Ani Cooney

Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us) Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve talked to college students, masters program students, and professionals at Comic Con in my roles as author and freelance writer and former editor. I…

If we've talked about how our careers are going lately, this one is for you. lithub.com/dont-let-the...

Wooohoo! Can’t wait to get it in my mail. Congrats Joy!

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Applications are open for @onestorymag.bsky.social's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship! This is a year-long educational fellowship for early career writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. one-story.com/learn/fellow...

What really haunts a haunted house? This autumn, ring in all hallows season with stories of houses visited by otherworldly entities with @puloma.bsky.social’s reading group, Holding Darkness Within: A Haunted House Short Story Course. Open to readers and writers of all levels. bit.ly/4mFFpOG

I'll be reading a story at This Friday, THIS FRIDAY, Sept 26 at Taix in Echo Park, along with Mariah Flores, Jesse Pearson, Nick Plett, Zara Schuster, & Gabby Jones. Show starts at 7pm, and is RSVP only. To RSVP, send $10 to co-host @evanlaffer via Venmo. Hope to see you there!

My short story collection is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 🦚 ! Thank you @loriostlund and the judges for this recognition and championing the short story form! Congratulations to Will Boast whose short story collection will be published by @ugapress next fall !

Congratulations to Will Boast for winning the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction!

Congratulations @Will Boast! Looking forward to the collection.

Thank you @ugapress.bsky.social, Lori Ostlund, and Judges for recognizing my work as a finalist. 🙏

It was bitchin’ … I mean witchin’ !

Oh yea, I would never be friends with a person like her.

It is No Kings Day. LA will show up.

Doesn’t matter if it’s fire or ice….
The city will come together and protect its people .

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.

It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.

Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

I have a few more in my office on campus or lent out, and surely some are off my radar, but holy wow it’s been a good last few years for indie press short story collections.

Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA

We’re thrilled to announce our first digital anthology! The stories in this volume were published in One Story and One Teen Story from 2015 to 2025 and feature work by our 2025 Literary Debutantes, seven One Story authors who recently published or will soon publish their debut books. bit.ly/3E4dVlI

Yep! Keep it under 4 mins even!

RSVP to All Power Reading | Partiful Come for readings from the best rising star writers of Los Angeles and beyond. Talk of politics highly encouraged. Meet fellow organizers, comrades, friends, and see what All Power is all about! Open...

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Come to a free reading event featuring writers from Los Angeles and beyond! Meet fellow organizers, comrades, friends. Open to everyone — locals, visitors for #AWP, friends of friends — as long as you love appreciating good literature, making friends, and building community. 💪

See you later, Hayden :)

This administration can’t erase women who fight for justice. Learn from surviving Filipino “Comfort Women.” who took to the streets & courts. Never giving up, never silenced, always speaking Truth 2 power. Especially to orange men riddled with fear. To the Lolas & all women warriors. Laban!

I find all of those answers on Reddit !

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I will be reading with the @onestorymag.bsky.social Adina Talve-Goodman Fellows on March 13th (virtual.) I hope you can join us as we share from our work 🙏🏼✨ thank you One Story!

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Publishers Marketplace announcement for Shannon Sanders’s debut novel THE GREAT WHEREVER, which follows a millennial through the messy process of inheriting land

Very excited to share this news. My second book (and first novel) is headed your way next summer!

I know every writer says this, but: I can’t even describe how long I’ve wanted to publish books, and getting to do it in this part of my life is like a dream.

It’s obviously the Swift . They’ve done a collab together and there’s gonna be some Bad Blood music …

American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker.

‘Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels,’ by Lauren Michele-Jackson. April 18, 2022. The New Yorker.

‘Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels,’ by Lauren Michele-Jackson. April 18, 2022. The New Yorker.

‘Alice Walker’s Journals Depict an Artist Restless on Her Laurels,’ by Lauren Michele-Jackson. April 18, 2022. The New Yorker.

‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.’

Today marks the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.