Alexis M. Wright

The way I simultaneously went wide-eyed, rolled my eyes, and gave some serious side eye when I read this story 😳🙄😒

#writergoals: Survived the query trenches and came out with an incredible agent! Thrilled to be represented by Julia Kim at The Rights Factory 📣🎉 It means everything to have someone who understands my work and where it’s headed.

Special thanks to Greg Mania for his epic book proposal class!

PERIPLUS: An FAQ PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Racialized Credibility Why are white women’s scams fascinating, but Black women’s successes suspicious?

HAPPY FLYTRAP TUESDAY!! Today, we have @alexismwright.bsky.social's incisive essay about the growing trend of white women scammers content, and what that says about who is believed in our society--and who isn't.

theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/racialized...

Definitely needed to read this today

Have you tried cats? I hear they also like walks on the beach

That’s just cruel

I might legit read this

This I believe: Book clubs should have paid facilitators. Someone to gently steer the conversation, keep the vibes right, and make sure we go deeper than “I liked it” or “I hated it.” If people can be professional bridesmaids, surely I can be a professional book club facilitator.

#bookclub #hireme

Will do!

I just started a project that aims to do just this looking at my family’s education history and writing about the impact from three different generations (my twin grandmothers born in 1938, my mother, and then me).

😮🙃

Wait, as someone born before 1989 does this mean I need to get a booster???

You are now on my query list!

This poem from @poetryntings.bsky.social is a good stand-in for my current interiority (the poem posted originally on IG)

ANNOUNCING THE 2025 OREGON BOOK AWARDS FINALISTS AND SPECIAL AWARDS RECIPIENTS Literary Arts is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Oregon Book Awards. The winners of each category will be announced live at the 2025 Oregon Book Awards Ceremony,

My homie @shellthief.bsky.social, is a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards for her book “A Rupture in the Interiors” 🎉💐💐

literary-arts.org/2025/01/anno...

I do!

Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.

www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

Me! www.alexismwright.com

💯 this is the book we need right now

Happy pub day (yesterday)! @ogracebankole.bsky.social Hoping to hit up your RI event 🤞🏾

That line has been drawn and erased so many times it’s become a scar, but scars remember. Resistance is the act of refusing to let that wound heal wrong. To draw the line again, and again, is to remind the world that it cannot forget.

No truer words ever written.

I miss this face!

I love this!

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER!

#litmags #writer #writingcommunity

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Resist Authoritarianism by Refusing to Obey in Advance Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themsel…

@timothysnyder.bsky.social on lessons history has taught us about resisting authoritarianism.

Love this essay! Love Susan! And loved teaching this in my lyric essay class last week!

Wow! I’m currently writing the book proposal for my memoir-in-essays centered around my 18 year estrangement from my mother! I’m looking forward to sending you something for consideration. I’ve been wanting this anthology to exist for some time, and I’m so glad you’ve taken on this project!