Check out the newest issue of The Writer's Chronicle with plenty of inspiration, including prompts from me, @tamaramc.bsky.social and @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social!

we always fill fast, but these spontaneous pop-up calls always go take a little longer. a little over half full!

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #29 — ft. Elnura Huseynova @civitaveritas.bsky.social Perry Ruhland, Jen Adams, Anna Evans, Asmi Kartikeya, Nebojša Lujanović (tr. @enaselimo.bsky.social ) Jack Z. Bratich & more ... minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...

Thank you @minorliteratures.bsky.social for giving my lyric weirdo essay a home this month!

last week @ minor lits ... — new fiction from Perry Ruhland minorliteratures.com/2025/11/18/t... — @civitaveritas.bsky.social crosses the international date line minorliteratures.com/2025/11/20/0...

“We have flown inside-out of Time itself, Time being key to prophesies.” 00:00:00 on the International Date Line — Gabriela Denise Frank

People across WA state can visit Washington Health Plan Finder and see exactly how much their health care premiums will cost next year.  If your increase is making coverage unaffordable, Democrats need you to speak out. We can't let Republicans ignore this crisis. www.wahealthplanfinder.org

It's never too late to learn something new. It's never too late to discover the secret language of trees. It's never too late to wrap yourself in moss & malice and become the forest horror that timid folk whisper about in the dark.

“By 2035, data centers globally are projected to use about as much electricity as India…according to the International Energy Agency. A single data center can also use more than 500,000 gallons of water a day, nearly as much as an Olympic-size swimming pool.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Just got ANOTHER complaint from an author with Lori Perkins's Riverdale Avenue Books about royalties not paid for over a year. I wrote about this problem in 2021 and it appears to still be ongoing--just amazing how pubs like this stay in business. writerbeware.blog/2021/03/02/p...

Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you: 1 Event or 1 Organization or 1 Person Here's what we mean...

Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam! www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

"And I, I am a wax child, secreted from the scaly glands of the honeybee's abdomen, of rose hip, propolis, pollen, dread, quince, longing, yeast dough, age, and ever young, with infinity's secret in my folds."

@victoriastrauss.com #writingcommunity This is a warning about an AI scam site SIGILMARK. The FB page & website was set up in Aug 25 These are supposed to be 'real' authors who use Sigilmark. AI gen book ARCs are being sent out via Booksirens relating to the fake profiles.

Looking to apply, but not sure what to expect? We're going Live with some of our Artists in Residence over the next few weeks to talk about their experiences with Jack Straw and how the residencies have helped them create and share their art. #JackStrawArtists #ArtistsInResidence

The Needling Online Real Fake Newsroom Workshop begins Wednesday night. Join us! tinyurl.com/bddb6dmt

WHAT. We still have a few tickets available for our October 14th 20th anniversary show!! Get 'em 🌈🦄💖

Sound Transit has ordered 1 Line Shuttle buses to replace 1 Line service from U District Station to Stadium Station. Updates will be provided once 1 Line Shuttle buses are available.

Just a little over a week before my Gotto Lecture at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in NYC, at 2pm on Sunday, Sept 28. If you're in the NYC area, you can register at fapc.org/gotto - or you can also join online. Looking forward to this!

Listen to the latest episode of our Artist of the Week #podcast, featuring #JackStrawArtist @civitaveritas.bsky.social, at buff.ly/gwcJmER or subscribe via Apple Podcasts. #JackStrawArtists

Crab Creek Review is open for free submissions! Send us well-crafted prose that exhibits emotional depth, a clear voice, and nuanced reflection that goes beyond a retold memory. Hybrid, lyric, experimental, narrative, & non-traditional forms welcome. Closes 10/15! crabcreekreview.org/contest--sub...

NPR plans to make trims totaling more than $5 million over the course of the coming fiscal year to bring its annual budget into balance. Meanwhile, local stations are asking for more help.

Periodic reminder that we at @mcsweeneys.net ’s have no writing staff (save for the great @shadesofgreaves.bsky.social), and rely on unsolicited submissions for our humor & satire. We respond to each every submission within 7.39 days (but usually much sooner). www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidel...

Okay, a few folks have pointed me to the original now. Absolute gaslighting nonsense. Don't use LLMs for search. Don't have "conversations" with LLMs. Do engage with other people. Got an information need that isn't easily Google-able? Visit your local library!

What do you do when CDC no longer gives vaccine advice based on science? YOU BYPASS THEM! West Coast Health Alliance (CA, OR, WA, HI) recs based on facts buff.ly/I4oWZfX New Mexico COVID vax for all buff.ly/84mZXoN Massachusetts insurance must cover COVID vax buff.ly/zAfAZsd #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷🧪

Ashanty is my student, and this is her first-ever professional assignment! She’s a ridiculously smart thinker and writer — read her on AI in school instead of all the adults pontificating. 🤗

We'll be doing one last BOOST on Monday (if @suburbanprairie.bsky.social gets her ass back on a phone during the holiday weekend), but in case we forget: NOVEL/NOVELLA SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 11:59PM CT on Monday September 1! Yes that is "Labor Day." So LABOR THIS WEEKEND and SEND US YOUR BOOK!

Reading more of the PBS/KNKX excellent reporting on LLM use by municipal governments in WA and it's infuriating. www.knkx.org/government/2... A short thread:

Do you think your book may have been stolen by an AI company? Then you might be entitled to be part of a class action lawsuit!

Poetry from Baffler no. 79: “Loose Exegesis” by Alina Stefanescu.

I read and appreciate every email I get from people who read The Disordered Cosmos and liked it! Thank you! Also while I’m here I might as well remind you all that preorders really help authors and my new book is available for preorders! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Bruce Harrell Quietly Changes LinkedIn Profile to Open to Work: tinyurl.com/436jer4c

Can't afford therapy? Get Dubious Advice instead from a drunk Needling editor this Friday night at CSzSeattle in Fremont: tinyurl.com/2sdxsxz5

When you're riding your bike and cross the border into Bellevue, you should know exactly who to blame for the infrastructure vanishing and the hostility knob turning way up. www.theurbanist.org/2024/10/24/b...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

One spot left!

Jack Straw's audio workshops with engineer Tom Stiles are the perfect opportunity to improve your studio skills or get that first introduction to the world of audio recording and editing. To sign up or for more information, email [email protected].

This is one of the hardest pieces--both literally and formally--I've written. Started in a class with @civitaveritas.bsky.social, aided through revision with @killerbreeze.bsky.social, now published at TIMBER: it's "Newport, 1991"--my lipogram. timberjournal.org/archive/newp...

"Chatbots regurgitate and rearrange fragments mined from all the text previously written. As plagiarists, they obscure and randomize their sources but do not transcend them. Writing is something else: a creative act,embodied thinking...” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

PARK COIN!

Sen. Maria Cantwell Wishes All the Best for Palestinians She’s Approved Funding to Kill: tinyurl.com/4fkckbnj

Hi! Moving off of Substack has required a little more #hustle and #grind (yuck!) to get my newsletter in front of new people, so if you'd like to receive some jokes and pep talks in your email every Monday, I'd love if you'd subscribe! And I'd double-love if you wanted to pay!

Open letter to the Portland Book Festival “We ask you to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.” Consider adding your name: lithub.com/an-open-lett...

We are looking for a new series co-editor for Best Literary Translations! Deadline to apply is Monday, August 4! www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...

Grateful to Gabriela Denise Frank and @therumpus.net for this chance to speak about my new poetry collection published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. 🫶 therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...

“Heresies are dreamy, to me. They nudge us to think, to imagine, to forsake the given scripts and safety associated with conforming to received beliefs and conventions.” @civitaveritas.bsky.social interviews @alinaetc.bsky.social about My Heresies (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/qCPYFBV

I’ve already made a few updates to this guide since publishing it, and will keep adding as I get more good suggestions!

Excited to share this interview with @alinaetc.bsky.social about "My Heresies" (@sarabandebooks.bsky.social), out now at @therumpus.net. Its radiant skirmish of families & selfhood, countries & allegiances & fraught love will bend you to its glitchy, kitschy will: therumpus.net/2025/07/17/u...