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We have a great new piece today from @belindarowe.bsky.social! Check out “The Birds Will Line Their Nests.” lost-balloon.com/2025/03/26/t...

We have a great new piece today from Brooke Middlebrook! Check out “The Same Virus That Causes Chickenpox.” lost-balloon.com/2025/03/12/t...

A new book is about to drop, a collection of short stories, most of them written in the last five or so years. OTHER EMERGENCIES

I’m so excited to share the cover for Abbreviate! This flash nonfiction collection comes out in May with @smallharborpub.bsky.social. A small collection of small essays, Abbreviate examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and stories...

BOTH of my chapbooks are now available to order! They even feature my photography as their covers 🖤 Thanks so much to CutBank Books and @finishinglinepress.bsky.social for believing in these projects! www.allisonfieldbell.com/books

Litmag dreams do come true! So excited to see TREBUCHET included on @electriclit.bsky.social’s reading list: “12 Poems and Short Stories by Black Writers to Read For Free Online” alongside MIRANDA by @taracampbell.bsky.social! electricliterature.com/12-poems-and...

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We have a great new piece today from Kathleen Hellen! Check out “how to identify birds by sound.” lost-balloon.com/2025/02/19/h...

I wrote about Gilda. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

This book—like my life—emerged weirdly. Had to cancel readings, launch. If you feel able or want to, you can help this little book with a big heart along by sharing? Maybe you know someone who could use a story like this right now. Books find us. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726930...

“I’m tracking the way we carry stories of what happened to us around in our lives and our bodies.” @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social interviews @lidiamiles.bsky.social about Reading the Waves (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ https://buff.ly/41h8FE4

My mini interview with Lidia Yuknavitch is up today @therumpus.net! I loved talking to Lidia, and I loved her new book. therumpus.net/2025/02/14/l...

I have a flash fiction story out in @lostballoon.bsky.social, “The Medical Resident Leaves Her Husband.” I continue to find dark humor in subverting medicine's clinical guidelines. Thanks @chelsvoulgares.bsky.social and the Lost Balloon team for publishing this! lost-balloon.com/2025/02/12/t...

It’s pub day and I have @queerty.com to thank for this beautiful headline and for featuring an excerpt of Alligator Tears on their site! Instead of a single chapter, they selected passages from throughout the book to capture the breadth of the story. ❤️🐊🥲 www.queerty.com/edgar-gomez-...

I have an interview with Lidia Yuknavitch coming up in @therumpus.net this Friday! Stay tuned.

New story today! Check out “The Medical Resident Leaves Her Husband” by @megaretadams.bsky.social! lost-balloon.com/2025/02/12/t...

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

I deactivated Twitter today. It felt great!

LB’s BSF noms are posted!!!

We've recently added several sessions to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference (DC, 4/12) that might be unfortunately relevant to our writing and ShitShow 2.0: Writing About Trauma, Writing as an Act of Resistance, and What is the Spiritual Purpose of Writing in a World at War? Link in linktree.

I just got back from seeing Companion and it was great! Highly recommended.

Listen to Maddie! We want to read your work.

New book of poems coming in spring 2026! 🧳

Please add us to your lit mag and submission opportunities lists here on Bluesky. We have completely stopped using X now and would love help spreading the word.. 🥰 Thank you for finding us here!

Now that the Sky is more filled, I'm reposting this new story of mine. It's part of the novel I'm working on and means a lot to me. I'd love it if you gave it a read. Tw: dementia therumpus.net/2024/11/04/r...

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I created a starter pack...hit me up if you wanted to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/LGUMRw7

& most bookstores have websites where you can shop &/or have stores up on bookshop.org. So, when I'm buying gifts for my niece & nephew who live in LA, I usually shop online from LA bookstores close to them & have the books shipped

A few thoughts on if, why, and how to make art right now writingisjoy.substack.com/p/art-can-ma...

We have a wonderful new piece today from @amandaking.bsky.social! Check out “How to Get a Permanent Record.” lost-balloon.com/2024/11/13/h...

Delighted to have my piece published on Lost Balloon. Check it out!

Yay @kimmagowan.bsky.social and Michelle Ross! 🎉🎉🎉

it’s my birthday 🥳 a great day to buy my books, imo www.harpercollins.com/products/a-l... bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

Today’s the day! First Love: Essays on Friendship is now available wherever books are sold!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has preordered, posted, & otherwise supported First Love along the way. Make sure to tell your friends you love them today 🧡 bit.ly/3WNe1Fx

I just want you to know that there will be so many good books coming in 2025.

Happy Saturday! I’m going to go for a run today and work on my book. What about you?

Pinning Friendly Fire to this online butterfly wing display case. I wrote a book about the time my best friend unintentionally shot me in the head through two walls in our on-campus apartment, one month before college graduation. People like it, maybe you will, too. bookshop.org/a/106296/978...

If you're part of the writing community, could you please holla and RT so we can find each other? I want to build up what we once had on Twitter (but better) #writers #writing

My neighbor has this Halloween decoration in their yard, and I can’t help but think it’s an apt symbol for this week.

I can't think of a better poet or a better suited conversation to confront and transform the long shadow of the days ahead than this one with today's guest Danez Smith. Join us as we navigate a way through Audio📻🖤🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dane...

New micro inspired by this Hopper painting! "Look, I know I shouldn’t be looking, but the city heat has me out on the streets..." yourimpossiblevoice.com/city-night-b... #flashlit #flashfiction #microfiction

Some jerks on the bad site suggesting the election is going to stall me into a four year writers block and I'm like motherfuckers I published eight books the last time this fascist shitweasel was in office and wrote for a TV series so you best believe I've got fucking PLANS for this round, son

Local friends! I’ll be at West Chester University TODAY, November 7, 2024 at 6:30 pm for the book launch of my debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES! Copies of my book will be available I’ll be signing copies after the reading Hope to see you there!

Among other disasters, Project 2025 will severely undermine our freedom to read. If you want to get involved in Authors Against Book Bans, please let me know. lithub.com/the-republic...

today we have another fantastic story by Lana Frankle !! in 'Fractured' a doctor calls into question the ethics of anesthetics, if it is true that signs of consciousness still exist under its effects. read it ! xraylitmag.com/fractured-by...