Our BotN nominations are in! Congrats to Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez and @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social We're rooting for you! 🐸💙

Tomorrow at 6pm, join writers from @hubcitypress.bsky.social and @kentuckypress.bsky.social for a short reading and discussion about reading, writing, and the South. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #fiction #memoir #poetry #writingcommunity

Excited to take part in the virtual open night mic at the Pat Conroy Literary Center tomorrow. Check it out: patconroyliterarycenter.org/.../virtual-...

Come be my colleague! Open rank position in multi-ethnic US literature. Feel free to reach out if you have questions. #multiethniclit #academia #English #litjobs furman.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Furman_Caree...

I'm not sure why I like to see my #submittable pieces move from received to in progress, but it feels so very good.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

I keep thinking about people saying, "well, technically, he is allowed to..." whatever it is. Here's the thing: not everything is made illegal or legal for leaders, but we do expect our elected officials to act within the spirit of the law, to hold democracy high. The whole system breaks down 1/2

Watched Superman tonight. When the right equates themselves with the bad guys and blames the left for that...that says more about them than us. #Superman

Me to Three: I love you. Three: Thanks. Later... Three: I don't love you everyday, but I love you right now. #parenting

Just called the lawnmower repair place and then scheduled a colonoscopy. I think I just crossed the official threshold into middle age.

American intelligence: We set back Iran by a few weeks. Trump: hissy fit. CIA: Surprise information! We obliterated it! Y'all. Dafuq? #nuclear #iran

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Eat You Up” by @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social is now up! Art by Miranda Kramer flash-frog.com/2025/06/23/e...

Stoked to have a new story up @flashfrog.bsky.social today: flash-frog.com/2025/06/23/e... #writingcommunity #flashfiction

Reorganizing the collection after some additions and revisions. #flashfiction #writingcommunity

I'm currently reading Frederick Douglass's "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" for today's class, and today's religious right seems to live in the entire section about the church's responsibility for continued enslavement. 1/3

"Tasted like fascism."

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

It's always weird when a press announces the winner of their contest without actually telling everyone else they've lost first. Bad form. #Writingcommunity

I’m letting the business of the writing world interfere with my #writing. Does not make me a better writer. Need to find a way to get my head on straight. Ideas? #writingcommunity #writingadvice

Life with elder cat. #cats

After rearranging the new #collection yesterday, all I could think was--wow. This shit's weird. I'm okay with that. #WritingCommunity #amwriting #fiction #flashfiction

Starting the day rearranging this story collection. I’m a bit overwhelmed. #writingcommunity #fiction #shortstorycollection #amwriting

I don’t really understand why I have so many new follower every time I open this app. The perimenopause posts? The mid-forties sex appeal? The please shoot me parenting posts?

My favorite writing month is May -- the semester is over, and I haven't yet realized the heaviness of summer expectations (usually self-imposed). It's just about getting excited to sit down to the page each day. #WritingCommunity #NovelWriting #Amwriting #novel #skywriting

Look at your favorite indie presses and lit mags to see if they've lost their NEA grants. Then, buy their books, subscribe to their journal, make a donation. #NEA #indiepresses #WritingCommunity @hubcitypress.bsky.social @themassreview.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Today, some young buck catcalled me out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, and all I could think was "Who the hell you yelling at?" I mean, if he pulled over, he'd call me ma'am and apologize profusely when he realized I'm a 45-year-old mother of two.

Now we have the answer. The original story was legit then Bezos backed down.

I have decided that "Touch grass" is my favorite fuck off comment.

That final third of a novel -- I always forget how HARD it is. #writingcommunity #amwriting #novel #novelwriting

I can get story rejections all day and not even blink, but reject my book and I need to lick my wounds for a bit. #Writingcommunity

Weirdest rejection I've ever gotten--sent a notification of partial withdrawal. They said, "But that's the one we wanted. If it's not available, no to the rest." It was a valid point but stated quite badly. #WritingCommunity

#momswritersclub -- I just learned about you on a four-year-old episode of a podcast, and can it be true that I found a writing community on here? I'm mom to an almost-four-year-old, and since he was born, I, well, mostly write about motherhood and women.

Also, full body rashes are a symptom of perimenopause. Follow me for more horrors in your mid-forties. #menopause #perimenopause

The fuck you say.

Things I learned at 45: flu-like aches and chills and fevers can be a symptom of #perimenopause.

I'm trying to make a purchase on my credit card. It won't go through--they tell me to call. I call. On the phone, after being on hold for a while, they tell me I need to call from the app. They hang up. I'm on hold again. I hate this shit. I just want to order a whole lot of bookshelves from Ikea.

Trump: “We won that decision 9-0 in the Supreme Court and if you listen to the news, you wouldn't know that.” Congratulations John Roberts, Trump has made SCOTUS irrelevant, thanks to you and the other cult justices. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsAFascist #TrumpisUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich

Sometimes, I miss twitter for the #Writingcommunity I found there. I expected more #Blueskywritingcommunity but haven't found it yet. I don't miss it enough to return, but I do miss those conversations.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

3 called, "Laura Leigh Morris!" from his bedroom, and seriously, I ran to him right away. Totally thought I was in trouble.

Exactly what I’ve been thinking. I’m horrified and have no clue how to change anything.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

So I'm listening to a very popular podcast, and some agents on it who keep talking about #literaryfiction as being plotless, and it makes me blood boil. I love literary fiction. Just because it isn't commercial doesn't mean it is plotless. #Writingcommunity #novels #amwriting #upmarketfiction

For a while, I was working on a short story collection and a novel simultaneously. I finished the collection. Now, I'm just working on the #novel, and I'm reminded again that #writing is lonely work. No sending it out little bits at a time. No small #publications. Just long hours. #Writingcommunity

I'm always a little, eh, when I look at a list of authors for a press and everyone is white and middle-aged. I mean... #WritingCommunity

I also returned from #awp with my contributor copy of The Journal. Stoked to dive into the issue, full of amazing writers. #writingcommunity

3 has taken a keen interest in the songs we listen to in the car, asking what they're about. Nirvana's "All Apologies" is now about apologizing when you're wrong. Prince's "Raspberry Beret" is about a man who wants to be friends with a woman who wears a purple hat. #parenting #genx

Hope to see people at our panel tomorrow. #awp25