pictured reading here: @steventagle.com @kitdewaal.com @balsamkaram.bsky.social Philippe Marczewski and Sharon Black
and hosting: @norami.bsky.social @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @moyetteg.bsky.social and me :)
@kplumhoff.bsky.social
fiction @flashfrog.bsky.social, @theforge.bsky.social, @gonelawn.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee 2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social valencia, es katherineplumhoff.com
pictured reading here: @steventagle.com @kitdewaal.com @balsamkaram.bsky.social Philippe Marczewski and Sharon Black
and hosting: @norami.bsky.social @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @moyetteg.bsky.social and me :)
poetry and prose reading
big room of readers and audience
keynote address
3 days. 3 salons. 5 hosts. 25 readers. 100 attendees. intimate moments and communal ones, laughter and tears, favorites new and old. @saloneurope.bsky.social, see you next year in Madrid, Sept 25-27, to do it all again.
17.09.2025 11:27 β π 21 π 6 π¬ 1 π 0cries in 4 languages
16.09.2025 11:02 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Absolutely dreamy evening. Thank @deborahzafer.bsky.social @bdiggswrites.bsky.social @kplumhoff.bsky.social @norami.bsky.social for making it happen β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
14.09.2025 11:18 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0hi sunshines!! glad you found each other :))))
16.09.2025 10:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0you are the bee's knees emily
16.07.2025 14:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i'm BLUSHING. to have helped my starla!!!
16.07.2025 14:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0belinda is too good to me. amsterdam's museum of sex was not too good to my lesbian moms on vacation!
06.07.2025 11:56 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0ha, queue learning! maybe 100 stories in i felt a particular heartbreak: having to vote no on something with a spark bc the good was buried in a messy draft (no option to say "keep going with this! just wait a month and edit it!")
then i realized that i have been that submitter in the past π³π³π³
Images of Ani King, Katherine Plumhoff, and Belinda Rowe. Graphic of red heart in a white speech balloon. Text: Thank you! to the SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows 2025
Thank you to our 2025 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellows! Read what they have to say about their experience this yearβand find out how to apply for the 2026 Fellowshipsβhere: www.smokelong.com/thank-you-to...
01.07.2025 16:40 β π 28 π 4 π¬ 2 π 2BADASS
21.06.2025 13:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i spy @aniking.bsky.social and @belindarowe.bsky.social both on the BSF 2025 list!!!! my fellow fellows, crushing @smokelong.bsky.social
21.05.2025 20:52 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0if you're trying to hang out with me in september! this is your last chance!
13.05.2025 13:02 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0An accusingly pointing finger that says "Update Your Damn Website" Sunday, May 18, 1-4 pm Eastern Time
HEY! YOU! DOES YOUR WRITER WEBSITE NEED UPDATING? π
By popular(?) demand(??), next week is Update Your Damn Website, a workshop where you'll... well, what the title suggests. We'll set our intentions at the start, check in w/our progress, and show & tell at the end.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
i have been saying this!!
forgelitmag.com/2024/11/25/r...
thank you Cole!! love your work and the different lenses you center it in, so this means a lot coming from you <3
08.05.2025 12:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0putlizer news ... met gala live stream ... sometimes we can have nice things
05.05.2025 22:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0screenshot of a smokelong reading
a @smokelong.bsky.social reading is a masterclass in learning how to read WELL. taking notes @marioaliberto3.bsky.social !!
(hi @lorifontanes.bsky.social
@marilynduarte.bsky.social
@lmbayley.bsky.social
@quickasaflash.bsky.social
@timothycgoodwin.bsky.social
@johannah.bsky.social + more!)
changing it up a bit: small coffee, big tomato toast, LITTLE book this time
05.05.2025 10:41 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0until all the new memories fell as thick snow over the slender tracks of your disclosure."
02.05.2025 11:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"There was always something alluring about disclosure with strangers, the assurance that your secrets or failings, if you shared them, would be forgotten, buried away in that personβs mind as they took a train to a different city, met a different person, heard different stories, visited a new museum
02.05.2025 11:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0loved this so much, Andrew. felt like it could be in James Salter's DUSK. my favorite section:
02.05.2025 11:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0wrote a (long) short story, Sanctuary, about an accidental nanny, and queer desire, and how being paid to take care of someone else's kids can feel like the only way to access a certain kind of family β
and it's out in print in Issue 31 of Quarter After Eight this month!
sorry for their haters but @aniking.bsky.social has done it again ...
3 perfectly red-hot flashes. "Instead, You Raised a Fire" wallops (complimentary!).
go ani <3
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/a...
omg hi!!!
22.03.2025 20:39 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0king of the midwest!
my fav, from a letter to his painter son: "the object of art is not to make salable pictures. it is to save yourself."
<3
thank you @jmcm.bsky.social for organizing these sessions!
22.03.2025 12:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0met @delgeo14.bsky.social last week in Athens and today i get to hear her speak about the importance of writing community :)
the lessons: writing doesn't have to be lonely, community makes everything better, SLIDE INTO THE DMS ALWAYS
THIS IS SO RAD !!!!!!!!!!!!
13.03.2025 13:05 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0read @aniking.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social:
pitheadchapel.com/nervous-thing/