Three from me in @wigleaf.bsky.social 🖤

After Covid the school I used to work at hired more psychologists that the teens could talk to about their anxieties. I thought what if your a different kind of teen, who do you talk to? It became a short story about an angel teen going to therapy after trying to pull her wings off. #WritingPrompt

Friend and comrade, I hate to tell you my own family history, let alone that of millions... for my people, it was 99 long years from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Act. Entire generations lived and died. (I pray that the fire this time is kinder. I do pray.)

journalists/ communicators/ media strategists HI! Our role now ? Isn’t just growing our own followings . It’s open standards . People are about to become reporters or take up reporting Help them do it well The big ones are safe . We need to show what good looks like

💯. People can live under intolerable circumstances for centuries. Life is not a movie. It promises no resolution. Every moment of justice won requires tireless effort, and every win requires vigilance and defense for eternity. Look at the backsliding on rights we were assured wwre settled law.

How many times do we go past the point of no return?

A regular reminder that cops have been doing exactly this to Black Americans for far longer than our cellphone culture has been reporting it. If we want the nation in which we live to be different, we must organize, rise up, and make it so. With *diverse tactics* including big strikes and more.

Ursula K. Le Guin died #OTD in 2018. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 (1970). In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #scifi #literature #booksky

last chance to register for this class tomorrow!

This week: 1 rejection from a traditional old literary journal and 2 (2!!!!) acceptances from cool small exciting venues publishing shit I love. Maybe this is telling me something.

So pleased that this poem could be part of “joy” in @templeinacity.bsky.social Thanks to editor @eireneeleni.bsky.social #Oulens #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity

You know what to do, writers.

IN THE MEANTIME subs are open right now for our spring issue (and maybe beyond.) Details in link. We’re always open for Joy and TiaC timely submissions. There’s so much to write about! Subs are free and writers of all stages and experience welcome templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

We’re hard at work building issue 4 of Temple in a City, filled with brilliant writers and writing. Look for it to emerge in February.

This really is worth a read. It will fill you, gently.

Gorgeous, still, thoughtful poem fresh up from @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social in our Joy popup. It’s a treat to read it. templeinacity.com/poetry-by-c-...

9 days left

@anmlymag.bsky.social & kith crit both close in nine days at the end of the month. if you like one, you'll like the other. probably just submit to both.

Thanks so much for reading and sharing, Pat

I'm happy to be a finalist for the Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize! My piece will be published in their spring issue.

Ooh an @sagreene1.bsky.social story. Always a good day. Congratulations Suzanne!

I do a touchdown dance like a quarterback when I hit send on a literary submission. Boom shaka laka! They can't stop me!

My short story “Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?” Has just been published in Issue 4 of The Orange Rose Literary Magazine, and I’d be so honored if you gave it a read! theorangeroselitmag.com/2026/01/19/w...

Big Feelings about this Best Small Fictions nomination. Huge thanks to the wonderfully supportive @eireneeleni.bsky.social 🙏

First acceptance of 2026! Thrilled that my short story “Message in a Bottle” will appear in @doricliterary.bsky.social next month. Many thanks to editor Dave Gregory.

The first official review of my NiF is out in the world! Thanks @ninamiller.bsky.social and @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social! US orders: jakethemag.com/books/ Non US or signed copies (I only have 2 left until I restock) docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

There's more to celebrate! Massive congratulations to these nominees for The Best Small Fictions 2026 🎉 It was such a pleasure publishing these works over the past year 🖤 www.takahe.org.nz/nominations/

Submissions open at brownhoundpress.com. #callforsubmissions #shortstories

So excited to announce that our milestone 10th issue is being released in 10 days. Stay tuned 🧡

today's Kaitlan Bui poem is one of my fave things i've read in a while. so honored to get to share it. "when he was my age, my grandfather would comb the scalp of the forest for shells, then write letters to the families of dead bodies he found." https://www.havehashad.com/3vdnr

from a thread by a historian of Reconstruction. this bit seems key

I say heart is heavy, angel of death all around / no wonder so many hearts just stopped this week

Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen. brevitymag.com

You don’t have to read Kaleidotrope, I just think you’d enjoy it.

We don't require you to justify your request. We will treat all requests in good faith on a first come, first served basis. Please like and share the post above to get the message out to writers who could do with a leg up! 2/2

A VERY generous benefactor has donated entries to the upcoming Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction to support writers on low income! If you've always wanted to enter but struggled to find the means to do so, please email us at [email protected] 1/2

"Now I walk without fanfare or fortitude, just slow and steady. Like a running a marathon on a treadmill, like moving because I can’t think of any other option." In case you need this too. From the archives at @templeinacity.bsky.social . templeinacity.com/creative-non...

I love this! I’m trying to name the emotion for you but I can’t quite yet

We love this!

One of those stories that grabs you by the shoulder and then by the throat a little, not really letting you go. @eireneeleni.bsky.social writes a belter of a tale. Take a look!

1) The moon won't do my dishes. 2) I asked the moon who she loved best; she traced her fingertips along the surface of the ocean. 3) The moon never howls back.

Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

Collective moral responsibility iep.utm.edu/collective-m...

Collective moral injury (2017 article) www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/expe...

"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration

Where does faith factor into Buddhism? Faith plays a central role in Buddhism, though contemporary teachings shaped by Buddhist modernism often downplay its significance. Learn more for free at the link below!

'Do it just once, taxes will go down, dad said. Cat in her white dress disagreed in charades behind him, perched on the table scuffed with coffee rings and knife scars. Eating plums.' www.frazzledlit.com/p/the-house-... Thanks @frazzledlit.bsky.social for publishing this woozy story, it means a lot

Happy Tuesday and Happy Winter Whimsy Web Series Day 3! We offer you a sweetie little piece by @kdiannerule.bsky.social aptly titled GUMDROP! Take a gander: sillygoosepress.com/winter-whims...