Laura Nagle
@lauralnagle.bsky.social
🙋♀️: translator, fiction writer, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: recently in The Common, North American Review, Latin American Literature Today
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: recently in The Common, North American Review, Latin American Literature Today
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
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REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
July 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.
David doesn’t even pretend to be miffed at the paparazzi. He wouldn’t be able to resist photographing someone this handsome, either.
February 17, 2026 at 2:08 AM
David doesn’t even pretend to be miffed at the paparazzi. He wouldn’t be able to resist photographing someone this handsome, either.
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LOVE YOUR WRITING this weekend! 😍
Today is the last day to get 10 percent off any creative writing class with the code VALENTINES10.
Check the class list here and sign up now!
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#writingcommunity
Today is the last day to get 10 percent off any creative writing class with the code VALENTINES10.
Check the class list here and sign up now!
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#writingcommunity
February 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
LOVE YOUR WRITING this weekend! 😍
Today is the last day to get 10 percent off any creative writing class with the code VALENTINES10.
Check the class list here and sign up now!
buff.ly/6GYxtgj
#writingcommunity
Today is the last day to get 10 percent off any creative writing class with the code VALENTINES10.
Check the class list here and sign up now!
buff.ly/6GYxtgj
#writingcommunity
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Five more days to register for SmokeLong March Micro Marathon! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
The March Micro Marathon 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Please book by February 20th! In its third year, The March Micro Marathon will be, as usual, a prompt-a-day whirlwind for 24 days. You’ll exchange drafts of micro fiction, non-fiction, and prose poetr...
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February 15, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Five more days to register for SmokeLong March Micro Marathon! www.smokelong.com/the-march-mi...
The way my cat meows at me through a closed door and the tone of voice I use when yelling SPEAK TO A HUMAN at an automated phone system are the same. Which makes sense, because he is, in fact, demanding to speak to a human.
February 13, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The way my cat meows at me through a closed door and the tone of voice I use when yelling SPEAK TO A HUMAN at an automated phone system are the same. Which makes sense, because he is, in fact, demanding to speak to a human.
Strongly recommend 😃
AWP members, get ready: Applications for Season 23 of Writer to Writer open in just three days! Apply by March 15, 2026, for a chance to work with a mentor in fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, for a session that runs May 4–July 24, 2026. Mentor applications are open year-round.
AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program
AWP’s mentorship program, Writer to Writer, matches emerging writers with established authors for a three-month series of modules on topics such as craft, revision, publishing, and the writing life.…
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February 12, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Strongly recommend 😃
I’m home sick, watching old episodes of Schitt’s Creek while snuggling with Alexis (cat), and I’m on an episode where Alexis (fictional human) has a bad cold. The only thing that offends my girl kitty more than my sneezing is her namesake’s sniffling. (She also despises “A Little Bit Alexis.”)
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
I’m home sick, watching old episodes of Schitt’s Creek while snuggling with Alexis (cat), and I’m on an episode where Alexis (fictional human) has a bad cold. The only thing that offends my girl kitty more than my sneezing is her namesake’s sniffling. (She also despises “A Little Bit Alexis.”)
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
I was reading a story to my niece (age 5—AND A HALF, she would want me to specify), and I stumbled over some words, so “took” came out as “tooked.”
Me: I’m not speaking English very well today, am I?
Her: You are very not.
Me: I’m not speaking English very well today, am I?
Her: You are very not.
February 8, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I was reading a story to my niece (age 5—AND A HALF, she would want me to specify), and I stumbled over some words, so “took” came out as “tooked.”
Me: I’m not speaking English very well today, am I?
Her: You are very not.
Me: I’m not speaking English very well today, am I?
Her: You are very not.
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Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.
February 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.
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When you come across racists complaining about Bad Bunny today, don’t forget to hit them with this: Puerto Rican literature about Puerto Rico written by a boricua. Yo sería borincano aunque naciera en la luna. Thanks and hope you have a great Sunday!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
When you come across racists complaining about Bad Bunny today, don’t forget to hit them with this: Puerto Rican literature about Puerto Rico written by a boricua. Yo sería borincano aunque naciera en la luna. Thanks and hope you have a great Sunday!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
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Not a surprise even the successful AI novelists are pivoting to selling AI hype to aspiring authors instead.
February 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Not a surprise even the successful AI novelists are pivoting to selling AI hype to aspiring authors instead.
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Today I learned that my ninth grade students know AI queries are worse for the environment than a web search, but they were under the impression they had no other choice, because Google searches have AI summary by default. PSA: You can add “-ai” to eliminate that misleading nonsense and save a tree.
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Today I learned that my ninth grade students know AI queries are worse for the environment than a web search, but they were under the impression they had no other choice, because Google searches have AI summary by default. PSA: You can add “-ai” to eliminate that misleading nonsense and save a tree.
Checked in at the doctor’s office with a receptionist who has this posted at her station. I feel like I’m in good hands here, and I wished her and her cat a nice weekend.
February 6, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Checked in at the doctor’s office with a receptionist who has this posted at her station. I feel like I’m in good hands here, and I wished her and her cat a nice weekend.
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
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We are delighted to team up with the Fine Arts Work Center to offer this (free!) event, "Human Translators in the Age of AI," to be held 3/19 at 6pm ET! Feat. Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Ian Giles, Umair Kazi & Kristen Renee Miller, moderated by Chenxin Jiang. More info here: buff.ly/fVccQNF
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 PM
We are delighted to team up with the Fine Arts Work Center to offer this (free!) event, "Human Translators in the Age of AI," to be held 3/19 at 6pm ET! Feat. Shelley Fairweather-Vega, Ian Giles, Umair Kazi & Kristen Renee Miller, moderated by Chenxin Jiang. More info here: buff.ly/fVccQNF
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Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*
A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football
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February 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*
A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.
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We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck!
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting
February 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck!
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting
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Seems interesting that even AI companies are admitting reliance on LLMs impairs learning and skills: “We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.” www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Seems interesting that even AI companies are admitting reliance on LLMs impairs learning and skills: “We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.” www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
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This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.
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Looking to read more international literature written by women? Check out these six great picks in translation, featuring books translated by former ALTA Award Winners Lin King (2025) and Martin Aitken (2022), as well as 2026 ALTA Mentor Deepa Bhasti. At the California Aggie:
A beginner’s guide to reading women in translation | The Aggie
Davis, California
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February 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Looking to read more international literature written by women? Check out these six great picks in translation, featuring books translated by former ALTA Award Winners Lin King (2025) and Martin Aitken (2022), as well as 2026 ALTA Mentor Deepa Bhasti. At the California Aggie:
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Where’s David?: Definitely Not in a Blanket Fort Edition
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Where’s David?: Definitely Not in a Blanket Fort Edition