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62 Writing Contests in April 2025 - No entry fees This April there are more than five dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range ...

62 Writing Contests in April 2025 - No entry fees. #writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/2025/03/62-w...

26.03.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine United24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

Don't forget that you can donate directly to Ukraine! u24.gov.ua/about #ukraine

02.03.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWe can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

21.02.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 20912    πŸ” 4627    πŸ’¬ 151    πŸ“Œ 180
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From the missouri community on Reddit: Missouri Farmers on Trump and P2025 Explore this post and more from the missouri community

β€œYou’re not wrong, you were lied to.” Thoughtful, intelligent message to US farmers. I feel like this is the sort of messaging that could help us get through to rural communities.
www.reddit.com/r/missouri/s...

10.02.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone just called me from the β€œHarris County Sheriff’s Office” to tell me I was in big trouble for not responding to a jury duty summons. Said if I hung up on him, he’d dispatch police right to my home.

I LOVE jury duty. There’s no way I missed a summons to perform my civic duty.

Beware #scams!

26.01.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Be kind to possums

25.01.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

For the first time in my life, I went on a trip and read all the books I brought with me.

There I was, on the last flight home with NOTHING to read.

THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN. THEY WERE WRONG.

Moral: bring more books.

#books #reading #travel

22.01.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All I really want, pretty much all the time, is for someone to bring me an omelette without me having to ask for it. Tomatoes, onions, spinach, a little cheese. Thanks. #food #omelette #goals

18.01.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've reopened for submissions in all genres! Send us work to warm us up and give us chills! β˜•οΈπŸŒ¨οΈ

15.01.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Movie poster for The Substance. Lead actresses faces separated by a syringe.

Movie poster for The Substance. Lead actresses faces separated by a syringe.

Well that was a wild ride. The gore! The fluids! The butts! 10/10 #thesubstance #movies #demimoore

12.01.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of β€˜pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings

They know they're breaking the law - they're making billions of dollars doing it.
And the authors whose work they're using? No payment and no consent.
#zuckerberg #copyright #writing #meta
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

10.01.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Writing a little bit each day is akin to leaving the faucets dripping on a cold January night; while the ideas are flowing the creative pipes won’t freeze." ~ @marthasilano.bsky.social

10.01.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This was right before she fell off the dock and into the pond. (She was fine! Doggy-paddled to the shore.)

09.01.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I like how the white-eared opossums in South America look like the ones around here but with more pronounced goth makeup.

08.01.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 783    πŸ” 123    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 6
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My wish for you in 2025, friends: May you find the thing you love as much as Cami loves this fish. #dogs #fishing

09.01.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us

09.01.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 41673    πŸ” 9356    πŸ’¬ 771    πŸ“Œ 281

Wooohoo!! I LOVE THIS PIECE SO MUCH! Way to go, Wendy!

09.01.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't wait for y'all to see the gorgeous work in this issue!

08.01.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@beckyltuch.bsky.social Do you know what's going on with Joyland Magazine? They say they're open to submissions year-round but have been closed for a few months.

08.01.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok how many times can I LOVE THIS POST 😭😍

06.01.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet has a +chocolate bar subscription, and now all my issues come with chocolate. This is the way.

04.01.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis? The questionable statistic at the heart of the β€œmen don’t read fiction” discourse.

Someone finally fact-checked that 80/20% book-reading statistic... Thanks @constancegrady.bsky.social ! www.vox.com/culture/3929...

04.01.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

01.01.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5152    πŸ” 2061    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 128

3/3 (whoops) "whose story she’s selected from the online submission form. She does name unagented/unsolicited authors published, but ... likely all of those stories were submitted through connections. When she’s asked how to get a story into the New Yorker, she basically says, 'Through your agent.'"

17.12.2024 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2/2 "The previous fiction editor of the New Yorker, Bill Buford, never bought a single story from the open slush during his eight-year tenure. The current editor, Deborah Treisman, is a bit more cagey, but, in interviews, she has never named a single person" ...

17.12.2024 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1/2 @beckyltuch.bsky.social (via @rossbarkan.bsky.social) confirming what we always suspected - nothing in that New Yorker slush pile ever stood a chance. 😭 "[T]here is…substantial evidence that it is completely impossible to sell to the New Yorker through the submissions form" ...

17.12.2024 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chill Subs Community Favorites: Best Lit Mag of 2024

Chill Subs is hosting a competition to choose your favorite literary journals, and flash has its own category! You can go here to vote: tally.so/r/mKPJ4A

07.12.2024 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...

Funny, accurate, horrifying…

β€œI pursued outside funding for my research for my next book ... However, I am still awaiting the final word, as the grant is contingent upon whether the incoming presidential administration declares the National Endowment for the Humanities a terrorist organization.”

04.12.2024 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cat is standing on its hind legs in front of a door . ALT: a cat is standing on its hind legs in front of a door .

Last day to send us your work before we close for a little break! Excited to see your flash, stories, essays, poems, artwork!

30.11.2024 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

03.12.2024 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 57852    πŸ” 6410    πŸ’¬ 1295    πŸ“Œ 461

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