Cass Lewis

I'm honored to have a personal essay featured in this collection that includes work by Nick Flynn, Cheryl Strayed, Deesha Philyaw, and many other writers I admire.

So happy to have a story in this #spooky #anthology! Perfect for #Halloween or any time you want to feel a cold shudder… #BookSky

ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT to Submit to TWFest & SASFest Writing Contests!

Submit to our poetry, fiction, very short fiction, and one-acts contests by October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes, publication, and more!

tennesseewilliams.net/contests/

#writingcontests #writers #submittable

The precarity folio explores conditions, causes and consequences of instability. We want texts that contemplate new realities, understandings and expectations that arise in moments of upheaval, disintegration, and fundamental shift. The great tensions and possibilities, dilation of time, tipping points, notions of emergency, tightropes, free solos, gig economies, seed banks and the rise of AI.

Less than a week left to send us something for our themed folios and/or general submissions! Find all the details about the folios and guidelines on our website. Do you have something precarious to send us?

kenyonreview.org/submit/

SLM IS LOOKING FOR FLASH AND FICTION READERS Apply Sept 24- Oct 1 splitlip.submittable.com

Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉

I was so happy to see this awesome piece by the brilliant @jackiedwrites.bsky.social published in one of my favorite publications. Congrats, Jackie!

Find inspiration and community at the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!

Join us for this fully remote experience to enhance your craft and build writing community!

Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...

🎉SHE'S HERE!!🎉 Hugely excited to reveal the beauticious cover of my debut collection COLD TOAST feat. the artwork of renowned 70s artist Tim Mara 🔥
Out on 15th May! Preorders now available at www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/cold...

#flashfiction #shortstories #popart #printmaking

The 2025 American Book Award Winners Kaveh Akbar Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf) Amy M. Alvarez Makeshift Altar: Poems (The University Press of Kentucky) Marie-Helene Bertino Beautyland: A Novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Percival Everett James: A Novel (Doubleday) Marcela Fuentes Malas: A Novel (Penguin Books) Fady Joudah [...] Poems (Milkweed Editions) Stacey Levine Mice 1961 (Verse Chorus Press) Sarah Lewis The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press)

Tomiko and Ryokuyo Matsumoto, and Nancy Matsumoto, Editor By the Shore of Lake Michigan (UCLA Asian American Studies Center) Sharon McMahon The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Thesis) Claire Messud This Strange Eventful History: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company) Maceo Montoya and Javier O. Huerta Imaginative Possibilities: Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers (University of Pittsburgh Press) m.s. RedCherries mother (Penguin Books) Danzy Senna Colored Television: A Novel (Riverhead Books) A.B. Spellman, and Lauri Scheyer, Editor Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press)

Congratulations to the winners of this year's American Book Awards! 🎉 🎉 🎉 www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com

At the link, this week's oasis of selected sanities in a single place — Virginia Woolf on love, Arundhati Roy on the deepest measure of success, and my new children's book: mailchi.mp/themarginali...

Help fill this desk! ICIJ is hiring - ICIJ Our small but highly ambitious team is growing. Are you our next employee?

Come work with us!

We are looking for a qualified Machine Learning (ML) Engineer to join ICIJ’s technology team, working closely with our ML engineer in coordination with full stack and system engineers as well as a UX/UI designer.

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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Bring your lunch to this fun, generative creative #writing class I'm teaching at the #Delaware Art Museum on Fridays from 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, September 12 – November 14. Registration closes soon. I hope to see you there!

Garth Greenwell! Sally Rooney! Joe Sacco! 24 books out in paperback this September. Fall is here, a season with a name rather suggestive in the unsettling times we find ourselves in—but art can always help us navigate the strangedark. To that end, I come bearing new books to consi…

Books by Garth Greenwell, Sally Rooney, Joe Sacco, and more are out in paperback this September!

📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations.

For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...

RFK Jr. Is Making His Bid To Become One Of American History's Biggest Killers | Defector True to the spirit of America, the most catastrophic thing to happen at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month was not the attempted mass shooting in Atlanta of the agency’s public ...

I wrote about the immolation of the CDC
defector.com/rfk-jr-is-ma...

One of the greatest storytellers of our time on the 3 essential elements of great storytelling www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/03/b...

While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón While Everything Else Was Falling Apart In the Union Square subway station nearly fifteen years ago now, the L train came clanking by where ...

This poem is needed these days:
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart by Ada Limón
www.divasofverse.com/2025/08/whil...

Four Weeks, Four Scenes, One Story with Chaitali Sen - StoryStudio Chicago In this four-week generative class, you will be guided through exercises designed to develop one scene a week using a single premise and set of characters.

Scenes are the building block of most narrative fiction… You can master (more like “learn a lot about”) scene-writing with a scene a week for four weeks in Chaitali Sen’s @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class. Four classes, Zoom, starts September 4!
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Book Soup presents Annalee Newitz Wednesday August 6, 7pm. In store event!

Los Angeles friends! I'll be at Book Soup tomorrow night (8/6) talking about Automatic Noodle with brilliant food critic and author @meghanmccarron.bsky.social ... join us! www.booksoup.com/event/annale...

Listen to @riggstah.bsky.social chat with @vitcavage.bsky.social about her debut short story collection EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD on the Debutiful Podcast!

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6fz4...

Three little goblins in green robes carry a baby basket that is filled with fire.

A woman, in silhouette, crosses the plains, fleeing from a small white spooky home. There are pink trees around the home.

A figure in a straight jacket sprouts sunflowers where their head should be.

Multiple pink cats heads float below a manhole cover from a sewer. The manhole cover is sprouting ostrich feathers. The feathers all have a flouting eye in them. This is my weirdest book and the image is a great illustration of that weirdness.

My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu.

They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone.

Just look at these things!

They’re in bookstores now.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told | Robert Reich

Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed? https://youtu.be/tFjoDq0HfFw?si=vtbE2QNmXskvutjF

I'm excited to offer three creative #writing classes at the Delaware Art Museum this fall. Registration just opened and each class is capped at 10 students. Visit CassandraLewis.com for detailed descriptions and registration links.

This Fourth of July, we need a narrative revolution. The Trump administration is trying to rewrite reality and history. Cass Lewis says we’re not going to let them, if writers and artists have anything to…

My essay about standing up to bullies and how artists and #writers are leading the nonviolent fight for justice: www.broadstreetreview.com/essays/this-...

My favorite former home and the inspiration for my novel in progress:

Our popular review-writing webinars are back on July 16 and 17! Are you an aspiring or emerging critic? Are you a journalist who is curious about getting started as a reviewer? Are you an arts-lover who wants an inside…

BAD REVIEWS is back! Boost your cultural criticism skills with my webinar on how to write “bad” reviews and why we need them. July 17, 6:30pm ET on Zoom. www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/our...

How your AI prompts could harm the environment | CNN As AI models become “smarter,” the environmental cost of using them may be rising. Your carbon footprint may come down to what questions you ask it.

AI is not only bad for artists and #writers, it is also really harmful to the environment. This should be the lede on all stories about AI. www.cnn.com/2025/06/22/c...

‘Accelerated censorship’: advocates criticize US supreme court ruling on LGBTQ+ books Opponents say the decision allowing parents to let their kids opt out of lessons featuring LGBTQ+ themes will hurt the US education system

“The creation of opt-outs is license to censor the very existence of the LBGTQ+ community and their families,” wrote PEN America's @ajconn.bsky.social. “It is not difficult to imagine that other groups might soon be added to the list of those who may not be named” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...