Thanks to @lesliepwriter.bsky.social for letting me share some thoughts on my new collection. #poetry #ecopoetry #BookSky www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2025/09/tbr-...

Happy to help promote the good work we're doing over at the Converse low-res MFA journal, @south85journal.bsky.social! Thanks for the interview, Becky Tuch & Lit Mag News!

A reminder! @hubcitypress.bsky.social is looking for one nonfiction title for (probably fall) 2027. By a southerner and/or related to the South. I had lots of interesting responses to the call below, but mostly unfinished manuscripts. Agents or unagented writers welcome. My DMs are open for q's!

"You have to have confidence amounting to arrogance, because particularly at the beginning, you're making something that nobody has asked you to make." Elaine de Kooning, qtd in NINTH STREET WOMEN by Mary Gabriel #SundaySentence

PAINFUL.

YAY!

Reynolda Garden in Winston-Salem, NC. Whatever the season, there's something gorgeous to see.

Starting to write a novel is "like trying to keep everyone alive, forever. Even the ones who must die in the end. They're the most important to keep alive." -THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, John Irving #SundaySentence

Deadline = TODAY!! www.south85journal.com/submissions/

YOU HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY!!!!!!!

Our summer issue is now online! Featuring 3rd-prize winner of our short story contest Annie Zaidi; poetry by Grace Schulman, Ted Kooser & Rachel Hadas; reviews on James Baldwin biographies & Sylvia Plath's prose; our new dance reviewer Marina Harss's essay on Baryshnikov, & more! hudsonreview.com

Gonna agree!!

from "Berryman" by W.S. Merwin I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

Hope you'll read my (<300 word) story! Also hope you'll take a moment to appreciate journals & editors who do the extra work to make sure the pieces they publish are presented beautifully & to support the writers they publish w/ social media posts. TY Ghost Parachute & @brettpribble.bsky.social!

🚨~TWO WEEKS LEFT~🚨 Make the kitty happy & send us your work for our deluge | drought issue...$100 to best piece...dedicated readers...all work comes from the queue Deadline: 8/15 south85journal.com/submissions/

VERY PLEASED to have a short story up in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social's newest issue! <Someday, possibly, they’ll regret the quantity of ultra-processed food they consume, but not me, not even now, and I’m an adult. On my deathbed I’ll request broccoli? Doubtful.> pitheadchapel.com/lucky-enough/

VERY PLEASED to have a super-short piece up in Ghost Parachute's newest issue! (Isn't this artwork fabulous?!)

Yes, even a name like mine! I NOTICE.

So proud of the work we publish and the writers we support! Read their work: south85journal.com Send us YOUR work (by 8/15): south85journal.com/submissions/

Don't be shy! Give us a try! We're looking for poetry/fiction/flash/CNF on the open-ended theme of drought | deluge. 8/15 deadline! www.south85journal.com/submissions/

Still open for pitches for short NF books!

We're looking for your best...deadline is 8/15! ~$100 prize to one published piece ~we proudly nominate for Best of the Net & Pushcart ~all work comes from the queue ~all work is read by > 1 reader ~we ♥️♥️♥️out writers!! Info: south85journal.com/submissions/

Less than a month!

Whatcha doing this weekend? Sending some work our way, perhaps? ~Best published piece gets $100 ~We nominate for Pushcart & Best of the Net ~Everything read by > 1 reader ~Responses in late Sept-ish Details: www.south85journal.com

Why are computer printers so malevolently evil?

Wowwee @hubcitypress.bsky.social is OPEN this weekend for single-narrative nonfiction! This is my time, my favorite stuff! Can be personal, reportage, memoir, cultural criticism, history, or a blend of the above. Ends at midnight on Sunday. Drop any questions below. hubcity.submittable.com/submit

Last chance to sign up for this class, happening tomorrow (Saturday). It's online, so you can do it from anywhere! A 4-hour generative workshop to help you bust through writer’s block and kickstart new speculative stories—without building a whole new world first.

Thanks to our social media manager @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social for getting @south85journal.bsky.social into the meme game. And be assured that our enthusiastic team would love to read your work!

Excited to have this new story in Southern Humanities Review. It takes place in the 1970s and features Iowa City's famous Talking Christmas Tree, which is exactly as weird as it sounds. IYKYK

We'd love to read your work!

I'm the editor!

We're open for subs through 8/15! Want to read a sample? Start w/ the Editor's Choice Award-winners from the last 2 issues: www.south85journal.com/thieves-of-t... fiction by Ramona Reeves & www.south85journal.com/the-white-ho... flash by Alexandria Valentine www.south85journal.com/submissions/

This thunderstorm came from nowhere, alerted by the fact that both I and my husband paid to wash our cars AND we're supposed to go to a baseball game tonight. So much for my new weather app THAT TOLD ME TODAY WAS GOING TO BE CLEAR! (Thanks for firing everyone, DOGE.)

I'm the editor, and I know we would love to consider your work.

Please share this call for submissions from South 85, the Converse University MFA journal I edit. We accept work only from the queue (no secret soliciting) & ONE piece gets $100 for the Editor's Choice Award. www.south85journal.com/submissions/

Dang! For once, I actually have something perfect for this call--but I'm thwarted by my 10AM appointment.

Which is the most annoying platform to submit work via and why is it Ploughshares?

Talk about literary citizenship! Amid the consuming rigors of running a wonderful journal, Split Lip Magazine makes time to promote their former contributors. Any writer they publish is soooo lucky to be part of this literary family! (Also, read my story about a missing girl's mom!)

"To suddenly redirect congressionally-appropriated funds away from hundreds of scholars and creators midway through their projects isn’t just administratively questionable, it’s morally indefensible."—W. Ralph Eubanks, president of the Authors Guild www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

TBR: @loriostlund.bsky.social's new collection of stories that <explore class, identity, loneliness & the specter of violence that looms over women & the LGBTQ+ community.> And one was included in both BASS & O. Henry! www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2025/05/tbr-...

I sound my barbaric yawp.

Honored to see my work in this final issue of such a celebrated journal. "Who Here Likes These Cookies" is about a harried housewife/mother in the 1970s whose daughter has disappeared. artsandletters.gcsu.edu/who-here-lik...

Such an excellent journal, with an editor who takes care of writers and their work. Get cracking!

Saguaro blooms in the Catalina foothills outside Tucson, AZ, where I'm on a writing residency in a casita where John Updike and his wife spent winters in the 2000s. (!!).

Love this poem!

From the Authors Guild, a group that is always on top of things for writers (so do join, if you haven't already): <We would greatly appreciate it if you would let us know if you or anyone you know has an existing NEA grant and has received a termination notice.> authorsguild.org

Really happy about this choice!

If you don't submit to the flash category @jmwwjournal.bsky.social, I might have to start doing housework right when I wake up on Saturday mornings instead of reading the queue. Please save me.