This one is longer. In case you need more of this. It also helps you dimension how massive the vigil was. Way to go Philly.

Last day to write. It's been a wildly productive and restful week, even as I watched horrible things happen from afar. This timeline is chaos but I will grab every quiet moment.

Well this is cool!! 🥰 Thanks, @xraylitmag.bsky.social and @saltpeterdraws.bsky.social. 🥹♥️

👀Presenting: Our Most Read Stories of 2025!😍 @aaronburch.bsky.social #GraceBallard #JanetCeijka @sudhab.bsky.social @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social @jenniferfliss.bsky.social @saraharcherwrites.bsky.social @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social

I think maybe the most honest thing I wrote all year was the postcard for this story. Which I don't think anyone read? Anyways, here it is. In case you want a tiny blast of me. wigleaf.com/202505hgdw.htm

Aw, this got nominated for Best Small Fictions! Thanks, @wigleaf.bsky.social! 🥹🥰 wigleaf.com/202505nina.htm

Everyone's struggling right now, I know. But if you can afford $12/month, you can make a huge difference for one of the most ethical, honest, and writer-centric indies publishing these days. ❤️ @stanchion.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

This feels amazing, no lie.

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025 Every Six Months Or So by @writesloud.bsky.social in @theoffingmag.bsky.social theoffingmag.com/essay/every-...

Tomorrow I'm getting a cunty little bob and need some cunty little celeb photos to show the stylist. Anyone have someone they love to share?

babe are you ok you’ve barely touched last year’s resolutions & now you’re making more ambitious new ones

Y'all see that Conjunctions residency? Looks amazing, right? $35 application fee and only one spot. WILD.

Friends, I'm going to start doing a daily short story/poetry reading with my students. Would love all your recs! Favorite poems and short stories that would be interesting to 18-22yo's. I know many. But I need a TON. 🥰

Over here on Bluesky, where my parents do not roam, can we please take a moment to discuss the fact that I lost the bundt pan and my mom is not okay about it? This is serious, guys. 🎅

🕯️Happy Holidays from Mission Belonging!🕯️ All programs will run as scheduled during the holidays, including Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. Check our full schedule online: circle.missionbelonging.org/c/events/ Warm wishes to you and your loved ones! ℹ️ More info in thread below.

Psst I still want to read your book even if it didn't make any lists. ❤️

Good luck to @stanchion.bsky.social !

Tomorrow, pay what you can! 💕

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Join us this week! We have our regular recurring programs but also don't miss our annual Winter Solstice community reading and gathering on Wednesday, or our special Flash Fiction workshop with @writesloud.bsky.social this Thursday! 🚀Learn more & RSVP: circle.missionbelonging.org/c/events/

I have to teach right at this time but y'all should go this. 🥹

Kind of want to start some sort of stupid collective. Should we all get together and wear soft bathrobes and angrily drink tea and read books and write uncomfortable short stories that nobody under the age of 25 will read? Maybe we should do this. Pass the vape. What a fucking year it's been.

Pay what you can. Next Thursday!

Sure, sex is great. But have you ever tried hitting "submit" for your final grades on Workday?

Pay what you can. Next Thursday!

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

So Courtney Love is 61. I learned that today and now all of you of a certain age also have to learn it. Sorry 😭

God she's so good. This one lingers in the worst/best way. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

Why am I like this?

Here on Bluesky, where students never venture, can I just say that my spiciest student just hugged me and told me she'd miss me over break? I swear these baby adults are all my teenage daughters.

Looking for some weekend reading? Every one of these stories is absolutely brilliant! Doric Literary's 2026 Pushcart Prize nominees. doric-literary.com/nominations/ #BarbaraEMiner @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @patrickobrienstrickland.com #DamienRoos @danacann.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social

The last stop on my book tour. 🥹🫠♥️ peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/first-...

When @washingtoncitypaper.com.web.brid.gy makes your day! Thanks @writesloud.bsky.social washingtoncitypaper.com/books/

Happy Last Teaching Day of the Semester to all who celebrate! 🥰

Love seeing books by @writesloud.bsky.social and @joshdenslow.bsky.social on this list!

This morning has been good for my soul. 🥰

Awesome list. And I spy @writesloud.bsky.social and @stanchion.bsky.social on here! (Book is on my nightstand right now!)

This is so cool. 😭 lithub.com/100-notable-...

It's been an amazing run, and now here I am. The last stop on the book tour! DC friends, would love to go out with a bang, hug you all, sign a few books, and celebrate the end of the semester! Please come if you're free? ❤ peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/first-...

Today is the day we celebrate goddess writer and cutie pie @jasmynthewriter.bsky.social. Everybody send her birthday flowers! 💐🎂

It’s nomination season, and if you’re a former guest editor of BAE or a writer who has appeared in its pages, I’d be really honored if you’d consider nominating my essay for BAE 2026. Nominations are due December 15. A link to nom guidelines in the thread.

Loving this new trend in my students. Instead of family emergencies right before big due dates, this semester they all have explosive stomach viruses. Before every major due date. These poor diarrhea-stricken babies. It's a lot of diarrhea. So much diarrhea. My inbox is full of diarrhea. 😭

Pay what you can, on Zoom 12/18!

5. Something that should be moist is instead very, very dry. 💀 Killed it, @julievickwriter.bsky.social. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...

Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!

5 different students came up to me today and told me that they'd changed their schedules all around to have me again next semester. It was a really good fiftieth birthday despite my inability to embrace crone status. 🥹

Hey, it is our co-founder's birthday today. Show @writesloud.bsky.social a little love and visit one of her babies (our site) and share something you love. If you are a teacher, please submit your poems, stories and CNF about teaching! www.porcupineliterary.com/blog