Robert Vaughan

I'm delighted to be part of the latest @bendinggenres.bsky.social Anthology. What an honour to see my name listed alongside so many writers I have huge respect for. Thank you @rgvaughan.bsky.social & @amymarques.bsky.social

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi spotted 👀

Thrilled to have a piece in this anthology! Can't wait to get my hands on a copy!

Honored to be in the @bendinggenres.bsky.social anthology!
I will see all you sassy queers at #AWP!!!

So many amazing writers in this one! 🎉🎉🎉

Perfect timing for AWP!!! @bendinggenres.bsky.social Anthology, Bending in the Breeze, editors @amymarques.bsky.social and me! Cover design by Amy. Thanks, Adam Robinson for your genius know-how!!! FIND ME IN BALTIMORE to get your copy!!!

Review of The Boat With a Girl’s Heart by Neil de la Flor by Jonathan Cardew

Today on our @bendinggenres.bsky.social blog, @cardewjcardew.bsky.social reviews @neildelaflor.bsky.social new book, The Boat with a Girl's Heart:

bendinggenres.com/review-of-th...

New CNF skull up at @havehashad.com today!

Grateful for this new review of my book. I have learned that my tactic for reading reviews of Berceuse is pretty much holding my breath and scanning quickly before settling in to admire someone who writes so attentively and insightfully.

Review of Burnside Soleil’s Berceuse Parish by Francois Bereaud

New @bendinggenres.bsky.social book review of Burnside Soleil's new collection, Berceuse Parish, by @fbereaud.bsky.social:

bendinggenres.com/review-of-bu...

#writer #WritingCommunity #writerslift

Don't miss this weekend workshop, Feb 20- 22 with @neonpajamas.bsky.social at @bendinggenres.bsky.social online- asynchronous, odd, fun, safe. Generate some pieces that truly surpise and amaze you.

Writing Groups

ICYMI: @neonpajamas.bsky.social is leading our February 20- 22 @bendinggenres.bsky.social weekend workshop: asynchronous, fun, oddball, safe... come and write your ass off!!! More here, and DM with any questions:

bendinggenres.com/writing-grou...

“Taste what the tree
roots know, Bend your
back at lightning snaps.
Submit to the murmurs
of rabbit children.”

- Oisín Rowe (@orowe.bsky.social)

voicemailpoems.org/2026/02/04/g...

Give me a break- we had two world wars, Vietnam, Iraq, the Middle East, etc. Not to mention 9/11. And THIS BULLSHIT will cause more disruption? Are you fucking serious?

Thank you very much, Matt, and for introducing me to 'lanky' metaphors on your inspiring course Glorious Words. Thank you to @bendinggenres.bsky.social for publishing this piece, and to @norami.bsky.social and Smokelong Fitness's Jan Cardio Group 4 at @smokelong.bsky.social for their help with it.

"I wheel him to the window to peer at the troposphere over Colwyn Bay. While he rages about ‘prissy cirrus clouds’ or ‘namby-pamby nimbostrati’, I nip into the bedroom with a set of dry sheets."

@chriscottom.bsky.social blowing a hooley in @bendinggenres.bsky.social

4 Tips on How to Survive Alone on an Island First, go to the closest Dicks or Dave’s or Deasel’s and ask the teenager working the register for a kayak.

Feed: "Bending Genres"
By: Joseph Gorodnitskiy on Tuesday, February 10, 2026

thanks also, @neonpajamas.bsky.social, @bendinggenres.bsky.social, and @rgvaughan.bsky.social for the fun workshop in which this was birthed.

Hound Dog Dreams

Thanks so much to @rgvaughan.bsky.social and the Bending Genres staff for publishing my story "Hound Dog Dreams" in their new issue which I can't wait to read!
Thanks too to @smokelong.bsky.social for the prompt last summer.
bendinggenres.com/hound-dog-dr...

Peck

Thanks to @rgvaughan.bsky.social, @amymarques.bsky.social, and the entire Bending Genres gang for publishing this new story in their new issue. Thanks, too, to @courtneyb77.bsky.social for the prompt and the early eyes. Honored to be alongside so many great writers!
'https://bendinggenres.com/peck/

Can a meteorite collide with a star? It can but it is rare.

Hi there, friends and enemies!

I'm back in @bendinggenres.bsky.social and interesting fact I've somehow convinced them to host my eccentric brain five times. Sincere gratitude to @rgvaughan.bsky.social and all the team.

bendinggenres.com/can-a-meteor...

Thrum

I'm delighted to have a story in the latest issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social !
Many thanks to the editors @rgvaughan.bsky.social
@amymarques.bsky.social and David O' Connor.

bendinggenres.com/thrum/

When the Music Stops

I'm delighted to have a new piece in the fantastic 49th Issue of @bendinggenres.bsky.social. Thank you to @rgvaughan.bsky.social and the editors. 🥰

You can read 'When the Music Stops' here: bendinggenres.com/when-the-mus...

& listen to Antoneta's Playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/4n2...

Current Issue

All new Bending Genres Issue 49 is now live! Our Jan/ Feb 2026 issue is filled with hybrid flash, poetry and CNF, an amazing issue!
www.bendinggenres.com
Congratulations to our hard-working Bending Genres editors and talented writers! Happy Publication Day!!! #Writer #writerslift #writerscommunity

Happy Friday y'all. Thanks to them that have bought COUNT THE DUST from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social. Today I'm offering to give away 2 copies. Repost this post between now and the end of the weekend and I'll put your name in a random draw machine thing Monday and pick 2 winners.

We called my lil sis "Tweety" after Tweetybird, who also had a pretty ample head.

KILL YOUR TV

who will be joining us in a few weeks?

fucking love Elizabeth's voice on that song.

Elena Zhang : Two poems Barophobia The superhero could not find a cure for his lice. Invisibility streamed dreams into his scalp. Flying burned his hair into ...

newly posted: Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social : Two poems
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/elen...