I wrote my first guest essay around the book launch for my new friend Heidi who publishes Nebula Notebook on Substack. It ranges a bit, but it's chiefly about allowing your work to matter. I hope you enjoy it. #essay #skywriters heidifiedler.substack.com/p/the-rooms-...

The Rooms I Built for Everyone Else

I used to always kind of hate those anecdotes about how many times an author queried before getting agent or how many editors passed on a bestseller.

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Finally watched Unbound - while much in the film is beyond my ability I found it beautiful. I particularly like the seated and bed portions as they’re closest to my reality. The music is very calm - I kept it very low but I was able to listen. #MECFS #LongCovid @liapas.bsky.social

Unbound: Illness is not the end of dance

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A really lovely interview with director Sara Nesson about Unbound—the dance film I’m in

Unbound Film — Disabled Artists Created One Continuous Dance - ABILITY Magazine

A lifelong love of dance became the foundation for Sara Nesson’s film, “Unbound.” With the help of producer Kim Warner from Unfixed Media, Nesson set out to create a project that transcends movement…

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The Sam Hill! Review is open to submissions for Historical Fiction. #CallforSubmissions

Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: The Sam Hill! Review

The Sam Hill! Review is open to submissions for Historical Fiction. #CallforSubmissions

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Perseids the cold air on my face #haikufeels (air) #haiku

In one month! #SciArtSeptember returns for a 6th year. Open to all who are curious about the places where art and science connect. Make new work, post works in progress, or share old favourites. Post when and what you like. 🐡 #SciArt #SciComm

We are open for subs in #Art #Fiction #Poetry and #CNF on the theme AGENCY VS DETERMINISM through August 31! epistemiclit.com/submissions/

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Submission guidelines for a fully digital literary anthology that explores themes to open conversations through the written word.

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Celebrating a sweet surprise this #HaikuSaturday! Thanks for sharing my #haiku, @tricyclemag.bsky.social. Poems and commentary from Clark Strand here: tricycle.org/article/best...

I love the speculative dreamscape and “what ifs” in this CNF by @thorntonforreal.bsky.social from the @pitheadchapel.bsky.social archives. #archivechallenge pitheadchapel.com/the-snow-in-...

The Snow in Duluth

Lisa Thornton   The boy I met on a rooftop in Nepal, the one who pushed a rowboat onto the lake in the middle of the night while monkeys screamed at us from the trees, calls me in a dream. He …

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Happy Sunday, friends! There's a new post up on the blog, where we're chatting about poems focused on community shaunmjex.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/w...

Who Are the People In Your Neighborhood: Poems About Life in Community

A writing prompt along with four poems celebrating community and neighbors

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We dont talk about it as much on here as we do over @epistemiclit.bsky.social but #accessibility is important to us and we’re always trying to improve. Part of that is only sharing images with alt text — authors, illustrators, and magazines: please alt text your images so we can share your stuff!

Even more pleased to have been promoted to the shortlist! Thank you @fracturedlit.bsky.social. May we all find many writing projects to keep us busy while waiting for results 🤞 fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-...

Tracie Renee (she/her)@tracierenee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pleased to have a story on the Ghost, Fable and Fairy Tales long list! Thank you @fracturedlit.bsky.social. fracturedlit.com/ghost-fable-...

"Home is the bullseye of a leech bite ..." You Took a Trip and I Couldn't Go Home With You by @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in Abundance Volume 3 online.fliphtml5.com/FunInTheZine...

Abundance Volume 3 - Ekphrastic Creation

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🌎🌎🌎 WINNER of the Earth Prize, "Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued for Nose Hill Park" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social A piece that's wonderfully vivid and wonderfully alive: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued for Nose Hill Park | MattKendrick.co.uk

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Looking forward to reading the different interpretations of the #ThriftStore prompt for #PoemsAbout #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Writers

Big thanks to the lovely peeps at @goodlifelitmag.bsky.social for publishing this piece, and to @raecowie.bsky.social and @norami.bsky.social for their help with it and for explaining how it contains enough truths to qualify as CNF.

@goodlifelitmag.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Daddy bangs around upstairs, packing for another trip. After he whizzes off, Mummy tells us they’re getting a divorce. None of my schoolfriends have parents who’ve got divorces..." From "Animal Husbandry" by @chriscottom.bsky.social thegoodlifereview.com/2026/08/03/a... Photo by Sandy Millar

Ooh! So pleased to be here. Welcome back @ellipsiszine.bsky.social. We've really missed you.

Ellipsis Zine@ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 6d ago

'Chapel of Dreams' microfiction from Chris Cottom My newbuild husband would settle for a soulless maisonette on a deathless estate, so I insist on another look at the old Baptist church with its pinnacles and glory. Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/chap...

Meant to post this earlier but coverage is spotty here. Here's this week's poetry lesson plan: #poetry #edusky #poetrycommunity shaunmjex.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/t...

The Chupacabra: Learning Alliteration

A poetry lesson on alliteration, featuring the poem “The Chupacabra” from the book A Catalog of Curious Creatures

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I'll be reading on Sept. 6 to celebrate one year of @claudineliterary.bsky.social!

Claudine: A Literary Magazine@claudineliterary.bsky.social · 5d ago

Join us as we revel in the work of our year-one contributors. Sept 4th & 6th! Fiction. CNF. New Writers. Chapbook authors. Hear them live on Zoom reading their own words.  www.claudineliterary.com/yearonereadi...

Embrace the blue with Something, a little flash of freedom by the terrific @delgeo14.bsky.social New in our ongoing Joy issue, because it's always time for a little joy. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Stoked to have a poem in Glass today: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html - there’s an audio version too.

Unbound is now available to watch on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxK6... #MECFS #LongCovid #NEISvoid #dance #DisabledArt

Unbound: Illness is not the end of dance

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Lia Pas@liapas.bsky.social · 4w ago

What if movement didn't have to be big to matter? Unbound is a film woven from 20 bodies, 20 stories, and 1 thread of connection. Join us for the premiere on July 29th at 6:30 PM ET. www.eventbrite.com/e/unbound-gl... A reflection on my process for this film on my blog: liapas.com/2026/07/11/u...

ICYMI - my story in Thin Skin about found family & how we set up home in each other's hearts. "Where were your family then? Where were they when you needed rent, when he broke your heart, when he broke your ribs, when he took you back and kicked you out over and over?" thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...

She was One of Us  - Thin Skin

We know naked. We've done naked for a living. But tonight we are washing you. Tonight we are saying goodbye.We can’t be there tomorrow, on those hard wooden pews, in the church your family chose.   Bu...

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"Oh, the brain, that adamantly logical and analytical mess of neurons, can try to block it out with happiness or paper it over with time. But the body remembers how it feels to be poor." Read "Brain vs Body," from the archives. sugar-pig.blogspot.com/2025/11/brai...

Brain vs Body

Mirth, melancholy and misadventures.

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A bajillion congratulations to @tomljanovic.bsky.social !

The Welkin Press@welkinpress.bsky.social · 5d ago

🌎🌎🌎 WINNER of the Earth Prize, "Severe Thunderstorm Warning Issued for Nose Hill Park" by @tomljanovic.bsky.social A piece that's wonderfully vivid and wonderfully alive: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

I have three new pieces in Whiskey Tit Journal. Check out "take these flowers and shove them," "Picks Me Up, Puts Me Down," and "My Coworker Got Cast on The Great American Baking Show" here: whiskeytit.com/article/thre...

Three by Carrigan

take these flowers and shove them please find these lilacs enclosed with my message.i don’t care what you do with them.put them in a vase or toss them in the fireplace.just don’t think that they’re…

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So grateful to the lovely Eirene Eleni, editor of @templeinacity.bsky.social , for publishing my flash "Something" as part of the ongoing Joy popup edition. templeinacity.com/flash-fictio...

Temple in a City literary journal

Flash fiction Something by author and editor Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos. Published in Temple in a City literary journal

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We have a new micro up at @brokenheartslit.bsky.social because I couldn't leave you all without one on a Wednesday. Get your subs in = micros or poems up to 50 words and a photo. Sent out accpetances so we'll return next week with a story from the inbox! brokenheartsliterary.com/2026-heartbr...

2026 Heartbreaks

Nestlings by Melissa Flores Anderson The grasses are drier and flatter than last month, newly plucked and picked to form a bed, a home, a sanctuary. My son peers into the empty nest. Four and three…

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I am almost five years sober. One of the reasons I am so gratified to be in the latest issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social is because the piece talks about my first few months in recovery. Here is the link if you are interested in reading it: pitheadchapel.com/first-step/

First Step

Zary Fekete   The mirror in the airplane bathroom is too small to see my shoulders, so I only look at my eyes. Outside the window, it is winter, and everything below us is the flat, gray white of M…

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Just reposted several submissions opportunities so may as well remind you that we are open too! As usual the poets and fiction writers are dominating the queue but we’re happy to see some early CNF and visual art subs in the mix. Keep them allllll coming!

Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now!@epistemiclit.bsky.social · last wk.

Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...