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Sumita Mukherji
@sumita.bsky.social
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Developmental Editor & Book Coach. | She/her. | Pubs: The Missouri Review, Southern Humanities Rev., Grist, Witness, wildness, SmokeLong Quarterly, etc. Breadloaf scholar. Warren Wilson MFA. Website: www.sumitamukherji.com
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Delighted to have my flash fiction piece, "Ceremony," up at The Missouri Review: missourireview.com/ceremony-by-...
“Ceremony” by Sumita Mukherji | The Missouri Review
Discovering the best in fiction, essays, and poetry
missourireview.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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pw.org
We're hiring for a full-time production editor who will coordinate editorial, art, and production for Poets & Writers Magazine. If you have 3+ years of experience in magazine production and strong Adobe CS5 and project management skills, this might be your job! Learn more: at.pw.org/Jobs
June 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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christopherallen.bsky.social
We'd love to work with poets who write flash and flash writers who write poetry this summer. Come write with us.
smokelong.bsky.social SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · May 6
ALSO IN A SmokeLong Summer this year we have a live Flash Micro and the Prose Poem webinar with ERIN VACHON ⚡🎉 (also bookable separately if you can't do the whole summer jamboree) www.smokelong.com/a-smokelong-...
Image of Erin Vachon against backdrop of 50s style car and pop art-ish yellow flare. There's a red cocktail with Flash poetry mix webinar written around it. Text of the rest: A SmokeLong Summer 2025 Micro vs Prose Poem Jun 1 11am NYC with Erin Vachon. You've written something tiny and now face a pesky question, is this a micro or prose poem? We'll study the line between these sister genres reading and writing to strengthen our hand in both forms
May 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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housleydave.bsky.social
For the @barrelhouse.bsky.social newsletter (which has original content, you can sign up on our site) some of us wrote about our recent obsessions and I contributed a thing about the fake fireplace inside the real fireplace in my home office (and, you know, death and aging and model trains).
It is the dumbest fucking thing. The official description on the Home Depot website calls it a “quartz infrared electric fireplace, paired with a stunning transitional media console.” It is a fake fireplace with a remote control, and I’ve placed it inside a real fireplace that conveyed “as is” when we bought this house in 2008. We thought we’d get this fireplace fixed right away. Won’t that be cozy, sitting there with a fire going, maybe some hot chocolate, a hot toddy, a good book or a movie? Won’t it be smart to have a cheap way to keep the house heated in the cold Pennsylvania winters? None of those things happened in that room. What happened was this: our son was two and we bought a Thomas the Tank Engine train table and then he grew two feet and we replaced it with a full-sized table and my beard started going gray and Ben went from elementary school to middle school and we added another table and two surge protectors and I had to stop playing basketball because I popped a thing in my calf and my boss called during spring break to say we were going to be out of the office for two weeks and we decided to move the train table downstairs into the basement and move my office upstairs and Ben started renting space at train shows to sell the model trains he was fixing up and Lori went back to school and my beard was so fucking white on Zoom and we were never going back to the office and Ben graduated high school and Lori got her masters and I was sitting in this chair looking at the gray maw of the broken fireplace and my father died and everything went cold dark hazy for a while and then I was sitting back in this office thinking shit thinking fuck thinking maybe I can get something to fill that space the big hole the one in the fireplace and the fake fireplace was the right size and a hundred and twenty dollars and I plugged it in and clicked a button and it hummed and glowed and threw its dumb fake light to the back of the fireplace and it wasn’t a fire—was nothing really like a fire at all—but it was glowing and warm and that was nice and that was enough.
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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peter23.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/b...
A Tiny Press Took a Big Risk on Experimental Books. It Paid Off. (Gift Article)
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
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February 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
sumita.bsky.social
Totally agree with what @astrokatie.com says.

Also, I can’t read the article, but am wondering if this will affect creative writers applying for NEA grants this year, too.
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 28
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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housleydave.bsky.social
Writers! Join us at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/12/25 for a fun, productive day talking writing and publishing with a bunch of great writers and editors! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference
The Barrelhouse Conference: Conversations and Connections, Practical Advice on Writing — Barrelhouse
Conversations and Connections is a one-day conference organized by Barrelhouse in person at American University in Washington, DC on April 12, 2025.
www.barrelhousemag.com
January 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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alexsegura.bsky.social
Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

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January 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
sumita.bsky.social
Memoir writers with a book or idea underway👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
January 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social
Note: a BUNCH of books have come out this January. It's increasingly difficult to find media outlets doing book coverage. It's increasingly difficult for anyone to *see* books during really difficult social times.
Please, grab a book published on or since 1/7/2025.
Doesn't even have to be mine.
January 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sumita.bsky.social
👇🏼 It’s like the story hypnotizes us at the beginning and end into thinking it’s done.
dintywmoore.bsky.social Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · Jan 14
"My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying." ~ Anton Chekhov
January 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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jacqdoyle.bsky.social
Last few days! CRAFT Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest closes January 15.
www.craftliterary.com/craft-memoir...
January 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Before Sister Rosetta Tharpe, it was guitarist, bassist and vocalist Memphis Minnie (1897 – 1973) who helped shape the sound of modern pop music and recorded around 200 songs #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting Black woman in a light coloured dress playing an acoustic guitar and facing a microphone on a stand, all against a white background
January 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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lportwoodstacer.bsky.social
Tomorrow!

Free workshop that will give you a straightforward to-do list if you’re a scholarly writer who wants to land a book contract in 2025. This is the stuff they (probably) didn’t teach you in grad school.

courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/scho...
Workshop: Land a Scholarly Book Contract
Whether you're a first-time author or an experienced scholar hoping to take more control of the publishing process, this workshop will demystify how scholarly book publishing really works and give you practical tips for success in 2025.
courses.manuscriptworks.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
sumita.bsky.social
Why is it that even though I list my husband as the primary contact when my daughter gets sick at school, I’m the first one who’s called?

My husband can’t do the work if no one will let him!
January 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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cliffgarstang.bsky.social
My gift to the writing community: The 2025 Literary Magazine Rankings

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2025 Literary Magazine Rankings–Overview
It is time again for the annual Literary Magazine Rankings for Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. As explained in more detail below, these rankings are based solely on the number of Pushcart Prizes a…
cliffordgarstang.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
December 20, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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BREAKING THREE-EXCLAMATION POINT NEWS: !!!
Anonymous donors have pledged to match any donation to McSweeney's (up to $30,000) from now through December 25. Click the link for more info and how to make a gift donation in a friend or loved one's name.
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Donations Matched One-to-One This Week. Please Consider Giving in Honor of a Reader in Your Life.
It’s not too late. This holiday, we have the perfect—and most meaningful—gift for the reader who has it all in your life: a charitable gift in thei...
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December 19, 2024 at 12:36 AM
sumita.bsky.social
It’s 4 pm and chilly, but the moon peeking through the trees beckons, so I’m finally going to take a walk.
December 12, 2024 at 9:07 PM
sumita.bsky.social
Check out this residency *with a stipend*
josephscapellato.bsky.social Joseph Scapellato @josephscapellato.bsky.social · Dec 12
Applications are open for the Stadler Center's Philip Roth Residency! Come hang out with us for a few months and get some writing done. #writingcommunity www.bucknell.edu/academics/be...
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
www.bucknell.edu
December 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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tracyslater.bsky.social
Forthcoming-books starter pack is still growing--so many new books to look forward to! Please reply if your publisher is putting out a new title of yours in 2025 and you want to join us. We 💖 reposts too! go.bsky.app/3HKczok.
December 10, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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splitlippress.com
Extremely rare opportunity that hasn't come up in YEARS: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our new Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor!

Details can be found at the link in our bio/linktree (splitlippress.submittable.com/submit/31437...) and threaded: [1/3]
Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team? We're looking for a Short Story/Flash Fiction Book Editor! Applications open 12/5-12/15! For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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dintywmoore.bsky.social
“You have to love what you do so much that you don’t care what people think.” ~ Mary Ruefle
December 3, 2024 at 12:08 PM
sumita.bsky.social
So many wonderful craft articles here by @mattkendrick.bsky.social. Let your writer’s heart indulge!
mattkendrick.bsky.social Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · Dec 2
My December #WritingCraft article is a round-up of everything I've published over the last 5 years. If I've counted correctly, there are about 50 resources in total; feeling quite proud to see it all in one place. Hope it's useful!

prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/everything...
Everything Everywhere All In One Place
I’ve been writing these craft articles for quite a while now.
prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:12 PM