Northwoods read: The Glassblower’s Children. Maria Gripe. Only five pagesto go… Careful what you wish for.

Northwoods, Wisconsin fish fry Friday.

@reckonreview.bsky.social making me smile this morning.

I am Gen X and it was about 2021 before I heard people converse, daily, about AQI with the familiarity wind-chill factors. #wisconsin www.instagram.com/p/Da2zUbbA0Dk/

Mike De Sisti on Instagram: "This morning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. #Wildfires #Smoke #weather"

8,664 likes, 383 comments - mdesisti on July 16, 2026: "This morning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. #Wildfires #Smoke #weather".

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The air be thick in Northern Wis is thick today. AQI. Pretty sure we were oblivious to such a thing ten years ago.

Morning read. Sabrina y Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Visceral and wonderful.

Arrived. Hemlock by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social

I have a flash-fiction contest submission in my Submittable submissions heap from August 2021. Status icon should switch to "In-Progress" any day now.

Essay collection Tomboyland by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social now on my desk.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Pretty stoked about this sticker I got for my little book, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. Stories about small-town weirdos. Thanks, @artlitlab.bsky.social and Cornerstone Press.

Oh, and while you're at it, remember to re-check your Submittable submissions page. #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #FariyTales #SpeculativeLit

Adding quotation marks to dialogue. Painful. ~Before~ This Sunday? the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. Why, that’s coming right up. ~After~ “This Sunday?” the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. “Why, that’s coming right up.”

. @ziibiing.com created the Stand With Minnesota page that literally kept thousands of people in their homes during Occupation Metro Surge in Minnesota. It’s the kind of thing that should be rewarded, so help spread the word.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 4mo ago

just getting hit with the reality that i spent the last four months fully immersed in a project and took on no client work and responded to no RFPs. and I am moving and having a quince for the kid this month. and paid my taxes. 😭 if you need a narrative or digital strategist, or a designer…hi!

Chilling stories by writers from a chilly place: #wisconsin. Available now in paperback from WWA Press wherever you buy books.

One of my stories made it into this cool anthology. Now available for early ordering. #WritingCommunity bookshop.org/p/books/a-wi...

A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror

Check out A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror - <p><strong>A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror.</strong> Continuing the Wisconsin Harvest theme, WWA brings you the next installment of finely crafted Wisconsin-the...

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people out here just advertising they lack the most basic possible cooking skills

uel aramchek@uel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

why are we like this in america

Movie in current release at Falls Theater located in River Falls, Wisconsin, a short drive from ground zero of the mpls ICE agent action. They’ve been active here, too.

In the end, we did the Minneapolis reading. Despite the intensity of the situation just days following the in-broad-daylight murder of Alex Pretti.

Currently recalling a time when they called a presidential candidate ‘Hitlery.’

I think bots are basically fictional characters. But, as mythology and fandom tend to prove, fictional characters can become very real for people. If we let them wander around the internet writing stuff like this ... ten-year-olds and the NYT are definitely going to think they're real.

Rollofthedice@hotrollhottakes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is fucking wild. My brain is exploding.

Some scams are more obvious than others.

-30 F at my house 25 miles from downtown mpls. They’ve invaded a winter people during winter. People who get excited when they can finally break out the ‘actual cold’ garb.

Having a hard time posting about books, coffee, and doggies when we got shit like this in our face.

Here I thought we'd hit rock-bottom when we sent our children off to school with Kevlar school bags and said, "Have a great day, honey. Don't get shot." So naive. Every rock-bottom's got a trap door down to yet another lower low.

Some good news to share, amid all the bad: These Are My People gets a nice write-up from Windy City Reviews. Thanks to @chicagowrites.bsky.social for making it happen. "...not only impeccably written but surprising." www.windycityreviews.org/book-reviews... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Midwest

Book Review: These Are My People — Windy City Reviews

Windy City Reviews - These Are My People

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It’s fun commenting on deleted posts.

My second collection of short stories is out! These Are My People. More here - click cover to order from @bookshop.org stevefoxwrites.com

Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Good morning! Let’s do a #WriterShareWednesday! Share a project you’ve published OR a pitch for your current WIP with the hashtag #WriterShareWednesday and we’ll give it a boost! (Please use alt text for images + share other folks' projects too!)

So, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a small-to-medium-sized city located in the Midwest, is more populous than all of Greenland.