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Laura Nagle

@lauralnagle.bsky.social

🙋‍♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt 🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge ✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now! 🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com

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Laura Nagle@lauralnagle.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’ve also been a PTV volunteer for years. It takes a few minutes, can be done at any time of day, and gets voters’ attention. (How often do people receive handwritten mail these days?) I especially enjoy volunteering for special elections, where a small increase in turnout makes a difference.

DL@pursuitofleisure.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you want a relaxing way to volunteer for the midterms, I recommend Postcards to Voters which I joined in 2016. They have campaigns all year long for local candidates & midterms are peaking now. Choose any active campaigns you want (Ossoff, Talarico, Brown, etc.) & write from 4-50 cards at a time

Laura Nagle@lauralnagle.bsky.social · 6d ago

Wore a Yankees jersey today, and a student walked into my classroom in a Red Sox jersey. Him: OH, NO! Me: So we’re going to have beef, I see. What’s your story? Him: Most of my family lives in Boston. Me: I grew up in New York. Him: Well, you could have been a Mets fan. Me: EW! No, I could NOT!!!!!

SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 3w ago

Promptember is coming. October 11th to November 2nd. An in-between sort of almost month of prompts, webinars, open mics. And Promptember is free. Yep. Zero dolares. This one is on us. Stay tuned for details.

Against a prairie landscape with horses dancing through the sky, the text reads "another mysterious, in-between month of live write-ins, workshops and prompts" PROMPTEMBER October 11 - November 2 2026
SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · 4w ago

Please help us celebrate these writers, all previous or current SmokeLong workshop participants, who reported publications in August! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Workshop Celebration - August 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly

Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers@heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 4w ago

@smokelong.bsky.social Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

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Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Travis Flatt@travisflatt.bsky.social · 4w ago

(pt.1) Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press) September 19 at 6pm EST feat. Coleman Bigelow Linda M. Bayley Elissa Field Dawn Tasaka Steffler Mario Aliberto Liz Rosen Beth Sherman This will be live on ZOOM . bottlecap.press/products/suc...

Such Late Night Radio, by Travis Flatt

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...

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SmokeLong Quarterly@smokelong.bsky.social · last mo.

We'll be sending out the invitation to join the workshop site on August 27th. Come write with us! Fitness is not a cult no matter what people say. #kumbaya www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...

SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly

In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...

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Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · last mo.

A good day to remind everyone that Dolly loved books. She gave millions upon millions of books to children. Folks who want to ban books and cut funding to libraries and book-related programs? We’re coming for you in the name of Dolly.

Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · last mo.

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy: Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines (I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience) Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)