ghazal azad jahan

it's lit: a literary magazine submissions workshop led by nat raum. $10-30 sliding scale. oct 29 @ 7PM EST. register at natraum.com/workshops.

about the workshop: This is an informative workshop designed to break down the process of submitting to literary magazines. Hear expertise from the instructor and their network, learn about new magazines, and gain insight into the editorial process. This workshop is genreless—writers and artists working in any genre or medium are invited to join. register at natraum.com/workshops

about your instructor: nat raum’s writing and artwork has been published by beestung, Poet Lore, Split Lip Magazine, and more. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all of which were proudly published independently. register at natraum.com/workshops

Can't make it? You can donate a smaller amount for just the slide deck. Select “i’m just here for the prompts” on the registration form. register at natraum.com/workshops

for newbies and veterans alike, this workshop breaks down the nitty gritty of how and why i submit to literary magazines. it's very helpful, according to my students who have received most of this advice already.

natraum.com/workshops to sign up

i forgot this site exists . .

"Deny, Defend, Depose"
Seen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

used submittable for the first time and it was, in fact, not as intimidating as I was making it in my head.

tweet from Rasha Abdulhadi (@/rashaabdulhadi) "Even if you've never done BDS before: Boycotting between now and January 1st will hit corporations the hardest. They make most of their money for the year in these last 5 weeks. So, how little can you spend on the death machine? 🙏🏼❤💚🤍🖤"

"Even if you've never done BDS before:

Boycotting between now and January 1st will hit corporations the hardest. They make most of their money for the year in these last 5 weeks.

So, how little can you spend on the death machine?
🙏🏼❤💚🤍🖤" #BDSMaxxing #BDS

Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵

TV Writers Found 139,000 of Their Scripts Trained AI. Hell Broke Loose It's 'organized crime,' says one, as scribes from Shonda Rhimes to Robert King face a system where studio policy and law remain murky

Big Tech is training AI on thousands of TV/film scripts. I spoke to showrunners, IP and business affairs lawyers — as well as the programmer at The Atlantic who examined this data set — to find out what happens next

The latest Series Business @theankler.bsky.social
theankler.com/p/tv-writers...

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Daughters : I don’t know how many evenings had my mother scrubbed her heart at the bottom of the cup. I see scratches casting back my face. I think, they are screaming, asking me to run away.

Follow @mosababutoha.bsky.social, read FOREST OF NOISE and THINGS YOU MAY FIND HIDDEN IN MY EAR

the railing looks like jail bars. it reminds me of the fork jail.

A cute little white cat on the stairs

Turned a corner and suddenly saw this guy chillin in the stairwell on my building just now

Akram is supporting his mother and five younger siblings, and they're almost three-quarters of the way to their goal. I know we're all spread thin, but many small donations will work wonders where big donations are rarely even possible—please join me in donating to this one now! gofund.me/42bf8c6f

Donate to Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety, organized by Caroline Corbett Hi beautiful people! My name is Caroline and i’m a U.S. citizen from Utah… Caroline Corbett needs your support for Help Muhammad and Lubna evacuate to safety

If you want Bluesky to be a viable platform as the internet's new town square, it must be capable of building support for Palestinians during the genocide or it will only ever be a walled garden of denial. Please help Muhammad and Lubna with donations and/or boosts. www.gofundme.com/f/help-muham...

still a favourite of mine!

bsky.app/profile/odeo...

Different platform, same censorship. There is no safe space for Palestinians, neither offline or online.

please send something if you can 🙏🏽

ACAB sticker spotted in Kingston, Canberra

Created the Black Creatives Starter Pack (Non-Visual Artists) if any Black creatives wants to join:
go.bsky.app/AE94DEN

and yes, i was tired (could you even tell?) of said fans be vile to palestinian( & arab) fans that asked for a zionist shareholder to be resigned from the office. anyways. #HybeDivestFromZionism

a piece i wrote on my personal blog (where i usually talk of music), talking of anti-capitalism, socio-political lyrics that surface in song ‘polar night’ (agustd) after i was fed up with a good chunk of his fandom detach the message from the artist.

clefkeys.substack.com/p/are-we-tru...

Writing the Workplace — Workshops 4 Gaza In this workshop, we’ll explore how to weave our own experiences of work into our writing by examining power, agency, and the intrigue of routine.

Oct 30: Workshops 4 Gaza presents Writing the Workplace with author and editor Kyle Lucia Wu, raising funds for the Abd Rabou family

Register and donate > www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

If you’re Arab+-Queer+-Gamedev PLEASE make yourself known! I am desperate to find more of us (and maybe start a lil something hm)
و احكوني بالعربي كمان! بحكي لبناني بسّ فيّي إفهم أكتريّة اللهجات أظن ☺️🫶🏻

these days, i keep thinking of turning it into a short fiction but i fear i would ruin its rawness. it is supposed to be read as a conversation. a very heart-to-heart talk before parting.

i’ve a prose (almost a short fiction, if i be frank — saying almost, because it has a story-like unfolding narration but not the preciseness of the genre) i found no real home for. kind of want it off my hands. she's too beautiful to be reserved just for my eyes.

Two stunningly beautiful humans cosplaying Blue and Red from This Is How You Lose the Time War, a book I co-wrote with Max Gladstone. One is dressed very femininely in blue and holding up a red envelope, while the other is wearing a red and black armour situation printed on a leotard and holding up a blue envelope.

This made my whole week

Haymarket Books Haymarket Books is a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago.

Come work with us! Haymarket Books is hiring a full-time programming and events coordinator to join our team. www.haymarketbooks.org/pg/jobs#PROG...

ANMLY Submission Manager **ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

ANMLY is now open for new work in ALL genres!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap39

“Israel cannot do any of this … without the US and western European countries. The US gives Israel the green light. It is a party to the war on Palestine. … I am not just at this because I am a Palestinian. It is because I am an American. Because we are responsible.” — Rashid Khalidi