Ah, the age-old "Do I withdraw the old version or let it ride" dilemma where you've made a story so much better...but the clunky one has been in-progress an exceptionally long time.

“The urge to chew is not the same as the urge to devour.” This is delicious!

I often don't have the space to take on new writing clients. I've grabbed many of your emails to share with writers who reach out to me. But I'm now looking for someone who loves, and focuses on, fantasy/sci-fi. I'm the wrong editor for this writer! Are you an editor who loves this genre?

what a gay gamble, every little poem of mine

DMV friends! Incredible book for our June Book Club. Please come hang! @ladiwoods.bsky.social will read and answer all your questions! (Plus cookies! And friends!) writer.org/event/lauren...

I had a really awful semester, but I just got my student evals back and they were the best I've ever had? Like, guys I actually sucked for real. Weird.

I'm a very Jewish mom with my sacrificing and suffering, but my 13yo begging to go see Pitbull this summer is some Old Testament level sacrificing and suffering. 😭

An ache of a piece (about caregiving, medication, you know!) by @writesloud.bsky.social , xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h... an amazingly offbeat yet tender writer, teacher, advocate, and caregiver. She has a book of flash prose out called First Kicking, Then Not. hgrieco.com Also look for her classes!

I'm struggling to keep up with my Washington City Paper inbox. Local writers, please spread the word: From now on, all PR info/requests for SpotLIT must go through this form: forms.gle/cy4zR9h2bqms...

Any Richmond friends on here? Would love a friend or two in the room!

Facebook neighborhood group is *kicking* with a post about a random woman who sips white wine and walks her cats through other people's fenced-in yards. Follow me for more life tips. You're welcome for the writing prompt.

DC friends: Looking for events and books to write about for Pride month over at Washington City Paper! Anyone have something they’d like to share? ❤️

Omg this email I just got. 😭

Delaware friends! I'll be the prose facilitator at this! Applications open May 1 ❤️ arts.delaware.gov/writers-retr...

My GOD, that feeling after you submit your final grades for the semester.

Doctors Say Digging Own Grave Keeps Bones Healthy After Menopause

I have a new poem out in Gargoyle! ❤️

She’s doing great! ❤️

My mom is having heart surgery right now and I’m super scared. 😞

Today a student presented a comparison of studies examining critical thinking vs "productivity" in students who do/don't use generative AI. It was wild and terrifying. So much worse than you think. It's that idea of (and obsession with) productivity that has us led to this place.

"What’s more human than fucking?" — @writesloud.bsky.social www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/kick...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

A real post by the official White House account on the Hellsite.

Not sure why anyone gives me a mic, but this was fun and pretty unhinged! ❤️ www.shenandoahliterary.org/thepeak/kick...

"After the divorce, Nina decides to become a sex addict." Hannah Grieco: First Kicking, Then Not #SundaySentence

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Delaware friends! I'll be the prose facilitator at this! Applications open May 1 ❤️ arts.delaware.gov/writers-retr...

Look what i found at my writing residency at the porches! @writesloud.bsky.social

Gefilte fish enters the chat. 😭 Tell me I'm wrong, @samuelashworth.bsky.social?

Not me canceling my weed drinks and ordering Omega 3 supplements and signing up for Couch to 5K like a middle aged woman spending the week on the heart unit with her mom. 😭

Attention, humans! Join us this May 16! 🐈‍⬛ We study. We write. We nerd. 🤓 This is how we pay our writers. Help us put the FUN in fundraiser. 💚🙃

Got to celebrate a wonderful book from wonderful @zachpowers.bsky.social last night! Read this book, friends! And give my bud all his 🌸🌺🌼!

My mom has a heart procedure tomorrow. Send me strong heart vibes, plz. 🥹

Shout out to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for always letting me do my weird shit. ❤️

For about a year now I've been fantasizing about an entirely new kind of literary event: exciting, theatrical, and a little bit combative. Yesterday at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social and I pulled it off.

Tomorrow @writesloud.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social, and @poeticmoni.bsky.social and I are trying something new at this conference: a "panel" entirely driven by audience questions, on-stage arguments, props, and a scoreboard. It's going to get rowdy. You want to be there.

Nobody writes like Chloe. She is a short fiction (and poetry!) POWERHOUSE. If Alan Squire wasn’t on hiatus, I’d be begging her to sign. No lie.

The best part of teaching is when you connect with your students in a truly authentic way. Like this week in a publishing class, where we discussed how to improve your acceptance rate with literary journals! And then I promptly received 3 form rejections for 3 different pieces within 24 hours!

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

I interviewed @writesloud.bsky.social about her session at the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on April 18 (still spots left!) with @samuelashworth.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social, WRITERS WRESTLING LIVE! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/sowhat-...

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.

I read @writesloud.bsky.social 's First Kicking, Then Not in an afternoon, but I'm still thinking about it! (Why yes I AM behind on my @stanchion.bsky.social book club books.) www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers:

Kind of want to edit a speculative anthology of short stories about running out of our psych meds at the end of the world.