Next week! Join us Thursday 4/16 as our 25th anniversary season continues with Hannah Lillith Assadi, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Anna Kovatcheva, & @jordyrosenberg.bsky.social, along w hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social , with books provided by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social
Brian Gresko
@briangresko.bsky.social
writer, illustrator, educator; co-founder Writing Co-Lab; co-host Pete’s Reading Series; words all over the place; weird & genderqueer & poly
Creative Resistance returns with this wonderful piece on “the shame of writing through catastrophe” by Emma Copley Eisenberg mailchi.mp/157356dff480...
One week from tonight! Come bask in the literary brilliance of Aria Aber, @emotrophywife.bsky.social , Rebecca Novack, and Issa Quincy. With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social and @briangresko.bsky.social & books provided by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
Internet Friends Day. Just wrapped up the last of @writingco-lab.bsky.social's Ungodly Hour writing sessions. I wasn't the best participant, but I did get up and in my chair at 5 AM most days. Thank you, @briangresko.bsky.social. Next session starts in March!
10% of classes purchased through Monday will go to a member of the co-lab community on the ground in Minneapolis, providing groceries & rent support to families who are essentially on house arrest because of ICE. Please spread word & help support artists & grassroots resistance www.writingco-lab.com
The writing retreat I co-run with @writingco-lab.bsky.socia in Crete, Greece, returns this September! As European retreats go, ours is affordable (under $2k) & focused on generative writing & community. Find out more at the link below or DM me for details www.writingco-lab.com/greece-retreat
Professionally, I began 2026 by almost falling for an online scammer. Artist beware! I lay out the whole sordid affair, emails and all, so you can learn to spot the grift open.substack.com/pub/briangre...
I Was Almost Scammed!
An artist con that almost got me, in four acts
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Thinking about #MLK and 1 year since January 20, 2025 and @briangresko.bsky.social 's 100 Days of #CreativeResistance and the 265 days after that and the 1095 days ahead. briangresko.substack.com/p/looking-ba...
Looking Back at 100 Days of Creative Resistance
And why I want to bring it back
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One week from tonight, join us on Thursday, January 15th 7:30pm as we welcome Jaquira Diaz, @deenaelg.bsky.social , Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and @jenpercy.bsky.social to the Pete's stage! 🔥 With your hosts @temim.bsky.social & @briangresko.bsky.social and books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !
Only 3 days left in this fundraiser, and $1,400 to go!! I think we can do it. But only with your help!! Please contribute if you can 🙏🏼❤️
Writing Co-Lab’s 100 Days of Creative Resistance provided a free email a day of inspiration from an incredible group of authors. We’re hoping to bring back a version of this series in a more sustainable fashion. Please help us reach our goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/130...
Great advice for authors on booking events from @petesreading.bsky.social cohost @briangresko.bsky.social—I wholeheatedly agree!
past couple years I’ve penned letters to my students about writing & living a creative life drawn from my two decades of art making, literary journalism, criticism, curation, and publishing experiences both good and bad. I started a substack to share similar! open.substack.com/pub/briangre...
Juvenile Origin Story
On Writing for Yourself vs Writing for an Audience
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We're resurrecting the Reading Series Census, and our first *updated* answers are now live thanks to @briangresko.bsky.social at Pete's Reading Series. englishkillsreview.com/petes-readin...
Pete's Reading SeriesReading Series Census - English Kills Review
Everything you want to know about Pete's Reading Series.
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Writing Co-Lab’s 100 Days of Creative Resistance provided a free email a day of inspiration from an incredible group of authors. We’re hoping to bring back a version of this series in a more sustainable fashion. Please help us reach our goal! www.kickstarter.com/projects/130...
Our 2026 winter/spring classes are here! We’ll be adding a few more in the next week or so, but already it is a creative feast. Check ‘em out and come co-lab with us! www.writingco-lab.com/classes
306 Days of Creative #Resistance and counting…
Last night’s 100 Days of Creative Resistance event was incredible, with readings & convo from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, Robert Jones Jr., @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Denne Michele Norris. Watch it now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ9...
So much wisdom, hope, rage, and love. Need a reminder of why we fight and write? Here it is
Last night’s 100 Days of Creative Resistance event was incredible, with readings & convo from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, Robert Jones Jr., @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Denne Michele Norris. Watch it now on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZ9...
Fri 11/21: join Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, @nicolechung.bsky.social, @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, @melissafebos.bsky.social, Robert Jones Jr., Denne Michele Norris, host @briangresko.bsky.social & me for 100 Days of Creative Resistance. We'll talk about staying creative in this terrible time. Free!
100 Days of Creative Resistance Live
With Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nicole Chung, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Melissa Febos, Robert Jones Jr., Celeste Ng, & Denne Michele Norris
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“I love the sounds down there. The variations inside that accent are really beautiful. And the things that people say? The figurative language? It’s so rich.” @donikakelly.bsky.social discusses the influence of Southern speech on her third and latest poetry collection. Read on: at.pw.org/DonikaKelly
We are proud to take part in the Fall of Freedom with a special FREE online event Friday, November 21 8pm EST featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nicole Chung, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Melissa Febos, Robert Jones Jr., Celeste Ng, and Denne Michele Norris. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/100-days-o...
Next Thurs 10/16! Delighted to welcome 🔥 @karissachen.bsky.social , @katiekitamura.bsky.social , @thedennemichele.bsky.social , & @emergencychampagne.bsky.social 🔥 to the Pete's stage. W/ hosts @temim.bsky.social and @briangresko.bsky.social & books from @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social ! See you there!
New sessions of Ungodly Hour Writing Clubs start Monday! East Coast with @saralippmann.bsky.social ! West Coast with @briangresko.bsky.social ! Pick your poison! Or double down! Clubs are free, with donations supporting our scholarship fund www.writingco-lab.com/classes
Hi! My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class is this Saturday! There are still spaces available. www.writingco-lab.com/classes/what...
What We Found in the Forest: Using Fairy Tales to Generate Fiction, 1 Session with Richard Mirabella — Writing Co-Lab
In this generative class, we will discuss how fairy tales can be sources of plot, symbols, and narrative shapes, outside of retelling. We will read short fairy tales and work inspired by fairy tales, ...
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Hi everyone! Some news! My @writingco-lab.bsky.social class, What We Found in the Forest is back October 4th! I've also joined Writing Co-Lab to offer my coaching services as well alongside some fabulous teachers and writers! www.writingco-lab.com/coaching-and...
Yet another example of why ICE must be abolished. Why would any sensible country keep around a security force like this? It doesn't even matter what your views are on immigration, this entire agency and all of its staff needs to go.
Any writers who use Patreon out there? I’m curious to know if you like it and how you use it. Thanks!
aesterion is a new journal out of LA & I’m thrilled to have an essay in the inaugural issue about gender, sports, & the time my dad woke me up to meet The Phillies, who he claimed were having dinner next door, only it wasn’t actually the Phillies at all… www.aesterion.com/summer-2025
General 2 — aesterion
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Had the pleasure of being on Elizabeth Austin’s series Instrument, Surface, Setting, Story, talking about my life long love of ballpoint pens substack.com/@writingeliz...
Elizabeth Austin on Substack
Big, big thanks to @Brian Gresko for sharing insight into all things creative spaces and tools! I loved reading their responses, and I know you will too. Also, no small thing: their book You Must Go...
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In an industry dominated by the "Big Five" publishing houses with huge appetites for commercial appeal and profits, indie publishers are putting out some of the most literary, inventive, and adventurous work there is.
It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo. It’s cowardice.