Jess Wright

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Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

The Library Is a Commons A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.

This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad.

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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life.

And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

When people say “I want my kids to have things I never had the opportunity to have,” I did not realize they meant measles.

Freelance Writer Guidelines

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

I keep telling my friends: find your thing. Find one issue. Bury yourself in. Find comrades to join you. Build build build. Then the coalitions will form.

Re-opening: streetcake: experimental writing magazine streetcake: experimental writing magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/streetcake-experimental-writing-mag-13215 #amwriting

streetcake: experimental writing magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Art; non-paying) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

Manchester streets speak back.

This year, the Sealey Challenge is raising funds for Gaza. This August, you can read poems and support Palestine thanks to the Sealey Challenge and The Sameer Project. The Sealey Challenge is a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry ev…

The Sealey Challenge, a month-long project where participants read a book of poetry every day during August, is donating all money collected to The Sameer Project.

a week late because I ran away to the woods, but here’s my #chani / sappho / apocalypse poem, out in one of my favourite northern publications

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The Madrid Review

Writers & readers! Our main submissions are Poems to Palestine but you can submit poems & fiction via our Creative Writing Group. Just subscribe to The Madrid Review (it’s free!) and send your work!
#WritingCommunity #creativewriting
#wip #wips #submissions
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Subs open July 1st-13th: 1 poem per poet - Poems for Palestine The Madrid Review invites poets from around the world to submit one poem only, in Word format, as an email attachment between July 1 and July 13, 2025, for Issue 5 of the magazine which goes to print ...

Time to do it. Issue coedited by 22yr old Gaza poet Haia Mohammed - who had no food OR water today. She wants to read you. #GazaGenocide
“Poetry is an act of peace.” - Neruda
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators…” - Shelley
#Poetry #Peace #Palestine
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thousands march through New York City’s Times Square protesting the bombing of Iran.

Letters from Inside Iran's Evin Prison — The Dial Five Iranian women, all human rights activists, write of life behind bars.

On Monday, Israel struck Iran’s Evin prison, known for the intellectuals, activists, artists and students who have served time there—many of whom are fighting for democracy. In 2024, we published five Iranian women’s accounts of their life behind bars in Evin. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Truth

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

“I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.” Sally Rooney continues to be a real one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Moonlit still life with butterfly | Mary Fedden

Happy 21st day of Pride! It’s Pride Solstice! Pride Midsommar! Your goal today is florals, garlands and pagan weirdness so unsettling it scares the straights! Build a Wicker Gay! Lure folks to your gay rural village! Possibly don’t throw them off cliff! All hail the Green Man of Pride!

The literary world's prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 22k followers on Bluesky, which is more than the Paris Review, Granta, and Ploughshares combined. I assure you there is no literary world. It's just this contextual silo from like 20 years ago that's still pointlessly gatekept

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Almost as if gender critical transphobic politicians don’t actually care about women’s autonomy. Hmm.

This class explores techniques of politically-committed writing. Together will focus on strategies by which literature engages its social context and how we might skillfully incorporate some of these approaches ourselves!

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The existence of little private armies are actually major forces enforcing enclosure and inequality in our society, and they are positioned to play a huge role the the coming wave of fascist vigilante violence.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.