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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 12/02/2026

Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten." #copyediting

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VICKI JOHNSON 🏳️‍🌈 @vickijohnsonwrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Bidding is open! Publishing for Minnesota has already raised $60K for MN orgs in the first 9 hours. Auction closes Friday at 12:45pm EST.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Filming federal agents in public is not a crime, nobody should be harassed or restrained for doing so, nobody should have their phone confiscated for it, and nobody should get the death penalty for it. This is supposed to be a free Republic, not an authoritarian police state.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

We don’t need to compare what happened in Minneapolis to Nazi Germany. We can compare it to what has happened in Minneapolis before.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥 YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Art by @mxmorgan.com All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible. Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon! 📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!

Mentors Part 1:
Molly McDonough
Deena Helm
Julie Lew
Megan Bontrager
Seren Kilig
Natalie Kikić
Deandra Davis
Christie Curry
Eunice Kim
Carmeline Melchior
Corvin A. Doupagne
Rachel Kitch
Samantha Chong
Fatiha Rais
Shepard DiStasio
Thea Liu
Damara Allen
Karis Rogerson

Mentors Part 2:
Julie Hafsa Derbal
Tali Shammas
Lilly Lu
Cassy Klisch
Camille Chong
Bayley Mae
Amanda Helander
Libby Kennedy
Taylor Pitts
Shaina Cordas
J.D. Myall
Asia Murphy
Grace Morrow
Meredith Mooring
Ellen Mulholland
Chantel Pearson
Stephanie Kim Johnson
Caitlyn Averett
Sabina Martin

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A few folks have asked since opening the agency if we might be growing, and the answer is yes! We’re looking to bring on another agent, as well as some interns, this summer. Details are over on the ol’ website. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/opportunities

A flyer that says come move into our neighborhood, and says that we are looking to hire an agent and some interns this summer, and to head to our website for more info.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/05/2025

Our latest latest national disgrace.

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

As we approach another quarter of Round Table Mentor, we’re taking a look at who applied for our program! As a reminder, here at RTM, our goal is to ensure that at least 50% of mentees and mentors are People of Color. Here’s how the numbers shook out for applicants.

Pie chart with breakdowns of age demographics:
Adult: 47.8%
Middle grade: 8.9%
New Adult: 10.4%
Picture Book: 1.5%
Young Adult: 31.5%

Pie chart with breakdowns of genre:
Fantasy: 49.6%
Historical: 3.7%
Horror: 7%
Literary fiction: 3.3%
Mystery: 2.6%
Romance: 7%
Science Fiction: 9.3%
Thriller: 3.7%
Contemporary: 8.1%

Pie chart breaking down applicants by marginalized community:

LGBTQ+: 23.4%
Queer: 14.1%
Transgender: 1.7%
Non-binary: 3.5%
Neurodivergent: 16.6%
Autistic: 6.6%
Chronically ill: 5.8%
Mentally ill: 10.2%
Deaf/HOH: 0.4%
Blind/Visually impaired: 0.6%
Chronic pain: 5.6%
Disabled (other) 1.5%
Other: 4.4%

Pie chart breaking down applications by race:

Black or African American: 10%
Hispanic or Latino: 8%
Middle Eastern or North African: 2.3%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.3%
White: 58.2%
Other: 5%
American Indian or Alaska Native: 1%
Asian: 13.7%

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

SUBMISSIONS WINDOW OPEN FOR **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY PLEASE** UNTIL APRIL 1st! We're looking for 1+ Weird Folk Horror story for our quarterly New Weird magazine THE SKULL & LAUREL, now until April 1st. Length: 100 to 4999 words Submissions info here: tinyurl.com/2na7fhww Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️

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THE SKULL & LAUREL open for Short Story Submissions **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY, PLEASE** — tenebrous press

We are looking to accept at least one extra Weird Folk Horror short story from a BIPOC writer. SUBMISSIONS WINDOW: 11th of March to 1st of April This submissions period is for Issue 004 of THE...

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

So uh see here's the thing

The Skull & Laurel in the colors of the trans pride flag against a black background
Text:
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY
BOOK TWO
2026

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I need a villain with big "new year, same old me" energy

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.

A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty.

KEY POINTS INCLUDE:

—SCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

—After Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for “insubordination.”

— The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this

While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT!

Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to.
SPEAK OUT!

We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices.

We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions.

When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities

We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better.
We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.

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cam! 🐍 瑷薇 @camiscribbles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor) in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Applications are open now! If you are an unagented author seeking mentorship in trad or indie publication, we hope you'll consider applying to Round Table! We close to mentee applications at 12pm EST on December 15th! Mentees will be announced February 1st. #writingcommunity #querying #mentorship

Round Table Mentor graphic announcing one more week to apply. roundtablementor.com/apply

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

We are officially open to mentee applications! Go to the website to apply! And don't worry if you need some time--mentors will not be reviewing applications or requesting manuscripts until after the application window closes at 12pm EST on December 15!

mentee applications now open
roundtablementor.com/apply

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Round Table Mentor @roundtablementor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Our ‘Ask Me Anything’ event begins tomorrow on Insta & X! Prepare your questions for a specific mentor, or for any mentors taking that day’s category! Nov 19: Adult/NA Nov 20: YA Nov 21: MG Nov 22: PB, GN, Screenwriting, Short stories, NF #roundtablementor #writers #writingcommunity

Text: Mentors prepping for tomorrow’s AMA. Image: Bougie ginger cat in sparkly sunglasses, cape and pearls sits on tan couch with houseplant and lamp behind.

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

#amquerying writers, I'm a mentor with this program this year! Applications open 12/1 🫡

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

so I should start posting here again huh

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

oh to be a cat with the lie in peace duck sleep lamp

cat sleeping with a soft duck lamp lying on top of him

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

Today is the day! Three of my clients make their debuts in the Star Wars universe, and one returns once more, in the latest Star Wars anthology. Making the “hey, you got Star Wars” call to them was the absolute best moment, and now the book is here. Mary, Olivia, M.K, Mike… congrats, friends. ✨

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Danny Haliwell @authordhaliwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2023

EVERGREEN (1/16/24), available for preorder in my bio! A queer YA romantic retelling Rapunzel. The powerless son of dryad must find out who broke into his family’s magical garden and stole a dangerous plant before it destroys the city, and the suspect is the cute new guy next door. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🌿

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

when you need to write but you also need to have a lil existential crisis

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Taylor Pitts @taylorjordanpitts.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

finally making it onto this app only to realize all over again how exhausting social media is

meme of Yu-Gi-Oh slamming fists on the ground

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