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To Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric Literature I masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience

For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE.

electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...

Haven't done this in ages:

Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs.

I'm so curious what you'll pick.

.@tomgauld.bsky.social gets it. Again.

the duck was never out

A photo of my book, Living in Cemeteries, held up in front of an old cemetery :)

Living in Cemeteries turns 2 years old today!!!

Huge thanks to everyone who’s wandered through these spooky graveyards with me :)

It's so lovely to see my book in the world. Thanks Annie Stenzel for being such a great lit citizen.

If you would like a copy, you can get a signed one on my website (Paypal only) or purchase one from @diodeeditions !

koss-works.com

#poetrybook, #lammyfinalist

“Learn to feel the woods.”

Polly Atkin, The Company of Owls

#SundaySentence

A muted greyscale banner for micro fiction, Insomnia by Lena Kinder published on crowcrosskeys.com, featuring a white cat with half its face in shadow against a dark background.

There is a feral animal scampering through the tower this evening. We don't quite know what it is, but we do know that it bites. Visitor, beware. It's safer to read today's micro fiction.

"Insomnia" by @happilylenaaa.bsky.social

crowcrosskeys.com/2026/04/18/i...

@nokappos.bsky.social !

"The best trauma occurs when you're young meat."
Ian Kappos in @ergot.bsky.social

Good morning/afternoon.
Grab your coffee and read this first:

Thomas Tryon’s The Other (both the book and the movie).

I LOVE horror stories about siblings, which is one of the reasons why I wrote Shiva. So, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite horror movies about sibling relationships.

What's your favorite horror book or movie about siblings? Let me know!

Sorry!

"(I care more about people's lives than their philosophies.)"

@jacqdoyle.bsky.social in @newworldwriting.bsky.social

Let’s all go to the library this weekend

or live as a troll under a bridge

Some pig.

How a lost and forgotten LA writer is coming back into print after 36 years Boris Dralyuk, who has two new books coming out, talks about getting the poet Henri Coulette published again.

The great SoCal bookman @erikpedersen.bsky.social revisits his story about Henri Coulette, now that the poet’s work is back in print—and Alexander Voloshin makes a cameo, too.

www.ocregister.com/2026/04/17/h...

Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇
🎨"The Witch’s Sister on her Black Bat" (1921) by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
#InternationalBatAppreciationDay

When b-sky dysfunction perfectly matches your state of mind.

A rare event where I'll be talking about all my writing. Oxgangs library, 20th of this very month

When b-sky dysfunction perfectly matches your state of mind.

Emily LaBarge: "Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors" Emily LaBarge examines a major theme of Chantal Akerman's film.

"One of the most astonishingly feminist characteristics of Akerman's work is, in fact, the privacy of her characters, who divulge so little." Emily LaBarge on Chantal Akerman.

Yes. If a woman wrote it, it’s YA. If a man wrote it (even with middle-school characters), it’s Noble Coming of Age.

A CALL FOR MINNESOTA WRITERS: SEEKING STORIES & POEMS IN RESPONSE TO THE 2026 MINNESOTA ICE OCCUPATION

WHAT WE WANT: GENRE: FICTION, PROSE POETRY & CREATIVE NONFICTION THEME: RESILIENCE, STRENGTH, JOY, GRIEF, AND HEALING IN RESPONSE TO THE MN ICE OCCUPATION WORD LIMIT: UP TO 400 WORDS, MAX DEADLINE: APRIL 30 PAYMENT: $50 PER PIECE + 2 COPIES OF THE CHAPBOOK

WHO CAN SUBMIT: - MUST BE BASED WITHIN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA - ANYONE AGE 14 OR OLDER - WE STRONGLY ENCOURAGE WORK FROM PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND OF IMMIGRANT AND NATIVE COMMUNITIES IMPACTED BY ICE

Hey, Minnesota writers!

We're looking for stories & poems under 400 words in response to the ICE occupation of our state.

Send us your writings of resilience, strength, joy, grief, and healing.

Deadline is April 30! Submit & more info: bit.ly/MN-pride-zine

At first I read shedding scales.

And hey, if you’ve heard me read and enjoyed it or dig my work, shares are appreciated!

Many thanks to The Bulb Region for publishing my particularly weird little story "Fish Eyes"!!