Julie from StoryADay

Ugh. I hate Apple’s Liquid Glass look. Just me? /rant

This seems like a good thing: the Short Story Prize is back with an emphasis on stories that entertain! Hooray! northamericanreview.org/contests/sho...

Screenshot of "Wordsmith & Writers", successor to Poets & Writers impersonation, with obvious AI images and banner at top claiming that this is Poets & Writers new domain

<muyidanyteam2@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello beloved Author, > ? > ?My name is Elizabeth, and I’m reaching out from Poets & Writers. > ? > ?Your book has been selected as one of our top-performing titles this week, > and we’d love to feature it as our Book of the Week. This includes a > dedicated listing on our website, providing visibility to our readership as > well as literary and publishing professionals who follow our showcases. > ? > ?To activate the feature, there is a one-time $25 membership fee, which > creates your author profile on our platform. This profile allows you to > track your book’s performance and access additional promotional options if > you choose. > ? > ?If you’d like to proceed or would like more details, simply reply to this > email and I’ll be happy to assist. > ? > ?Best regards, > ?Elizabeth > ?Poets & Writers

A scammer is impersonating Poets & Writers (on right: the scam solicitation). They created a fake website scraped from P&W at a lookalike URL. When P&W got that taken down, they slapped up the site screenshotted on left; note the false claim in the red banner at the top (also the obv AI images)

🤯 (alt text: exploded brain)

Thinking about how an "everyman" is actually a very specific type of man.

Read (a little bit) more: storyaday.org/take-your-ti...

Psst: maybe it's OK for you to take your time, today.

Colorado River Indian Tribes Resolution: Personhood for the Colorado River

I‘d love to read more science/futuristic fiction that acknowledges these kinds of perspectives: ecojurisprudence.org/initiatives/...

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

“one of Iceland’s foremost dessert days.” The implication being there are many dessert days. Iceland sounds awesome!

You may be biased…but so am I!

I loved this program. Focus, instruction, and a great peer group, all led by a generous and gifted (and award-winning) writer. Recommended.

In the troughs between the passionate peaks, it's the habit that keeps you going.

gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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BRING BACK THE MASS MARKET PAPERBACK WE NEED IT (i need it, but also i think mass market >>> trade paper!!!!)

Write With Me - YouTube Tranquil background videos to make you feel chill and less alone while working on your writing. Work on your own writing while I work on mine. Perfect for bo...

Do you write more while body-doubling? I've started putting 'write with me' videos up on YouTube. Find them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This ruined my mascara

Your regular reminder that publishing is a business (and that @victoriastrauss.com is a gem)

I am accepting this challenge and raising $1200 for one Minneapolis family to cover their overdue rent today. Venmo me at nkkritzer and I will send the money to that family once it's raised. I believe in us.

Cat photo because you know who likes cat photos (everyone, everyone likes cat photos)

Excellent example of what short fiction can do. (I’m a sucker for stories that look like documents/memos/lists.)
Well done!!

Only 6 days and 17 hours until spring training starts. But, who's counting(me, it's totally me). If you need something to hold you over in the meantime, check out these MM sports romances:

books.bookfunnel.com/fallingformm...

Books and Bewitchment is pictured with the following phrases to pique your interest: Cozy Witch Romance, Quirky Community, Newfound Magic, Small Mountain Town, Hyper Competent Man, Chatty Cockatoo Familiar, Isla Jewell is Delilah S. Dawson. And then there's a picture of a cockatoo to drive the point home about the cockatoo. The word 'cock' does not appear in the books, but cockatoo does. A LOT.

It's finally here-- my cozy witch Romance set in the north Georgia Mountains! Available wherever you buy your books in paperback, ebook, and audio. And book tour starts tonight! Please reskeet to share the love! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745676...

This morning I’m reading ”Painstaking” by StoryADay guest prompter (2025) Rich Larson, in Clarkesworld. Beautiful (and gruesome), action packed and thoughtful. Gorgeous writing. Recommended.

Please tell me you are collaborating with a puzzle master on a book of fantasy logic puzzles…

Woman with shoulder-length hair, in front of a bookcase, with a book in her hand, and the words January Reading Highlights and the URL storyaday.org/sftw204

Looking for some good #shortreads? Here's a list of all the (published) short stories I've read so far in Jan 2026, plus my reactions to 8 that stood out: storyaday.org/sftw204/

Want feedback on your writing but keep finding other, urgent tasks to help you avoid committing? This time, you should join my 2-week Polish & Submit Sprint (includes a seat in the StoryADay Feb Critique Week) now. Registration is open until Friday: storyaday.org/join-p-s-spr...

Did you know I run a Critique Week three times a year? There's one coming up in Feb and I have a new "get ready to submit" sprint coming soon. Find out more: members.storyaday.org/join-critiqu...

A plate with two towers composed of layers of haggis, neeps (turnip) and tatties (potatoes). In the background can be glimpsed an ounce of a 10 year old Ardbeg malt whisky in a curved glass. Superimposed: the word slàinte!

Celebrating Scotland’s national poet in the approved manner, with whisky, poetry and the “great chieftan o the pudding race”.

Bots All the Way Down - Lightspeed Magazine “Once upon a time,” outputted the algorithm, “there was an AI. “It generated recipes and ingredient descriptions for an online grocery store. The website said that this recipe was not just a squash s...

I enjoyed this #shortstory this morning: “Bots All The Way Down” by @effies.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com?p=35448

Oh, goodness. That's a bit of a reversal of expectations, isn't it, @welkinprize.bsky.social !

#microfiction