Arman Chowdhury 🍉
@armanchowdhury.bsky.social
Writer 🇧🇩 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Finalist. Associate Fiction Editor, West Branch magazine 2023-25. Notre Dame MFA ‘23. Tin House ‘22. Loft literary Fellow ´21.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Excited to report that dozens have signed up for this free course. I’m so glad I can help serious writers with their creative writing endeavors, based on my own past experiences of applying to competitive opportunities. You can still access it if you’re interested. ❤️
Sad day for the fascist community
Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
Ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
Hasina sentenced in abstentia by court in Dhaka over deadly crackdown on student-led uprising last year
Bangladesh’s deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in abstentia by a court in Dhaka for crimes against humanity over a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.
A three-judge bench of the country’s international crimes tribunal convicted Hasina of crimes including incitement, orders to kill, and inaction to prevent atrocities, carried out as she oversaw a crackdown on anti-government protesters last year. Continue reading...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Sad day for the fascist community
@loftliterarycenter.bsky.social’s year-long novel-writing program helped me draft my first novel. Without their generous support, and Peter Geye’s early encouragement, I doubt I’d have “The Native Nonpeople of Silt Island” on submission in the UK, US, and India right now...
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@loftliterarycenter.bsky.social’s year-long novel-writing program helped me draft my first novel. Without their generous support, and Peter Geye’s early encouragement, I doubt I’d have “The Native Nonpeople of Silt Island” on submission in the UK, US, and India right now...
At least someone’s excited it’s snowing in early November
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 AM
At least someone’s excited it’s snowing in early November
Daily writing prompt #93:
Write a story where something extraordinary is released into the world—a medical breakthrough, a conspiracy, a high profile kidnapping. Your narrator, a mid-tier influencer hungry for a breakthrough of their own, is swept into the chaos and finds…
Write a story where something extraordinary is released into the world—a medical breakthrough, a conspiracy, a high profile kidnapping. Your narrator, a mid-tier influencer hungry for a breakthrough of their own, is swept into the chaos and finds…
November 9, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Daily writing prompt #93:
Write a story where something extraordinary is released into the world—a medical breakthrough, a conspiracy, a high profile kidnapping. Your narrator, a mid-tier influencer hungry for a breakthrough of their own, is swept into the chaos and finds…
Write a story where something extraordinary is released into the world—a medical breakthrough, a conspiracy, a high profile kidnapping. Your narrator, a mid-tier influencer hungry for a breakthrough of their own, is swept into the chaos and finds…
Hey, if you’re applying to MFA / PhD programs in creative writing this fall, might I interest you in a 5-day online course designed to help you build your applications? The course is completely free and delivered through emails. Sign up for it here: applymfa.kit.com
Free 5-Day Email Course for Creative Writing MFA & PhD Applicants
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November 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hey, if you’re applying to MFA / PhD programs in creative writing this fall, might I interest you in a 5-day online course designed to help you build your applications? The course is completely free and delivered through emails. Sign up for it here: applymfa.kit.com
Daily writing prompt #92:
Write a story about someone home alone who hears themselves in another room. Softly speaking, humming, or maybe laughing under their breath. At first, it’s easy to rationalize. Maybe the mind is playing tricks. But then the voice says something the…
Write a story about someone home alone who hears themselves in another room. Softly speaking, humming, or maybe laughing under their breath. At first, it’s easy to rationalize. Maybe the mind is playing tricks. But then the voice says something the…
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Daily writing prompt #92:
Write a story about someone home alone who hears themselves in another room. Softly speaking, humming, or maybe laughing under their breath. At first, it’s easy to rationalize. Maybe the mind is playing tricks. But then the voice says something the…
Write a story about someone home alone who hears themselves in another room. Softly speaking, humming, or maybe laughing under their breath. At first, it’s easy to rationalize. Maybe the mind is playing tricks. But then the voice says something the…
Daily writing prompt #91:
Write an autofictional story in which you are the narrator, trying to make sense of your life through the act of writing itself. Begin with something real, like a conversation you regret, or a passing remark that lodged in your mind, and allow it…
Write an autofictional story in which you are the narrator, trying to make sense of your life through the act of writing itself. Begin with something real, like a conversation you regret, or a passing remark that lodged in your mind, and allow it…
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Daily writing prompt #91:
Write an autofictional story in which you are the narrator, trying to make sense of your life through the act of writing itself. Begin with something real, like a conversation you regret, or a passing remark that lodged in your mind, and allow it…
Write an autofictional story in which you are the narrator, trying to make sense of your life through the act of writing itself. Begin with something real, like a conversation you regret, or a passing remark that lodged in your mind, and allow it…
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From the archive, 1989: fiction by John Updike.
‘David Kern, in these three days, had felt himself become pulplike – shapeless, lost and swallowed.’
granta.com/the-lens-fac...
‘David Kern, in these three days, had felt himself become pulplike – shapeless, lost and swallowed.’
granta.com/the-lens-fac...
The Lens Factory | John Updike | Granta Magazine
‘It made him feel lopsided, this sense of being plucked at by nervousness and dread.’ Fiction from John Updike for Granta 28: Birthday Special.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
From the archive, 1989: fiction by John Updike.
‘David Kern, in these three days, had felt himself become pulplike – shapeless, lost and swallowed.’
granta.com/the-lens-fac...
‘David Kern, in these three days, had felt himself become pulplike – shapeless, lost and swallowed.’
granta.com/the-lens-fac...
Daily writing prompt #90:
Write a story about a monster who has spent years trying to blend into human society. It has a steady job, an apartment, and a gym membership, but its difference shows up in ways no disguise can hide. Its fingerprints never scan right at the office…
Write a story about a monster who has spent years trying to blend into human society. It has a steady job, an apartment, and a gym membership, but its difference shows up in ways no disguise can hide. Its fingerprints never scan right at the office…
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Daily writing prompt #90:
Write a story about a monster who has spent years trying to blend into human society. It has a steady job, an apartment, and a gym membership, but its difference shows up in ways no disguise can hide. Its fingerprints never scan right at the office…
Write a story about a monster who has spent years trying to blend into human society. It has a steady job, an apartment, and a gym membership, but its difference shows up in ways no disguise can hide. Its fingerprints never scan right at the office…
Daily writing prompt #89:
Write a story in the form of a travel diary by a weary writer who retreats to a small coastal lodge to finish their book. The lodge is run by a witch. She brews storms in the mornings and rainbows…
Write a story in the form of a travel diary by a weary writer who retreats to a small coastal lodge to finish their book. The lodge is run by a witch. She brews storms in the mornings and rainbows…
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Daily writing prompt #89:
Write a story in the form of a travel diary by a weary writer who retreats to a small coastal lodge to finish their book. The lodge is run by a witch. She brews storms in the mornings and rainbows…
Write a story in the form of a travel diary by a weary writer who retreats to a small coastal lodge to finish their book. The lodge is run by a witch. She brews storms in the mornings and rainbows…
Sorry if I were in your earshot on the gym floor tonight and you had to tolerate my interminable vocal bursts. I was only trying to watch the Mamdani Cuomo debate. Also, Curtis??—who is this diva dealing the snarkiest quips at Cuomo. Give him his beret back! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor!
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Sorry if I were in your earshot on the gym floor tonight and you had to tolerate my interminable vocal bursts. I was only trying to watch the Mamdani Cuomo debate. Also, Curtis??—who is this diva dealing the snarkiest quips at Cuomo. Give him his beret back! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for mayor!
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
What I love about Chris Kraus’ latest novel “The Four Spent the Day Together” is that it reads like an arbitrarily collated text dump of a writer’s entire computer hard drive—files spanning her essay drafts on family history to save-for-later newsarticles on teenage murder.
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
What I love about Chris Kraus’ latest novel “The Four Spent the Day Together” is that it reads like an arbitrarily collated text dump of a writer’s entire computer hard drive—files spanning her essay drafts on family history to save-for-later newsarticles on teenage murder.
He waits for me to take his pictures
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
He waits for me to take his pictures
As writers, artists, creators, we level up when we have an abundance mindset with regard to putting our work into the world. Rejection from the status quo doesn’t have to keep us from reaching our people and audience.
October 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As writers, artists, creators, we level up when we have an abundance mindset with regard to putting our work into the world. Rejection from the status quo doesn’t have to keep us from reaching our people and audience.
Daily writing prompt #88:
Write a story centered on the unbearable act of waiting. Someone sits by a window, a hospital bed, a phone that refuses to ring. They’re waiting for news: a loved one to reach home safely, to wake from surgery, to take their final breath…
Write a story centered on the unbearable act of waiting. Someone sits by a window, a hospital bed, a phone that refuses to ring. They’re waiting for news: a loved one to reach home safely, to wake from surgery, to take their final breath…
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Daily writing prompt #88:
Write a story centered on the unbearable act of waiting. Someone sits by a window, a hospital bed, a phone that refuses to ring. They’re waiting for news: a loved one to reach home safely, to wake from surgery, to take their final breath…
Write a story centered on the unbearable act of waiting. Someone sits by a window, a hospital bed, a phone that refuses to ring. They’re waiting for news: a loved one to reach home safely, to wake from surgery, to take their final breath…
Trying to write a character who’s way more educated than I am on paper and…I might as well get a PhD in the process
October 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trying to write a character who’s way more educated than I am on paper and…I might as well get a PhD in the process
Daily writing prompt #87:
Write a story about a seemingly small tragedy—a bus explosion, a collapsing bridge, a neighborhood accident—that quietly transforms the lives of everyone connected to it. Let the story unfold through the intersecting perspectives of survivors,…
Write a story about a seemingly small tragedy—a bus explosion, a collapsing bridge, a neighborhood accident—that quietly transforms the lives of everyone connected to it. Let the story unfold through the intersecting perspectives of survivors,…
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Daily writing prompt #87:
Write a story about a seemingly small tragedy—a bus explosion, a collapsing bridge, a neighborhood accident—that quietly transforms the lives of everyone connected to it. Let the story unfold through the intersecting perspectives of survivors,…
Write a story about a seemingly small tragedy—a bus explosion, a collapsing bridge, a neighborhood accident—that quietly transforms the lives of everyone connected to it. Let the story unfold through the intersecting perspectives of survivors,…
Daily writing prompt #86:
Write a story set in a quiet mountain village when news arrives announcing that Earth is spiraling toward the sun. At first no one believes it—crops are fine, the sky looks unchanged—but soon heat becomes unbearable, order collapses, and…
Write a story set in a quiet mountain village when news arrives announcing that Earth is spiraling toward the sun. At first no one believes it—crops are fine, the sky looks unchanged—but soon heat becomes unbearable, order collapses, and…
October 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Daily writing prompt #86:
Write a story set in a quiet mountain village when news arrives announcing that Earth is spiraling toward the sun. At first no one believes it—crops are fine, the sky looks unchanged—but soon heat becomes unbearable, order collapses, and…
Write a story set in a quiet mountain village when news arrives announcing that Earth is spiraling toward the sun. At first no one believes it—crops are fine, the sky looks unchanged—but soon heat becomes unbearable, order collapses, and…
My poor dog recovering from his neutering procedure.
October 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My poor dog recovering from his neutering procedure.
Daily writing prompt #85:
Write a story set in a society where people still dress, speak, and behave like it is the Victorian era, yet the world runs on advanced AI, autonomous machines, and self-thinking architecture. Self-driving carriages glide quietly down cobblestone...
Write a story set in a society where people still dress, speak, and behave like it is the Victorian era, yet the world runs on advanced AI, autonomous machines, and self-thinking architecture. Self-driving carriages glide quietly down cobblestone...
October 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Daily writing prompt #85:
Write a story set in a society where people still dress, speak, and behave like it is the Victorian era, yet the world runs on advanced AI, autonomous machines, and self-thinking architecture. Self-driving carriages glide quietly down cobblestone...
Write a story set in a society where people still dress, speak, and behave like it is the Victorian era, yet the world runs on advanced AI, autonomous machines, and self-thinking architecture. Self-driving carriages glide quietly down cobblestone...
Soft launching my desi public persona wearing my late grandfather’s fit
September 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Soft launching my desi public persona wearing my late grandfather’s fit
I opened a TikTok a/c to follow writer-reviewers who talk about books, craft, and the writing lifestyle, but there weren’t many I could find, esp no writers of color. The one time I *want* to doomscroll… 🤦♂️…If you have recs please let me know.
September 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I opened a TikTok a/c to follow writer-reviewers who talk about books, craft, and the writing lifestyle, but there weren’t many I could find, esp no writers of color. The one time I *want* to doomscroll… 🤦♂️…If you have recs please let me know.
Ooof, the writing is 🔥
August 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Ooof, the writing is 🔥