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mosh pit daria @greatearlofhell.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

for newbies and veterans alike, this workshop breaks down the nitty gritty of how and why i submit to literary magazines. it's very helpful, according to my students who have received most of this advice already. natraum.com/workshops to sign up

it's lit: a literary magazine submissions workshop led by nat raum. $10-30 sliding scale. oct 29 @ 7PM EST. register at natraum.com/workshops.

about the workshop: This is an informative workshop designed to break down the process of submitting to literary magazines. Hear expertise from the instructor and their network, learn about new magazines, and gain insight into the editorial process. This workshop is genreless—writers and artists working in any genre or medium are invited to join.

register at natraum.com/workshops

about your instructor: nat raum’s writing and artwork has been published by beestung, Poet Lore, Split Lip Magazine, and more. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently.

register at natraum.com/workshops

Can't make it? You can donate a smaller amount for just the slide deck. Select “i’m just here for the prompts” on the registration form.

register at natraum.com/workshops

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"Deny, Defend, Depose" Seen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

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ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

used submittable for the first time and it was, in fact, not as intimidating as I was making it in my head.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Even if you've never done BDS before: Boycotting between now and January 1st will hit corporations the hardest. They make most of their money for the year in these last 5 weeks. So, how little can you spend on the death machine? 🙏🏼❤💚🤍🖤" #BDSMaxxing #BDS

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"Even if you've never done BDS before:

Boycotting between now and January 1st will hit corporations the hardest. They make most of their money for the year in these last 5 weeks.

So, how little can you spend on the death machine?
🙏🏼❤💚🤍🖤"

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

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Elaine Low @elainelow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Big Tech is training AI on thousands of TV/film scripts. I spoke to showrunners, IP and business affairs lawyers — as well as the programmer at The Atlantic who examined this data set — to find out what happens next The latest Series Business @theankler.bsky.social theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

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TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose

It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky

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ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Daughters : I don’t know how many evenings had my mother scrubbed her heart at the bottom of the cup. I see scratches casting back my face. I think, they are screaming, asking me to run away.

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 25/11/2024

Follow @mosababutoha.bsky.social, read FOREST OF NOISE and THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR

Anton holding up Mosab Abu Toha’s FOREST OF NOISE

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Turned a corner and suddenly saw this guy chillin in the stairwell on my building just now

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 17/11/2024

Akram is supporting his mother and five younger siblings, and they're almost three-quarters of the way to their goal. I know we're all spread thin, but many small donations will work wonders where big donations are rarely even possible—please join me in donating to this one now! gofund.me/42bf8c6f

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Donate to Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza, organized by Akram Abdelwahed

Hello, my name is Akram. I am 29 years old and from Gaza. After my father's … Akram Abdelwahed needs your support for Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/11/2024

If you want Bluesky to be a viable platform as the internet's new town square, it must be capable of building support for Palestinians during the genocide or it will only ever be a walled garden of denial. Please help Muhammad and Lubna with donations and/or boosts. www.gofundme.com/f/help-muham...

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Donate to Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety, organized by Caroline Corbett

Hi beautiful people! My name is Caroline and i’m a U.S. citizen from Utah… Caroline Corbett needs your support for Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety

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Marwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Different platform, same censorship. There is no safe space for Palestinians, neither offline or online.

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MashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

please send something if you can 🙏🏽

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

ACAB sticker spotted in Kingston, Canberra

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Tia (on indefinite hiatus) @titea-art.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Created the Black Creatives Starter Pack (Non-Visual Artists) if any Black creatives wants to join: go.bsky.app/AE94DEN

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Oct 30: Workshops 4 Gaza presents Writing the Workplace with author and editor Kyle Lucia Wu, raising funds for the Abd Rabou family Register and donate > www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

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Writing the Workplace — Workshops 4 Gaza

In this workshop, we’ll explore how to weave our own experiences of work into our writing by examining power, agency, and the intrigue of routine.

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ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

i’ve a prose (almost a short fiction, if i be frank — saying almost, because it has a story-like unfolding narration but not the preciseness of the genre) i found no real home for. kind of want it off my hands. she's too beautiful to be reserved just for my eyes.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 20/10/2024

This made my whole week

Two stunningly beautiful humans cosplaying Blue and Red from This Is How You Lose the Time War, a book I co-wrote with Max Gladstone. One is dressed very femininely in blue and holding up a red envelope, while the other is wearing a red and black armour situation printed on a leotard and holding up a blue envelope.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/10/2024

Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time programming and events coordinator to join our team. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs#PROG...

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Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap39

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ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/10/2024

“Israel cannot do any of this … without the US and western European countries. The US gives Israel the green light. It is a party to the war on Palestine. … I am not just at this because I am a Palestinian. It is because I am an American. Because we are responsible.” — Rashid Khalidi

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 20/10/2024

Also on this, I love my messy processes. I love rearranging the bones of my story weaving muscle, pruning tendons. I love doing it again and again until it clicks, I love revisions where the story comes alive!

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Sammy @ Youmacon B05 @sammytighe.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Aye just a reminder that if you want to easily organize your art to use hashtags. Not only do they actually get you exposure on this site but if you have the hashtag in your bio, people can press and hold it to see any posts you’ve made with that tag!!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Very grateful to you who still haven’t let the human flame go out in your heart, no matter how much it burns you, who still keep a light on hopeful for the world’s homecoming.

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Rukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 19/10/2024

Writers: repost a random story that you're proud of. I'm very proud of "Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief" because it asks so many questions at once, so simply. What exactly is a mothertongue without a motherland and a mother? www.khoreomag.com/fiction/tree...

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Trees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My Grief

The Sen had a curious saying in their musical language they fluted out using their tongue pipes. Ahsa an nira. The land knows you. As Mhyrsa stepped outside Kannari’s only landing pad, she smelled th...

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Amplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

We Are Burning. The last piece from artist and cartoonist Mahasen al-Khatib, killed in Israel’s intensified extermination campaign in northern Gaza. This genocide must stop.

An illustration showing flames rising up, engulfing a young man who shouts, both hands held forward in a "stop" gesture. Behind him are many more people, outlined in flames. At top, in the same bright color as the fire, it says "We Are Burning." The artist name, Mahasen alktheeb, is at the bottom.

In a low-ceilinged space with cinderblock walls and some embroidered cushions, a young woman in a black and white sweater and black head covering sits at a wooden desk behind a laptop, looking directly into the camera and smiling. Her index and middle finger are raised in a "V" gesture.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

my toddler had “homework” which meant picking different leaves and showing the changes of fall which meant *I* got to pick leaves, *I* got to contemplate the colors of fall (they are so beautiful, we are all destined to perish)

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James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I hate this idea that eventually the industry is going to capitulate to AI. Nope. Let's fight. Let's revile it. Let's start an art war and take no prisoners. Fuck AI. Let's throw it into the sun.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

The more corpses pile up, the greater the moral burden awaiting anyone who would reconsider their support for the genocide. Like we’ve seen with Covid & climate change: the bigger a disaster gets, the greater the intensity and desperateness of the denial. Expect this to continue.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Bluesky has its flaws, but the sheer commitment to running fascists off the app is glorious and unmatched.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

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ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

as ghassan kanafani wrote, “i wish children didn't die. i wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends” i wish too so i tried translating my aching heart into words. for palestinian kids (and adults who were once kids too)