Thanks for the shoutout on the shortlist!

Variant Literature@variantlit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize shortlist is here! The shortlisted poems will now move on to the final round of judging. The three prize-winning poems will be published this September. Thank you for sharing your poetry with us and congratulations to this year's shortlisted poets:

The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize shortlist is here! The shortlisted poems will now move on to the final round of judging. The three prize-winning poems will be published this September. Thank you for sharing your poetry with us and congratulations to this year's shortlisted poets:

CFP: Roll with Disadvantage: Alternative, Antagonistic, and Analytical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons and Other Games... DEADLINE: September 15, 2026... EDITORS: @edmondchang.bsky.social & @oozannesay.bsky.social... READ THE FULL CALL: forms.gle/ACjaP6QQ3bfn... #rollwithdisadvantage #dnd #ttrpgs

Drop Dead Fred

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name your fav "so bad, it's good" film.

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Pittsburgh! Turn up and out! March 29th

Yo, yo! AWP 26 come and see me and an incredible crew Friday, March 6th 6-8pm for this fun off-site!

I’m just not sure about Scorsese anymore…the fantasy lives of very bad men contemplated over and over with no new conclusions except they must be caged or cast-out post glory-fall.

A new essay up in Strip Mall Magazine about the few months I spent hanging out with underground car drifters in Albuquerque NM. Check out the entire beautiful issue here: stripmallmagazine.com/issue-04?fbc...

Marty Supreme is Forrest Gump for Chalalalay

Thrilled to have some art in the wonderful new issue of Midway Journal. Please check it out along with the wonderful work! Thank you, Ralph Pennel, Gabrielle, @oozannesay.bsky.social , and all of you editors for a wonderful issue! And congratulations everyone! #publishing, #art,

So pleased to share Issue 20 of Midway Journal! Happy twentieth! midwayjournal.com/volume-20-is...

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

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CHAOS *Meanwhile* monks walking for peace because symbols and gestures of hope matter

Just a quick reminder that I'm the CNF editor for Midway Journal. I'd love to see your work! I like experimental/hybrid, narrative, long form & reportage. We opened for general submissions this week & we've extended our contest to Jan 10th. midwayjournal.com/submissions/

Todays rainy day cozy movie 🎬

It’s Christmas Eve and I’m in my childhood bedroom wrapping gifts listening to the sound of my mother’s kitchenaid mixer downstairs mix the yeast roll dough for Christmas dinner. This exact scenario has played out over and over and over…

I sometimes get so teary driving around my hometown. Everything changes and sometimes for the better and sometimes for not and never in ways I could have predicted, and yet here I am a living tower of memory, of what was, who passes through and keeps saying to herself “it didn’t used to be this way”

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings

Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018

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My love language is simple: if I have tried to dress you, choose clothing for you, I love you.

I’m somehow on horse treat TikTok, meaning, over the course of two days, I saw videos of horses eating treats, then slowly, horse owners taking bites of horse treats, and now I’m seeing videos of people who have nothing to do with horses order horse treats to their homes and eat them.

My local humane society has a pigeon named Darnell who hates Christmas music up for adoption if anyone is interested.

Voted most likely to be arrested for purchasing dog medicine on the dark web in high school.

New Yorkers who love pizza! You can enjoy a pie from Pizza Loves Emily and support @triohousepress.org at the same time during December. Order the Trio House Pie — doesn’t it look amazing?! www.pizzalovesemily.com

Keep thinking about how in Weapons Aunt Gladys looks like/is styled like a Warhol painting and Campbell’s soup was what she fed everyone. Warhol’s commentary on the mass reproduction of soup; something deeply cultural, medicinal, nourishing, suddenly condensed, impersonal, branded, corporate.

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

feral streep@feralstreeep.bsky.social · 2y ago

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything