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#Handsoff protest posts: RT them putting pressure on media outlets to cover it! @inquirer.com @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social @economist.com @washingtonpost.com @theworld.org @politico.com @theverge.com @financialtimes.com

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“I’m a crime writer – I understand theft when I see it.” Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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“It’s more like watching and wondering about the life you might have had if anyone had ever found out what you were concealing from them after you’re already gone. We all think this sounds like a nightmare. And that we better try even harder not to die just in case.” oh, this story 💔 it’s perfect

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tons of amazing stuff still up for auction and you’ll be supporting the transgender law center too: www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...

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got the new @otherppl.bsky.social pick & immediately remembered the nightmares i had from the 2015 NYer article abt the cascadia fault line, but then tore through the book in a day anyway. and it also wrecked me. it was so brilliant and so gutting and so alive and so terrifying and so beautiful. 💔

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“[AI] will never mimic a writer’s soul or how he or she produces meaningful writing—that process by which an individual idiosyncratic mind works out a problem, granting readers access to the inner life of another person, that constitutes the lifeblood of writing and storytelling.” all this, really.

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A mere 33 years into my writing career, I published a book. It's such a thrill to see it here. (much ❤️ Stillhouse Press! Big thanks @penamerica.bsky.social & [email protected] Sarah Shun-lien Bynum @wendywimmer.bsky.social. (Happy to be here w my friend @janellebassett.bsky.social!)

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“She’s still down there, bones picked clean by river fish, snapping turtles risen from swamps. She thought prayer would save her, an invisible, tide-halting dome cast over the house.” @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social with this gem in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. every single sentence is so good. 🩵

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😡😡😡 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Help litmags transition away from Twitter, follow them on BlueSky. go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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Writers over at @porcupinelit.bsky.social are currently being targeted by the MAGA crowd. Read and share the work of teachers. ♥️ 💪 www.porcupineliterary.com

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this place, guys. it’s beautiful, it’s quiet, it has tons of space, it’s an easy drive from dc, and i accomplished more here in 5 days than i’ve gotten done in the last year. #areasontowrite @ellenweeren.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

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excited to talk all thing flash fiction at shepherd next month!

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“You realize how much of your body you’ve never touched with intention: the satiny inside of your arms, your knuckles’ bony hills…” @claudiamonpere.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social. chills from this one. 💔

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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

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Damn straight, Tim Walz

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“I thought I’d left that all behind, the urge to fix what wasn’t mine.” @sightlined.bsky.social in @hexliterary.bsky.social 🩵

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Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

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“Her grip was so tight that her fingers left horizontal marks, lines so perfect you’d think a cartographer drew them using a parallel ruler to trace the course of bearing.” one of my favorite people with this beautiful story in the new issue of stirring: www.stirringlit.com/vol-27-ed-1-...

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Writers! Do you write fiction that’s speculative, fabulist, or magical in any way? I’m putting together a Substack post on the best craft guidance (& reminders) for writers working in this mode, and I’d love to include tips from others too! Send me a DM if interested (or comment here if you prefer)!

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“two arms stretched out like a cross a hug a headstone” beautiful little micro from @sabrinahicks.bsky.social in 100 word story 🏜️

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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...

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day after christmas scene: a four-year-old, surrounded by a mountain of new toys, spends the entire morning playing keep-away with a piece of bubble wrap. she is deliriously happy.

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“She’ll put on the sailor outfit if they ask nicely. If they’re good in the only way that still matters.” @angelaliu.bsky.social with a brilliant version of sailor moon in @hexliterary.bsky.social

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“they used to fade out as if the music hadn’t ended at all, was still playing somewhere and it was us who’d moved on, already singing the next song even as the first one continued in some other room…” @amorak.bsky.social with a bit of music on today’s slowdown 🎶🎶

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There are now 279 lit mags and small presses on this list (which is NOT a starter pack) - you can follow the list (pin it)-without following all the accounts and it becomes a feed/tab. Please share (it's the biggest list so far) bsky.app/profile/laco... #litmags #litmag

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dmv lit news from @writesloud.bsky.social - excited to see this new column in washington city paper 💙

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My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful! prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...

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this tiny story from @manthes.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social 💙

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As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.

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“For months now, the husband has been trying to tell the wife about his dreams. Paper skies, torn at the edges. Dead trees, leafless, brittle, the bark peeling in strips.” wow this one is excellent 🩵 @lmariharris.bsky.social in @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social

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“Her: cleavers and handsaws and rare roast beef. Him: tarts studded with berries, snow of confectioner’s sugar.” love this story from @sfreligh.bsky.social in the new issue of @jhhnow.bsky.social 🔪 🍮 gooseberry-pie.com/Restaurant-A...

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“the guestroom walls open out to rainforests, deserts, river basins, thin-aired Andean peaks. The rainclouds burst and soon the room is echoing with the wails of a hundred oilbirds.” brilliant story from @sagreene1.bsky.social 💚💚💚

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“She has heard Circe’s songs of other lands, other languages. She has collected artefacts: metal keys, glass screens with buttons, plastic cards. She is setting her sights on new horizons.” ooh i loved this story from @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in ghost parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/decemb...

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“Behind the glass, the whole history of time plays itself out in front of her, and she watches the passage of so many millennia at once. All these years she thought she’d never see.”

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Hello #WritingCommunity 👋🏽 Just finding our feet on this platform. We're an online litmag for #flashfiction, #micros, #prose poetry, #creativenonfiction - we love bold, unapologetic writing Coming soon: winners of our 2024 Flash Fiction competition, judged by Nathan Leslie newflashfiction.com/news/

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Six short stories and one stunning CNF piece this week. @jeaverlee.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social Amelia Gray in @electriclit.bsky.social @karaoakleaf.bsky.social in @smokelong.bsky.social Kim Fu in Oprah Daily (...cont'd, Bluesky really needs to exclude @'s from character counts)

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this project is gorgeous 😍 and full of the best flash writers. exploring it now and loving every page.

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Our second starter pack of SLQ contributors: this one works backwards from Issue 62 for a little way (at Issue 51 now but we need to take a break). We're still working on it! Please tag us if your issue buddies are here and we've missed you! go.bsky.app/5FVZnKx

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there's a weird lull post book release, when you feel like: did this even happen? anyway, if you're interested in short stories about sad people doing not great things & trying to be happy, consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: tinyurl.com/2tcjb6cr (Please share this, if you don't mind 💙) #booksky

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i know we can’t read any of these yet but i kind of love just seeing this list of titles 🩵

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So, I got starter-pack FOMO and decided to make one for writing people who know stuff and pass it on through courses, workshops, newsletters etc. It includes all the savants who teach me stuff. I've probably missed people but these were the ones who sprung to my head. go.bsky.app/K7ftxtv

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oh i loved this @emilyrinkema.bsky.social story in @flashfrog.bsky.social 💔

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