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Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Anchored World by @sawers.bsky.social is one of those collections that lingers years after reading. whether based fable or fairy tale, each flash comes with teeth. grab their collection from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social #smokelong #blurbchallenge

Book cover of Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World. Cover image is a haunting gray and white face in watercolor.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you’re in STL come check us out Tuesday night!

STL ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS GATHERING
Tuesday, June 9 from 6-8 PM
at Leviathan Bookstore
Melody S. Gee
Minsoo Kang
Jasmine Sawers
Reading & Panel with Local Writers followed by an informal reception
Free to Attend
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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

So pleased and excited to judge the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection! Congratulations to all these longlisters!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness and absolution for white men who espouse hatred and violence.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“There is no place for political violence in this country” say the politicians using legislation and rhetoric to attack trans people, immigrants, women and BIPOC daily. Just because it’s done with a pen and not a gun doesn’t mean it’s not political violence. Hypocrites. Not that they care.

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

“Your uterus,” she announces, “is not happy.” “I know,” I admit. “I have been sensing its unhappiness.” New @kathyfish.bsky.social is always a delight. I love this one, especially the use of dialogue and humour. SO GOOD AS ALWAYS! A must read.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Wow so Earthlings. Read it in one sitting. I have to say I liked it leagues better than Convenience Store Woman, but I could see the thematic throughline between them easily.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 31/08/2025

This enormously pernicious and no one should still be on Substack - not just because of the Nazis, but for sheer practical business reasons.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"All Your Fragile History" by @sawers.bsky.social won second place in The Smokey in 2020, went on to be a finalist for Best of the Net and was included in Flash Fiction America. The 2025 Smokey deadline is May 10! www.smokelong.com/stories/all-...

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All Your Fragile History - SmokeLong Quarterly

I got this DNA test for my dog because he looks like a cloud and he looks like a luckdragon and he looks like something your lint roller picked up when you banged it around under the couch for the fir...

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Nileo (He/They NB) 🍓 @nileoart.rip · 29/04/2025

For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community) 🧵

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Long have the people cried out for this justice, “when, when, o god,” they ask “when will men be allowed to write books?”

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 22/04/2025

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/03/2025

Send a formal notice: If your books are in the LibGen dataset, send a letter to Meta and other AI companies stating they do not have the right to use your books. Here is a template you can use. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

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Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 20/03/2025

Is your book on the LibGen list? Let us know.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?

Search for an author in LibGen
or instance, Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, or Eyodor Dostoevsky. Note that different spellings of the same name— "JK Rowling" versus "J. K. Rowling" —may produce different results.

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The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore
Jasmine Sawers

Delicate
Fairy Tale Review
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The Culling

Ploughshares

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Like so many others, my work has been illegally uploaded into Meta’s LibGen to train AI. Does anyone know if there has been a class action lawsuit filed yet? What can be done?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Does anyone have any recommendations for speculative nonfiction books or essays?

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Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The most horrifying slide from today’s National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organization grant webinar, imo

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Daniella Bella @daniemililly.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first The moral here isn't to tell the truth It's to never co-operate with Nazis

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Per the webinar today: the answer is there is no point in applying. They are rolling over for these extralegal anti-“D/E/I” measures and, what’s more, forcing any recipient to sign a contract promising not to engage in any D/E/I activities for decades.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Real talk: Is it worth applying to the NEA now? These processes are always so opaque but I wonder who’s in charge of reading apps and granting these awards now because if actual NEA people I bet my work is fine. If ultra conservative shitbags, then what’s the point of expending the energy to apply?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

we are depriving generations of kids of the formative experience of stumbling upon some weird horny sci-fi or fantasy book that was absolutely not written for them, which is the kind of thing that makes reading feel exhilarating, like you are unlocking the grownup world’s fun secrets

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I’ll never forget working in the library and having one kid spontaneously monologue to me about how great Wimpy Kid was. At the end he declared that all the kids who said they didn’t like books hadn’t read THIS book!That enthusiasm comes from getting to connect with stories on your own terms.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Every day I wake up and pretend I’m gonna get started writing before 10am

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@sawers.bsky.social's collection The Anchored World is full of flash fairytales that pack an incredible punch

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Sarah Sunfire @sarahsunfire.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

putting " -ai " at the end of every google search will get rid of google's AI Overview, even on your phone!

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Speaking my intention into the either: I will have a novel manuscript to sell by the end of the year.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I can't remember if I shared this here! I wrote a 🏳️‍⚧️ revenge radioplay that was recorded and published by Matt Carney and Lauren Johnson, who had a lot of fun and it shows. I hope you'll check out The Rivening. clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

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Club Chicxulub Journal Vol. 2, Thaw – Club Chicxulub

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I finished Room by Emma Donoghue. I’m looking for more trapped narratives, especially ones that feel especially claustrophobic. On the docket now are We Spread by Iain Reid and The Ear Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. Any recs?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanksgiving is always just me & Ben. This year I’m making duck, salmon because Ben is venturing into pescatarian waters, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, and edamame. In terms of dessert: buttermilk pie, apple sharlotka, & a little frozen gf blueberry pie we found at the grocery store last night.

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Janelle Bassett @janellebassett.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

My book, THANKS FOR THIS RIOT, is a collection of 15 stories which are arranged by type of riot: external riots (threats and violence), internal riots (secrets and lies) and laugh riots (growing and trying). If sad/funny is your salty/sweet, you can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/than...

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I can’t afford to go to AWP LA but I’m already having FOMO for AWP LA.

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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024

Whenever we make ourselves smaller for them, they just shrink our box again.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Many new followers. Have some dog.

Small blond terrier curled upside down in the corner of a dog bed, begging for belly rubs.

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I've had a massive stack of chapbooks just sitting on my bookshelf gathering dust. Tonight, a switch went off in my brain that said, "we're getting through all these right now."

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

"Dad says I hate the fucking Nazis, you know we fought against the Nazis, and Mom says you never fought no Nazis, Jimmy, and Dad says well my dad did, but he was an asshole" Stunning story @aniking.bsky.social winner @smokelong.bsky.social summer fiction contest www.smokelong.com/stories/fami...

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Family Night - SmokeLong Quarterly

Dad says he’s racist against the Italians because the Italians were racist again the Irish first, and Mom says Jimmy I swear to god please shut the fuck up about the fucking Italians, you are fucking ...

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

When applying for an arts grant, how personal should you be when it asks about your community/geographical area and how the money would help? And should you discuss your professional accomplishments? I find it bizarre to have this dry list of accomplishments & then a conversational tone for the rest

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James R. Gapinski @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I won the BOA short fiction contest! 🎉🍾 Glad to find a good home for the book. When BOA publisher Peter Conners called me, he mentioned manuscript elements that fit with BOA's voice, and it was basically a list of what I admired in the catalogue & why I submitted. www.boaeditions.org/blogs/main/b...

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BOA Editions Announces the Winner of the 14th Annual BOA Short Fiction Prize

BOA Editions, Ltd. is pleased to announce that James R. Gapinski of Portland, Oregon is the winner of the 14th annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for their collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes. BOA P...

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Who even publishes novellas?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

One time I was at a bbq populated by my partner's coworkers and a 2-y/o I didn't know took my hand, led me into the house (not hers) and took me to the living room to show me what was under the coffee table. What was under the coffee table? A hedgehog.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

They've spent these last few years calling anyone who is LGBTQ a "groomer," women who believe in reproductive rights "whores," public health officials "murderers," and anyone who doesn't think cops should be able to shoot you with impunity an antifa boogeyman. Now their feelings are hurt?

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HAD @havehashad.com · 29/07/2024

feel like all you nerds have alerts so already read this anyway, but here's a nudge we got that new-new Kyle Seibel today "Says he’s gonna get surgery next week when he stays at his dad’s. They’re gonna replace it with a robot arm, he’s pretty sure." www.havehashad.com/bjmjp

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Joey From Next Door by Kyle Seibel

Joey from next door says he broke his arm skateboarding. Says he was trying to jump the creek. I ask him which creek and he says, uhhh that creek, the one over there. He points to a narrow spot…

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 26/07/2024

Please do not ask nonbinary people to contribute to your women's anthogies.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2024

Over on the ex-microblogging platform, a literary agent posted details of a query she liked the idea of but gave up after reading a few pages and publicly asked for a better writer to take the idea and pitch it to her instead. So that's a sign of a healthy industry, huh?

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Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

I think often about the fact that Ishiguro wrote the first draft in three weeks.

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