iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey friends, I’m offering two opportunities to write with me and a small cohort of other writers in southern France in May of next year! A couple of spots left in each session. See inside for details. 💙 www.artofflashfiction.com/retreats/cre...

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Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hey there, just FYI I'll be at NYCC this week and if you're also there + want a (paperback or hardcover) copy of Supersex for $20 just DM me 😎

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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve heard Chee-pot-all quite a bit. It was just crazy to hear not only customers saying it, but store workers.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

At this bagel shop and everyone is pronouncing jalapeño as hal-a-pea-no and one of the workers just handed me my crem-ee-brew-lee coffee and, ope, I have to get out of the Midwest.

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're happy to announce our nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions! You can read them all here: www.whaleroadreview.com/nominations @barlowadams.bsky.social @nataliamartinez.bsky.social @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @caseyreiland.bsky.social and more!

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@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 It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations.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...

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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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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dude is about to rename planet Earth “America World.”

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes. Sigh. Then Tim Curry and Optimus Prime died.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 31/03/2026

Happy Publication Day to the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee, @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!! www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It is such a great opening lineup!

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

President Leeroy Jenkins. I’m am dead. 😆 💀

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Some of it is weird, but it actually has helped me some with accountability!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2026

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My birb also discovered this. And dislikes things I love. 😆

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Read Gooseberry Pie’s winning entries from our first writing competition 2 years ago, judged by world-famous Peg Mokrass …this year’s comp opens for submissions on April 1 with judge @danbillyc.bsky.social link to details about the competition is in comments gooseberry-pie.com/special-issu...

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Special Issue 1 - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Courtesy of Unsplash+ And the Winners Are!!! Peg Mokrass and I enjoyed reading the submissions for Gooseberry Pie’s first writing contest in celebration of National Gooseberry Month. And with over nin...

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 18/02/2026

After a deluge of incredible reader applications and some very difficult decisions, we’re thrilled to announce our brand new 2026 Multigenre/Chapbook reading team! Please help us welcome the MG/C team, who along with our MG/C Editor Erin will be ready for your multigenre books when subs open on 4/1!

abstract background, with the announcement "Split/Lip Press welcomes new multigenre/chapbook readers." Readers are Jess Alexander, Erinola E. Daranijo, Hillary Jo Foreman, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Armando Ledezma.

abstract background, with the announcement "Split/Lip Press welcomes new multigenre/chapbook readers." Readers are Priyanuj Mazumdar, Omnia Najm, Percy Schumacher, Michael Hughes Wesner, and Jisoo Hope Yoon

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Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.

The cover of my book Love Never Dies. A black background with a bright red cameo in the centre that holds two skeletons facing each other. Their mouths are open and it looks like the dialogue coming out of their mouths is in the form of white daisies. The cameo is surrounded by decorations featuring film reels, popcorn buckets, and bones. The title Love Never Dies is at the top and my name is at the bottom.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It should never be forgotten that MEL BROOKS had the World Premiere of BLAZING SADDLES (1974) take place at the Pickwick Drive-In Theater in Burbank, Los Angeles for 250 invited guests - ALL ON HORSEBACK.

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John August @johnaugust.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I have a new book out this summer! Wolf’s Belly is a graphic novel illustrated by the incredible Simón Estrada. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Wolf's Belly

An engaging and surprising retelling of Little Red Riding Hood that follows Lu (aka Little Red) and her grandmother into the wolf’s belly—a magical dimen...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s the loss of this universal understanding that has opened us up for all this insane awfulness. Enough people have not known or cared to the point our basic defenses against monstrosity have grown too thin to keep the worst things from gaining power. Actions matter most, however. For sure.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

For the most part I completely agree, but I think there is an exception that exists when most people know and care about a thing. It creates a paradigm, and paradigms protect us from preposterous things. Just the act of knowing and sharing this truth creates a shield against ridiculous cruelty.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Holly Mitchell is our featured author this week. Read America Marvel's interview with the author, in which Mitchell talks about narrative structure, in SmokeLong. www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

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Smoke Signals with Holly Mitchell - SmokeLong Quarterly

This story is such a perfect image of gay panic, and it encapsulates the insecurity of youth and self-discovery. Was there a particular moment or image that inspired this story? It started with the ph...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

This stuff is getting to be so difficult and time-consuming. Even worse is the terrifying knowledge that many (maybe even most) people simply don’t have the patience or capability to sniff out scams and propaganda.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

❤️ I just want to do back to mildly corrupt, mostly boring politics with a (hopefully) progressive bend toward kindness and compassion. That’s it.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It is, but it often feels like an abandonment of some necessary social responsibility.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I would be so much happier if I just wrote, read, played the occasional video game, and hung out with my dog and family, while doing my best to avoid any inkling of news about the horrors, but the idea is so antithetical to who I have always been: a person who knows things and cares about the world.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thrilled to see this! You’re the best, Steve.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Thrilled to share that my new collection—Rare Good: Essays on Art, Autism, and Astonishment—is available for pre-order! It’s a book about belonging & becoming & finding our way together. I hope you will read it. ❤️ www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We should have stuck with writing letters…I don’t know about this Internet thing.

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Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Lots of stuff to be sad about, but can confirm puppies are still awesome.

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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Chang’s prose lets us float on the idea, and for a moment, breathe the world in and dream. Sometimes—maybe—it’s enough to touch the possibility of something more." This review from Claudine Lit left me teary-eyed. Huge thanks to @claudineliterary.bsky.social ❤️ Off to read the rest of the issue!

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The Potential of Radio and Rain | A Review

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

A very simply drawn cartoon of a very round and green smiling frog squatting down and holding a ouija board. The background is blue and the text reads ‘fuck ChatGPT. I’m asking ghosts’

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