CALL YOUR REPS: Stop the Federal Book Ban Bill! Your voice matters, and together we can help protect the freedom to read.

As of Sunday night this was over a 100 calls from its goal of 600 calls to House members to oppose HR 7661, the national book ban. Can we hit the goal by tomorrow?

Suicide Valley Trail Maintenance | Stanchion The Jack London/Stephen King mashup you never knew you wanted! SUICIDE VALLEY TRAIL MAINTENANCE is a thrilling horror novella that follows a park ranger as they journey into a remote, ominous valley t...

My novella is available for preorders today! If you like eco-horror that drags you through the forest by its teeth, pick up a copy: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page.... If you preorder and repost, I’ll tell a true story of almost dying in the woods (I have a few of these)

A really good piece. Years ago I remember being on a panel discussion where an American author suggested avoiding cultural appropriation by digging into Slavic folklore. This article is a much better take imo.

Text reads "Submit Your Chicago Poems" above the stylized Chicago flag featuring red stars and blue stripes. A silhouette of Pegasus is at the bottom.

A special issue of POETRY magazine will honor one of our great literary cities: Chicago!

We're calling on poets and writers who have lived in Chicago for around seven years at some point in their lives to submit their poems by May 15: https://bit.ly/42cfEO9

AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit. www.wired.com/story/backch...

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Send me off to a foreign land
To go and eat the silver ham

MONSTER CAPITAL - OUT NOW! 📚🥳

📕 commapress.co.uk/books/monste...

In the spirit of Mark Fisher, we invited writers to explore capitalism through the lens of the gothic & surreal: TV shows built on misery, lab-grown meat with a mind of its own, housing developments spread like a virus & much more...

ANALOG HORROR 📹✍
Short Story Course w/ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social

📍 Online Via Zoom

📅 Wed 6-8pm:
May 6, 20, Jun 3, 17 & Jul 1, 15.

Explore the worlds of found-text and Analog Horror with author Brontë Schiltz, and get your work published in a Comma eBook.

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/analog-hor...

The Only Possible Poems “All poems are one of the following. There are no alternatives.” April 8 2022 4/1/23 4/9/24 4/4/25

“Wouldn’t it be weird if this poem about a horrible thing was in rhyme?”

“Look, I just needed to fill a page to feel like I’d done something today.”

“You’re pretty lovely for an inanimate object.”

“I love you but too much.”

silhouette of an astronaut with bob haircut, red space suit, and photo of mary robinette kowal holding books.

#FundraiserPerk ATTN Lady Astronaut fans! Read a story featuring Myrtle & Eugene. The story has been abandoned & is unlikely to be finished but it is part of the Lady Astronaut canon + the Locus April e-issue and digital cover art.

Donate @ https://twp.ai/9PcM9D or via our bio

Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG From the creator of Brindlewood Bay and The Between, Public Access is a roleplaying game inspired by analog and found footage horror!

We are working on TWO stretch goals for Public Access. At $400K, we unlock The Degoya County White Pages, a supplement with extra Locations and Side Characters. At 5000 backers, we get @kierongillen.bsky.social's mystery!

Please repost and help us out!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Friendly reminder: Submissions are still open!!!

We're looking for poems + 45-word micro-prose (fiction & non-fiction) about monsters big & small, set in midwestern milieu!

The bastards who stole one of my books are now complaining that copyright actually matters, but just for them not book authors.

Bastards

Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration

New at Can We Still Govern?: @unlawfulentries.bsky.social puts yesterday's oral arguments about birthright citizenship into historical perspective, noting how the Fourteenth Amendment took aim at internal migration laws that restricted movement. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Let's go!

cover art, a swan alights on a swirling cosmic sea; behind it, the sky is the colors of the trans flag.

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is available to preorder now: store.tenebrouspress.com

cover art by @mxmorgan.com

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here.

Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

As a spec fic writer working on a novel about the space race, and I have a partner who trains astronauts, I feel like I have a skewed perspective. So I'm curious: who all is excited about the Artemis mission? Like full on "hell yeah space!" excited.

With Age of Empires, Boss Fight Books is rolling out a gorgeous new visual format (and keeping the original spine style so their 40 prior books will still look lovely on the shelf together.) I loved AoE. Somewhere in my mind, there's still a bunch of little dudes running around building wonders.

As a veteran-owned business, Middle West Press is proud to administer & underwrite this on-line community of practice that serves writers of themes and topics related to war and military service.

Members include poets & playwrights, scholars & soldiers, essayists & analysts!

linktr.ee/aimingcircle

David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Black Zine Fair Sat, May 9 in Brooklyn, New York

We need creativity and nourishment more than ever. I invite you to join us for both at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair on May 9. Neta, Tash and I are excited to share space with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of volunteers, and all of you who join us. RSVP → withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...

So much for the "Erm actually LLMs can't plagiarize" argument I guess.

It’s time! I am beyond honored my extracurricular essay on how grunge did NOT kill glam metal is included among such stellar work!

We’re adding three more Midwest classics to our Revivals series this year, with beautiful covers by @downpourdw.bsky.social!

FIDELITY (publishing 4/14)
THE PIT (8/25)
GOODBYE, WISCONSIN (10/20)

More info/preorder at the link below:

beltpublishing.com/collections/...

thoughts on today:

1) the protests are good, actually

2) you should go to one of you can

3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy

4) you might meet people who you can organize with

5) there are more of us than there are of them

6) we are going to win

Protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty

Lady Liberty in Des Moines. #NoKings

amazing