I have it on good authority (I am a spy) that these WHIP ASS and are gonna BLOW SOME MINDS.

God DAMNIT ben

What's your current social media strategy?

WAIT!! WHAT'S THAT SOUND?!?! IT'S JOE HILL'S MUSIC!!!!!!1!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjwA...

declaring 250 federal holidays in order to boost wages without congressional action

Read a new poem by @amorak.bsky.social this morning! “Knee High by the Fourth of July”: moistpoetryjournal.com/2024/08/12/k...

Painting created c.1970 by GD Cotterell, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, where he was compelled to live. Tormented by a belief, without basis in material reality, that he’d caused an accidental death while driving, much of his work attempted to persuade himself of his innocence

NEW POEM #155: "When Love was in Fashion" by Francine Witte "And we just had to show up, young and unwritten on. Back then, candles would light themselves, glittering even as wax and time dripped silent away." stonecirclereview.com/when-love-wa... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Major restructuring due to this shit being a side gig.

He doesn't complain usually, but he's a Cancer, so now with a couple sports drinks and a $12 red, he's getting gator winey.

Academicians use the words "clear," "transformative," "powerful," or "obvious" instead of "decisive" because what you mean is not what "decisive" means challenge. Difficulty: inconceivable.

Neil Caiman *with apologies to the eusuchiformes out there

Hi SLM FAM! 👋🏽 We missed you while on our summer break. Have you check out our wonderful JUNE ISSUE lately? https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

tripping through a sus milieu

[getting the printing house on the line] Hiya, toots! Gimme a box gross of flappy eyestampers pronto! [falling out window, dragging landline telephone along]

Free poetry book title #8 Given Chigger, Given Snot

This was a fascinating interview with Edward P. Jones, not least because he cites his Black conservative classmates—including Clarence Thomas!—as inspiration for Black slaveholders in The Known World. (Gift link)

Optimizing to quarterly earnings reports is probably the worst way to organize a market, very slightly edging out central planning. This tweet is about your unfinished novel. #OffTopic #CareerAdvice #Writing #WritingCommunity #novel #economicsisbadactually #DeadInternet

Too everything to actually set up and maintain a Patreon … OR … Having a baby and everything is extremely normal (for when you have a tiny baby) ?? … SURVEY SAYS …

This sounds super fun! And also we could never, because we'd be paranoid about norovirus and covid the entire time.

Can we please stop ending fiction with the main character's su¡cide. It's tacky and dull. #writing #books #fiction #literature #hottake #shortstory #flashfiction #boredom #ennui #exceptionmakestherule

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS is imho one of the most moving books I've read in years, and I hope every single person in America reads it--and then starts reading Mariame Kaba www.joannerixon.com/post/chain-gang-all-stars

In Intricate Detail, Ann Wood Sprouts Myriad Mushroom Sculptures from Paper www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/06/ann-...

We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe

We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe

We cannot do otherwise: we are coming out against bad things, and for good things.

Folks, I need to borrow $15,000

shitposting, but it's a magazine with a print run of 2500 quarterly for seventy years

Fellas is it ableist to allow disabled people to enter our contest, thereby probably donating their entry fee to the printing of the magazine with nothing but a copy in return?

Hey, it's a #flash #contest: CNF, fiction, hybrids, experiments, wild things! $500 in prizes, entry $6 (no fee option in guidelines). #nonfiction #fiction #flashfiction #flashCNF #microessay #experimentalwriting #illustrated #hybrid #callforsubmissions stormcellar.submittable.com/submit/72759...

Hey, it's a #flash #contest: CNF, fiction, hybrids, experiments, wild things! $500 in prizes, entry $6 (no fee option in guidelines). #nonfiction #fiction #flashfiction #flashCNF #microessay #experimentalwriting #illustrated #hybrid #callforsubmissions stormcellar.submittable.com/submit/72759...

This one feels like a punch in the chest: Vinay Krishnan on the bird app.

more new words i learned this week

"‘I’m a translator between you and Gen Z,’ Beatrice says. ‘You got to learn this stuff, Jane. You got to cram.’" I love this exceptional #flashfiction by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social 💙💙💙 fictivedream.com/2024/02/20/w...

I feel like the white savior narrative surrounding Dune has obscured the Other narrative

Paperwork? Or working paper?

Considering developing some inscrutable, irrational grudges. #Engagement

2024 Force Majeure Flash Contest now open: Prizes $300/$100/$100 All entries considered for publication Fee $6, no-fee option in guidelines Deadline April 30 stormcellar.submittable.com #Flash #flashfiction #flashCNF #microessay #experimentalwriting #vignette #fragmentary #WildThings

Lit mag #representation: 200 submissions, <3% historical acceptance rate. What do? minority subs: 50 * <3% = ~1 (celebrate ratio) cishet white able &c. subs: 150 * <3% = ~4 OR m. s.: 50 * 3.5% = 2 (change criteria) c. s.: 150 * 1.5% = 2 OR m. s.: 100 * 3% = 3 (re-brand) c. s.: 50 * 3% = 1

comrade

Lit mag #representation: 200 submissions, <3% historical acceptance rate. What do? minority subs: 50 * <3% = ~1 (celebrate ratio) cishet white able &c. subs: 150 * <3% = ~4 OR m. s.: 50 * 3.5% = 2 (change criteria) c. s.: 150 * 1.5% = 2 OR m. s.: 100 * 3% = 3 (re-brand) c. s.: 50 * 3% = 1

new poetry mag that pays handsomely, but the editors will add to at least one line — probably several, if we're being honest — the ending "if you're nasty"

The most popular song on our soundtrack may just be Lorde's "Royals." It was very popular indeed. Do people still listen to it? Is it in your vinyl vault, carefully brushed & sleeping in its sleeve, on a shelf made of cinderblocks & scrap wood? #magazinesoundtrack youtube.com/watch?v=LFasFq4GJYM

2024 Force Majeure Flash Contest now open: Prizes $300/$100/$100 All entries considered for publication Fee $6, no-fee option in guidelines Deadline April 30 stormcellar.submittable.com #Flash #flashfiction #flashCNF #microessay #experimentalwriting #vignette #fragmentary #WildThings

Fun fact: though we may look like sad, medium-tattoo'd girls in handsewn frocks & overalls drinking coffee from champagne flutes in quiet bars while reading 18th-century books on the health benefits of facesitting, the soundtrack to our magazine features, prominently, the song Kerosene by Big Black.

Fun fact: though we may look like sad, medium-tattoo'd girls in handsewn frocks & overalls drinking coffee from champagne flutes in quiet bars while reading 18th-century books on the health benefits of facesitting, the soundtrack to our magazine features, prominently, the song Kerosene by Big Black.

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha— [deep, barrel-popping breath] —hahahahahahehehehehehehehhhhhhhehehehehhhehehe-uh-heh-uheh . New to us vice.com/en/article/zmjmj3/instagram-poetry-become-successful-scam

A typology of writers: 1. Uses wealth to hide mental illness 2. Does not hide mental illness 3. Terrifyingly normal 4. Non-religious buddhist nun