Lol nanowrimo got shut down?

Breaking news: The Trump administration is planning a major increase of deportations to Guantánamo, including citizens of Britain, France and other allies. Officials said they are unlikely to inform the foreigners’ home governments about the transfers.

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Someone should snap up this excellent book right away!!

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Putting out a radar ping to authors from ELJ to see if any wish to submit their manuscript to us for 2026/2027. No promises but willing to try.

Anyone interested in my old climate manuscript but revised with like twenty new poems after the rights are released?

No idea how to chime in on the ELJ conversation without saying the wrong thing but yep, this totally fucking blows. After all my darling book has been through, this latest turn of events is pretty galling.

🧵It is with sadness that I am parting ways with ELJ Editions. I did my best to help right what many had warned me was a sinking ship, and I have succeeded in getting three beautiful books out into the world through the Redacted Books Series.

so weird to think next week i’ll be in england for the first time since i left in 2018.

i’m really proud of my cat Pickle who is very frightened of sneezing but no longer jumps and runs away in fear. what a brave girl! 🥲

wow, teaching with an almost-lost voice really blows

on theme

eight weeks from today i’ll be on a plane back to england for the first time in six years. weird.

omg my best friend just asked me to officiate her wedding 🥲🥲🥲

Isn’t this just the last scene in The Day After Tomorrow when Dennis Quaid arrives to find the kids in the library?

do folks have a preferred translation of sappho?

returned my mother to jfk yesterday after two (long) weeks

picking up my mom from jfk today. haven’t seen her for ten years.

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

one of the great questions of life: will i ever find the right antique brass curtain tiebacks for our primary bedroom?

The pharmacy asked about the change in my prescription so I told them I’m way more mentally ill than my psychiatrist first thought so she doubled my dosage. When I tell you these women laughed their asses off… 💊✨

my psychiatrist canceled our first follow-up where we were going to discuss my progress following her diagnosis of me and initial prescription. now i have to find a new provider 🫠

not me immediately thinking about MLA formatting

Thanks to The Threepenny Review for including my essay about deafness in the new Winter issue Table Talk! Buy the issue! Subscribe! Support the magazines that make our lives as writers possible! www.threepennyreview.com/issue-180-wi...

the age-old holiday tradition of buying all the candy in advance to wrap it for our stockings, and then accidentally eating it all and having to re-buy it 😅🫠

before and after of our guest bedroom, completed last night!

Announcing the acquisition of a brand new poetry collection by Alina Stefanescu!

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

My first book What Pecan Light is on sale for $12 at @bullcitypress.com! Y’all this is the time to directly buy from small presses; it has been such a rough year for small presses with SPD closing, and everything else 💙📚📚

Looking for a great #Audiobook for your holiday travels? Let Jay Karnes and I do the talking -- NEGATIVE GIRL is on Spotify, Audible and Libby! open.spotify.com/show/7aK5kcB...

what happened to “if you don’t like it, leave”

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇🏻 I’m Shannon, known to my primary school teacher Miss Charlton as “Landfill” for having “such a big mouth and never shutting up”

Follow Lee y’all!

“we worry, but not enough” — @readinstead.bsky.social

Hey, now that we have more poets here, a wondering: For those of you who released books without winning a prize or open reading, how'd you do it? How did you get a book deal outside of the Submittable slush pile routine? (Feel free to DM answer if you'd rather. I think they're open?)

My novel, Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, is out in paperback now. It's about siblings, dealing (or not dealing) with the past, the struggle to care for someone, how trauma invades every part of a life, living anyway.

i did it y’all 🥵🥵🥵 i am free from the tyranny of turnitin for another week

My hot tip is to always read Ross

I'm terrible at remembering book anniversaries, but we're coming up on Ghost Mom's 1 year, and I'd love to send it to you. If it helps you afford @tguzman.bsky.social 's pocketsize chapbook, use code GHOST to save $5 on it from now through its Nov 28th birthday www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

whenever i think about george michael being dead, i want to fight someone

one day the grading will be over and i will know peace. 150 papers 🫣

god i love this poem so much!!

good grief

yes, why shouldn’t i spend the evening crying?

I adore this one. I don’t want to spoil it, so you just have to give it a read.