Dylan Ward

Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores. Today we mark the launch of a new literary institution: the National Association of Black Bookstores. A nonprofit collective and member-based organization, the NAB2 looks to “amplify Black vo…

The National Association of Black Bookstores seeks to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”

Recording tomorrow; if you have a goodbye message for us that you'd like to get on the show, please send it in by tonight (feel free to send in later too... it just won't make the cutoff for recording)

Save Our Signs Save Our Signs: Celebrate All-American History

Support the National Park Service and efforts to document and archive our accessible history for all.

promo image featuring author photos of Athena Dixon, Wendy Fontain, Me, Alexis Paige, Rae Pagliarulo, and TBA. Header: An Evening W/ The Editors. Sunday 8/17, 6-8 PM online. More details: hippocampusmagazine.com/events

Hey, I'm going to be speaking on this awesome panel as part of the @hippocampusmag.bsky.social HippoCamp Online weekend. If you don't sign up for me, at least do it for TBA (it could be ANYONE)

hippocampusmagazine.com/event/an-eve...

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity. Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…

A local library in Virginia has successfully stopped a takeover by a private equity group.

Book cover image of Accessing Parenthood: Stories By and About Parents with Disabilities. Image includes vague figure standing on a pink hill and a white dandelion.

Slow Reading — Wolsak & Wynn An antidote to our crazy world

We have a brilliant essay up on our blog from essayist Margaret Nowaczyk on the joy, and importance, of Slow Reading:
www.wolsakandwynn.ca/blog/2025/07...

Authors petition publishers to curtail their use of AI The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

The open letter and accompanying petition asking publishers "to make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines" garnered more than 600 signatures within a few hours.

Reasons to Love Libraries: 23 Notable Authors and Public Figures Share Their Joy They are a community’s soul, “cathedrals to who we should be as a society,” and so much more.

www.slj.com/story/reason...

Quote: "She tends to the structure, repairing damage, devoting energy to producing both the silk and the pattern for her web. In turn, the web feeds her." Tagline: —Kasey Butcher Santana, "In Defense of Spiders" A logo in the top right reads “Longreads”

"She tends to the structure, repairing damage, devoting energy to producing both the silk and the pattern for her web. In turn, the web feeds her." @kaseybwriter.bsky.social #writing #self-censorship

longreads.com/2025/04/08/w...

Wonderful, thank you for sharing!

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I will take my emdash and spear it through the glowing eye of any robot who tries to claim it.

Barrelhouse Submission Manager Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...

We're open for @barrelhouse.bsky.social nonfiction subs for another 9 days. I've only got 47 submissions so far, and would love to see way more. Please make my life more difficult, thank you

barrelhouse.submittable.com

Nah. Everything with Trump is about Trump. If it were another, President, maybe. But really, there’s no need for this expensive showboating.

My Best Tortoise-Hustle Pace: On Writing and Running By Christine Wiese I’m only three miles into the Asheville half marathon when the male front runners round the first turnaround point and come back past us. The gazelles, as I think of them, run wi…

"I write because I can’t not write. Often it’s more lumbering than loping. But like running, my strength is my need to write. And if I keep putting one foot in front of the other I still cross the finish line at the end." ~ Christine Wiese brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/t...

Not sure how to wave but yes I’m a real person here. Supporting book lovers, literary mags, publishers, and other writers out there too!

These LGBTQ+ Lit Mags are Changing the Game and you need to know about them • just femme & dandy Vibe: Playful, crafty, visionary • Girls and Queers to the Front Vibe: DIY, collective, daring • AURORE Vibe: Slutty but sensitive erotica • Dreamworldgirl Zine Vibe: Whimsical, nostalgic, empowering • fifth wheel press Vibe: Expansive, experimental, genrequeer • fourteen poems Vibe: Queer, joy, poems • Bloodletter Magazine Vibe: Lush, vile, unrestrictive • CHAPSTICK MAGAZINE Vibe: Lesbian, personal, collaborative • Foglifter Vibe: Queer, rainbow, revolutionary • Queer Gaze Vibe: Sacred, slutty, subversive • Fruitslice Vibe: Unapologetic; playful, community • FlowerMouth Press Vibe: Diverse, empowering, whimsical • Moody Vibe: Queer & bipoc creations • Ouch! Collective Vibe: Dreamy, bold, unusual • Snowflake Magazine Vibe: Indie, eco-friendly, entry-level • The Infinite Blues Review Vibe: Melancholic, peculiar, liberated • frenetic Vibe: Radical, flamboyant, whimsical

These LGBTQ+ lit mags are changing the game.

We asked the editors to describe their vibe in 3 words and the vibes are good, real good.

Shoutout to @vellichorliterary.bsky.social for teaming up with us on this!

Submission details & website links: www.chillsubs.com/lists/LGBTQ_...

Art and Storytelling

Just one reminder of why the arts matter and how the National Endowment for the Arts is critical in supporting these initiatives.

Snake Son, Lucy Zhang, Issue 16.2 Snake Son My boy slipped out like a snake rather than human. I had thought I’d be having a daughter like my mother and grandmother and great grandmother, cursed with girls they’d craft into paper p…

What a marvelous, haunting piece from @dango-ramen.bsky.social

barelysouthreview.com/snake-son-lu...

Confidence is a big one!

Hello all - Dylan Ward here. Glad to see everyone!

MARS provides 1- and 2-week residencies, meals & accommodation provided. Two of our editors attended residencies and loved them.

TLR is again offering a fellowship for a BIPOC writer to attend. More information on the TLR Fellowship: welcometomars.submittable.com/submit
Deadline is May 15!!

Down in the Gully by Dominic Leading Fox - Rattle: Poetry I seen him down in the gully, walking like he was beyond the reach of Time.

I love this one, written by a promising young poet! @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

www.rattle.com/down-in-the-...