“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.” Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel. @emilydoyle.bsky.social @lailalalami.com‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...

Had to take an author photo for my debut book, so here’s the photo, niece-approved (“I like blue jacket”)!

A book of poems that my friend gave me, that I needed.

What a perfect book.

Well I received THE DREAM HOTEL yesterday and I expect to finish it today because I simply can’t stop reading. @lailalalami.bsky.social you’re doing something terrifying and beautiful with this one.

Went tidepooling for my bday✨

Started a starter pack!

When the gift guide is itself a gift

Maureen Langloss@maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 2y ago

I channeled my post-election sad/anxious energy into a giant holiday Gift Guide for writers and readers! Maybe there's something here you want www.maureenlangloss.com/maureens-gia...

Earlier this week I received an acceptance to a DREAM lit journal. I’ve spent the rest of the week convincing myself that it’s real. (Is it though???)

I attended one of Glück’s readings about six years ago, and she was terrifying and wonderful. I hope that wherever she is she’s striking fear and awe in equal measure.

Kristen Renee Miller@kristenmiller.bsky.social · 3y ago

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Cookin up good things with @shortstorytoday.bsky.social ✨

Been researching for a story and now know facts that feel elicit because I was a Christian home school kid: 1) Neanderthals had bigger brains than us, 2) they had a similar physical capacity for speech, 3) we had sex with them at every opportunity.

"To write as a marginalized writer is to face, sooner or later, questions of authenticity and imagination." My review of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, appears in the Washington Post today. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...

Review | An ambitious, stinging novel inspired by a real-life literary scandal

“The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, won France’s top literary prize and has now been translated into English.

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Not me spending an hour recording one of my stories for a lit mag only to IMMEDIATELY delete the recording (and then recover it, thank god). Undergoing Trials and Tribulations by my own hand.

Oh my god I did the same thing

Who You Gonna CAll? (-ison Wyss)@allisonwyss.bsky.social · 3y ago

The gmail folder where I keep submissions-related stuff is still named in a discreet way from many years ago when I couldn’t admit even to myself that I thought I was good enough to be submitting stories to journals. But I still submitted.

And for my first trick: A PHOTO OF MY LIZARD TAKING A BATH