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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We are searching for submissions editors. Please read our guidelines before you apply. At the moment, we're considering only writers we've previously published, though we are open to making an exception to writers who are not from the United States. www.smokelong.com/work-with-us/

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Work With Us - SmokeLong Quarterly

Are you a workshop leader with at least 5 years of teaching experience, knowledge in the field of the flash narrative, and a connection to the flash community? We are always searching for webinar and ...

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Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A heartfelt thank-you to our longtime nonfiction editor, @stateofkate.bsky.social, as she steps down from her role. We’re so grateful for all she has contributed and wish her all the best! At the same time, please join us in welcoming @dawnsteffler.bsky.social as our new nonfiction editor!

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"...until my son told me actually his finger didn’t hurt much anymore couldn’t we just put a Band-Aid on it and be more careful in the future,...." My lord, this is an extraordinary piece of writing (perfect last lines!) by @ediemeade.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 💙💙💙

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was really nice to take a summer break, but it feels FANTASTIC to be reading submissions again! I love the back-to-school vibes of this time of year!

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Surrounded by women, lawmakers, and advocate champions, Gov. Maura Healey signed landmark legislation ensuring full abortion access in MA. Women have the fundamental right to choose for their own bodies. Healthcare is a human right, period!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/07/2026

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Where are we sharing writer scams these days? 99% certain I’m being phished.

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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thanks to @chillsubs.bsky.social for highlighting some literary magazines students in the MFA program at Emerson College can get involved with. If you'd like to know more about those publications, please feel free to contact me as the program director.

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Behind the Submit Button

MFA programs where you can work for a literary magazine while earning your degree

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Did you know there’s a new lit mag making its debut this summer? In print! It’s called CHEEKS! And the launch party is at Yu & Me Books in NYC on July 31. I hope you will join me there! In the meantime, check out the 1st issue contributor list ⬇️

Celebrating Cheeks

44 Mulberry
Fri, July 31, 8pm

Contributors

Rae Armantrout
Michael Dickman
Wayne Miller
Rob Arnold
Denise Duhamel
Tomás Q. Morín
Mary Jo Bang
Graham Foust
Harryette Mullen
Rick Barot
Mitchell Glazier
Jesse Nathan
Michael Bazzett
Johannes Göransson
Bob Perelman
Charles Bernstein
Richie Hofmann
Paige Quiñones
Katherine Berta
Jackson Holbert
Margaret Reges
Brian Blanchfield
Ted Kooser
Diane Seuss
Stephanie Burt
Maureen Langloss
Aaron Smith
Victoria Chang
Ann Lauterbach
Amelia Van Donsel
Hayan Charara
Timothy Liu
Kieron Walquist
Chen Chen
Maurice Manning
Noah Warren
Matthew Dickman
Campbell McGrath
Jake Wolff

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Allowing the President to appoint his cronies and remove at will those who do not pledge or show fealty to him to the Merit Systems Protection Board means that we will lose one of the core institutions that undergird functioning democracies - protected & indep. civil service employees.

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

we have a story by Rae Callahan ! it's about working on a fishing boat at night, looking for bluefish. great details, great mood <3 this is also the author's first published story ! always a happy thing to involved with. read it ! xraylitmag.com/night-blues-...

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Night Blues by Rae Callahan

I had been told not to work night blues. There were about thirteen party boats lined up in Belmar then, and I loved every one of them. I had spent the summer with Garafano, scrubbing boats in port unt...

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The way that @splitlipthemag.bsky.social shows up for its contributors and staffers, past and present, always—is so beautiful and special:

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Look around and see how many people are learning to garden, moving away from social media and seeking community, training to survive with less and grow stronger. It’s instinctual and one of the most beautiful things. Change is coming and it’s coming fast. Not simple, not clean, but change.

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My friend’s son took his life on Sunday. Monday was her birthday. This weekend is Mother’s Day, and on Monday she starts a new job after being laid off. May none of us have to summon the strength to move through days like this.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

ONE WEEK AWAY.

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Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/03/2026

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It's all so clear

Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC:
"Home Health Aide
$23,000
I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them?
Bronx Day-Care Worker
$31,000
$16,600 from day-care profits
$14,400 from trainings and consulting
Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Rick Barot ♥️ A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

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Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Know I’m not the only one channeling my fury into writing right now…there’s a call just for us!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody. Lorth Sim, a 59-year-old Cambodian na... TAT: [Nationalism]

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Cambodian national dies in ICE custody in Indiana

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Rental Family with Brendan Fraser is sappy as hell and I loved it.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 21/02/2026

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2026

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A group of amazingly generous folks are 3D printing whistles and sending them (for free) to people across the country whose areas are under attack by ICE. They've sent almost a million. Want to help? Buy them filament 👇

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

So excited that author copies have arrived! Big thank you to Jeff Bogle at @stanchion.bsky.social. Order your copy below!

Cover of Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever, featuring puzzled motorist, classic car, & vintage NH roadmap

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

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The Long Ukrainian Winter

How You Can Help

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Elise Howard @elisehoward.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Reminder than instead of Amazon, you can use bookshop.org, instead of Kindle you can use Kobo, and instead of Audible, you can use Libro.fm. And if you are lucky enough to have a local indie bookstore, please shop there!

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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The truth social Obamas post is an attempt to call his followers back to the fire. A racism rally is soothing and a distraction from proof of the unpalatable pedo stuff.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 03/02/2026

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

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Exclusive: Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent

Elon Musk’s flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people even when users explicitly warn that the subjects do not consent, Reuters has found.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Murdering dissenters & arresting journalists is what dictators do. Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Things are not going well in Indiana. They’re passing laws to force trans folx into certain bathrooms, force local police to support ICE, force teachers to hang the 10 Commandments in all classrooms, and to allow people to sue abortion medication manufacturers.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Last night I dreamt of monsters closing in. Others came to help defeat them. Have you ever held the evidence of betrayal before someone and had them insist it wasn’t real? Is this your first time? It is bewildering but you roar back with anger and hold hands with your friends to keep your footing.

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