basically had to wrestle this book from this child. she snatched it out of my hand in the store and kept saying “MINE” and carrying it around. now that she’s in bed i can actually read it…

I'm the Valentines Editor Honey Literary. We're open for subs thru 6/15. I'd love to see more poems & genre-fluid pieces celebrating (or challenging / reimagining / fighting) love, which is (in my opinion) inseparable from the desire for revolution. Send work @ the link below <3

I will never look at clocks the same way after reading Jeff Wood's beautiful & poignant memoir about his wife's early onset dementia in the new Split Lip Magazine. Thanks to @clowncarne1 for publishing it with us & to Susan Lerner for editing it.🕰️ splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0524/je…

my life

I have an essay about the queer imporance + erotics + centrality of making brand new friends in mid-life (in a way that hetero culture rarely seems to recognize) burning a hole in my pocket. Any suggestions on where to send it?

screw this dude but damn this painting is fuckin sick nytimes.com/2024/05/14/wor…

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when i make really good dinner i should be exempted from making dinner for like 3 nights. but that’s just not how any of this works, is it

i dig this R.O. Kwon interview in the cut so much. i love that there are people out there going to bed at the same time i wake up to make the kids breakfast and hitting a writing stride when my brain starts entering shutdown mode. more process interviews.

Excited to have one last First Love excerpt up at Literary Hub today! A flash piece written as instructions: lithub.com/lilly-dancyger…

V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan is the winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her novel Brotherless Night, published by @RandomHouse. The Prize awards $150,000USD to the winner, and is the largest English-language literary prize in the world for women and non-binary authors.

dude

one of the kids in my 2nd grader’s class submitted this as her note on the day that gets emailed to the grown ups.

This class starts in a few weeks! Don't miss your chance to work on your memoir with the best in the biz krys malcolm belc !

how’d we do? i made an appearance at 4 playgrounds 😂

my mother survived this. respect.

got to write a brief intro to a beloved teaching tool!

fellas it’s our day tomorrow. take the kids away from the moms for as long as possible. we got this 🫡

A 2025 SVU episode where the only witness for an assault is someone in Ireland looking through the portal and Olivia Benson needs to travel abroad to hunt them down.

first fellowship year is over! have had a lot of freedom in my writing and teaching this year which has been so sweet. hope i have done right by my students and not blasphemed saint paul to the wrong ppl (kidding i like it here.) i think midwest winter is good for my writing 😬