I've just learned that Unsolicited Press has nominated "Pardon Me for Moonwalking" for The Maya Angelou Book Award. This prize was founded in 2020 to honor the legacy of the Missouri-born author. An thrill to be nominated!

This is like if Ed Tom Bell had a third dream at the end of No Country for Old Men and in that third dream there was no horn full of fire or an existential crisis and instead a silver lining to be found in Dick Van Dyke's chest hair bsky.app/profile/brui...

Book 3 of 2026: @nassos.bsky.social's Sour Cherry Dreamlike and somehow both lush and spare at the same time, Sour Cherry is a lyrical novel about a man bringing ruin everywhere he goes--especially to the women in his orbit. If you like the "literary" side of Gothic fairytales, you'll love this.

@flashfictiononline.bsky.social this is soooo good! Looking forward to digging into the rest of the issue! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/what...

I wrote about a character with a wicked crush on Dick Van Dyke and… can’t say she’s wrong!!! Happy birthday to a true legend on his 100th birthday and thank you to City Wide Lunch for running this story on a Saturday so it would be up for his birthday!! citywidelunch.wordpress.com/a-spoonful-o...

So glad you enjoyed this marvellous story, Claudia. Thank you for reading and sharing @claudiamonpere.bsky.social‬ @writesofkathryn.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

Writer friends! My novel from the amazing @stanchion.bsky.social is out in Feb. I’d love to plan some events. If you have friendly book stores, dive bars, breweries, festivals, or street corner gatherings in your area that might welcome a visiting author, send them my way! 💙

Yea @caseystegman.com !!!

If you loved reading NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ, & prefer the original LILO AND STITCH over the remake, then you're going to love @lumchanmfa.bsky.social's upcoming collection BITTER OVER SWEET! BITTER OVER SWEET will be available in 16 DAYS! Preorder a copy right here: bit.ly/3PuHbEn

Don't Rock the Inbox & @natalieweiner.bsky.social nailed this one. Great year for country music. The Terry Allen, Jerry Jeff, Willie, Emmylou, Guy, Bobby Bare, Gary Stewart & Waylon titles are all personal favorites. Crazy they all came out the same year: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/14-essential...

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years. And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...

Very happy with the work @danrussell.bsky.social and I get to share with this! Get it while it’s hot, people! Yum yum yum yum

Thank you so much @offbeatlit.bsky.social for the Best of the Net nomination! I am over the moon!

Guess who has a story shouted out in Myna Chang’s always fantastic Spec Flash Roundup!

📣 Tuesday release: “The Body, Electric” by Lauren Kardos is free to read on FFO today. Content warning: immortality that’s as crumbling & inconsistent as the world we live in! #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #flashfiction @lkardos.bsky.social www.flashfictiononline.com/article/the-...

A tough one to write and "have out there," but I'm proud of this hybrid micro. Many thanks to Court Harler, Flash the Court journal, and @sfreligh.bsky.social, whose prompt spurred the piece.

So a couple of years ago I feverishly wrote this thing about mothers and kids, pretending it had nothing whatsoever to do with my own mothering or childhood (hahahahahaha) and @publishedbyjake.bsky.social want to publish it (WHAT?). Coming towards the end of the year!!!

Today, we have a historical, satirical, fantastical story from Angela James. “I Was Made for Loving You” imagines Gene Simmons from KISS as a Peter Pan figure. It’s wacky and fabulous! #writingcommunity #flashfiction #satire #historical #literary #KISS www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...

New story out today with Ghost Parachute’s August 2025 issue. Check out my slipstream clump of mischief—“Dermoid.” #flashfiction #writingcommunity #slipstream #lightbodyhorror #hysteria #ladytroubles ghostparachute.com/issue/august...

My 70s Gene Simmons story just dropped! Thank you @flashfictiononline.bsky.social and thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social , @jdclappwrites.bsky.social and @kmelkes.bsky.social for earlier feedback and for generally enabling my foolishness! www.flashfictiononline.com/article/i-wa...

How am I just seeing this now? What a wonderful pieces, Sumitra!!

I love you… 🥰

Love this new one by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social in the new issue of Milk Candy Review!

The piece in here by @danbillyc.bsky.social will destroy you (but that’s why we’re here, right?).

I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants

It’s time, everyone! You can now have JD’s collection in your paws!

The old saying is “behind every successful man is a woman.” What I am seeing is also behind every thwarted woman is an abusive piece of garbage.

Happy Pub Day, @danrussell.bsky.social!!!

Glad to see this pub on here! And… if you feel like taking a look…it’s my little Joan Crawford piece that ran April 1!

Want some inspiration? Check out REUNION (A RETURN TO JUAREZ), a radio play by Terry Allen that serves as something like deleted scenes for the Sailor, Alice, Jabo & Chic characters. Plus there's a high tension gas station robbery & shootout. Cool shit. soundcloud.com/paradise-of-...

Me at live music events…

With covering contributor copy costs and-more the culprit-time we have to dedicate to our single author book projects, I FEEL JUST LIKE A DOGWOOD TREE might be your last shot to get in a CJ music incited anthology for a while...

This one has everything— hooker boots! Crickets! Strap-op dildos! Thank you to @mrbullbull.bsky.social and to my @smokelong.bsky.social fitness buddies for earlier feedback!

Y’all, Amazon is bad for writers, bad for publishers, bad for customers, bad for workers. bad for democracy. Would be wonderful if we could break its stranglehold.

This is such a sweet story about the connection between a boy and a dog and the beautiful work animals do! 🥹 Go give it a read in Haven Speed Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social this weekend! 🧡

I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!

This was the one. youtu.be/MEmreSVR1NQ?...

Guess who has a story in her beloved @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social !!! Thank you @vanwinkle.bsky.social ! Thanks @smokelong.bsky.social friends and @jdclappwrites.bsky.social for your earlier input! www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/dog-days-by-...

Ah dude, what did they do to Luanne @travisflatt.bsky.social ? "You showed up at our doorstep, all full of glamour dreams, hair sun-kissed blonde, jeans cut way up high. What boy could help but love you." #flashfiction flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/t... @travisflatt.bsky.social

"The whiplash from the White House tariff trade war we're living in is geopolitical gaslighting" Read "Elbows Up" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social in The Pride Roars theprideroars.blogspot.com/2025/03/elbo...

Snag your paperback or ebook of NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN A FLYOVER STATE, a stellar debut collection from @cbwell.bsku.social: www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0F3...

Signed off on the proof of we astronauts from @pinholepoetry.bsky.social Y’all can buy it at the fair & hear from it at the pre-fair reading.

I wish I could write with the kind of joy and abandon @martinezfjulian.bsky.social has. So good! @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2608

Thank you to Kevin Brennan and The Disappointed Housewife for publishing my Joan Crawford story and thanks to my @smokelong.bsky.social people for their early input! thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/04/01/s...

Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social really gets at the multi-faceted issues that have been bugging me about Adolescence, as much as I appreciated the series open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Evenin', good buddies. It's about that time again. Got a jam packed issue of goodies ready and waiting. Tell your lumberjack uncle what's up. Eighty Three is live. www.roifaineantpress.com/blog #WritingCommunity

wrote about the beautiful and deranged things The Righteous Gemstones does with the English language briancgrubb.substack.com/p/no-show-do...