Daniel Dykiel

Shout out to coffee shops and restaurants that are a little mediocre. That's usually where my best writing gets done.

Text mounted on a screen reads as follows: WHAT IS SCIENCE FICTION? 1. DOESN'T MATTER 2. WHO CARES 3. MARKETING DEPARTMENT'S PROBLEM 4. NOT YOURS

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Robert Mitchum at the gate in an artificial landscape in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Laughton, 1955)

The Night of the Hunter turns 70 today, on the short list of the movies that forever changed the medium

You can't defend gore, violent, gruesome media without defending sex and erotic media. Both go hand in hand, there's eroticism in the grotesque, theres horror in the sensual. Your "purity" about sex won't save you if you think making war is better than making love

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Amped to announce Frank*ology, a cross-discipline conference in November for all things Frank! To remove as many barriers as possible, admission is free and the conference will be virtual. Follow the link for more info 🎃🎃🎃🎃 #cfp #disabilitypride #queerspec #writingcall

westofcanon.com/frankology/

the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of silver chips, the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks

Where the cool kids are submitting their writing part 1 • Baltimore Review #Literary hub for diverse writing • Bloodletter Magazine #Feminist horror • Dreamworldgirl Zine #All things girlhood • fractured literary #Flash with emotional resonance • Fruitslice #Documenting Queer culture with the urgency and care it deserves • Gather #Social lit mag on Instagram and Substack • The Indianapolis Review #Writing that surprises, sings, and makes you think • Joyland #International fiction movement • The Margins #Asian American literary arts and ideas • ONE ART: a journal of poetry #Home for good poems • ONLY POEMS #Weird wild and wonderful poetry • Palette Magazine #Digital art collective for marginalized artists • Reed Magazine #International literary hub • River Teeth #Where good writing counts and facts matter • Sky Island Journal #Independent international literary experience • SmokeLong Quarterly #Some of the best flash narratives on the web • Sonder Literary #Showcasing every person's story • The Sun #Mapping the human landscape • Swamp Pink #Disrupting the power structures inherent to our institution •Under the Gum Tree #Quarterly literary arts magazine • Vellichor Literary #Indie multimedia for brewing creatives • Write or Die Magazine #Inclusive contemporary works

We asked you where the cool kids are submitting these days and here’s what you said 👀

Find everything you need to submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/cool_k...

Ideal!!

The Forever Dying and the Always Dead; or, Literary Fiction and the Novel A long post on the state of "literary fiction," book sales, and the culture at large

Great article by @thelincoln.bsky.social!

Literature isn't dead. There are challenges in our current cultural moment, as there are in any moment.

There's tons of new, exciting, and amazing literary work being written! Happy to talk book recs anytime 💜

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Do you ever listen to the playlist for an old project and feel like "yeah, I could finish this quickly, no problem."
Except that it's a novel and you absolutely would not be able to finish it quickly.
Dangerous territory.

Tragically, I designed demonic possession mechanics for a short story that never get revealed, because my first-person narrator doesn't know about them.

On the flip side, maybe I can use them for another story <3

The cover of the novel Death in Spring, which depicts a frog.

Loved the writing in "Death in Spring" by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Martha Tennent.

"Behind us, the moon pinned our shadows to the ground, slowly casting them onto the river; it partially erased them, and joined them at the mouth."

Also, the cover is gorgeous! @openletterbooks.bsky.social

I decided to assign a Can Xue short story to my fiction students but I'm having such a hard time picking one. They're all so good.

new words {press} is a great magazine to work with. I highly recommend submitting!
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Excited to dig into this issue! @the-engine-idling.bsky.social always chooses the best themes 💖📺

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have you read ISSUE 0 yet?? 👀