Looking for writing community and feedback on your work this July?
Apply to Napa Valley Writers' Conference by April 21! Fiction, poetry, and translation.
A third of conference participants will get scholarship assistance this year 👀
Part of my advocacy for not surrendering is sustaining, which involves taking breaks, pleasure, and beauty. See you in the streets (and these ancients producing brand new acorns and leaves on the trails).
Not really the most urgent errand in the world and yet... I must ask, does anyone know of a good craft essay about transitions in fiction?
Just started The Past by Tessa Hadley
There are so many people we need to stand up for right now. Thanks to all of you who are calling their reps, protesting, donating, and taking action. Here is a great trans rights organization that I've been donating to. If you have others you love, share below! southernequality.org/tyep/
Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!
#litmags #writer #writingcommunity
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
We are the Literary World's Prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly. We're also some trans and nonbinary guys. A reminder that you exist, you're beautiful, you're a writer, and you and your work are important. Live más.
Sunday, I'm doing a FREE online overview of publishing--everything writers need to know--and you should be there! It's also an intro to our monthlong Pub Crawl program (publishing education online all Feb), but you don't have to be doing Pub Crawl to come to this! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Hey, registration is open for this super cool writers' conference in Homer, Alaska. Don't miss out. Space is limited.
Two books that will help you in this time. Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Ursula LeGuin’s The World for World is Forest. They will encourage to to expand your hearts into new possibilities that engender courage in you rather than fear. Women and some men know reality is larger than we pretend.
Congrats, Elizabeth! Looking fwd to reading
A male Splendid Fairy-wren, Malurus splendens perched on a grey stone wall. The intense blues of his plumage glow against a drab brown background. The bird has a shiny royal blue head, tail and back, with a deeper shade of blue on its belly. The primary feathers are a teal colour. The velvety black of the bird's nape and bib stand out and enhance the tiny pale blue feathers on its cheek (the ear coverts).
Nature: So, what shade of blue would you like to be?
Splendid Fairy-wren: Yes
#urbanNature #wildOz
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it reads just right -- in defense of the slimmer novel
The settings menu with "Thread Preferences" listed directly below "Home Feed Preferences"
The "Thread Preferences" page. The toggle to turn "Thread mode" on is at the very bottom.
Yooooooooooo
Go into "settings," "thread preferences," and select "threaded mode". MUCH nicer
A quote from my piece, "once mighty" in the inaugural issue of ette review: "once one stole one drank one broke his neck one laced the moonlight behind the sagebrush" in white lettering against a blue gray background with a shadow across the bottom.
It's here at last and it's BEAUTIFUL. Huge thanks to @noramaynard.bsky.social and Beth Hahn. Please check out the inaugural issue of _ette_review and all the stunning contributors. My piece is a breathless micro called "once mighty" and I'd love for you to read it. ettereview.com/fall2023/fish/
Damn, California sues Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and American Petroleum Institute for their decades of climate deception and damages.
*One-in-four* Americans are now represented in climate accountability lawsuits, says Fossil Free Media's Jamie Henn. www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/b...
The Kenyon Review is open for submissions until September 30. Three themed features, general submissions, and no fees. Visit our website for full guidelines.
Yes! It's us. We're still learning how to navigate this thing, but we just wanted to let you know, if you haven't heard, we're open for submissions! Please spread the word. And contributors, literary magazines, friends--give us a follow so we can follow back!
Hell yeah www.them.us/story/california-transge...
you too!!!!
I switched to Arial recently, in an attempt to make a draft look new and unfamiliar, and it was strangely peaceful 🤗
new sandra lim poem ☝🏿
ouch, been there. try a soft pencil + a great eraser instead (like Sakura?)