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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good to know. Maybe worth a rental. Thanks, bro!

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Jack Grimes @jackapedia.design · 24/09/2026

I'm joining the war on slop with cheap, fast flyer commissions. If you know someone who is asking the computer for event posters, tell them to ask me instead. Get the guarantee!

A poster mocked up as if it was offset printed in black and red roughly 60 years ago. The header reads "AVAILABLE NOW! FLYERS DESIGNED BY A HUMAN BEING!" and the subsequent text is pitching $50 flyer designs with a "SLOP-FREE GUARANTEE," incorporating some vintage Henry Volk clipart of people looking at a poster and saying how well it reflects on the event organizer.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh my goodness, it CAN be done!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 24/09/2026

It’s #LitMagWeek 📚 This week enjoy 10% off annual memberships, manuscript consultations, and merch through October 2. Use code #LitMagWeek at checkout buff.ly/E0v1RQT

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Book swag is my favorite swag! Can't wait to dig into this lovely chapbook. And my car smells like...magnificent verse. Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social

A photo of a car dashboard with a tree-shaped airt freshener and a copy of Danielle McMahon's chapbook.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy:

Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses
Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines
(I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience)
Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success
TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Great cover! Here is an 11 year old fox at a nature conservancy in PA.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026

“Earnestness is cringe” is just the mirror image of “cynicism is savvy” and the matching partner to “lol nothing matters” which is the fertile ground for fascism to grow. Hope is cringe. Progress is cringe. Change is cringe. Getting together with other people and imagining something better? Cringe.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12/08/2026

Fascists lie all the time not to make the lies matter but to remove weight from the truth. In this way, sincerity is a weapon against fascism. It is how we embrace the heft of truth.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is a fun game, but today was, frankly, absurdly difficult.

The NYtimes Connections game. I won, but barely. Was down to 1 error.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I strongly recommend this award-winning flash piece.

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Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the date when the fictional events occur in Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," which was published in Collier's Weekly in 1950. You can hear Leonard Nimoy reading the story here.

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August 4, 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains | Ray Bradbury & Leonard Nimoy | OEW Institute

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Rose Alaimo @rosealaimomusic.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My live band and I decided to play ONE show this year and this is it! The awesome Freeville Harvest Fest on Sept 12 from 12-1. (It’s at 39 Main St, Freeville NY). We love this little fest and are stoked to play our 8th year there! Don’t miss it! 😃🎶

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'll take one. Curious about what that smells like, lol.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Logged in to Spotify for the first time in a while to see this: my high school rockstar friend @rosealaimomusic.bsky.social just dropped an EP! #newmusicfriday

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Apparently, we can't do that on Bluesky? I'll shoot you a quick email later today.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

With everything going on in the world, it warms my heart to learn there's a subreddit dedicated to Borges. Found this while searching for the Di Giovanni translations: www.reddit.com/r/Borges/com...

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From the Borges community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Borges community

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My debut collection, "Impossible Children," is on sale through Friday!

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Vincent Rendoni @warshingtonian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hi, I'm a finalist for a book prize! If you haven't seen my performance for it, check it out, like, and or comment. (I would do it for you, just saying. 😃) #poet #poetsofbluesky youtu.be/iGYapFJSU6Q?...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Counterpoint: the only thing this set of people want to get rid of more than academic research is serious teaching.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Very very cool I got to see this live.

The Knicks made the biggest comeback in playoff history. This is a photo of it happening.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've heard good things. I'm curious about it.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

In addition to reading this, please make sure an adult is always watching your kids at the pool or beach - always, like every second, drowning happens so so quickly

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The news about Trump’s $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund has left me absolutely ENRAGED! So I made some art about it. Here are some ideas for other places where we could put that money to much better use. Click the link to read the whole comic! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/trumps-18-...

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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 15/05/2026

Check out AHP's #PGHBookFest line-up! It's going to be an incredible day for writers and readers. Come for the books and conversation, stay for the community!

Flyer for Meredith Nnoka Poetry Reading @ 2 PM

Flyer for Meredith Nnoka's Workshop "Centos in Solidarity"

Flyer for panel Learning about PGH Publishing, including AHP Editor Christine Stroud

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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Open call for novels and single-narrative nonfiction this Saturday only!

submissions open for novels and single narrative nonfic sat may 16 only for hub city press

Send us your novel (debut or not!)

or your single narrative nonfiction book (memoir or reported + personal narrative)*

via submittable only

you need
a completed manuscript
a query letter

Please take a look at our catalog (hubcity.org/books) to get a feeling for what we've published before.

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*Single-narrative means not essay collections or anthologies.

For nonfiction:
We are looking exclusively for single narrative nonfiction projects in this call.

We will accept themed collections of essays, but we would prefer to pick up single-topic books here. We'd like to see work that covers a little-known Southern topic, explores a new location or perspective.

What we’d love to find:
deeply researched, single-narrative, imaginative manuscripts about the South.

For fiction:

We are looking for novels ideally under 75k words that come from overlooked or under appreciated Southern perspectives.

What we'd love to find:
out-of-the-box historical novels, queer Appalachian folk retellings, multi-generational Southern family tales, experimental forms, literary speculative climate change fiction, voice-driven character pieces, auto-fiction. We'd like to learn something new about the South.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I have no idea why this post blew up, but I *do* know that this event will be an absolute banger. This story collection is incredible--accessible and unpredictable in the best way. I also felt like I learned a ton about China. AND there's a story set in Pittsburgh!

Robert Yune in conversion with M Lin in support of her debut collection THE MEMORY MUSEUM. 7pm on Sat May 16 at White Whale Books in Bloomfield

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm loving this book, and it's really neat that the author (and book) has so many Pgh connections. Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe studied at Pitt in the 80s. Li-Young Lee began writing poetry in Pittsburgh & Huang Xiang created his House Poem here. Details: whitewhalebookstore.com/events

White Whale Bookstore presentes M Lin in convo w/ Robert Yune May 16 at 7pm in store and on Zoom.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I woke up early to make an emergency comic about the current ruling on mifepristone, how people in red states can still access abortion medication, and some facts about the safety and efficacy of abortion drugs.

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WTF is Going on with Mifepristone?

again...sigh

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

(I'm not sure if I already replied and just can't see it.) That's really cool looking. Benchmade has some nice stuff. D2 is an underrated steel.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Those are gorgeous. I never made it to the "custom builds" stage, but I came close. There are some guys on Instagram who make gorgeous kitchen knives. Except they're like $3k each.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

That's what, a $2,000 box o knives?

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Goddamn, what a book! Also, I always like to read the acknowledgements page bc it's a reminder that any book is the distillation of a tremendous amount of individual thought and effort, plus the love and support of so many different friends + communities.

The cover of "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey

Her acknowledgements page, which lists NASA, various foundations, and various individuals

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 17/04/2026

why the New Yorker publishes the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and then does not put his name in the social media post about his essay is absolutely beyond me, but anyway, the important thing here is that you should always read Hanif

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor). You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

3/ label and highlight big changes in each draft so they're easy to find. Ctrl+F is my friend. d) This is more abstract, but I do like looking over the files and acknowledging how much effort and thought I've put into my WIP. It makes me respect and value others' books even more, too. FIN

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

2/ gives me a sense of satisfaction and momentum. b) It adds accountability. I'm often surprised by how long I've gone w/out writing. c) I have so many old drafts that I feel freed to slash and polish. It's easy to kill your darlings when they're still alive in a previous draft. (I do try to

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

1/ Here's an easy writing hack that's made a big difference for me: every time you save your novel-in-progress, save it as a new file with the date attached. Yesterday: NovelTitle Apr 9 2026.docx Today: NovelTitle Apr 10 2026.docx It works because: a) It feels like I've written A TON, which

A screenshot of a list of files: the book's title (which is redacted), followed by Jan 15, 2026, Jan 22, Jan 25, Feb 1, Feb 3, Feb 5, Feb 110, Feb 11, Feb 12, Feb 14.

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I'm partial to "The Cartographer's Girl" myself.

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