Not really sure tbh 🤣

Croissant mode activated

“Mr. Blowhard!” is taking me out

our new issue!

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SERGE LECOMTE
MEGHAN PROULX
MATT BARRETT @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social
JENNA CROWDER
ERIK KLASS
TRACIE ADAMS @tracieadams.bsky.social
SHERI VENEMA @sheriven.bsky.social
HANNAH AHN
RUSSELL BRAKEFIELD @russellbrakefield.bsky.social
CHOISELLE JOSEPH

Best buds

Grape hyacinth, violas, alkanet, comfrey, heather and saxifrage from the garden. 28.03.26

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

My dog sleeping in a sunny window

He’s got the idea
Happy Saturday everyone

Just a friendly reminder that your desire to spend the weekend reading Agatha Christie and eating emotional support scones by a crackling fire in a Scottish Highlands cottage is valid.

Don’t allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

It’s generating some A+ content though

I told my boyfriend about all of this week’s literary twitter drama and he said “you’re like the Lady Whistledown of the writer world” 😭

Unfathomably massive, life critical news that 97% of people won’t know because of the cretins who own and operate the mainstream news.

(Sometimes it helps to say/write it out loud even though it does almost nothing at this point)

I didn’t think it would happen this year because I’ve been so busy, but here we are again, it’s happening: AWP envy.

Volume 15, Issue 3 COVER ART BY KYLE MERCER   FICTION FIRST CAME THE MONARCH BY CHARLIE KIEFT REVENGE DRESS BY PHEBE KIRKHAM BIRTHRIGHT/BLOODLINE BY KATHRYN REESE WORK BY DOUGLAS BAKER   NONFICTION HERE, MO…

The new issue of Pithead Chapel is here and it's a good one pitheadchapel.com/volume-15-is...

Volume 15, Issue 2 COVER ART BY kyle mercer   FICTION NURSERY BY DALLON ROBINSON PUBLIC RELATIONS PROFESSIONALS HOT TUB NIGHT BY ALEX MILLER MOTHERHOOD BY ALLISON FIELD BELL BILLY AND THE YOUNG ESTHER WIL…

New Issue!

Words: @dallonwrites.bsky.social , @alexmiller77.bsky.social , @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social ,CHRISTOPHER NEGRI, KIMBERLY BRYANT, @liamcarnahan.bsky.social , EMMA HEATH & EVAN MURPHY, DAVID MCARTHUR, PATRICIA CASPERS, ANNE DUNCAN, SPENCER ECKART

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One week back at work and the headaches have returned

The feedback thing is so important to stress. When I do coaching, I've talked to people who have workshopped first chapters to death, and they don't even have a finished draft yet. This very often keeps them from moving forward. No one should see your novel for a LONG TIME imo.

Our first issue of 2026 is officially live!

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Instead of a new years resolution, I'm declaring 2026 the year of rest. We've done enough. Do nothing.

Volume 14, Issue 12 COVER ART BY deems ortega   FICTION A Bestiary of Immortal Creatures by J. Condra Smith The Great Miss Valentina Speaks by Rebecca Turkewitz Mr. Palm Beach by Will Willoughby Awe by Nick Rees …

This is a fantastic issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social! Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and their entire staff, and to all these talented writers.

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My winter vacation starts in 2 days, in which I will be holed up in my snowy Maine cottage with an Agatha Christie novel, a warm dog on my lap, a kettle on the stove, and a crackling fire, and I CANNOT WAIT

Whenever a new issue of Pithead Chapel goes live, I email all of the contributors to let them know and to thank them for letting us publish their work, and this morning in that email subject line I spelled it Pinhead Chapel 😭😭😭

Volume 14, Issue 12 COVER ART BY deems ortega   FICTION A Bestiary of Immortal Creatures by J. Condra Smith The Great Miss Valentina Speaks by Rebecca Turkewitz Mr. Palm Beach by Will Willoughby Awe by Nick Rees …

Our December issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...

Words:
J. CONDRA SMITH
@rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social
@willwilloughby.bsky.social
NICK REES GARDNER
MAX LIN
JASON FRALEY

Cover art:
DEEMS ORTEGA

Volume 14, Issue 11 COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET   FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM &nbs…

Congrats to @kimmagowan.bsky.social, @karenkay.bsky.social, @brttnyblm.bsky.social, and the entire @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fantastic new issue!

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Volume 14, Issue 11 COVER ART BY SUSAN POLLET   FICTION CABBAGE SOUP WEEK BY NINA Y. MORAGON ONE OF GOD’S FAVORITES BY HAL WRIGHT CREEPS BY MELISSA BENTON BARKER THE NEED IN HER EYES BY RACHEL EPHRAIM   NONF…

Our November issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-is...

Words:
NINA Y. MORAGON
HAL WRIGHT
@meliseliz.bsky.social
RACHEL EPHRAIM
MAGGIE LEVANTOVSKAYA
@mooninabucket.bsky.social
JENNY CHU
CAROL ROSE LITTLE

Cover art:
SUSAN POLLET

This is my favorite thing I’ve written in a long time, in which a hunter is reincarnated as the deer he just killed. Thank you so much to Chris Dankland and the X-R-A-Y team, I’m such a huge fan of X-R-A-Y!! 🥰

Pithead Chapel An Online Literary Journal and Small Press

Congrats to the @pitheadchapel.bsky.social staff on another fine issue!

@kimmagowan.bsky.social @brttnyblm.bsky.social @karenkay.bsky.social

Volume 14, Issue 10 COVER ART BY NATALIE NEE   FICTION ANY MAN’S BETTER THAN NO MAN AT ALL BY BIZZY COY DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG DOG BY KATIE BURGESS HIGH DESE…

The October issue is live! Read here: pitheadchapel.com/volume-14-issue-10/

Words:
@bizzycoy.bsky.social
@katieburgess.bsky.social
@johnwaddy.bsky.social
JEFFREY FEINGOLD
SARAH HARLEY
ELIZABETH HASHIMURA
BETH GILSTRAP
SARP SOZDINLER
YASHASVI VACHHANI

Art:
NATALIE NEE

Yes! I love finding out about oddball stuff like this that I never knew existed

I wrote one short story this year (because all my writing time has been focused on my novel) and it just got picked up by X-R-A-Y. Sooo excited to see what you all think of it, it’s a weird one.

Six weeks remain to send us your best short story! Read all details here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/