Reposted by ghazal azad jahanmosh pit daria @greatearlofhell.bsky.social · 12/10/2025for 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 033
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 01/01/2025"Deny, Defend, Depose" Seen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard 234554
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 10/12/2024used submittable for the first time and it was, in fact, not as intimidating as I was making it in my head. 040
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanJane 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 36849
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024Around 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. 🧵 13052314057
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanElaine Low @elainelow.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Big 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...theankler.comTV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke LooseIt's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky 45981393
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Optimist: 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. 042
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanAnton Hur @antonhur.com · 25/11/2024Follow @mosababutoha.bsky.social, read FOREST OF NOISE and THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR 1309
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 17/11/2024the railing looks like jail bars. it reminds me of the fork jail. 000
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Turned a corner and suddenly saw this guy chillin in the stairwell on my building just now 1761115
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 17/11/2024Akram 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/42bf8c6fgofund.meDonate to Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza, organized by Akram AbdelwahedHello, 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 18179
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/11/2024If 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...gofundme.comDonate to Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety, organized by Caroline CorbettHi 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 3556519
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 16/11/2024still a favourite of mine! bsky.app/profile/odeo... 000
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanMarwa Fatafta | مروة فطافطة @marwasf.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Different platform, same censorship. There is no safe space for Palestinians, neither offline or online. 11177136
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanMashedBex | trying to kick cancer's ass @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 16/11/2024please send something if you can 🙏🏽 0815
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 23/10/2024ACAB sticker spotted in Kingston, Canberra 022833
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanTia (on indefinite hiatus) @titea-art.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Created the Black Creatives Starter Pack (Non-Visual Artists) if any Black creatives wants to join: go.bsky.app/AE94DEN 67211125
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanAmplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 22/10/2024Oct 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...workshops4gaza.comWriting the Workplace — Workshops 4 GazaIn 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. 066
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 21/10/2024these days, i keep thinking of turning it into a short fiction but i fear i would ruin its rawness. it is supposed to be read as a conversation. a very heart-to-heart talk before parting. 030
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 21/10/2024i’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. 130
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanAmal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 20/10/2024This made my whole week 1536546
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/10/2024Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time programming and events coordinator to join our team. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs#PROG...haymarketbooks.orgHaymarket BooksHaymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago. 0199
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 20/10/2024ANMLY 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/ap39anmly.submittable.comANMLY 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... 057
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanVajra 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 117273
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 20/10/2024Also 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! 032
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanSammy @ Youmacon B05 @sammytighe.bsky.social · 17/10/2024Aye 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!! 9644732808
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Very 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. 210627
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRukman Ragas | ருக்மன் @rukmanragas.com · 19/10/2024Writers: 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...khoreomag.comTrees Can Have My Soul; in Return, Let Me Have My GriefThe 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... 2117
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanAmplify Palestine @amplifypalestine.bsky.social · 19/10/2024We 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. 12714
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanTodd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 10/10/2024my 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) 7526
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanJames Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 19/10/2024I 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. 241046328
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 15/10/2024The 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. 39229
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Bluesky has its flaws, but the sheer commitment to running fascists off the app is glorious and unmatched. 767178
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how... 734144818557
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024as 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) 042
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024the love you've for this one is always adorable to witness 🙁🙁 000
Reposted by ghazal azad jahanpaam. 𓍼 @haegeumofpanem.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Best work from Ghazal. Three words i will always be your number one fan don't forget me when you become famous 101
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024make the internal conflict unique to characters. each their own thing. but the underlying essence that they are, at the end as flawed as a being could be, should remain. most times, people Know they are at wrong, they feel the weigh of their choices but their blind belief is stronger. 010
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024ma, if there is a next life, come back as my daughter 000
ghazal azad jahan @odeonoud.bsky.social · 18/10/2024hi #writers! im ghazal. i write mostly proses & poems. still in the progress of moving my stuff here . . . 👋🏼 150