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...

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

“We 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

From the missouri community on Reddit: Missouri Farmers on Trump and P2025 Explore this post and more from the missouri community

“You’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...

Someone just called me from the “Harris 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!

Be kind to possums

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

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

We've reopened for submissions in all genres! Send us work to warm us up and give us chills! ☕️🌨️

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

Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘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...

"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

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

I like how the white-eared opossums in South America look like the ones around here but with more pronounced goth makeup.

My wish for you in 2025, friends: May you find the thing you love as much as Cami loves this fish. #dogs #fishing

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

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

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

@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.

Ok how many times can I LOVE THIS POST 😭😍

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

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis? The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

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

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

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.'"

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" ...

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" ...

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

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…

“I 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.”

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!

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.