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
On the one hand, his human loves him so much that she bought him another soft throw blanket for him to take naps on. It even has some very cute birds on it. Unfortunately, these birds are INEDIBLE!!! This makes him question his human’s generosity (and, frankly, her intelligence).
French II is starting a food unit, so we’re starting with a quick review of common vocabulary. I should have timed my soliloquy this morning about the baguette. It might have been a bit much, but on the other hand, my students had follow-up questions 🤷♀️🥖
Thank you, @ellipsiszine.bsky.social, for showcasing historical flash! So happy this piece landed with you ❤️ Thanks, too, to my @smokelong.bsky.social March Micro Marathon group for your great feedback on the first draft!
ellipsis zine@ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 6d ago'Old Croghan Man' #HistoricalFiction from @lauralnagle.bsky.social Had they believed me mortal, it is said, they would have been content to murder me only once. Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/old-... [Image: www.flickr.com/photos/markj... ]
He’s pretty sure this is the most wonderful time of the year: open windows, fascinating smells from the outdoors, and his human woman repeatedly saying “Yankees,” which means it’s almost time to get snacks and watch tiny men run around in circles on TV. #caturday
Today in The Ekphrastic Review: prose and poetry responses to Madelyn Roldan’s painting Easy Way Out, including this one from me. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...
She’s cozying up to me, but it’s unclear whether she wants to snuggle with me or to steal my Sharpies.
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 · 3w agoIf 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
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!!!!!
How I’ve been greeted upon my return from work the last couple of days 😻
Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
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.
Someday, hopefully decades from now, I’ll be on my deathbed and burst out laughing, and what I’ll be thinking about is the time some dude referred to a novel’s plot and characters as RAW DATA 😂
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · last mo."the raw data of a novel" 🙃 The way AI evangelists talk about art is truly alien to me. (From a comment left on an article of mine.)
🎉 We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships! buff.ly/DeTJ9EL 📚 Venka, 2026 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Telugu) 📚 Cynthia Shin (Korean) 📚 @hammadrind.bsky.social (Urdu, Panjabi, Welsh, Persian, Arabic) 📚 Naomi Harris (Hittite) 📚 Piera Chen (Chinese)
Join us on September 19 at 6PM EST to celebrate Travis Flatt's flash collection, Such Late Night Radio. For more information: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/106713...
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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Free subs are open for September! We're also accepting staff applications.
Identity Theory Submission Manager
Identity Theory has published original literature—fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and more—online since 2000.Based in southern Nevada and featuring an international staff of three dozen editors, ...
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@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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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.
📣 The 2027 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! tinyurl.com/2rc443mz This program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator.
Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social! *full sub call language in alt text and replies*
(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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X-R-A-Y subs will be open tuesday 9/1, at 7pm central thanks xray.submittable.com/submit
Wrapping up @smokelong.bsky.social’s #ArchiveChallenge with @abbymanzella.bsky.social’s “Intervals on the Beach at Dusk” in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Love the tension between the narrator’s theoretical knowledge and the stress that inhibits her music-making. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/seven...
Issue Seventeen — Tiny Molecules
Issue 17 - Autumn 2023
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Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Such effective use of the collective point of view in "The Last Friendly’s in Cattaraugus County" by Kristen Zory King in @tinymolecules.bsky.social! #ArchiveChallenge (also, now I wish I still lived near a Friendly’s) www.tinymolecules.com/issues/eight...
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