Jess Bowers

We'll have not one, but TWO BOOTHS at #AWP26 this year! Find us at Booths #527 and #529 from March 4-7th!

In the meantime, here's some of our past AWP shenanigans!
@awpwriter.org

Who just landed an off-site reading at AWP?
This guy!
More details to come...!

fidelity in adaptation is an impossibility due to the change in medium. go watch the hot people torture each other on the moors

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announcing a new ecolit micro-press...!

yawningfoxpress.org

if you want to read about what the heck's going on here you should buy my book: bookshop.org/p/books/hors...

loved "Wuthering Heights."

probably because I've read my Robert Stam and know that fidelity in adaptation is literally impossible due to the shift in medium

that and i love stories about messy, messy assholes

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

“We were right about all of it! Except who was doing it, which was a totally unimportant part of our numerous frenzied accusations!”

*sigh* Tuesday. Another day in which I'm still not a full time writer.

Working on the book after long day at...work...and thinking, "Shit, this is a lot of work. Why do we do this, again?"

Think you have to form the writing muscle memory early so that when it gets even harder, you've done it so long you just keep doing it because you can't imagine doing anything else

Interview with an Editor: Adam al-Sirgany from SFWP - Chicago Review of Books Our interview with Adam al-Sirgany at SFWP.

Looking at small presses for your book & have dreamed of having your work read around the world? Check out Santa Fe Writers Project, managing editor @rachellayown.bsky.social writes. Read her interview with SFWP editor, @adamalsirgany.bsky.social below!
chireviewofbooks.com/2026/02/04/i...

The loss of the Book World section is absolutely devastating for writers, for readers, for anyone who loves books. The criticism and book news @roncharles.bsky.social did was my favorite books coverage, hands down, and so many wonderful, thoughtful reviews and writers doing great work - it’s awful

Sorry, I can't come into the office because my cat would be sad.

global enshittification

I worry that as we narrow the range of what we can talk about, think about, spend our time on, our ability to make expansive art and language shrinks, too, and so does our ability then to solve big problems and think creatively - all of which is the terrible point of fascism

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics Clip HD | The Mortal Storm | Warner Archive

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch or (Rewatch) "The Mortal Storm" (1940) - Dir. Frank Borzage, about the rise of Nazism (starring Jimmy Stewart & Margaret Sullavan).

It so infuriated Joseph Goebbels that he banned it in Germany & also all MGM films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12s...

the tallest boys stand in awe of you

OMG this is too real

Did not live up to the hype: Musical episode of Buffy
Did live up to the hype: Puppet episode of Angel

absolutely fkn wild that saying "random public executions by the state are bad" is noteworthy in 2026.

between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad

"The Beekeeper's Picnic" on Steam is one of the more charming Sherlock Holmes things I've seen in a long time. Reminiscent of old-school Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games while packing in the references for us geeks.

this is a correct take

I want to do an off-site at AWP. Does anyone have a slot for me to read about the Brady Bunch's dog?

My book, HORSE SHOW, is 50% off this weekend, only at SFWP!

Pick up brand-spanking new books by @carolinehagood.bsky.social @lumchanmfa.bsky.social and @stepheneoannou.bsky.social while you're at it!

the stupid, it burns

Joy is being married to someone who:

A. buys you the LEGO X-Mansion set

B. gleefully giggles along over the fact that there's a secret garden built under the roof (for Ororo!) that no one can see once the model is complete

C. answers "will you play X-Men with me?" with "YES"

I wish Danny the Street was real.

omg yes

under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales