Her piece "Street View" was selected by @sarahviren.bsky.social and will appear in print in issue 38 of New Ohio Review.

Two weeks left to submit! This year's judges are @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social , @sarahviren.bsky.social , and George Bilgere!

"The parents of dead children are a problem. They stand opposed to our most basic and necessary illusions." An absolutely haunting story by @kerryhowley.bsky.social that resist all such illusions. A story of Camp Mystic, and the 27 girls who died there unnecessarily, that I never knew.

Kerry Howley@kerryhowley.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...

In case you're wondering how some sectors of the Christian right are seeing Trump's war in Iran, I've just read several articles seeing a prophetic meaning in a coincidence of Trump's strikes, the assassination of Khameni, and a blood moon occurring on Purim (tomorrow).

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

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My midwestern stoicism broken by this though

Elise Schuenke@troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

The Star-Tribune is taking donations to help fund the purchase vital newsroom supplies and equipment, including protective and tactical gear for street reporters and photogs. If you live in MSP, pls subscribe. If you don't and want to help, here's a way -- www.startribunecompany.com/donate-payme....

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Once again @kerryhowley.bsky.social manages to make me laugh and then devastate me one beat after the other next.

Kerry Howley@kerryhowley.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wrote about the private, intimate, often ridiculous agonies of working for a man who think you’re a monster nymag.com/intelligence...

(Non)Fiction Friday: "I tried listening to whale songs and podcasts filled with monotone, meandering stories that would put anyone (except me) to sleep." From ASU English professor @sarahviren.bsky.social's essay about a soothing British radio show @nytimes.com: ow.ly/IQhJ50XptaW #ASUHumanities

This spring I'm working with @offassignment.bsky.social on an online class about writing rage. Dan, Maggie, Ashley, and Carmen are going to help me. Their work has kept me from launching myself into the sun. Come join us.

dan sinker@dansinker.com · 11mo ago

Hey next Feb/March I'm helping the incredible @meganstielstra.bsky.social with a class she's teaching called "Writing Rage." The amazing @smashfizzle.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social and Carmen Maria Machado are also helping. Will be wild. www.offassignment.com/writing-rage

Talked to @jenpercy.bsky.social over at @literaryhub.bsky.social about her unforgettable new book, Girls Play Dead, out today.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 11mo ago

@sarahviren.bsky.social talks to @jenpercy.bsky.social about playing dead and writing about gendered violence: “Ultimately, I think I came to understand freezing as both a prison and a superpower.”

New York Times gift article - In praise of Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" podcasts of his radio show, of which there are about 1000. Initially it was the solution to the NY Times journalist, Sarah Viren's, insomnia but eventually she became an avid and constant fan. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep

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Lovely ode to BBC Radio 4's In Our Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep

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Delighted to see that like me, Sarah Viren is an admirer of Melvyn Bragg and his @BBC radio program In our Time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep

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Thank you to Vic Flanagan for finding some meaning behind the feeling I also have in airports that every fifth person I see is someone from my past. Also just a beautiful essay about losing the "drumbeat" of your own thinking. open.substack.com/pub/vflanaga...

Heaven and Earth in Terminal 3

Bleary-eyed in the airport—the culmination of six unprecedented, restless weeks.

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What a gift it is to have this essay published on this hopeful day! Thank you so much, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social , for helping to bring this piece into the world.

Jacqueline Doyle@jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Celebrate the election today, and this great braided flash by @nikwalk.bsky.social in CRAFT. www.craftliterary.com/2025/11/05/s...

Two weeks from today, the ASU Worldbuilding Initiative will host "Resistance in Speculative Fiction and Beyond," our final workshop of 2025, with speakers @jennahanchey.bsky.social and Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed! Free and open to the public. Join us in-person in Tempe or on ASU Live!

My little brother has been complaining that I never mention him in my writing, so I wrote an essay about the British podcast that puts me to sleep just so I could prove him wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/m...

The Soothing British Radio Show That Blew My Mind — and Put Me Right to Sleep

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New on CALLING ALL SYLLABLES, a series of reported stories by @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social writers on how the Trumpocene trickles down into the everyday of our small towns: "What Time Is It?" by Claire Kovac, in which she asks the trees. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/what-time-...

What Time Is It?

A dendrochronology of the Trumpocene; or, the roots are longer than the tree itself.

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Ho ho ho it's book prize time send me your badass work

River Teeth@riverteeth.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ 🗣️ Introducing River Teeth's 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Judge, Ander Monson! We are ecstatic to have Monson working with us as the final judge. His interview with our Assistant Managing Editor, Natasia Verdel, is live on our website, which you access through the link in our bio.

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

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Such a fun and fascinating interview with Alex Niemi about her translation of a totally bonkers (and great!) new novel.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · last yr.

“I found it hard to articulate the way a word could take up space in a body.” @sarahviren.bsky.social talks to Alex Niemi, translator of Laura Vazquez‘s The Endless Week.

Was looking for context on a remembered Benjamin quote and found this deliciously detailed substack about structure and inspiration instead. Kinda like finding your keys while looking for your misplaced socks. Deep Dive: On (novel) problems & finding solutions open.substack.com/pub/katemild...

Deep Dive: On (novel) problems & finding solutions

I’m deep in the problems and working-out phase of a new novel.

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Good in-flight choice before a writing residency….

At least Slow Horses is back.

Returning to DBQ. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2022/8/...

Dan Beachy-Quick whets the writing appetite. — alina Ştefănescu

The itch to write attacks me whenever I read Dan Beachy-Quick. Today, I came across an essay where he says that becoming a poet means accepting the debt of others as one’s own, and working to repay it...

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Nerds of Los Angeles: This weekend, I'm headed your way -- along with a killer lineup of artists and writers -- for LA Comic Con. Come hang out. www.comicconla.com/artists-and-... #lacomiccon2025 #lacomiccon

Benjamin Percy — L.A. Comic Con

FRI • SAT • SUN

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Three more months until People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust comes out @uoftpress.bsky.social and translated @williamrossjones.bsky.social you can preorder below. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

TO NAME THE BIGGER LIE is the Common Read at Stockton University! Looking forward to giving the convocation lecture later this month. stockton.edu/general-stud...