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Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social · 17h

Anne Sexton died 52 years ago today at the age of 45. Let us honor her life and her poems together. Here is one of my favorites. Please share yours. ❤️

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 12h

This coming Thursday, Oct. 8. Come by if you're around to Wonderland Book's Local Author Showcase in Bethesda, MD. There'll be 📚 (& their authors) galore ☺️ www.wonderlandbooks.com/events/63646... @gregbem.bsky.social

poster for the Local Author Showcase with list of participating authors and other info (which can be found at the link)

Two books, broadside, bookmarks, and buyer info displayed on a small, round coffee table.

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Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling 1. Enjoyed the Chepstow Festival of Archaeology 2. Braved the weekly shop 3. Wrote the feedback on another competition story 4. Wrote revised wrote 5. Read a bit too!

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Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social · 16h

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling 1. Revised about 5000 words 2. Zoomed with my lovely in-laws 3. Read read read 4. Made a donation 5. Remembered that of the 12 things that were hanging over us at the beginning of the year (some a bit awful) 10.5 are done!

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 19h

Write a story from third person limited where the “limited” perspective is the narrator’s while the main character the speaker narrates is hiding a secret. #WritingPrompt #SundressPublications

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This poem forever. From Robert Bly's Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060928735 #booksky #writing

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@Shamlet @shamlet.bsky.social · 18h

The degree to which the core professional development demand is "give me stuff I can use in class on Monday" reflects how chronically stressed the system is -- reflection, philosophy, the big picture are luxury items when time and resources are at a premium

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SO fun, so strangely moving. Good stuff. Inspires me to go back to an object-based flash I started this time last year.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To the writer who did no work on their book today: Did you... Think about your villain's motives? Read another novel and admire the writing? Overhear a conversation and jot down a line of dialogue? Talk about your story to a friend? That sounds to me like you DID work on your book today!

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey my poetry people—I’m helping to organize this reading for October 10 in Durham, 4pm, at Easement Gallery! Mark Cunningham’s beautiful visual art is currently on display, so it’s a poetry+art afternoon! Come join us 💙📚 #poetry #reading

Night of the LIVING POETS poster

October 10, 4pm, Easement Gallery

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 01/10/2026

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A key strategy for managing my on line time is: oh, is that kitten post cute? It is so cute. LOG OFF NOW.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Ah-Tlee-Kee-Ah Dah-Wah-Jhee-Luh Gah-Lah-Nuh-Duh

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are A Nightmare on Elm Street and pronounced Ah-Tlee-Kee-Ah Dah-Wah-Jhee-Luh Gah-Lah-Nuh-Duh

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Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Things I did today instead of doomscrolling 1. Went to an excellent @/saloneurope.bsky.social workshop with @/susannacrossman.bsky.social on writing personal essays 2. Wrote a hermit crab essay 3. Ate some birthday cake 4. Collected conkers 5. Went for a delicious walk

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Rob Hart @robwhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Want to learn how to write action that jumps off the page? I'm teaching an online workshop for Storycraft Academy on Oct 27! Use the discount code ROB when you check out for 10 percent off! This is gonna be fun...

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StoryCraft Academy | Writing Workshops

Writing workshops with industry experts that help fiction writers increase their craft, confidence, and community. Learn to write characters, develop an authentic voice, market your books, query agent...

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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My book of surreal prose poems is out this month! I'm proud of this weird little book & would love it if you ordered a copy ❤️📚 www.gasherpress.com/product-page...

book cover for Uncle Time by Benjamin Niespodziany, a 2025 poetry chapbook prize winner

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T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Apex Kickstarter has begun! Please consider supporting the magazine for 2027. They pay pro rates for the fiction they publish, and the kickstarter has lots of cool rewards this year, like critiques for a short story or manuscript.

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Agita Magazine opens for submissions on October 17 for issue 3: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art. Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it. Send us stories at the intersection. Guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

A black circle. On the outside it says "agita 3" and "agitamag.com." On the inside it says "Ekphrasis, February 1, 2027, submissions open Oct. 17 to Nov. 17, Guest editor Zachary Gillan."

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lydia Millet's work is WONDERFUL. Funny, odd, luminous.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear writers who aren't writing right now: An apple tree wants to make apples, &, if the conditions are right, it will. Neither shame nor self-discipline can change the season.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue! www.south85journal.com/artists-stat...

My photograph overlooking NYC from a train on a bridge with text overlaid: South 85 Out Now

Fall Winter 2026
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City Country

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SO MUCH packed into a teeny tiny space

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Jocelyne Gregory @jocelynegregory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cats are amazing because what do you mean a tiny apex predator wants to cuddle with me and snuggle under my blankets and purr and steal food from my plate

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

an American WHAT. WHAT. Is this what Annie Dillard chose to reincarnate as

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I make my classroom inviting-- plants, quiet, maybe snacks, soft music and lighting-- and match that with my attitude, suddenly study hall gets a lot more productive. I think we underestimate the value of providing an academic place of peace for kids.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy haunted month for us hothouse flowers who only thrive under the precise conditions of October

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have a guilty fashion habit. Much fashion, sadly, only looks "good" because a pretty, underweight person can be photographed in it. This below is something else.

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Truth to pain = truth with compassion. You don't pull the punch, and you also put the ice pack on. (Works with middle school kids, too.)

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

Also I am forgetting! My friend Dani's middle-grade book THE DOG HEIST came out from @secondstory.bsky.social this month! If you have young readers in your life, maybe they too would like a heist! :D bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Dog Heist

A neglected dog brings two misfits together in this adventure for middle schoolers who love animals and stories where the kids take charge. For Caleb, September is off to a rough start. His parents ha...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So excited about my first PM Deal report! Also proud and grateful to have two poetry books forthcoming: Field of Want, Etruscan Press, Spring 2028 Definition of Elegy: New & Collected Prose Poems, Cornerstone Press, fall 2027