Michelle

Where the cool kids are submitting their writing part 1 • Baltimore Review #Literary hub for diverse writing • Bloodletter Magazine #Feminist horror • Dreamworldgirl Zine #All things girlhood • fractured literary #Flash with emotional resonance • Fruitslice #Documenting Queer culture with the urgency and care it deserves • Gather #Social lit mag on Instagram and Substack • The Indianapolis Review #Writing that surprises, sings, and makes you think • Joyland #International fiction movement • The Margins #Asian American literary arts and ideas • ONE ART: a journal of poetry #Home for good poems • ONLY POEMS #Weird wild and wonderful poetry • Palette Magazine #Digital art collective for marginalized artists • Reed Magazine #International literary hub • River Teeth #Where good writing counts and facts matter • Sky Island Journal #Independent international literary experience • SmokeLong Quarterly #Some of the best flash narratives on the web • Sonder Literary #Showcasing every person's story • The Sun #Mapping the human landscape • Swamp Pink #Disrupting the power structures inherent to our institution •Under the Gum Tree #Quarterly literary arts magazine • Vellichor Literary #Indie multimedia for brewing creatives • Write or Die Magazine #Inclusive contemporary works

We asked you where the cool kids are submitting these days and here’s what you said 👀

Find everything you need to submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/cool_k...

'Trusting rather than finding our voice'... This is an important distinction!

Variations on the Form of I Remember: Voice 3 Writing experiment

One of my favourite writing experiments and forms of writing: I Remember. A great one for trusting (rather then finding) your voice.

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Voice A Zoom Masterclass Monday 10 February 2025, 7pm–8.30pm London time, £50 Trusting your natural speaking voice Finding your voice is one of the great myths of writing: you already have a voice. This …

And I’m talking more about trusting your voice in my Voice masterclass on Zoom on Monday.

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Thank you! Biggest congratulations to the editors!

Minnesota Book Awards Winners & Finalists - The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library The finalists for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards were chosen January 25 by 30 judges from around the state. Winners will be announced at the annual Ceremony

Very proud to have a piece in the Anthology finalist for the 2025 Minnesota Book Awards, 'Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces' edited by Margret Aldrich & Michelle Filkins (Spout Press)
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PEN America Criticizes "Alarming" and "Dismissive" Language on Book Bans by U.S. Education Department - PEN America Kasey Meehan, director, Freedom to Read, at PEN America, said: "For over three years we have countered rhetoric that book bans occurring in public schools are a “hoax.” They are absolutely not. This k...

PEN America responds to action taken today by the Department of Education dismissing complaints about book bans and referring to them as a “hoax”:

"All students deserve to see themselves and the world around them reflected in the books shelved within their public schools.“ pen.org/press-releas...

Now would be a good time to remind people that applications for the bursary for January's course are now open. jerichowriters.com/jericho-writ... 55 courses since April 2011 and 645 alumni! Please apply if you're eligible.

I’m not going to tell anyone how to do Bluesky, but I would like to encourage the following:

- Repost stuff you find interesting/entertaining - help others to find the good people to follow
- repost small creatives who you like who are trying to plug their work

The best time to write the first drafts, very much with you, though I'm more of a 5am writer...

I've long wondered about this. Will watch and learn!

One of my top ten ✨

It is now 😉

Sounds delicious - I'll be right over!

😂

Pepper is REGAL

Add me to Andrew's fans! Just had an exceptional class on genre and industry. Looking forward to one in December on Endings.

Beautiful kitties! 😍

Hello you! I'm just finding my way around here too 😊

@alynotalison.bsky.social hello! 😊

I'm just pages away from the end of The Light Years. First timer here too, what a discovery!

Hello! It's like the first warm day of Spring here... ☀️
(so far!🤞)

Whippet face looking quiet and dainty in late autumn sun, clearly would rather be on the sofa than out for a walk in nature even though he has a quilted jacket on.

Take pity - there was a small splash of mud on the path. The sofa is free of mud but his parents like walks in Nature.

Chestnut tree in a clearing, warm late afternoon light through the yellow leaves, darker golden leaves dropped around the base covering the ground.

As a first post here this is more representative of my Insta account but anyway, I like this picture.

Hi! 😊 Arrived on your follower list via someone else's list and thought, 'oh I remember (back in the day) following you on another site'. I'm a writer, trying to find my way around here...