Reposted by Kelly LuceBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shredded wheat is an insane concept. "Yeah I want a fucking log of hay in a box. For my breakfast." Fuck outta here. Crazy assholes. 2952953177
Reposted by Kelly LuceNat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Poems live on @electricliterature.com The Commuter today! Thank you to @kellyluce.bsky.social for giving this work on desire and longing and memory and video games and problematic pop music and expensive soft felted snails a home. ✨ electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...electricliterature.comThe Delicious Hell of a New Jersey Sex Dungeon - Electric LiteratureTwo poems by Nat Mesnard 031
Reposted by Kelly LuceWill VanDenBerg @wvandenberg12.bsky.social · 05/11/2025New fiction at The Commuter today! Many thanks to @kellyluce.bsky.social and the team at Electric Lit for picking this one up. 131
Reposted by Kelly LuceEshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Hugely grateful to @kellyluce.bsky.social for publishing this one in The Commuter! 073
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Please contact Rebecca Parillo, the AU Study Abroad coordinator, to sign up (again, you do NOT need to be affiliated with Ashland): rparillo@ashland.edu, or 419.289.5870 000
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 13/09/2025If you can get to Rome over Thanksgiving, for $550 you can do a writing retreat in a Tuscan monastery including room, board, & transport. 6 days. $550. I’m teaching fiction, Chuck Carlise poetry. Program thru Ashland U but you need not be affiliated. #amwriting #writingretreat 150
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 24/06/2025any literary agents here near Cleveland or Columbus, OH? 010
Reposted by Kelly LuceLucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Today in @texasmonthly.bsky.social, @dgachman.bsky.social writes about THE SLIP, about the real gym that inspired it, and how a gay Massachusetts twentysomething with artistic aspirations (me 👋🏼) ended up there. 🥊 3187
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Just finished reading a collection of Van Gogh's letters and loved the peek into his mind. What other collections of letters by artists, writers, or otherwise fascinating people do you love? 010
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 06/05/2025Met Gala looks as book covers thread! ✨ How'd we do? Did your favorite make the cut? Kicking things off with Zendaya x "Beloved" by Toni Morrison🕴️ 1235
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/05/2025Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHaebuff.lyWhy Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric LiteratureX has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature 1122642
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 26/04/2025@dennemichele.bsky.social highlighted Mac's Backs and @kellyluce.bsky.social The Bottom 111
Reposted by Kelly LuceLauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week. 6051502183
Reposted by Kelly LuceMonica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Hey friends, just in case this is useful information for anyone, bookshop.org is doing a special sale on climate and community organizing books for the next couple of days, there's some very cool stuff for 20% off. 17834
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Wish weather apps alerted us about rainbows and not just rain 030
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 09/04/2025A story about being the only person in your family who hasn’t blossomed yet.buff.lyWaiting to Blossom In a Family of Golden Children - Electric Literature“Late Bloomer,” flash fiction by Valentine Sargent 022
Reposted by Kelly LuceLucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The first assessment of THE SLIP has arrived, and it’s a starred review from Kirkus. I won’t play it cool—this was definitely on the writer bucket list! Grateful for their kind words. THE SLIP comes out 6/3 from @simonbooks.bsky.social! 4368
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 02/04/2025An irreverent — and illustrated! — riff on Mary Oliver’s iconic poem “Wild Geese.” (@miriamjayaratna.bsky.social, @amandalehr.bsky.social, Jenny Kroik)buff.lyUnfortunately, This Is What the Soft Animal of Your Body Loves - Electric LiteratureA graphic narrative by Miriam Jayaratna, Amanda Lehr, and Jenny Kroik 03214
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 31/03/2025Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by revisiting our Both/And essay series, filled with stories of invisibility and hypervisibility, sexy stories, dreams and love and grief, told fearlessly and honestly by trans and gender nonconforming writers of color.buff.lyBoth/AndAn new limited essay series centering the voices of trans and gender noncomforming writers of color 084
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 26/03/2025Two poems about the tense relationship between a queer person and his less-than-accepting mother. (@mickiepoet.bsky.social)buff.lyMom Can't Bribe Me Out of My Queerness - Electric LiteratureTwo poems by Mickie Kennedy 041
Reposted by Kelly LuceEmma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025gotta hand it to @electricliterature.com for taking a stance and not applying for nea funding under this administration. here's part of their reasoning from today's email -- this is a MUST-READ for writers. 17520
Reposted by Kelly LuceBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/03/2025After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities. 902199658
Reposted by Kelly LuceAbbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This small, beautiful essay by @kellyluce.bsky.social: "Mary, remember when it snowed during dinner last week and you screamed? I would like to be more that way." SAME. www.craftliterary.com/2025/03/12/m...craftliterary.comMary Ruefle Drives Me to the Dentist by Kelly Luce - CRAFTPeterborough, New Hampshire We get lost and it’s my fault. I think I know a shortcut. Mary knows only the long way around. I have an appointment for a man to look into my mouth and tell me my… 1102
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025🙏🙏 The editorial process with CRAFT was maybe the best I've ever experienced. They accepted my piece within 24 hours of submission, gave me a pub date and stuck to it, had the best edits, were always professional and kind. The finished piece looks great. Writers, put them at the top of your list! 3152
Reposted by Kelly LuceRebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 13/03/2025My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭 659203322994
Reposted by Kelly LuceColson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 12/03/2025It’s only March. 290 days left for a history-defying reversal. 941157
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025That time @macdowell1907.bsky.social when my face ballooned up and poet Mary Ruefle gave me a lift...craftliterary.comMary Ruefle Drives Me to the Dentist by Kelly Luce - CRAFTPeterborough, New Hampshire We get lost and it’s my fault. I think I know a shortcut. Mary knows only the long way around. I have an appointment for a man to look into my mouth and tell me my… 220
Reposted by Kelly LuceHelen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is so embarrassing to say out loud but as a new(-ish) parent it’s honestly been striking to realize how much the practice of being a good parent is analogous to the practice of being a good government 120111
Reposted by Kelly LucePamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Happy pub day to @elongreen.bsky.social, whose brilliant new book, THE MAN NOBODY KILLED, is out today. "Green’s grimly vivid telling of this story and its aftermath...is part elegy for Stewart himself, part portrait of the city that failed him...Swift, unsparing." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...nytimes.comBook Review: ‘The Man Nobody Killed,’ by Elon GreenElon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present. 14012
Reposted by Kelly LuceElliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025At today’s protest in Hartford @50501movement.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Kelly LuceElectric Literature @electricliterature.com · 19/02/2025Poems about the human condition in the suburbs and the existential voids on the playground. (@julialundy.bsky.social)buff.lyStaring Into the Void of a Five-Dollar Egg White - Electric LiteratureThree poems by Julia Lundy 083
Reposted by Kelly LuceTaka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Outlive these fucking ghouls 2594147
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Narrative Magazine: 1) kept $20K+ in contest entry fees but didn't choose (or pay) winners 2) calls itself a religious org to avoid taxes 3) pays its founders $150K and $144K a year 4) charges $26 for subs They're a scam. Great reporting here from Becky Tuch litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-we-t...litmagnews.substack.comQ: Can we talk about Narrative Magazine?"I know this magazine has taken a lot of heat over the years." 030
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It's bewildering why these con artists, of all the people to prey on, chose writers. We are already damaged, leave us alone! 010
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Remember when they self-published a craft book and sold it for $225? electricliterature.com/narrative-ma...electricliterature.comNarrative Magazine Is Selling a Fiction Craft Book for $225 - Electric Literatureby Kelly Luce Few things can throw me into a rage. Mostly only gun nuts, racist email forwards, and men who tell me to smile. Add to that today’s I-just-barfed-in-my-mouth announcement of Narrative co... 040
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Narrative Magazine has been a scam since it was founded in 2003 1289
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 06/02/2025In an attempt to shake up my news intake a bit, I now start the day with Australia's version of The Onionchaser.com.auMexico closes border to fleeing Americans – The Chaser"They're coming here, eating the hot dogs, they're eating the Catalina beans! It's got to stop!" 020
Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025These beauties by Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer Mandy Shunnarah have been scheduled for months; the timeliness of their publication given recent news feels uncanny 1112
Reposted by Kelly LuceErin Entrada Kelly @erinentrada.bsky.social · 30/01/2025📝 If you’re interested in escaping into craft this year, I have LOTS of workshops coming up and I’d love to see you there! Sign up for my workshop mailing list for updates. Link in bio. XO 0425
Reposted by Kelly LuceBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20/11/2024Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire. 15852872133