this is gonna rip and what a title !!!

My best friend is married to Tonic’s drummer, can confirm The Juice is a mystery

Open for general subs through September 13th (which is also our dear @terrilinndavis.bsky.social’s bday so give her something good to read)! www.icebreakerslit.com/submissions

would you (yes you) kindly share with me one (1) visual art/artist you are feeling rn? What's inspiring you? A few that I've been obsessed with are... Elena Redmond

what’s the hottest thing a man can do? get a vasectomy

Drop the album you're most embarrassed you once loved here. Judgement free zone. Get it off your chest.

It's rare that a book makes me laugh out loud, let alone to accomplish that nearly every page, let alone in a book that's as much about isolation and alcoholism and depression as it is about funny. These have become instant recs for CNF for me.

it's "fuck it dawg friday," and also short story month is coming to an end (thankfully it's short story year every year) so here's one last short story. @pitheadchapel.bsky.social is a mag I've been trying to crack from the beginning, so was thrilled when they liked this one enough to run it!

Here’s a little poem that came out last month. <3 merliterary.com/2025/03/31/m...

actually when I do it, it's called "Dansplaining" and you have to listen because I'm always right

Aubri (seemingly) reached into my brain, pulled out a bunch of my favorite things, and made an incredible story of them. I would lose it all at the Space Casino.

think i might set up a table at "Association of Writers & Writing Programs" conference to sell bead geckos

i never post here but maybe i should? idk. idk anything. anyway here’s space casino! maudlinhouse.net/space-casino/

this is where I'm posting from when I post my little tweets

so so grateful for this review by Yelizaveta P. Renfro in @wirobooks.bsky.social "In the end, it is the fear of what might happen — rather than what actually does happen — that proves the far greater torment."

Imma read so many new poems!! Help us raise money for Trans Lifeline!!!

Flipped through this and went first sentence by first sentence until my mood was met by "Space Cat" by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social.

DMV area readers and writers, mark your calendars for the launch of our first book vending machine that will carry DMV area writers!

Filmed a super normal little thing for @filthyloot.bsky.social. Just a super normal little video. Totally normal stuff

Working on a piece about how parents talk to their kids about *their own* cannabis use now that it’s more socially accepted. Looking to hear from parents + experts (psychologists, pediatricians, substance use counselors). DMs open or email me if you’re up for chatting!

"She goes to the horror film festival in lieu of her sister, who was ill with morning sickness and suddenly felt, despite years of being an aficionado, that watching horror while pregnant was a form of blasphemy. " So fucking stoked to have @lmanusos.bsky.social back in hex this week! Go check it!

"It was early, late, lockjaw hour." Back on my bullshit with another Short Story Month pull. Today, I invite you to read Sam Lipsyte's I'm Slavering, a story that greatly influenced me. When I say I like when stories surprise me, this is a perfect example. A wonder. Dig it--

A reminder that I'm keeping general subs for IGs @brokenheartliterary open through May 15th. Send in a photo of a heart break object and up to 50 words: melissafloresandersonwrites.com/broken-heart... And we'll launch our music-themed call on May 16 so start thinking about those, too.

sharing this again in case anyone wants their afternoon brimmed with the dulcet tones of my deep voice vacillating between laughter, sincere writing advice, and perhaps more eff bombs than I remember

Kicking off SHORT STORY MONTH by sharing a favorite from my besties and @hexliterary.bsky.social co-conspirators, @katemcintyre.bsky.social & Joe Aguilar: "The Outpost" in the gone-but-never-forgotten Collagist/Rupture

Okay, it's come out in the @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter, so it's official: We're opening for print submissions (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) on May 30 Peruse general submission info here and get ya s#*+ ready, y'all: www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...

what poem is stuck in my throat?

Currently, I'm reading (reading) Otessa Moshfegh's McGlue (rocks) and reading (listening) to George Saunders' In Persuasion Nation (rocks) Now, tell me wtf y'all are getting into with regard to reading (reading and/or listening)

this is your sign to submit to JAKE!! especially cnf and poetry!!! (which happen to be the two categories i edit hehehe)

my debut poetry column for the local paper is out today! stratfordcrier.com/poetry-lounge/

I quit writing poems. I’m Bigfoot now

Hey does anyone have one of those 1-page folding zines that explains how to make a 1-page folding zine? Maybe in a PDF they’re willing to share with me? I need it for teaching.

new prose poem that's maybe a little bit flash cnf

Ghosts, Pokémon toys, and a boxcutter. My story “Last Skin on Earth” is up on @ergot.bsky.social 🔪 www.ergot.press/authors/Cale...

Excited to have a new flash piece, The Devil Wept, up @tinymolecules.bsky.social www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

Today's the *official* pub day for Human/Animal: a bestiary in essays @wlupress.bsky.social I will lean into the joy—Celebrate with me! The brilliant @carolinehagood.bsky.social interviewed me: open.substack.com/pub/caroline... AND It was excerpted in @msmagazine.com! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/w...

What was the killer bee movie from the 90s / early 00s that featured a protag walking down a road blasting giant beehives with a shotgun? Was that Deadly Invasion?

what am i into these days? i'm currently into watching videos of people mixing paint and cleaning rugs

"Now i’m imagining your eyes are dark grey / like Drake’s Passage, the most dangerous sea in the world, / Is it weird I remember you prefer metaphor to simile?" Oh my god, I love this poem so much! Brilliant writing by @terrilinndavis.bsky.social in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Want to wax poetic to a poet? Take notes from​ Terri Linn Davis jakethemag.com/quadruple-so...

Ooh yes yes I’m glad I’m not the only one with little crushes everywhere I go. I even have one for BlueSky. Wonderful poem, please read!

Would you like to read a ridiculous sonnet? Here is a quadruple one

Love @terrilinndavis.bsky.social 's new poem in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social. check it out if you were secretly crushing on someone at AWP, or maybe sending selfies from AWP to your secret crush!

I've never written a sonnet before but my crush at AWP had me writing a quadruple one. This poem's really a love poem to poets and also to life-giving temporary crushes. Thank you @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for publishing this one! <3 jakethemag.com/quadruple-so...

LONGING

got asked again during a Q&A what led to me becoming a poet, and this time i decided to answer completely honestly: "being a weird person"

I've never written a sonnet before but my crush at AWP had me writing a quadruple one. This poem's really a love poem to poets and also to life-giving temporary crushes. Thank you @publishedbyjake.bsky.social for publishing this one! <3 jakethemag.com/quadruple-so...