Emily Brockway

Every day’s Halloween if you work in indie lit long enough…

14 Lit mags with excellent reputations *Competitive *Popular • AGNI #Jolting the inner eye • Baltimore Review #Space for expression • Brevity #Spotlighting the brief essay form • Gulf Coast #Community-oriented excellence • The Cincinnati Review #Championing diversity and growth • Granta #Narrative, visceral, and high-stakes • Georgia Review #Honoring differences • Kenyon Review #Lyric risk and emotional presence • The Malahat Review #Top-tier writing with a Canadian focus • Island Magazine #Sharp, artful, and grounded • The Missouri Review #Current and curated • Black Warrior Review #A beacon for adventurous writing • The Threepenny Review #Radical accuracy and genuineness • SmokeLong Quarterly #Eclectic and challenging work

These award-winning lit mags would be a crown jewel in any writer's bio *wink*

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#writing #writingcommunity

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

The Steady State has asked Congress to investigate reports of an “Interagency Weaponization Working Group” — a group allegedly using the IC and law enforcement to target political opponents. If true, it marks a slide toward a domestic surveillance or retribution mechanism—an American KGB.

Personal inflection takes courage. And publishing essays is just the start (and the necessary spark) to show the toxic bully pulpit that the pen WILL be mightier than the sword.

Maybe I’m just old school, but I think leaders should aspire to personal & professional conduct that motivates more people to attend a July 4th parade w/free fireworks than a protest on a chilly Saturday in October to shame your effigy. 🤷‍♀️ #NoKings

This is why I appreciate the list subscription feature. Auto blocked before I even knew they existed!

4 panel comic Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

the US government has arrived on bluesky

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

2025 is letting us know it hates us and is punishing us for our stupidity. The universe is reaping all the good ones from Hollywood & Rock n Roll.

TBH I missed the connection. Entirely on me!

Ah, noted!

Due process is required to determine who is and is not a criminal. Otherwise it’s simply murdering suspects w/o distinction of who is likely innocent. If we want to consider this “combat” these actions do not comport with the Law of Armed Conflict.

Upright Writing Battle’s 2025 Summer Nanofiction Battle

Finally posted my @writingbattle.bsky.social Summer Nanofiction, “Upright.” medium.com/@ebrockway/u...

This one was… personal. 🫡💔

And I must be an Elder GenXer because I still cling to my Medium account.

Ada Lovelace used mathematics to design the world’s first algorithm intended for a machine. This was done decades before computers were even built!

Who is a woman in STEM that inspires you? 👩‍🔬🧪

#AdaLovelace #WomeninSTEM #Science

Excellent reference. 💯

Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.

Apparently the Rapture was a Microsoft Teams call and of course I missed it.

MAHA v. Mamdani - Boston Review Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness.

Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility.

@rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

Patrick Henry

Dunning Kruger, in human form.

You must be a fascinating creature at dinner parties.

Shush your mouth, Marie Kondo! Lol

Yes, Karen Attiah.

Karen Attiah, Washington Post.

“prove me wrong” no i will not be participating in that. you made a bullshit claim and i will be going about my day in reality

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

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Well done!

The peer feedback was thoughtful & appreciated. I’ll definitely make some changes & finally submit this piece - somewhere - for possible pub. I really enjoyed this competition. A definite repeat.