All the writers on stage
The Unbound Book Festival is one of my favorite weekends in Columbia. Tales on the road by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ir.bsky.social, @bjsoloy.bsky.social, @nancycrochiere.bsky.social, and @samuelkolawole.bsky.social led by
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Flyer for flash fiction reading called Flash of Lightning, taking place at Nightjar art collective for Unbound Book Festival. Fabulous Readers include Abby Manzella, Tuth Joffre, Ayotola Tehingbola, Scott Garson, and Daniel Miller
Really stoked etc etc to be included in this flash fiction reading!!! If you are in and around mid Missourah and heading to Unbound next week, come hang!
Ft. @abbymanzella.bsky.social, Ayotola Tehingbola, @ruthjoffre.bsky.social, @wigleaf.bsky.social, and myself!
Should be a fun night!!
I'm glad to have my recent micro-memoir from MoonPark Review listed in this week's Memoir Monday. memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...
Thanks, Pat!
Crowds of thousands at Boston No Kings
Crowds of thousands at Boston No Kings
Crowds of thousands at Boston No Kings
BOSTON NO KINGS!! #NoKings #WeSayNoKings
Thank you, Matt!!! 📖
Thanks for reading, Dan! 📚
cover of Passages North No. 47
I'm pleased that my short story "Sheepskin" is in the latest issue of @passagesnorth.bsky.social. It's about frustration, dogs, and paint colors! Check out the print copy!
The shape is really nice!
Happy to share my new, quiet piece with you as I drink my coffee. moonparkreview.com/issue-35-spr...
Two books: Maggie Smith's Dear Writer and Courtney Maum's Touch
Some spring break reads!
Ohhh, are we in this collection together? How fun!
Thanks, Melissa!💜
I will look forward to checking it out. Thanks.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your work, Lisa, as well as that other suggestions. I will look forward to the reading!
I am looking for short creative essays that are about place and/or writing about place. Any suggestions?
Thanks, and I, too, am really looking forward to seeing it!
I'm delighted to report that my micro "Welcome to Death Valley and Other Eco-Crisis Tours" will be in the forthcoming Ghost Parachute Anthology. Thanks @brettpribble.bsky.social and the rest of the team! It looks like it's going to be a great collection!
Announcing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for the John Leonard Prize!
Thanks, Erin!
Thanks, Christina! It's is a near-future piece about what happens when people are afraid to read books.
the spring cover for Raleigh Review
I'm happy to be a finalist for the Raleigh Review Flash Fiction Prize! My piece will be published in their spring issue.
national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST NONFICTION America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press) Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, by Barbara Demick (Random House) Empire of Al: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAl, by Karen Hao (Penguin Press) The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, by Brandy Schillace (W.W. Norton) King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday) Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper) No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, by Gardiner Harris (Random House) A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, by Aatish Taser (Catapult) Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Michael Koresky (Bloomsbury) Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, by Michael Luo (Doubleday)
national book critics circle 2025 LONGLIST NONFICTION America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press) Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, by Barbara Demick (Random House) Empire of Al: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAl, by Karen Hao (Penguin Press) The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, by Brandy Schillace (W.W. Norton) King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday) Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper) No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, by Gardiner Harris (Random House) A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, by Aatish Taser (Catapult) Sick and Dirty: Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Michael Koresky (Bloomsbury) Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, by Michael Luo (Doubleday)
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction
Thanks, Adam. I wrote on Karen Babine's latest. (It includes an interview but begins with my complete take.) www.craftliterary.com/2025/07/30/h...
During some commutes, I’d stop the car to catch the beauty of the fall fields with my camera. I then wrote some lighthearted poems to go with the images. tinyurl.com/4msudt5n
Hey Flash writers (fiction and nonfiction)! I have some pieces coming out in this micro-a-day calendar for 2027, and I'd love to have you join me! Consider submitting to this fun project! #flash #flashfiction #flashlit #submissioncall
Nonfiction writers, what journals are you reading and where are you sending your most lyric essays? I'm looking for those places that are interested in experimentation and the poetic.