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Psst...submissions for fiction are now open! Click the link in our bio to find out more.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. You know, I don't often reskeet this account, but I thought to myself this morning that many folks need to learn from the Chronicle of Higher Ed's famed STFU School of Professional Development. Shut. The. FCK. Up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWl...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

submitted 11 days ago • 116 comments

western PA as muse, for my sad sisyphean heart. creative cup full, emotional cup empty ⚖️

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

back on my 4am doomscrolling bullshit

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 18 days ago • 135 comments

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

submitted 21 days ago • 65 comments

There's villainy afoot! #FlashVillain 2025 contest now open to submissions. themolotovcocktail.com/flash-villai...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth is a ceremonial poem sequence that encounters the body as a site of loss and regeneration, faith and doubt, trauma and hope, through excavating meaning from the mundanities of a broken society and healthcare system. @adrianf.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Wherever possible please buy your books directly from authors and/or publishers. Even ebooks (then Amazon can't delete them either). We make a better cut and you get the same thing or better, plus Bezos and ilk don't get richer. Win win win.

submitted 20 days ago • 196 comments

the way to help NEA funded presses is to give them money. donate to them or buy books, share posts, host their authors.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Dear People On Substack: the next best time to leave Substack is now

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

microdosing sanity with a lil snack plate at 4pm

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

deactivated my account at the bad place! good riddance!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

bless pbs for putting all of their documentaries on YouTube for the free

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi

submitted 29 days ago • 68 comments

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

submitted 47 days ago • 70 comments

There will never be a good time to write. Life won't stop until you're dead and then you really can't write. Do it now.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

We are open to submissions! Send us your best and brightest (or darkest) flash fiction: flashpointsf.com/submissions/

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

my first spicy flash 🌶️ thankful for the @smokelong.bsky.social fitness prompt that gave me the courage and for absolute dream mag @lostballoon.bsky.social for giving it a home!

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

We have a great new piece today from Lauren Kardos! Check out “Gentle.” lost-balloon.com/2025/01/29/g...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Not much to be said today. So I’ll just say I hope everyone is as okay as you can be today. I hope you’re with loved ones. I hope you have things in place that will help you survive, fight, and feel joy.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Shhhh. Come're. You'll be the first to hear about this. Starting May 11, we'll open our themed call for submissions "Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller" for our September issue, paying $300 for accepted flash (under 1000 words). Watch our social media channels for more info.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

reminder AI "art" is a climate change escalation movement I will always rant about the creative reality of being fundamentally human in expression and can't be automated, but I think it's most important to make sure every time you see an ai image, you're closer to a seasonal disaster killing you

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

your girl has a micro on this badass list from Scaffold, such an honor to be recognized with so many greats! www.scaffoldlit.com/top-50-micro...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

2024 writing highlights: trying things that scare me - went to monthly irl readings across DC - first in-person retreat in WV - started submitting again in May - 7 pieces pub’d, 5 accepted for 2025 - daily morning pages since June - got a writing/editing routine back since joining SLQ fitness

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

nothing better than napping with your cats on a lazy Saturday afternoon

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

If you know of anyone who might like a "funny," "humane," "sensitive," and "deeply satisfying" short story collection, I hope you'll consider gifting them my debut book, SAD GROWNUPS - bookshop.org/p/books/sad-... Indie books need support - I'd appreciate if you'd share this for visibility! Thanks!

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

check out “Steel” and “Nuked” in @antiheroinchic.bsky.social’s December issue. such a wonderful home these two from my Pittsburgh prose poem series found, alongside so many other beautiful words! check the issue out here: heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-...

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

sinking into the depths early this work season, expecting to resurface around Dec 20 🥲 keep my WIPs in your thoughts, that inspiration may return when I catch a breath

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

november is for pie baking

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments