Oh my goodness, what a lovely thing to know my book has been to Spain. Thank you for reading, and for making my day. 🌊🐋

MY MOTHER IN HAVANA (@rebehuntman.bsky.social)
SLASH AND BURN (Claudia Hernández)
THE DISAPPEARED (Rebecca Sanford)
THE PAIN OF PLEASURE (@amygraceloyd.bsky.social)
THE MOURNER'S BESTIARY (@eirencaffall.bsky.social)

Women don’t just survive history—they carry it.

Thank you! Honored to be in such company!

Congrats to these debut authors!

@eirencaffall.bsky.social
@barsukov.com
@mhayinde.bsky.social

More of this kind of author support, please.

Delighted to be in such great company! And to be read!

Reading new novelists for the Compton Crook Award is some of the fun in being a member of @balticon.bsky.social

Best wishes to all of this year's finalists.

@eirencaffall.bsky.social, Haley Gefulso, Antonia Hodgson, @barsukov.com, @mhayinde.bsky.social & Andrew Luddington

Applications close TODAY!

🥕 Write about food with Kate Lebo
🌏 Write about climate with Maria Pinto
✏️ Investigate your own style with Jennifer Landretti
🌱 Generate climate poetry with Jessica Abughattas
🕸️ Write through connection with Eiren Caffall

More: orionmagazine.org/events-works...

Yup! Masked and unfettered.

They claim this is legal because they say that Chicago borders Canada (their rights to be warrantless only extend to 100 from the border). They claim that our border with Canada is Lake Michigan. So. Insanity.

Thank you, Sarah! We are so far, relatively free of the National Guard. We have excellent judges pushing back against that. What we do have is ICE, who are illegally targeting folks without warrants.

But have you seen Studs?

Can you tell I am working on many new projects? I can. It has been a month since I posted anything here.

tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈 People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.

Okay, I have just been shown tree.fm and it is saving my life at my open office right now.

This is delightful!

You are a treasure! And the best fact checker in the world. No arguments.

In-A-Year Book Programs at StoryStudio Chicago - StoryStudio Chicago IN-A-YEAR BOOK PROGRAMS Becoming an advanced writer takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and our “In A Year” programs are designed to help you cross the finish line… and…

Procrastinators rejoice! 😂

We are extending the deadline for Memoir In A Year applications (online with @eirencaffall.bsky.social and in-person with Rachel DeWoskin) until this Friday, September 12.

You have THREE more days. Apply now: buff.ly/eOXVcqo

#writingcommunity

Gonna reup this, in praise of protecting something our dear leader wants to destroy before climate collapse can get its hooks in.

Thank you for reading!

Closeup of cover of the July 2025 issue of BOOKLIST READER with text: READ & SHARE THE JULY BOOKLIST READER with star burst DIGITAL VERSION NOW AN ALA MEMBER BENEFIT

We are in the thick of #SummerReading and we have just the thing to keep those TBRs full:
🐳 Environmental reads
🎧 #Odyssey interviews & listen-alikes
📚 @libraryreads.bsky.social July picks
⏰ #PBSBooks countdown to the semiquincentennial
🎙️Interview with Michael Connelly
and more: bit.ly/40JmBWJ

@eirencaffall.bsky.social's book, The Mourner's Bestiary was featured on the cover of ‪‪@ala-booklist.bsky.social‬ #Page1MediaPR #LiteraryPR #BookMarketing #BooksInTheMedia #SummerReading

So excited for this! Two of my favorites! (E. Jean and I share an editor, which makes my fan girl heart soar! Also, she replied to a letter of mine in Elle back in the 90s. ❤️)

Graphic with the disability pride flag as the background showing six memoirs about disability. Titles included are: “I’ll Look so Hot in a Coffin” by Carla Sosenko, “The Pretty One” by Keah Brown, “The Invisible Kingdom” by Meghan O’Rourke, “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo, “Leg” by Greg Marshall, and “The Mourner’s Bestiary” by Eiren Caffall.

Memoirs about disability & disabled experiences

Cutting beets to make my fingers a lurid color.

Last year, thanks to #dcasegrant, I went to a @storystudiochicago.bsky.social retreat at Ragdale co-run by @meganstielstra.bsky.social & @eirencaffall.bsky.social to work on my project COSMIC FRUIT. "We Beet On," now in @orionmagazine.bsky.social, started there! orionmagazine.org/article/we-b...

Help us celebrate and uplift the disabled community this Disability Pride Month. We wanted to highlight the amazing work of former P1M authors, 
@eirencaffall.bsky.social‬ and Megan Nix as well as recommend some of our favorite books with disability representation!

#disabilitypride #booksky

March 2025 Me, in the hospital with a broken vertebra and high on painkillers, was super optimistic about what July 2025 Me, healed and back at work and stone cold sober, could get done during this month. To be fair to her, she was looking at this view.

Sky of Plankton, Ocean of Stars Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea

"In dark places, it is light that calls us. Even in a broken ocean full of chemical fouling and warming water, bioluminescent fire remains."

Diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, Eiren Caffall processes life and death through space and sea.

He is a treat!

But have you seen Studs?

Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.

The Trump administration has shut down a federal website on climate change, taking down congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country. @coveringclimatenow.org @sciencewriters.org www.latimes.com/environment/...

Crossed 20,000 words on the new novel today please clap.