Solstice Story Darkness, light, Denis Johnson's "Dirty Wedding"

Wrote about solstice vibes, the yips, and Denis Johnson’s “Dirty Wedding” in my first-in-a-while Not Knowing How: lisalocascionighthawk.beehiiv.com/p/solstice-s...

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🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need.

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Nikki Giovanni recipe for butter fried chicken shared with the NYT in 2020.

I posted this elsewhere but thought it important to post here, too. This is Nikki Giovanni’s recipe for butter fried chicken that she shared with the @nytimes in 2020. I hope you fry some chicken for Nikki this week. 🕊️

did you see the stuff online. it’s crazy

Check To See What Apps Your iPhone Is Training AI On And here's a step-by-step guide to disabling them. FOREVER WARS does some News You Can Use

Here’s some news you can use if you recently installed iOS 18 and don’t want all your apps’ data used to train Apple’s AI by default. Includes an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to turning these permissions off!

a pleasure to speak with critic Jane Ciabattari about HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS for Lit Hub. (out today🎉)

Please consider supporting our handmade coastal conference this Giving Tuesday! For over 35 years, we've offered expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers at all levels. We appreciate your support and hope to see you next summer in Mendocino!

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Please consider donating to the Antioch MFA this Giving Tuesday! The Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship Fund provides students like Kenneth D. Capers with the crucial gifts of time & creative mentorship. Join us in nurturing the next generation of writers!

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Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.

www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

It’s really disheartening to see trans users having to step back from Bluesky because of the influx of transphobic harassment. Trans posters built the culture of this platform and it would behoove cis allies to advocate for their safety as Bluesky expands and they get targeted

Weekend reading

Good Boys | Reed McConnell Pinocchio turns into a real boy at the story’s end not because he has absorbed some Kantian sense of duty, but because his slow-growing love for the blue-haired fairy and Geppetto compels him to care ...

Obsessed with this piece about Pinocchio’s ascendancy vis-a-vis Jordan Peterson’s weepy preoccupation with him by @reedreedreed.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-48/rev...

Post-Election, Beware 'Self-Care' Would Audre Lorde recognize "self-care" today? Would we recognize her?

Haven’t stopped thinking about this since I read it a few days ago. From The Review of Beauty by Jessica DeFino, a banger newsletter everyone should be reading open.substack.com/pub/jessicad...

This piece on how Lee McCarthy managed to write and publish poetry, teach full time, fight for free speech, and be the sole provider for her son is quite a read after yesterday's VF piece on Cormac McCarthy.

“Vigil” “Long day’s night, the endless dream.”

Loved this @camillerankine.bsky.social poem in the New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The 11 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024 These stories feature questions about robot personhood, journeys into enchanted forests and much more.

Here are the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024, according to me!

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Black and white photo of a sign that says: This site purchased by H. E. Butt Grocery Co. for the erection of a new modern Piggly Wiggly.

A lot going on in this old sign

I am an admirer of the author, and I appreciate this poem's message, but I am saddened to see shared as inspirational a poem that absolutely embodies the rampant, unsubtle fatphobia still dominant in literature. Ob*sity is a slur, not a noun. Fat bodies don't "withstand" themselves. They simply are.

I donated $25. Match my donation, or repost so that others can help out?

“this is the sort of toxic behavior I thought we left behind on Twitter…”
— me being escorted out of Smoothie King

Max is not only an amazing author, he's the Antioch MFA's beloved program assistant! Can't wait for CRAWL!

We know we're just barely scratching the surface with our Starter Pack of Antioch MFA Current Students & Alumni, because we have over 1200 alums! Please share and comment and we'll add you! Hoping to find our people & make this the first Student/Alum Starter Pack of many 🤗https://go.bsky.app/2urN99N

We made our first Starter Pack of our very own stellar faculty! Our master writing teachers make the Antioch MFA great. Comment to add yourself if we've missed you! go.bsky.app/2F7m5rD

How to Write 100,000 Words Per Day, Every Day Most people don’t believe me when I tell them I write 100,000 words every day of my life. If I’m being totally honest, 100,000 is probably just a b...

"Life is about decisions. Either you write 100,000 words a day or you meet people and develop ties of affection. You can’t do both."

MCWC The Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference is a vibrant gathering that offers morning workshops in a wide range of genres, relevant to differing experience levels—from a dedicated emerging writers’ works...

Hi Bluesky! We are a writers' conference on the beautiful Mendocino Coast of California, open to writers at all levels. For 35 years, we've been a handmade, welcoming conference that offers expertise, opportunity, and friendship to writers. Announcing our 2025 scholarships & faculty soon! mcwc.org

Monochrome photograph of a room inhabited by four Black females. One women and two girls sit at a kitchen table while one woman or older girl stands to the right leaning over the table slightly. The woman at the head of the table has an open book in front of her, her hands to her her face and she looks at the young girls who face each other playing cards. Above is a light and triangle lamp shade and behind is a closed door to the right

Carrie Mae Weems, from the Kitchen Table Series, 1990

This week's Mentor Monday Spotlight goes to one of our brilliant fiction faculty, @megankkakimoto.bsky.social!

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto is the Japanese and Kanaka Maoli author of the story collection Every Drop Is a Man’s Nightmare (Bloomsbury 2023). Apply to our program today to work with Megan!
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Did you know we have a podcast? On the latest episode of LitCit, host Caren McDonald chats with guest author Jessica Johns about Johns’ debut novel, BAD CREE, the power of community, and the importance of listening to your inner wisdom. Listen here: antiochlitcit.libsyn.com/antioch-litc...