It's time to get those projects written! Join us at 12 Mile Limit this Saturday to tackle your latest project along with plenty of writers ready to cheer you on.
We can't wait to see what you're working on!
@colsonwhitehead.com making my day, putting it better than just about anybody so far. Thank god for the writers, the artists, the jokesters, the weirdos like us. Humanity sucks! Let's do the work, it's the only thing worth doing!
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
(this skeet written by the Gooch)
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction
paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...
For all of our witches and magically inclined folks, local witch Veronica Varlow will be teaching us spells to unlock inspiration, break past blocks, and summon opportunities to us. Come with an open mind and be prepared to call forth your full power 🌙✨
Open submissions April 8-May 8 for "Nabokov's Suspension" - guest edited by Jehanne Bell
Translations that digest their own tongues. Expressions of the ephemeral creatures that blip in and out of existence when language is toggled. Threads that weave disparate voices together. We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them. Our usual submission guidelines apply. We define Flash Fiction as anything under 1000 words. No AI ever. We mean it.
Tomorrow April 8 we open for our next Guest Editor issue...
NABOKOV'S SUSPENSION
Edited by Jehanne Bell
👅🧵👻🎤✍️
We are looking for flash fiction about the things that fall away, transform, and negotiate new bodies as the words that create either their home or their prison shapeshift around them.
if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.
Poster for the stories selected for “Ghosts & The After Life” edited by Ai Jiang: EC Dorgan “Flehmen Grimace” Samir Sirk Morató “unwell naturalist’s historic fairy collection” Emmi Khor “The Art of Rebirth” A little ghost sketch too!
We are excited to announce the stories for our issue “Ghosts & The After Life” edited by Ai Jiang @aijiang.bsky.social 👻
EC Dorgan “Flehmen Grimace”
Samir Sirk Morató “unwell naturalist’s historic fairy collection” @spicycloaca.bsky.social
Emmi Khor “The Art of Rebirth” @emmikhor.bsky.social
Thank god the NYT has found a white, male author to offer up "as something of a savior of contemporary fiction." Did we need saving? I was not aware.
No, I am not linking to it. I am just so annoyed.
Our next Page to Stage theme is SOUTHERN GOTHIC! This genre tells the stories of the past that always haunt us, the cycles that repeat, the pain that was wrought & the reckonings we must have in the Deep South.
Come join us on 4/7 and learn more about the genre and leave w/ some ideas!
There is a moment on page 282 (of my copy) of The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me that just utterly stopped me in my tracks. Whoa.
APRIL EVENT CALENDAR!
But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.
So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...
"It’s Trans Day of Visibility but it’s also Trans Day of Have To Go To Work Anyway, or Trans Day of Who The Fuck is Hiring, or Trans Day of How Are We Going to Support All These Queers Who Are Internally Displaced Refugees Here in the States."
From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:
catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...
Just started playing this last night - and really enjoying!
So much for the "Erm actually LLMs can't plagiarize" argument I guess.
Latest post is up if you would like to help us build our swamp 🦆🐢🐊
“This is an interactive story about In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) told from two perspectives: Parent and Child. Select one to continue.” [pudding.cool]
Picture of Taylor branded swag bags with books nd seeds inside
The rad swag bags in question
Anybody at the New Orleans Bookfest today (Friday at Tulane) can come say hi and grab a free copy of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES, along with other amazing books -
Rosenberg Mezzanine in the LBC, 1-3 pm, interactive discussion hosted by the Taylor Center!
On the future of local food systems! 📚 🍨
I was interviewed for @antigravitymag.bsky.social ‘s March issue and got to talk about the literary nonprofit I’m the board president of, @thirdlanternlit.bsky.social !
antigravitymagazine.com/feature/all-...
Next event:
Monday at 6 to 8 PM! We'll be at Miel Brewery, getting some words on the page! Hope to see you there!
Intimacy can be hard to write about.
Whether you feel it's awkward, stilted, or unrealistic, get past the difficulties with this workshop led by Alys Murray tonight at Courtyard Brewery!
Our March calendar is here!
Come write with us this friday 2/27 @ 11 AM at Sports Drink!
Writing is a lonely art. Make it less lonely by finding your feedback group at Courtyard Brewery on February 23! Make friends, share your work, and connect with peers all in one place! 📖🎉
Our February calendar!
Our next event:
Get Lit!
Come on down to Miel Brewery and hang out with us 02/09 and get some writing done! We'll be there from 6 to 8 PM!
