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“Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play.”

—From the archive, author and educator Mark Edmundson offers “A message in a bottle to the incoming class” as he urges college students to be intentional in their education.

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October 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Just remembered that my wife and I are in my niece's phone as "Baddies," and honestly, it's my greatest accomplishment.
September 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"Saying something is 'authentic' is...a way of freezing culture in place...denying that culture is a living thing."

@cyriaquelamar.bsky.social's interview with @annaleen.bsky.social on their new book "Automatic Noodle" (@tordotcom.bsky.social) is out now.
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In “Automatic Noodle,” The Robots Run The Restaurant - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Annalee Newitz about their new book, "Automatic Noodle."
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August 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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🚨 Educators! Don’t miss your chance to win a book club set of the inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl x Liveright series, THE CATCH by Yrsa Daley-Ward!

Enter by filling out the Google Form below (🔗 and in bio)

✨ bit.ly/TheCatchGiveaway
Graphic with a light marbled green background titled “Educator Giveaway!” A subtitle says, “15 educators will each win a book club set of The Catch!” At the bottom of the graphic is a row of three mock-up hardcovers of “The Catch” by Yrsa Daley-Ward. Graphic with a light marbled green background detailing a synopsis for “The Catch” by Yrsa Daley-Ward: “Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live with a successful, upper-class couple, and Dempsey with a sullen, unaffectionate city councilor. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life―the very life, it seems, she might have had if the girls had never been born. Clara is all too willing to welcome the confident and temperamental Serene into her home. But cloistered Dempsey is dubious of the whole situation, believing this all to be the insidious ruse of a con woman. Clashing over this stranger who burrows deeper and deeper into their lives, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their pasts―together.”
June 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This Orison Books anthology “offers many entry points into geography and history, into faith and spirit, and into language and poetry.” —Julie Wan

THE WORLD I LEAVE YOU: ASIAN AMERICAN POETS ON FAITH & SPIRIT is featured in our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth: www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit | Orison Books
The World I Leave You:Asian American Poets on Faith & SpiritEdited by Leah Silvieus & Lee Herrick paper / 274 pp. / $18.00Orison BooksISBN: 978-1-949039-05-4Distributed to the trade by Itasca…
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May 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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CURB “maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.”

Nightboat Books poetry by Divya Victor for your #APAHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/p/books/curb...
May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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COVER REVEAL! It’s here, it’s here, it’s here! Meet Orion’s Summer 2025 issue: THE FUTURE IS FUNGI.

Orion’s 201st issue is now shipped out (or already in your hands!) and it’s all about the strange, rule-bending, mind-altering, awe-inducing world of fungi.

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May 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"In this class, we’ll be dissecting how identity is depicted in poetry and prose to understand the craft choices that other authors have used, discuss how those choices affect the work, and share some of our own examples."

June 10. Register for this IMPORTANT online class now.

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Writing Across Difference with Daniel Tam-Claiborne - StoryStudio Chicago
In this class, we'll be dissecting how identity is depicted in poetry and prose to understand the craft choices that other authors have used, discuss how those choices affect the work, and share some…
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May 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Writers, don’t miss submission deadlines coming up May 30 through June 1 at indie presses and lit mags! Find open contests, calls for upcoming magazine issues, and more here:
Calls for Submissions - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
Take a look at the latest publishing opportunities currently available to writers from the many literary magazines and presses that are members of CLMP. Before submitting your work, be sure to check…
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May 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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“As I get older, I become more and more interested in what poetry can do. And not what poetry is.”

-- Rachel Zucker
May 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“At the core of the reorganization of power elites was a transformation of the relationship between economic forces and political forces, or, to speak more conceptually, between private economic power and the state as public authority.”

From the archive:
Democracy’s Defeat Started at Versailles
Rather than extend democracy into economics (as socialism was then understood), postwar elites stifled democracy in politics instead.
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May 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Join us in a world of pure IMAGINATION at the 2025 Tin House Autumn Online Workshop, where speculative, fantastical, and (inter)stellar fiction is our focus!

Apply today: tinhouse.com/workshop/aut...
Media description: An ad for an online writers workshop. Text reads: 2025 Autumn Online Workshop, Without Borders Scholarship, Oct 4 -13, Applications due June 9th, Imagine new worlds with us!
May 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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WWB has a long history of supporting persecuted writers—and we were proud to receive the 2024 Hermann Kesten Prize for that work. Donate to our Spring Fund Drive to help uplift writers who continue to speak out despite censorship and intimidation. wwborders.live/2025FundDrive
The quote “Legs, smashed,/turned into wings./Wings, clipped,/turned into breeze./Breeze, detained,/turned into storm./Storm, imprisoned,/spawned a million offspring.” and the text ”From ‘Spring’ by Nga Ba, translated from Burmese by ko ko thett.Dozens of our contributors from around the world, like Nga Ba, have faced intimidation, exile, and imprisonment because of what they have written.” The text Nga Ba reminds us that generative possibility exists even in the darkest moments, and that the depths of winter inevitably contain the first stirrings of spring.As ko ko thett puts it in an interview with WWB: ‘Even under a most repressive censorship regime or even in a most watched jail cell, writers and artists will find channels to express themselves.’” The text “WWB is committed to supporting persecuted writers around the world—work for which we received PEN Centre Germany’s Hermann Kesten Prize last fall. ‘WWB has given a voice to those whose voice cannot be heard,’ said Najem Wali, Vice President of PEN Centre Germany (and WWB contributor), in his laudation. Voices like Nga Ba’s deserve to be heard—and with your help, we can publish more of them.” A collage of portraits of WWB contributors with the text “Champion literature that meets the moment. Donate to Words Without Borders today. In this moment, the platform that WWB provides for writers who dare to imagine a just and inclusive world is more crucial than ever.”
May 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School

An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.
Apply: Two Free Spots in ‘Bristol Translates’ Summer School
An anonymous donor is sponsoring two spots for the Arabic-English strand with Sawad Hussain in the Bristol Translates summer school taking place this July 7th-11th.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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"If our work doesn’t neutralize and safely package Arabic literature for the extraliterary interests and investments of the system, we are a problem." - Huda Fakhreddine

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Notes from the Field of Arabic Literature in the Time of Genocide | Modernism / Modernity Print+
It is the twentieth month of genocide, our planet’s second rotation around the sun, drenched in Palestinian blood, 600 days of Palestinian slaughter, and nothing is new except the finality of the massacre. The world has sacrificed the Palestinians with its complicity and silence, and it will soon start rehabilitating itself by erecting monuments of guilt, reciting land
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May 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Ways you can support ArabLit authors, translators, & artists.
Support ArabLit's Authors, Translators, & Artists. 1) Buy a book or magazine. 2) Click the support button. 3) Take out an advertisement. 4) Donate directly to authors' gofundmes 5) As for a review copy & review.
March 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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"A Moth to a Flame"
a typewriter poem
by @smallsstack.bsky.social
from Randolph Street Market!
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"A Moth to the Flame" by Andrea Rehani -- Randolph Street Market, 9.28.24
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January 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM