@writesloud.bsky.social spent an amazing morning with Hannah Grieco's speculative nonfiction prompts! Thanks @poetcamp.bsky.social for the recommendation!

Happy #PublicationDay, @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social! 🏘️ LIVING, TOGETHER, an anthology on found family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living teaches us about the future of US housing, is “rigorous, funny, authentic, and informative.” — @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social

I'm the faculty editor of this lit journal, sponsored by the Converse low-res MFA program, and I promise that your work will be read with care by our enthusiastic team of readers.

Check out this great interview with @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social at @barrelhouse.bsky.social for Living Together, out today from @beaconpress.bsky.social!! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/living-...

Happy pub day to @samanthapaigerosen.bsky.social and @kristenarnett.bsky.social and @escoffery.bsky.social and all the rest of us in this wonderful book. Thrilled to have an essay in here! tinyurl.com/2cbyrx6k

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Last night? I was just hanging out with some writers and *looks around, gets quiet" ₚₒₑₜₛ

I love the phrase "writers and poets" because it suggests poets aren't writing but instead doing something far more sinister

To celebrate her 20th anniversary, get First Kicking, Then Not by @writesloud.bsky.social for just $10 this week & I'll include an I JUST WANT TO FEEL SOMETHING pennant for free. Best deal on the best short story collection about motherhood & womanhood ever. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Today is our 20th anniversary and I tried to write a love poem for my husband. But it ended up a sad, weird poem because of course it did. Maybe giving it to him tomorrow. 😬

"When Aerosmith and Run DMC decide to co-parent" by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social in an issued edited by @writesloud.bsky.social www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/w...

I came to NY to write/catsit for six days, and it's a thousand degrees and this apartment only has one AC unit in the bedroom and they're asking us to not use electricity between 2-10pm and there's a threat of blackouts. In case anyone wonders why funded residencies would be nice for moms.

6 days away to write. 🥰

The brief Stanchion Magazine farewell tour begins with issue 24 this September. Inside you'll find new @writesloud.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @iephemera.bsky.social & 20 more of the best writers in indie lit. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Me to my students: Contests are scams. Me: I just got a lovely personal rejection from this contest! Look!

SO EXCITED to talk about “Poems to Stage Dive to” with @writesloud.bsky.social for The Writer’s Center Poetry Book Club! August 12 at 7:00 PM. RSVP here! writer.org/event/poetry...

The key to success is to do the opposite of what you tell your students to do. Casting a wide net with this little story. Flinging it into the sky and the nearest volcano. I'm aging out of submitting, I think.

Super gay SpotLIT up this month! 🥰 washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7872...

COOKED.

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?

Sat my ass down to revise this gd book and promptly wrote an entirely new chapter.

Virtual book launch this Thursday for I’M THE UNDERTOW!! 👇🏼🌊👇🏼

Something I like to do when I come across a bit of writing advice as if it were written by the hand of God is immediately go and commit the sin. Recently it was someone saying that people don’t speak in paragraphs. Pshaw! Challenge fucking accepted.

Where would we even find one of those "queer in the arts" types? Like a unicorn or something. I'm not sure they exist!

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!

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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