Back from #awp2025 and in the rhythm of grading and still trying to figure out how to balance that work / family / writing thing but feeling closer to being able to do so. The last panel I attended was on fallow times, which are always involuntary for me, so I'm building networks to prevent that.

I love the National Book Awards fiction lists. They so often contain some of my favorite contemporary reads. I now love them even more for adding Mona Power to the just announced long list: www.nationalbook.org/2023-nationa...

loved getting to chat w/ Vauhini Vara about the importance of mentorship for writers and how it can help demystify the publishing process, build community, and expand access to literary spaces newsletters.theatlantic.com/i-have-notes...

I live in a tiny blip of a town (population 363), so when I go up to the city, I get all achey and nostalgic for buildings like this. We went to Owamni, then ice cream at Sebastian Joe’s, and finished it up at Mager’s & Quinn with a sack full of used books.

This is one of the maps I’m using as I job search.

Please don’t come.

Cancel your trip and donate the money to the Hawaii Community Foundation Maui Strong Fund instead.

https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

Just got assigned my first poetry workshop at the university where I teach! I’ve been assigned World Mythology on repeat for a good while, which is a great class too, but I’ve wanted to get back into the creative writing college classroom for a while! ♥️

After years of being locked on twitter, I unlocked tonight to write the following thread, which I'm copying over here for all you who have rightfully left that place behind.

the application for the 2024 Periplus Fellowship—offering mentorship and community to writers of color—is now open ❤️‍🔥 you can learn more & apply by 10/27, pls help spread the word

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Wanted to share these 2 literary magazine submission opportunities for disabled & neurodivergent writers: 1) Pleiades disability folio, 1 piece of prose up to 5K words, or up to 5 poems, deadline Oct. 15: pleiadesmag.com/submit/