Ani Cooney
@anicooney.bsky.social
Writer | https://anicooney.com
Stories in The Georgia Review, Epiphany, The Adroit Journal and Best Debut Short Stories | Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow at One Story Magazine
Stories in The Georgia Review, Epiphany, The Adroit Journal and Best Debut Short Stories | Adina Talve-Goodman Fellow at One Story Magazine
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Ani Cooney
@anicooney.bsky.social
· Sep 21
My short story collection is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 🦚 ! Thank you @loriostlund and the judges for this recognition and championing the short story form! Congratulations to Will Boast whose short story collection will be published by @ugapress next fall !
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November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Hala Alyan.
November 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
VOICES FOR GAZA brought together Palestinian writers, activists, & their allies. Before hundreds, the speakers demonstrated one of the most important values that can sustain us in a time of seemingly unending mourning, resistance, and struggle: solidarity. In this post, we hear from Hala Alyan.
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Applications for One Story's 2026 Writing Circle are due Nov. 30th! The Writing Circle is a year-long education program and accountability group, hosted and moderated by One Story. For details visit: bit.ly/3WELNeL
#writing #writingcommunity #writingaccountability #writinggroups #writingclasses
#writing #writingcommunity #writingaccountability #writinggroups #writingclasses
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Applications for One Story's 2026 Writing Circle are due Nov. 30th! The Writing Circle is a year-long education program and accountability group, hosted and moderated by One Story. For details visit: bit.ly/3WELNeL
#writing #writingcommunity #writingaccountability #writinggroups #writingclasses
#writing #writingcommunity #writingaccountability #writinggroups #writingclasses
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If we've talked about how our careers are going lately, this one is for you. lithub.com/dont-let-the...
Don’t Let the Publishing Industry Get You Down (It Happens to the Best of Us)
Over the course of the last couple of weeks I’ve talked to college students, masters program students, and professionals at Comic Con in my roles as author and freelance writer and former editor. I…
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October 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
If we've talked about how our careers are going lately, this one is for you. lithub.com/dont-let-the...
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Applications are open for @onestorymag.bsky.social's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship! This is a year-long educational fellowship for early career writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. one-story.com/learn/fellow...
September 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Applications are open for @onestorymag.bsky.social's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship! This is a year-long educational fellowship for early career writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. one-story.com/learn/fellow...
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What really haunts a haunted house? This autumn, ring in all hallows season with stories of houses visited by otherworldly entities with @puloma.bsky.social’s reading group, Holding Darkness Within: A Haunted House Short Story Course. Open to readers and writers of all levels. bit.ly/4mFFpOG
September 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
What really haunts a haunted house? This autumn, ring in all hallows season with stories of houses visited by otherworldly entities with @puloma.bsky.social’s reading group, Holding Darkness Within: A Haunted House Short Story Course. Open to readers and writers of all levels. bit.ly/4mFFpOG
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I'll be reading a story at This Friday, THIS FRIDAY, Sept 26 at Taix in Echo Park, along with Mariah Flores, Jesse Pearson, Nick Plett, Zara Schuster, & Gabby Jones. Show starts at 7pm, and is RSVP only. To RSVP, send $10 to co-host @evanlaffer via Venmo. Hope to see you there!
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'll be reading a story at This Friday, THIS FRIDAY, Sept 26 at Taix in Echo Park, along with Mariah Flores, Jesse Pearson, Nick Plett, Zara Schuster, & Gabby Jones. Show starts at 7pm, and is RSVP only. To RSVP, send $10 to co-host @evanlaffer via Venmo. Hope to see you there!
My short story collection is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 🦚 ! Thank you @loriostlund and the judges for this recognition and championing the short story form! Congratulations to Will Boast whose short story collection will be published by @ugapress next fall !
September 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
My short story collection is a finalist for the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction 🦚 ! Thank you @loriostlund and the judges for this recognition and championing the short story form! Congratulations to Will Boast whose short story collection will be published by @ugapress next fall !
Congratulations to Will Boast for winning the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction!
We're thrilled to announce this year's winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction: Will Boast has won for his collection, The Submerged! Out fall 2026. See our blog for the full announcement.
#fiction #booknews #shortstories #flanneryoconnoraward
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Will Boast Wins the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Will Boast as the winner of the 2025 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His collection The Submerged will be published by the Universi…
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September 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Congratulations to Will Boast for winning the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction!
It is No Kings Day. LA will show up.
June 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It is No Kings Day. LA will show up.
Doesn’t matter if it’s fire or ice….
The city will come together and protect its people .
The city will come together and protect its people .
June 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Doesn’t matter if it’s fire or ice….
The city will come together and protect its people .
The city will come together and protect its people .
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
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Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
June 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Donald Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles over the objection of California leaders is an abuse of power and a dangerous escalation.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
It’s what you would see in authoritarian states and it must stop.
Americans have the right to speak out and peacefully protest.
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L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.
June 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.
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I have a few more in my office on campus or lent out, and surely some are off my radar, but holy wow it’s been a good last few years for indie press short story collections.
April 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I have a few more in my office on campus or lent out, and surely some are off my radar, but holy wow it’s been a good last few years for indie press short story collections.
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Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA
April 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Join us Thursday, 5/1 for a virtual reading with our Literary Debutantes hosted by @debutiful.bsky.social, featuring readings from Nini Berndt, @kermichele.bsky.social, Carrie R. Moore, Lucas Schaefer, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Lauren K. Watel, and @julianzabalbeascoa.bsky.social. bit.ly/4j7bCxA
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We’re thrilled to announce our first digital anthology! The stories in this volume were published in One Story and One Teen Story from 2015 to 2025 and feature work by our 2025 Literary Debutantes, seven One Story authors who recently published or will soon publish their debut books. bit.ly/3E4dVlI
April 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We’re thrilled to announce our first digital anthology! The stories in this volume were published in One Story and One Teen Story from 2015 to 2025 and feature work by our 2025 Literary Debutantes, seven One Story authors who recently published or will soon publish their debut books. bit.ly/3E4dVlI
Come to a free reading event featuring writers from Los Angeles and beyond! Meet fellow organizers, comrades, friends. Open to everyone — locals, visitors for #AWP, friends of friends — as long as you love appreciating good literature, making friends, and building community. 💪
March 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Come to a free reading event featuring writers from Los Angeles and beyond! Meet fellow organizers, comrades, friends. Open to everyone — locals, visitors for #AWP, friends of friends — as long as you love appreciating good literature, making friends, and building community. 💪
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This administration can’t erase women who fight for justice. Learn from surviving Filipino “Comfort Women.” who took to the streets & courts. Never giving up, never silenced, always speaking Truth 2 power. Especially to orange men riddled with fear. To the Lolas & all women warriors. Laban!
March 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This administration can’t erase women who fight for justice. Learn from surviving Filipino “Comfort Women.” who took to the streets & courts. Never giving up, never silenced, always speaking Truth 2 power. Especially to orange men riddled with fear. To the Lolas & all women warriors. Laban!
I will be reading with the @onestorymag.bsky.social Adina Talve-Goodman Fellows on March 13th (virtual.) I hope you can join us as we share from our work 🙏🏼✨ thank you One Story!
You can rsvp here:
shorturl.at/aHIjA
You can rsvp here:
shorturl.at/aHIjA
March 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I will be reading with the @onestorymag.bsky.social Adina Talve-Goodman Fellows on March 13th (virtual.) I hope you can join us as we share from our work 🙏🏼✨ thank you One Story!
You can rsvp here:
shorturl.at/aHIjA
You can rsvp here:
shorturl.at/aHIjA
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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.
February 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Very excited to share this news. My second book (and first novel) is headed your way next summer!
I know every writer says this, but: I can’t even describe how long I’ve wanted to publish books, and getting to do it in this part of my life is like a dream.
I know every writer says this, but: I can’t even describe how long I’ve wanted to publish books, and getting to do it in this part of my life is like a dream.
February 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Very excited to share this news. My second book (and first novel) is headed your way next summer!
I know every writer says this, but: I can’t even describe how long I’ve wanted to publish books, and getting to do it in this part of my life is like a dream.
I know every writer says this, but: I can’t even describe how long I’ve wanted to publish books, and getting to do it in this part of my life is like a dream.
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‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.’
Today marks the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
Today marks the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
February 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.’
Today marks the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
Today marks the birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker. Born February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia.
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BREAKING NEWS: 4:07
Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles.
They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants
Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles.
They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants
February 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
BREAKING NEWS: 4:07
Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles.
They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants
Anti-deportation protesters are blocking traffic on 101 Freeway in Los Angeles.
They want to stop Trump’s deportations of illegal migrants
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Discover how and why @litmagreject.bsky.social BLOB: A LOVE STORY! Read our latest conversation on Debutiful Dot Net!
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January 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Discover how and why @litmagreject.bsky.social BLOB: A LOVE STORY! Read our latest conversation on Debutiful Dot Net!
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