Kristen Havens

Random bouts of infuriating insomnia, too. 🫩

This is my exact experience for the last few months! You are correct.

If you can support and buy a copy of this zine, please do. Thankful to have a photo appearing in this issue. (And what a stunning cover image!)

These Authors Won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Their Books Have Been Banned in Districts Across the Country For countless U.S. schoolchildren, works by more than a dozen Nobel-winning authors have been banned and removed from shelves.

Book banners say they are only targeting pornography and books with no literary merit.

Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.

https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek

Loved “Do-over.” “Each pain amassed in the jar of my brain.” (I hope I faithfully reproduced that from memory!)

Cool pivot in the middle of this piece, @ronburch.bsky.social.

New flash by me! Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social!

Thank you!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁

For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.

Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Good lord. What an embarrassment he is.

Scarlet runner bean plant in bloom

The bean plant in my garden that I posted about 6 months ago, just before I went on a digital fast—it’s bloomed and faded and come back to bawdy life:

And characters squeezing the bridge of their nose or rubbing their forehead when the narration is close third… we’re in their head already. Let’s hear their feelings, not see the gestures that follow.

Love this!

Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

Update your ID. Do it now. Tomorrow.

Open to submissions:

Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! (Just getting this account going over here…)

Tariffs bad, fiction good. I got a flash story accepted today. It’ll come out in October. Here’s to doing what makes us tick, whatever else may happen.

Sometime in the last month I’ve started aggressively closing apps with a flinging motion as if dealing cards from the top of a deck. I now, officially, use my smartphone just like my mother.

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

Text over abstract blue background reads: Clarion West Community Class $5-25 Sliding Scale. Writing Outside of Your Lane with Milo Todd. Friday, March 28 at 4PM PST. Learn tools to approach writing characters outside of your own lived experience with care.

Don't miss Writing Outside of Your Lane, an upcoming Community Class with Milo Todd on March 28!

This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest

Young bean plant in a garden

One of the things keeping me sane right now: our community garden. This is a bean plant that showed up, planted by some past gardener. Seeing all these intentions come to fruition is oddly moving. Someone wanted these plants and trusted them to live on into the future.

Thanks!

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I can’t believe he hasn’t bragged about it yet!

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night COLUMBUS, OH—Reeling as she took stock of the damage done in her debilitated state, area woman Brittany Marino told reporters Wednesday she had sworn off Ambien for good after she woke up and saw how ...

And now, for something lighter:

Horrified Woman Swears Off Ambien After Seeing Number Of Library Books She Reserved Last Night  — theonion.com/horrified-wo...