Beautiful breathless flash!

Cheryl Pappas@cherylpappas.bsky.social · 12h ago

My story "What Is Missing" appears in the Cincinnati Review today. www.cincinnatireview.com/micros/what-...

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

I'm so optimistic about my book club novel with a light speculative thread that it's scaring me a little. #writingcommunity

Be sure to bookmark our #PrideMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from lit mags and indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Pride Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Pride Month, observed annually during the month of June, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature by…

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Hi! 👋 I am not in Wigleaf's Top 50 list. But I'm happy for everyone who is!

I relished last week learning from Rebecca Makkai at Lighthouse’s LitFest in Denver.

Andre Dubus III just introduced himself to me in the bathroom line at Lighthouse Litfest. I love this place!

Learning so much from Rebecca Makkai's workshop at Lighthouse in Denver this week! 📝

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Rough draft finished! 📝

Our community's most bookmarked lit mags that publish nonfiction, from #1-138. Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/ultima...

Twelfth is one of the weirdest looking words in the English language.

For some reason I can't get this Nextdoor post out of my head. The cadence! Maybe I'll write a short story about it.

Hooray! The essay I wrote specifically with Off Assignment in mind is up today. And the accompanying artwork is gorgeous. offassignment.com/witching-hou... #writingcommunity

5:51 p.m. in Svalbarðseyri — Off Assignment

“5:51 p.m. in Svalbarðseyri is the smell of sheep dung wafting in the louvered window of our rented tiny house with a fjord view and a two-burner cooktop.”

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I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Today is a full manuscript request day. :)

It's been a two rejection day. So far. 👯‍♀️

I have a new short story out at Lit Magazine. I was about to give up on this one just before they accepted it. They handled it with great care and led me through edits to make it stronger. www.litmagazine.org/goodbye-from...

After a huge novel revision based on feedback from an excellent Reedsy editor and a polish with help from the amazing @mariegoyette.bsky.social, I'm requerying my psychological thriller. Ack!

I just got a story acceptance that will inspire you once I explain how it happened. It'll come out in Mid-March and I'll tell you then! #writingcommunity

"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"

I’m Still Your America

Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...

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Email from every single platform I've logged into a billion times on my laptop: We noticed you've signed in from a new device! 😜

Essay acceptance from the very publication I had in mind while writing it!

A bit of professional news: my story Green Freak (The Sun, 2019) appears in this anthology and writing textbook published by Bloomsbury. It was released late last week. www.amazon.com/Environmenta...

Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

Buy Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology: Read Books Reviews - Amazon.com

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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our Second Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 26, 2026. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more: manuscriptwishlist.com/2025/01/the-...

#seattle Spring is coming!

If you live near Chicago, and you’re a writer, musician, or visual artist between 18-30, apply to Luminarts for a $10,000 fellowship plus ongoing support. I love serving on the board of this amazing organization, & want these grants going to brilliant young writers 🧵 luminarts.submittable.com/submit

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Luminarts Cultural Foundation FellowshipApplications for open. Fellowship Programs are listed below. For general questions about program eligibility please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page or...

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For the first time since this kind of astonishing list came out, we're open for subs. Don't know how long it will last. cliffordgarstang.com/2026-literar...

"Some workers work indoors. Some workers work outdoors. Some work in unmarked Chevy Tahoes, doing jobs that Fascist Busytown residents are encouraged to ignore."

Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day in Fascist Busytown?

Welcome to Fascist Busytown. My, what a compliant, orderly town! In Fascist Busytown, everyone works. Working is important. Work makes everything r...

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Random but putting it out there that if you need someone for a conference, panel, reading, podcast, etc., I’d be interested! I’ve been consumed by my day job and would love the chance to talk to people about writing 💕