TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!! Just look at that lineup!!!! Join us for live literature, and help raise funds for @translifeline.org It’s FREE and ONLINE so anyone can join from anywhere! Info and registration at: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

ahhhhh this makes me feel things 🔥

Pre-ordered!!!

Thanks for the #HorrorWritersChat! For more on “Aromantic Frankenstein” and ace horror, check out this interview with Ace Dad Advice @codydo.bsky.social! acedadadvice.substack.com/p/horror-tel...

I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem" "it's all coming up now, milkweed and mango..." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

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it's your last chance to register for next wednesday's workshop, centered around submitting to literary magazines! natraum.com/workshops

I could not have written this poem were it not for my students in the Calvin Prison Initiative. For them, I am immeasurably grateful. And my thanks, too, to the folks at Muzzle. Link to the full issue in first comment.

Pub day for The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by Lauren D. Woods (@ladiwoods.bsky.social)! So proud to share this stunning debut collection with the world. 💖 #shortstory #fiction #indiepress

The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems. But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause. Join us. Register here: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

This means so much 💕

Wow 💕 Thank you so much for the nomination, for the kind words, and also to everyone who takes part in our collaborative process—who makes this journal what it is 💕

Here's the story: ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/the-writin...

Thanks to @rejectionlit.bsky.social for publishing my poem “Guns, Sex, Phones” today: rejection-letters.com/2025/10/16/g...

What is morning and what if it doesn’t arrive? One morning mother dropped an egg and asked me if God was the same species as we are? Smear of light at five a.m. Sound of Weber’s sheep flock and sandhill cranes across the road, burble of irrigation ditch beneath my window. Jim Harrison

Beautiful

Yeah this is great.

Excited to have a poem published in ballast ~ check it out here! 💕

Contributor Features from ballast 3.3: Next up: Katherine Schmidt and “Above all else” @ktonbsky.bsky.social www.ballastjournal.com/katherine-sc... #contributorfeature #poetry #poem #poems #ballast #KatherineSchmidt

Excited for this! 😎

This was great.

This piece 🔥

DMV area folks: Happening tonight at 7p @kramerbooks . Going to be reading and chatting with @andrewporter01.bsky.social ! Come out.

cannot wait for this tomorrow!! 🔗 in quoted 🧵 to register & listen in live :)💡

Excited to have a piece out with ballast! Check out the issue ☺️

Sally Fisher

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Excited to reveal the cover of & open up pre-sales for the final book of 2025, @lindzmcleod.bsky.social's groundbreaking collaborative craft writing book, An Honour & A Privilege f/ a Handmaid's Tale screenwriter, Sunday Times bestseller & more amazing talents! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Started “Ethan Hawke & Me” while on a train 🙈 also… this is so beautiful wow @andrewbertaina.bsky.social

We are excited to publish S2F’s Issue Five: www.s2fjournal.com/assets/Issue... In this issue, we have one co-authored poem and nine poems created through our “spark-to-flame” process. #WritingCommunity #poetry 📝

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Oh my god this dropped WHILE I’M WEARING MY PIGEON DRESS!?! Very exciting. Happy HAD pigeon day to all who celebrate.

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what a joy to have this piece published, the pigeon thinks to itself, while on its work break, eating meatballs and pasta, content @havehashad.com www.havehashad.com/hadposts/do-...

As we get ready for Issue Five’s publication in a week we want to hype up the cover artist, Maria Taibo! Maria is a painter who lives in New Jersey. She is from the Canary Islands and enjoys painting still lifes, nature scenes, and working with oil paint and watercolor.

idk if it says more about last call's batch of subs or me as their reader, but a string of heartfelt, heartbreaking, heartwarming pieces lately a real beauty today from Julia Strayer "She only knows who I am because I always say, Hi Mom, when I call." https://www.havehashad.com/66dqs

Gay pride means more viscerally gay poems like this one

Just read “Full-On Badger” by Gill O’Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social and got chills. Give it a read! www.smokelong.com/stories/full...

Great Essex Hemphill exhibition at the Phillips Collection!

my poem "Mustard" from @berlinlit.bsky.social "It’s not enough that I’m alive I must also have a massive hamburger"

Stop using AI. We're all going to fucking die and if you want to leave anything behind you better start screaming in your own words

Excited to have my poem “Dust to Dust” published in Puerto del Sol’s “Freak” issue, 60.1! www.puertodelsol.org/print

This story gave me goosebumps 🔥

first skull!!, the pigeon thinks to itself, rejoicing, also a little bit hungry, waiting to deplane a flight. thanks @havehashad.com @aaronburch.bsky.social

Presenting OKD's Best New Poets nominees! Read the nominated pieces in the thread below.

*OKD Best New Poets Nominee* "this because dog is god spelled backwards" by Erinola E. Daranijo:

Honored to be nominated! Thank you to OKD! 💕