Click through to find a poem from my forthcoming collection, Beginning to Sense, Feb. 2027!

Millions of Dead Chris@thecorlew.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friday Links is UP! Featuring @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @isaacpickell.bsky.social @mitchnobis.bsky.social @joshuahebburn.bsky.social @meronunfiltered.com www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162658687

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

What Is Missing - The Cincinnati Review

Web and Media Editor Bess Winter Kosinec: In the grand tradition of Modernist fiction, British upstairs-downstairs dramas or the single-shot wonder

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New From the Bookshelf writing prompt! Happy August to you. This month's inspiration is Dorothy Parker's story "Advice to the Little Peyton Girl." So fun. cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

From the Bookshelf

August 2026

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Good news from @beaconpress.bsky.social! www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Beacon Press Launching Fiction Imprint, Fort Point

Beacon Press is launching Fort Point, a fiction imprint "dedicated to publishing ambitious new works from emerging and established writers

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I just went through this tremendously helpful resource. Thank you, Jessamyn!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

If you happen to know someone at Harvard who’d like to take my creative nonfiction workshop this fall, here’s the application. Part of what’s fun is I can accept students from any part of the college, undergrad and graduate students: hms.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries.

This lady is getting ready for vacation!

The latest From the Bookshelf post is live! This month's writing prompt is inspired by Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. cherylpappas.substack.com/p/from-the-b...

From the Bookshelf

July 2026

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Clang the bells! The @wigleaf.bsky.social Long List and Top 50 list is up www.wigleaf.com.🎈 Special thanks to Guest Selecting Editor, @andrewporter01.bsky.social. Gratitude also to our team who spent countless hours reading. And big 🙏 to Scott Garson without whom this list wouldn't exist! 🌷🌷

This is a bit late, because this wonderful journal arrived in the mail during the semester, but the fabulous @mooncityreview.bsky.social published my story "Morning Bus" in their latest issue. Thank you to editor extraordinaire Michael Czyzniejewski!

I'm thrilled to share "Gretel Overhears Her Parents," published in Fractured Literary. It is adapted from an excerpt of my forthcoming novel by Cornerstone Press, A Thousand Ways to Disappear. Thank you, @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social, and the Fractured team. fracturedlit.com/gretel-overh...

Bachrooms.

Starting small by hosting an Analog Salon. Coffee, cake, writing, drawing, chatting.

Homeward Books is open for submissions through June 14! Send us your unsaleable stuff! olasubs.com/call/6a0513a...

A little peace of my backyard.

www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

‘AI simply can’t replicate it’: Japan embraces zine trend

Independent artist and writers have been turning ever more to self-published or handmade small print publications, reflecting a love of paper in the digital era.

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My writing challenge platform this week:

What harm is there in sending in your work for free? Exactly. Submit at buff.ly/chQ4jpz

On my way to the museum (work!) and feeling good!

Read this incredible story by @sashabrown.bsky.social!

Flash Fiction Online@flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Citizens! Get up and dance, there’s been a mugging! Will the crime make it onto the leaderboard? Our May closer is the surreal piece “Citizens!” by Sasha Brown #flashfiction #writingcommunity #amreading #sciencefiction @sashabrown.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/may-2...

June's From the Bookshelf installment is live! This month's prompt is inspired by Borges's "The Circular Ruins." substack.com/home/post/p-...

From the Bookshelf

June 2026

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Calling all poets and writers! We're transitioning over to a new submissions platform and launched our June Open Reading Period a few days early to make sure everything is running smoothly. If you were planning on sending us a manuscript, please do so at the link below.

So we all heard a loud boom in eastern Mass. over an hour ago, and we thought it was thunder, an earthquake, a manhole explosion, but it turns out it was a meteor!?

Some news! Hermit Crab Flash Fiction Workshop Sunday, 9/27, 2026 1–5pm (ET) Online $80 In this highly generative four-hour writing workshop, you’ll write three flash using found forms. Lots of feedback, lots of work, lots of fun! Click here for the sign-up info: www.cherylpappas.net/events

Workshops & Readings — Cheryl Pappas

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Delighted to be back in @hexliterary.bsky.social!!

hex@hexliterary.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"A civilization grew out of my eye. Their written language a divine loneliness." When it comes to surrealist microfiction, there's not many doing it like @ezhang77.bsky.social! We are so stoked to have Elena back in hex with another dream, at once brief and vast. Go read "Civilization" on the site!

Organizing my next story collection.

Do I know any writers who have a literary agent for short story collections?

Good morning

I'm revising a longer story I want to include in my new collection and am overwhelmed with gratitude as I reread notes from the amazing people who gave feedback: Erika Krouse, Sara Lippmann, Lori Sambol Brody, and more. Just unbelievable.