Catamaran invites you to meander through the world of art and literature with our new Fall 2025 edition. With works of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and an interview with Percival Everett, this issue will be the perfect reintroduction to the tranquility of fall. catamaranliteraryreader.com/fall-2025

I have a new little flash essay up at @xraylitmag.bsky.social today. It was stupid hard to write this, y'all. Thank you, XRAY. ♥️ xraylitmag.com/swallow-by-h...

Students of any kind can use the discount code STUDENT to get 25% off The Art of Brevity Workshop with Grant Faulkner! 🤩 #WritingCommunity #writingclasses

A thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by @devonfredericksen.bsky.social. Thanks for the recommendation, @amethystwrites.bsky.social!

For years, I've long said that climate.gov's team of remarkable communicators (& their amazing blogs, which were accessible but did not "dumb down" the science!) was NOAA's best (& most cost effective!) public-facing extreme #weather / #climate education effort to date. This will be a huge loss.

"It started with an “I voted” sticker. I stuck it on my cane, and soon came my first cane compliment, a jolt that echoed throughout my body. Could it be possible to be proud of my cane?" new ode today from M.S. Marquart!! https://www.havehashad.com/53j3e

This is where I'll be this weekend!🤩 Come say hi! 👋

It was such an honor to read my essay "When We Lived Outside" from Catamaran's garden issue last week alongside other terrific #writers. The Hakone Gardens were stunning and the turnout of so many wonderful readers and supporters was truly heartwarming! 🌺

I'll be reading my essay "When We Lived Outside" from @catamaranlit.bsky.social's Garden issue along with other wonderful contributors at the gorgeous Hakone Gardens in Saratoga on May 7th. Come on by if you are anywhere in the Bay Area! 🌺

I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team. It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is. To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟

"But today someone needs me, and I have come to clasp her hands and feet, to shout encouragement in her native tongue, which the nurse and obstetrician do not know – ¡Veo su pelo! ¡Veo su oreja!" Read our latest #BeautifulThings essay by @janinalapapita.bsky.social here:

For @electricliterature.com I wrote about the lack of disability representation in writing workshops, my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE, and seven recent poetry collections about the disability experience. electricliterature.com/7-poetry-col...

One more spotlight on our issue 20 prose ✨️ variantlit.com/issue-twenty/

Affirming and fun times #AWP2025 it’s official: these are really my people 🥰 lovely visiting with @catamaranlit.bsky.social @chicagoqreview.bsky.social @amethystwrites.bsky.social @uclaextension.bsky.social #writingcommunity #grateful

That’s a wrap #AWP25!!! We had so much fun and look forward to our continued connection on the page! 📚 ✍️ 📚

Visit us at booth 926 at the AWP Conference & Bookfair this coming week in LA! ✍️ Book signings with Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Jeanne Wagner, Brad Crenshaw, & Charles Hood! 🌺 Special Offer: Purchase a subscription and get the brand new Garden Issue in addition to the 4 print editions. #AWP #AWP2025 #AWP25

Very excited to dig into this gorgeous issue of Catamaran! @catamaranlit.bsky.social

"Outside we ran like a coyote pack of sisters through the desert..." 🌵☀️ I have a wild childhood #essay in the latest issue of @catamaranlit.bsky.social about growing up on a farm in the desert of New Mexico. Order yourself a copy of this gorgeous mag! catamaranliteraryreader.com/the-garden-i...

Read this beautiful story on storytelling. "We do not forget our mothers. We tell stories to keep each other alive." 💙#writing

“The last time I saw my brother, Jay, a comet seared the night sky. I’m not saying the two things are connected, that the shit we did that night was cosmically important. But sometimes I wonder.” In “We Blazed,” by @amethystwrites.bsky.social, wonder and awe abound: variantlit.com/we-blazed/

Six award-winning female scientists highlight women who have inspired them by pushing innovative research and creating opportunities for others https://go.nature.com/43n0J5R

Boosting for the sake of amplifying the goodness that prevails in this world.

So excited to share my wild fiery flash story "We Blazed" in the new issue of @variantlit.bsky.social alongside these other exceptional writers! 🔥 🛹 💫

Lots of great stuff in the newest issue of @variantlit.bsky.social. Especially love this wild little flash piece from @amethystwrites.bsky.social; check it out! variantlit.com/we-blazed/

🤩 This is going to be 🔥 🔥 🔥 😉

Nothing, just flying into LA during a climate apocalypse to talk about my books about climate apocalypse while government websites are stripped of evidence of the climate apocalypse. A regular Thursday.

Give this gorgeous magazine a follow! I have wild childhood essay I can't wait to share in their upcoming garden-themed issue...💚

Here's a little light sci-fi romance to get you through the middle of the week! Thanks @metastellar.bsky.social for giving this story a good home! 🚀 🐶 💜 www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

Seamlessly weaving in narrative, historical, lyrical, scientific, and metaphorical threads and allowing ourselves to feel all the places we’re still wounded - @eirencaffall.bsky.social is my guest on Let’s Talk Memoir. ronitplank.com/2025/01/07/l...

"When we talk about climate collapse, we talk most frequently about destruction... What we don’t talk about is the world to come that our children will inherit... What we aren’t talking about is what we are committed to saving.." Timely essay by @eirencaffall.bsky.social lithub.com/what-will-yo...

Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"...the way a single saguaro braves the altitude two arms stretched out like a cross a hug a headstone..." Gorgeous micro by @sabrinahicks.bsky.social!

First acceptance of the year from @variantlit.bsky.social! 🥳Can't wait to share the flash story when they publish the next issue in March! 🔥

My 2024 writing goal: Get published by just one of the top 100 lit mags per @brechtdp.bsky.social's fantastic rankings. Among other excellent pubs, I got published in 3 of the top 100! 129 submissions✍️ 8 acceptances🥳 104 rejections😭 2 Pushcart Prize nominations (a first!) How about you?

Raise your hand if you’re joining nearly 10,000 other writers in this winter’s Mini 1000. Starts Jan 3, 5 days of us writing 1000 words a day with letters from me (and some special guests!) It’s free and fun and it’ll kick your writing year into gear. 💪 mini1000.substack.com/p/the-next-m...

"'You need to tell her she can’t do these things,' my mother said. 'But she can!'" This is brilliant! Amazing writing by @amethystwrites.bsky.social in @gonelawn.bsky.social! Thanks for sharing @lmbayley.bsky.social 💙💙💙 #flashfiction

Amethyst- this is simply gorgeous. Memoir and CNF writers take note. So glad to see you here. I’ve been missing my writer friends from the other place.

I am beyond excited to reveal the cover for ARTIFICE & ACCESS: a disability in fantasy anthology! ✨️ Coming Jan 25. Fourteen authors with disability & chronic illnesses show what disability can look like in society and in the fantasy genre. Learn more: linktr.ee/ellatholmes #booksky

"On the full moon, I bathed Elora in goat’s blood. The next day she made the tomatoes in the garden grow as large as pumpkins, then exploded them. Slicked with red ooze, she shrieked with glee." Incredibly imaginative & poignant. @amethystwrites.bsky.social @gonelawn.bsky.social

This beautiful Pushcart-nominated piece by @amethystwrites.bsky.social was just brought to my attention, and now I think you should read it too! #flashfiction #flashyfaves gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Follow Electric Lit’s many wonderful contributors who are now on Bluesky! If you’re a contributor who is not yet included but would like to be added, let us know. We’ll do our best to add as we go! go.bsky.app/87kkUPU

As the season of atmospheric rivers begins on the West Coast, I'm incredibly honored that Catamaran nominated this essay for a Pushcart Prize! It was published in the print edition this spring and is now available in their online archive. static1.squarespace.com/static/50a3e...

I'm so so honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by the wonderful @gonelawn! What a lovely surprise! Thank you!🥹

Congratulations, Amethyst!

Thrilled my little story "The Terrible Twos" is live in Issue 57 of Gone Lawn alongside some other incredible writers. 🤩 Thanks for giving it a home @gonelawn.bsky.social, and to the @smokelong.bsky.social workshop it was born in. 💜 gonelawn.net/journal/issu...

Trying to spend more time here and wanted to share my latest personal #essay with a dash of space science published last month with Electric Lit! 💫 electricliterature.com/my-father-pa...

I'm honored to be a finalist for the Page Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Congrats to the winners! Can't wait to read these flash essays.

My flash story "The Hole that is You" is live and in fantastic company! Check it out and let me know what you think.

Just look at that gorgeous cover... 🤩 Can't wait to dig into these stories.