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Wendy Chirikos @wchirikos.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I can't believe I get to be even a small part of this magazine -- it's a dream come true. Thank you so much to Samantha and @memoirmixtapes.bsky.social for all the love you pour into this, and for including my piece in this beautiful issue. www.memoirmixtapes.com/volumes/12-i...

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Volume 12: In the Lost and Found — Memoir Mixtapes

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Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I keep meaning to post a picture of these adorable tiny vases made by @melostrom.bsky.social! I’m so obsessed with the beautiful colors!

Two bunches of light pink mini carnations in blue green glazed round vases.

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Janis La Couvée @lacouvee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There are now 279 lit mags and small presses on this list (which is NOT a starter pack) - you can follow the list (pin it)-without following all the accounts and it becomes a feed/tab. Please share (it's the biggest list so far) bsky.app/profile/laco... #litmags #litmag

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I knew I'd love this book, but this poem just destroyed me. @toddedillard.bsky.social needs to give a class on how to end a poem, and this is a prime example of why.

Arts and Crafts with the Addict's Son

One time I came home from school to a bedroom painted halfway two shades of blue, rollers beached in azure-scabbed trays, lidless quarts of midnight and noon separating from their water like souring cups of milk, my mother sprawled on the floor, her hands two lilies powdered with moonlight. But there was beauty too: my mother, high up on a ladder, nailing her wedding dress to a tree, divorce papers twitching in the yard like chickens pecking feed. For years the nailheads sparkled at night, bespoke constellations as the grackles harvested the dress for nest-scraps and a dozen Texan summers chewed through stitch and seam with their 92 jagged teeth. If there is to be any truth in beauty I can't just speak about suffering as if there isn't some good in suffering too.

As the coyote becomes mud for zinnias, so can these McDonald's receipts become a moon, greased napkins a banquet of clouds, crusted daubs of glitter glue every guiding star. A thousand miles from my origin my origin remains why I promise when I blue, I will completely blue. I will show you how you can make a sky out of anything.

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Funicular Magazine @funfunfunicular.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Should we open for submissions right now?

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Memoir Mixtapes @memoirmixtapes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Coming to an internet near you sometime in December.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Um. You guys. Some news. I earned out on this book! I'm getting my first royalty check EVER. Thanks to everyone who's bought a copy, requested it @ their library, told people about it, has it on a future list, is buying it for family & friends for the holidays (books make great gifts!) etc.

Cornflower yellow cover of Survival Tips: Stories, with the title in white and an image of an expressionlessly falling woman down the middle.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It is lovely that Percival Everett won a lifetime achievement award from @bookcritics.bsky.social 2 years ago, and tonight won the National Book Award for Fiction.

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Do you write stories between 1000 and 3000 words? We've been receiving fewer submissions in our Fiction category lately, so it's a good time to hit us up. We're open for free subs until the end of November & for Tip Jar subs until Dec 15. Thank you! buff.ly/32k496o

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/11/2024

Breaking News: Percival Everett won the National Book Award for fiction for “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

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Percival Everett, Author of ‘James,’ Wins National Book Award for Fiction

Jason De León received the nonfiction award for “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.”

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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My story collection I'M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT centers messy queer Puerto Rican men, their desires and pursuits of emotional satiation. But most of all it's a love letter to my twenties, all those long lonely nights and the brief sparks of connection found and lost. www.sfwp.com/books/not-hu...

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I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat - Christopher Gonzalez — Santa Fe Writers Project

Product Details: Paperback : 115 pages ISBN : 9781951631215 Cover Design: Gwen Grafft About the Book: Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt the stories of I’m Not Hun...

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is how I both write and survive. Out of spite.

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Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Many thanks to everyone at the Midwest Weird podcast for featuring me reading “Gabriel’s Horns,” a Devil-ish short story about a man with horns and a forked tongue. www.midwestweird.com/post/gabriel...

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Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I dreamed this book would get me thrown off of X for calling the leader of the Jan. 6, ‘21 insurrection a despot. But the power of poetry today doesn’t seem to be what it was in revolutionary Russia. So I quit X myself & found my way here! Let’s make poetry powerful again! eastridgereview.com/store/

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Friends! I am having a book release reading with my dear friend and fellow Variant fam @benkline.bsky.social! Join us Friday, December 13th at 9PM EST via Zoom. We'll be reading poems, talking about our books, life, writing, and who knows what else. Register to join us here: tiny.cc/zehvzz!!!

Flyer for the Variant Literature-hosted reading featuring the cover of my book Ragnorak at the Father-Daughter Dance with a wolf-headed person dancing with their bear-headed daughter next to the cover of Ben Kline's book "It Was Never Supposed to Be" featuring a tattooed and muscular and mustached man in a wedding dress locking pinkies with another's hand. The text of the flyer reads:

2 poets with 2 new books from Variant Literature--1 virtual reading!

Join us via Zoom Friday, December 13th at 9pm EST

Register here or via the QR code

The register link is here: tiny.cc/zehvzz

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/11/2024

"Yes, I voted for Trump, but it was only about the economy. And immigration. And what I’ve learned about transgender people from J. K. Rowling’s Twitter feed. It’s nothing personal."

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Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

It’s me, that woman you barely remember from your tenth-grade homeroom who keeps turning up on your Facebook page like a cold sore. Before the elec...

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Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

In January 2026, my comedy craft book with Elissa Bassist, INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS will come out! More info including cover and preorder information coming soon.

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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Let's lift up lit mags that left X behind. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social is one of the very best we have. A group of wonderful people making a great magazine. Check out the November issue!

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Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you can, add River Teeth! bsky.app/profile/rive...

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It's a hard time to publish new work & I'm worried our November Issue will get lost in the breaking-news shuffle. So I'd be especially grateful this month if you could support our incredible contributors by reading @splitlipthemag.bsky.social's stunning new issue. 💕

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Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hi if you’re new here and new to me, I published a weird fiction novel last year with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social called Thunder From a Clear Blue Sky. That’s an awesome title and the cover is amazing, so the novel doesn’t even have to be any good.

Novel cover. A blue/black sky with leopards on the prowl and even one on the moon.

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 13/11/2024

I'd like to create an "Authors of Small/Indie Press Books 2024-2025" starter pack. Is that you? If so, please reply here. Also, if you don't mind reposting this for visibility, I'd appreciate it! #writingcommunity #indiebooks #indieauthors #booksky

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Janet Emson @janetemson.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’ll be staying inside books for the next four years. At least their villains are contained to a page.

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