal god? I wasn’t trying to be her god or anyone’s. I was just mad at whatever higher power had taken her from me in the first place. I was only trying to remember her. " Daily reads: @anniejowrites.bsky.social in Monkeybicycle ❤️

Tiny garden sights

Go friend!! @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social 🎉

Was recommended this yesterday. Random confirmation try it.

On another note, my agent thinks we'll take my book on the market this fall. Am I scared? Yes, very scrurry.

I'm not athletic. I do athletic things because if I don't, my body betrays me (UC). So anyway, I've been running again.

"So we – us two – have chosen love. And celibacy. We may be different species; but we are both as old as dinosaurs and we are in love. We’ll take whatever time we have." Daily reads: Nell Carroll Turner in @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social ❤️

"We gave her a pink sponge to squeeze in one hand, a knotted washcloth in the other – all we had – until her eyes closed from the sweet relief of drugs." Daily reads" Luci Huhn in @westtradereview.bsky.social ❤️

"i want baby blue and cotton candy pink banners strung up between the bank and the fire station. i want no cops, including the ones in your head." Beautiful Daily reads: Nat Raum in @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social ❤️

"A head dangles down from the peach trees, twisting its botanical joints, and studies the bodies in the window how they long for new ways to burrow deeper into each othe" Daily reads: Angela Liu in @smallwondersmag.com ❤️

"I’m going to fuck a god. I heard if you’re good they grant wishes. I heard they make you holy. I heard they change you if you ask, bittersweet, in the afterglow." —Hale