🗨️e(i 9: Collaboration is live!🗨️ Our #spotlight is on Britt Kaufmann @brittwriter.bsky.social & Drew Smoker! Check out their work at buff.ly/ryyERAn! Don't forget to vote for your favorite piece for our Readers' Choice Award! buff.ly/ahE8FZH
Britt Kaufmann
@brittwriter.bsky.social
playwright, poet, educator, avid reader (esp sci-fi) brittkaufmann.com
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Did you know that college and literary journals share institutional structures? Read my view of how @the-engine-idling.bsky.social serves as an example for those in other industries: www.linkedin.com/posts/suzann... #industrialorganization #literature #poetry
Current Issue — the engine(idling | Suzanne Miller
When you think of multiple qualified applicants and limited space, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? NBA rosters? Orchestra spots? Given you’re reading this on LinkedIn, perhaps college admi...
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🗨️ e(i #9: Collaboration is live! 🗨️ Collaboration is a testament to community & creative experimentation! It's free to read, download & share online: buff.ly/ryyERAn Print copy available for purchase: buff.ly/PjaIlBn & vote for your fave piece for our Readers' Choice Award! buff.ly/9DlHF33 ⬇️
Residents in Fayette County, Georgia noticed their water pressure was unusually low. Turns out that a data center 20 miles away had been drawing 30 million gallons of water in secret through connections the county didn't know existed. Is it any wonder why so many are opposed to data centers?
"Despite its name, e(i is anything but idle. the engine(idling is the Big Bang; it’s 10,000,000 Scovilles, the plumpest fruit, it’s stars and ichor. It’s Artemis, it’s mother, it’s your lipsticked-Demeter." meibackof.substack.com/p/magbog-4-t... Had the best gift today. Contributor Mei Backof ..
MagBog #4: the engine(idling
Intimate, passionate, ferocious, and undeniably gorgeous, the engine(idling is home to some of the best anthologies of poetry I've ever read. I am so grateful to have been included in their selection!
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And the winner of the Strange Horizons giveaway is 🥁 @brittwriter.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who participated! We always love hearing about your love for what we publish!
Would love to have some of y’all pop in out of the clear blue sky to one of these IRL events.
Had to update the graphic because Midlife Calculus has also won —get this—the McMath Award for Poetry! I will laugh every time at how perfect that is.
My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR has won the 2026 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction!! 💃🏿🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖 Sigh…wow. 🥹
No joke. I imagined tiny armor-clad people scribbling in their journals at a tavern table. #weeknightwriters
Despite the absolute dumpster fire that is this January… this also happened!
Indiana beating Alabama is so dumbfounding, Bluesky algorithms have concluded it must be basketball.
This line 💎->: "Throughout her career, she has resisted narrow categorizations, coining the term 'Africanfuturism' to describe speculative work that centers African culture and perspectives rather than simply placing Black characters in Western futurist frameworks." brittlepaper.com/2025/11/nned...
Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Named TIME Must-Read Book of 2025
Nnedi Okorafor's latest novel Death of the Author has been selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025, adding another major recognition to Okorafor's growing list of honors. The me...
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Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/ernst-haeckels-jellyfish
Purple first on a 5/5 difficulty day! I’ll take it.
Just finished this book by @yarntheory.bsky.social and highly recommend it. You will be transported and better equipped to live in these times.
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 11mo ago🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 In North Continent Ribbon, Ursula Whitcher weaves a complex picture of the planet Nakharat, showing how the politics of power plays out through the lives of individuals, & how collective resistance evolves within intimate relationships.
Introducing myself as an Indiana writer who is looking for a Northern Indiana writing community. While I've published primarily poetry, I read copious amounts of science fiction and am shifting gears to writing in that genre. & I've just made a website page tracking my adventure into a homemade MFA!
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
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The “Origin Story” for Austin’s song “Where It Gets Exciting” involves David Bowie, John Lewis, and… JJ Redick? Yes, really!
Where It Gets Exciting
An Origin Story
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If you need some cheer as much as I do… here ya go!
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
Here is me, absolutely giddy and fangirling over @sarah-hart.bsky.social signing a copy of her book for me! I’m so fortunate to have gotten to hear her speak at UNCA tonight!
