It's time!! The Essay department at @theoffingmag.bsky.social is open for submission until May 1. This is my first official window as Editor and I'm excited to see what y'all have for me. Here's a lil thread of details...
BAIT is meta and heady and weird and messy and so, so good, a constantly provocative dive into what representation even means -- progress or placation? riz & guz are an unmatched pair. great stuff. @vulture.com:
www.vulture.com/article/bait...
It was incredible hearing this piece performed out loud in person. I will never forget it.
Your last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist.
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I'm hiring for an editorial assistant here at L,B!
If you're someone who is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and nonfiction that deals with big ideas, please apply here: jobs.jobvite.com/careers/hach...
“To confront a Toor then is to reckon with the nature of art history itself.”
From the Archives: Read “The Miraculous Vivacity of Salman Toor,” an Art essay by Katie Alafdal.
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The question “what am I doing with my life?” cycles through my head a lot
Black text on a journal page next to orange flowers: call for submissions The Offing’s Poetry department is seeking new works! Submissions open Thursday January 29th!
The Offing’s Poetry department is open for submissions today! ✨
theoffingmag.submittable.com/submit
A Message from Neil 1-26-26 Folks, I would love to get back to writing about Music for you all. Our country is in turmoil. If you watch FOX, try another channel for your news for just one day. Untruths are abounding on FOX. New York Times used to be where I went for news. Now I go to 'The Guardian'. I suggest you give it a try. Forget the news "shows" on Media. They are all about posers and good looks. Remember "News Programs"? where it was not all about posing. America needs some truth. Not media obsessed with satisfying everybody. CNN? Trash mostly. Look deeper. There is real coverage. Go to independent journalism. Get some relief from white washed 'news shows'. Love Earth, Be well, Neil
I love Neil Young for a host of reasons but this is pretty cool
"New York Times used to be where I went for news. Now I go to 'The Guardian.' I suggest you give it a try." neilyoungarchives.com/news/1
I’m excited to share I have a work of short fiction published in @kwelijournal.bsky.social. The story is excerpted from my novel set in mid-2000s Shanghai. I’m so honored the story found a home in a journal whose contributions the community I admire so much.
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
Dear
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social your silence as ICE attacks democracy is deafening. As a NY woman I’m ashamed.
Amazing piece by @mimiwong.bsky.social in @kwelijournal.bsky.social : Encounter on the Bund
www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2025...
If you read one thing today, let it be this:
“An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness”
❤️💔
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Miyazaki in profile holding an unlit cigarette, subtitle reads most of our world is rubbish.
happy birthday to the GOAT Hayao Miyazaki
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
My elder millennial heart was feeling all the feelings!!!
Supporting The Offing every year has meant I’m exposed to new writers and artists and helping give people the break they deserve. @mimiwong.bsky.social and I are committing this year to matching $500 in donations and we’re halfway there so we hope you can make a tax deductible donation today!
End of year donations With a $50 donations, you’ll receive a copy of our 10-year anniversary anthology
Seeking your support For our end of year fundraiser we are giving away a copy of our 10-year anniversary anthology with a $50 donation! Our goal is to raise $5,000 to continue paying our contributors!
Seeking your support as we work toward our $5,000 goal for next year!
Donate $50 and receive a free copy of our anthology.
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I'm seeking a few writers who might be interested in writing a review and have access to publishing the review for my current poetry collection "is(ness). Serious inquiries only. You can message me and I can get you in touch with my publisher.
gnashingteethpublishing.com/books/isness/
theoffingmag.com/translation/17170/
So honored to kick off my role as Editor of Poetry in Translation at The Offing with these poems by Leónidas Lamborghini translated by Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman. Please read and share widely. So much in store for 2026 and beyond.
Same! Also I was so invested in BAF, it was my Halloween costume that year lol
This one was so tough
Opening scene of CHILDREN OF MEN (2006), with a chyron indicating it's 16th November 2027
We are officially less than two years away from the events of CHILDREN OF MEN
Matters seem to be right on schedule
Frame from the 2006 movie "Children of Men." Under gray city skies, illegal immigrants are held in open-air cages while riot police hold off protesters.
Rewatching "Children of Men" for the 1st time in almost 20 years and OMG, the opening lines.
"Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the Army's occupation of mosques...the deportation of illegal immigrants will continue."
The movie takes place in 2027.
PORTIONS FOR FOXES in Zohran campaign font
a screenshot reads: OPINION INTERESTING TIMES Did Bad Takes Ruin the Newspaper?
Please please please double space your essays when submitting. When you are >50 and on your 20th essay read of the day, you will understand what an immense courtesy it is to double space.
Honestly, this is what I try to tell my students
I really needed this.