I'm very excited to be part of Buried Creek's inaugural Climate Education for Writers cohort this fall!

Buried Creek Collective@buriedcreek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Buried Creek Collective is proud to announce our cohort of 25 environmental writers who will be participating in the inaugural Climate Education for Writers program this fall.

I have a short story up up in the new issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social This takes place during the Anti-Iraq War protests, so a fitting 4th of July weekend read. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/on-the-...

On the Home Front By Ben Nadler

Diego Torres Silvestre   CC On the Home Front       We tried to stop the Iraq War. It sounds stupid now, knowing what’s happened since, but in the Spring of 2003, we really thought things could...

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vouched fundraiser for the Minneapolis defendants chuffed.org/project/1865...

Legal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE Organizers

On the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai...

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Norman Feliks and I had a conversation about literature, protest, and hopelessness. Up now on Full Stop: www.full-stop.net/.../norman-f...

I'm excited to visit the Midwest for the first time since I published Prairie Ashes. If you're in Milwaukee in June, come through!

I wrote some thoughts about robot Abraham Lincolns for Planetside.

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association@sfwa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This week on Planetside… Our series Writing from History continues with “A. Lincoln, Simulacrum: Approaches to Reanimating the Great Emancipator” by @bwnadler.bsky.social , read by Maggie Ayala: www.sfwa.org/2026/03/31/a...

I followed @oksanamir.bsky.social down an anarchist history rabbit hole (not the first time), and Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness published the resulting zine.

Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness@tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This month we have "Additional Persecution Likely" a translation by Oksana Mironova & Ben Nadler of sections of Delo Truda, a Russian & Ukrainian anarchist paper printed in exile after the Russian Revolution. Word of the month is about a town in Ukraine. Read for free at TangledWilderness.org

March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as you can, & solidarity, all! 🗃️ +

#ScholarSunday Thread 265 (3/1/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last w...

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I shared some of my thoughts about writing historical fiction over at Contingent.

Contingent Magazine@contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.” Our latest, from Ben Nadler.

Excited to be part of this reading!

Daniel A. Hoyt@danhoyt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The 13th Annual Rock and Roll Reading returns to AWP at 6 p.m. March 4 at Metro Baltimore, @metrobaltimore.bsky.social. Fifteen writers from across the country will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots), each for just the length of a song. #AWP #AWP26

I have a new piece up on Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 25 years, and I keep finding new ways to engage with this holy little book.

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg - Teachers & Writers Magazine

Banned book writing prompts.

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I'm excited that this project, which I've lived with for so many years, is finally coming out into the world!

American Buffalo Books@buffalo-books.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are thrilled to help usher @bwnadler.bsky.social's archive-driven novel, Prairie Ashes, into the world today. This is an important and beautiful book about the Illinois Mine War, unionization efforts, and the ongoing wars across the world. It's a great book to put out on Election Day.

Really thrilled to have a piece in @readlux.bsky.social, just in time for the Serrano-Taylor fight tonight. lux-magazine.com/article/wome...

Left Hook

Fascism, gender policing, and the unlikely rise of women's boxing.

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A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:

@oksanamir.bsky.social and I have a new piece up on Protean Magazine where we explore how the current repression of pro-Palestinian activists echoes the First Red Scare.

Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · last yr.

In this deeply researched piece, Ben Nadler and Oksana Mironova explore the historical, ideological, and tactical parallels between the First Red Scare and the present targeting of Palestinian activists across the United States. proteanmag.com/2025/06/26/t...

MAZEL TOV @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!!!!

“And yet the anxiety persists: the hammering reverberates, perhaps loudest, in new writers seeking their place in the world of storytelling.” From "Nothing New Under the Sun" by By Joshua Keller and Ben Nadler for the Rumpus original column Collaborative Criticism. ➡️ https://buff.ly/4aaUtPK