5 New Literary Agents and a New Agency Seeking Nonfiction, Genre Fiction, Kidlit, YA, LGBT and more Here are five new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and wi...

5 New Literary Agents and a New Agency Seeking Nonfiction, Genre Fiction, Kidlit, YA, LGBT and more. #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity #querytip #amquerying #MondayBlogs publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/12/5-ne...

📚 🎧 📱 Right to Read Day is about protecting the freedom to read. It's a moment to recognize the people standing up for access and to keep the momentum going. Learn more here ➡️ https://bit.ly/43D9Dtw

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#Bookish #LibraryLove #LibraryJoy #Booksky

it's national library week, please go ask your local public librarians for a book recommend; we need a break from the photocopier. #booksky

Sunday Comic: Writers Don’t Need Cigarette Lighters by Laurel Dowswell Writers Don’t Need Cigarette Lighters

Throwback from ten years ago when I used to do Sunday Comics when I was the Features Editor at Change Seven literary magazine. Raw, basic drawings, but I had fun.

Writers Don't Need Cigarette Lighters

#writers #comics #sunday

linda teaches the kids proper cocktail party etiquette #bobsburgers YouTube video by AniDom

Happy Friday!

Aaanddd....Louise for the win.

#comedy #laughterismedicine #bobsburgers #Friday #drinks

Wow! 🩷

THIS.
Fascinating, soulful experimental music - with poetry.
My brain and heart are sparkling.

#music #poetry

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring

It is morning, and again
Iam the lucky person to be in it

Mary Oliver

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Listing of the Day Today's listing of the day is: Bracken Magazine (some fees) #WritingCommunity

Today's listing of the day is: Bracken Magazine (some fees) #WritingCommunity

Very engaging! Will definitely seek out more.

#books #reading #writing #fiction

Helen Ellis on the Joys (and Perils) of Writing by Hand Horrific penmanship won’t stop a handwriting fiend

This "handwriting fiend" is talented, funny, surprising, and emphatic.

"Say what you will about these evil maniacs, at least they cared enough to take the time to send a handwritten note. My crime: I’m murdering what’s already a dying art."

Do you still enjoy writing by hand? I do.

Really enjoyed this poem:

__Mary Shelley ponders, “Where does love go?”__

#poetry #PoetryMonth

Let Natural Selection Sharpen Your Writing Physicists often regard writing with dread, yet they can grow into stronger writers by embracing bad first drafts and trusting the evolutionary power of self-editing.

Fashion your elegant sword, writers.

"A writer creates a good text much as a blacksmith fashions an elegant sword: first with crude hammering and grinding and only later through tempering, quenching, sharpening, and careful adornment."

#writing #BookSky #writers #writingcommunity

Writing Cabin / Olin Petzold Completed in 2024 in Onsernone, Switzerland. Images by Peter Tillessen. In early 2024, a Swiss artist and climate activist approached me with a request for a secluded retreat in the woods of his prope...

A dream-worthy writing cabin nestled in trees in Switzerland.

"Clearly not an ordinary tree house built by or for children, the tree house in Loco becomes an in-between. Not quite illegal, but not quite conformist either. Something Henry David Thoreau would have approved of."

#writers #writing

EXCERPTS FROM KAFKA'S DIARIES 281 JANUARY 20. The end of writing. When will it take me up again? JANUARY 29. Again tried to write, virtually useless. JANUARY 30. The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. FEBRUARY 7. Complete standstill. Unending torments. MARCH 11. How time flies; another ten days and I have chieved nothing. It doesn't come off. A page now anc hen is successful, but I can't keep it up, the next day m powerless. MARCH 13. [.] Lack of appetite, fear of getting ba te in the evening; but above all the thought that I wr

The writing life, courtesy of Franz Kafka.

Arey was a biographer. She focused on actual people whose work expanded notions of what women could do. She also helped publicize and preserve women’s achievements at a time when they were often overlooked. And Arey published her memoir and a book of her poems titled Household Songs.

Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (undated and uncredited) Public Domain

It is the birthday in 1836 of the pioneering writer, editor, and advocate Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey. She was an important figure in women’s literary activism in the late 1800s. The movement used journalism, poetry, and fiction to tell stories meant to empower women.

#WriterSky #BookSky #Equality

lovely haiku

Congratulations to @mariaressa.bsky.social for winning Champion of Global Leadership Award! Much respect~~

#DailyHaiku #micropoetry #UNFoundation

I have to keep writing while the world is burning.

Not only because it is me, it is who I am -
but it also helps me to cope.

And, hopefully, can bring more good into the world.

Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Official Music Video) YouTube video by BeastieBoysVEVO

I had a really fun writing session today in my W.I.P.

My heroes get to takedown some billionaire tech bros and political sycophants.

Sooo satisfying.

My musical accompaniment:

#writing #satire #fiction #amwriting #BookSky #books

Rick Bragg, globe-trotting reporter, heads to New Iberia After reporting from around the world, Bragg’s next stop is the Books Along the Teche Literary Festival in New Iberia.

Big fan Rick Bragg.

“I just love stories about people in trouble,” Bragg said of his work.
...

“They were good stories because they mattered,” he said.

#writers #writing #authors #BookSky

Congratulations to the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows!

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Writers...

Does your spy thriller "walk the line" between entertainment and reality?

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Sometimes even frogs need a respite from the rain.

From nature dot org’s 2026 calendar.

I feel you, frog.

First-of-its-kind publisher grows out of Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop For more than a decade, the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop has provided creative writing classes to people in correctional facilities. That work has led to the creation of Lost Kite Editions, a nat...

"...we think that the distinct insight that folks who have experienced incarceration have into the immediate hour of art into the importance of art in people's lives, especially as a mechanism for survival... that insight is going to shape what we end up publishing well into the future."

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The Great Lakes Feel Intimate and Expansive in New “On an Inland Sea” Collection In the new collection edited by Michael Welch, thirty-three writers give voice to “the vastness of the lakes and the vastness of experience living alongside them.”

"I was so in awe of the stories... I also think the writers in this anthology are working through what home means to them and how our homes are intrinsically tied to our natural environment.”

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Big fan of Corvids.

Flash fiction is tough to write - but I love it.

This one really gave me "the feels." Kudos!

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