@susanbearman.bsky.social
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Rolling deadline: $1,000 John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize
No fee. Writers up to 40 years old may submit essays that deepen our understanding of the work of John Updike. Submit to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu.
https://updikereview.com/submissions/
No fee. Writers up to 40 years old may submit essays that deepen our understanding of the work of John Updike. Submit to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu.
https://updikereview.com/submissions/
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Rolling deadline: $1,000 John Updike Review Emerging Writers Prize
No fee. Writers up to 40 years old may submit essays that deepen our understanding of the work of John Updike. Submit to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu.
https://updikereview.com/submissions/
No fee. Writers up to 40 years old may submit essays that deepen our understanding of the work of John Updike. Submit to: Prof. James Schiff, Editor, The John Updike Review, james.schiff@uc.edu.
https://updikereview.com/submissions/
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It’s time for The Great Tote Vote! Head to the link and let us know which tote design you prefer: bookshopdotorg.typeform.com/to/J5qqWpDp
tote vote
we tote-ally want to hear from you.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It’s time for The Great Tote Vote! Head to the link and let us know which tote design you prefer: bookshopdotorg.typeform.com/to/J5qqWpDp
Happy birthday and happy World Prematurity Day to my favorite 24-weekers. It's been quite a ride.
#prematurity #WorldPrematurityDay #preemies
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#prematurity #WorldPrematurityDay #preemies
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34 in ’25
On this November 17, smack in the middle of Prematurity Awareness Month, as we celebrate World Prematurity Day right along with Isaac and Molly’s birthday, I worry for new parents of preemies…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Happy birthday and happy World Prematurity Day to my favorite 24-weekers. It's been quite a ride.
#prematurity #WorldPrematurityDay #preemies
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#prematurity #WorldPrematurityDay #preemies
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October is for stories that unsettle.
That’s the point. The best literature shakes something loose.
If a book makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably worth reading.
Find the ones that still speak:
That’s the point. The best literature shakes something loose.
If a book makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably worth reading.
Find the ones that still speak:
Authors
www.narrativemagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
October is for stories that unsettle.
That’s the point. The best literature shakes something loose.
If a book makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably worth reading.
Find the ones that still speak:
That’s the point. The best literature shakes something loose.
If a book makes you uncomfortable, it’s probably worth reading.
Find the ones that still speak:
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I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I maintain that every one of these people should be forced to live on SNAP for a month.
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#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines and open calls:
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines and open calls:
Submission Guidelines
L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…
lespritliteraryreview.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#callforsubmissions: L'Esprit seeks stories, CNF, essays, translation, reviews.
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines and open calls:
Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept.
Send us writing beyond convention.
G’Lines and open calls:
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Rn at Off Campus Writers' Workshop, paraphrasing Eric Rampson: The story you're writing doesn't serve the plot; the plot serves they story you're trying to tell. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #improv #OCWW
October 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Rn at Off Campus Writers' Workshop, paraphrasing Eric Rampson: The story you're writing doesn't serve the plot; the plot serves they story you're trying to tell. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #improv #OCWW
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"That’s essentially the heart of the project: What would it look like to treat friendships as love stories?"
This time last year, @lizziemlawson.bsky.social interviewed @lillydancyger.bsky.social on her essay collection FIRST LOVE. Find it in the archives! 💕 buff.ly/5dzItrM
This time last year, @lizziemlawson.bsky.social interviewed @lillydancyger.bsky.social on her essay collection FIRST LOVE. Find it in the archives! 💕 buff.ly/5dzItrM
October 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"That’s essentially the heart of the project: What would it look like to treat friendships as love stories?"
This time last year, @lizziemlawson.bsky.social interviewed @lillydancyger.bsky.social on her essay collection FIRST LOVE. Find it in the archives! 💕 buff.ly/5dzItrM
This time last year, @lizziemlawson.bsky.social interviewed @lillydancyger.bsky.social on her essay collection FIRST LOVE. Find it in the archives! 💕 buff.ly/5dzItrM
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I think that covers all our bases. Probably.
Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...
#writing #writingcommunity
Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...
#writing #writingcommunity
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I think that covers all our bases. Probably.
Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...
#writing #writingcommunity
Submit here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/girlho...
#writing #writingcommunity
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📅 Ever wonder when authors actually get paid? Here’s the timeline of how book publishing royalties work. For more on the topic, don’t miss our recent Money Matters Q&A with Erin Lowry from the Broke Millennial blog 🤑 authorsguild.org/resource/boo...
October 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
📅 Ever wonder when authors actually get paid? Here’s the timeline of how book publishing royalties work. For more on the topic, don’t miss our recent Money Matters Q&A with Erin Lowry from the Broke Millennial blog 🤑 authorsguild.org/resource/boo...
Check out our craft column, where Laurel Ross explores nature writing—how it can enhance storyline, characters, and descriptions, as well as connect your readers to the world around us. Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #naturewriting #OCWW
ocww.info/About-Write?...
ocww.info/About-Write?...
Off Campus Writers' Workshop - About Write
ocww.info
October 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Check out our craft column, where Laurel Ross explores nature writing—how it can enhance storyline, characters, and descriptions, as well as connect your readers to the world around us. Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #amwriting #WritingCommunity #naturewriting #OCWW
ocww.info/About-Write?...
ocww.info/About-Write?...
"We all have our own bits of everyday magic." @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social on Spirit-Led Writing: Ritual, Ritualization & the Creative Process rn @ Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #WritingCommunity #amwriting ocww.info
Off Campus Writers' Workshop
ocww.info
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"We all have our own bits of everyday magic." @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social on Spirit-Led Writing: Ritual, Ritualization & the Creative Process rn @ Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #WritingCommunity #amwriting ocww.info
"Payoff is part of the fun of reading. What are you trying to do with your work? What do you want people to get from it?" Rn at #OCWW (Off Campus Writer's Workshop), Lindsay Hunter of "I'm a writer, but" podcast discusses reader payoff. #amwriting #WritingCommunity ocww.info
Off Campus Writers' Workshop
ocww.info
October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"Payoff is part of the fun of reading. What are you trying to do with your work? What do you want people to get from it?" Rn at #OCWW (Off Campus Writer's Workshop), Lindsay Hunter of "I'm a writer, but" podcast discusses reader payoff. #amwriting #WritingCommunity ocww.info
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It's that time of year again... is there anything spookier than impediments to free and open access to information? We think not!!
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's that time of year again... is there anything spookier than impediments to free and open access to information? We think not!!
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
Make sure you follow along with us this Banned Books Week—we'll be sharing all the resources, updates and cool events they don't want you to know about.
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Don't listen to the voices saying to play it safe. Write, read, and pub works a fascist would want to ban and wear their attempts as a badge of honor.
October 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Don't listen to the voices saying to play it safe. Write, read, and pub works a fascist would want to ban and wear their attempts as a badge of honor.
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There's still time to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There's still time to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!
Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...
Hey #WritingCommunity. Check out ocww.info, celebrating 80 years of supporting #writers. Weekly lectures/workshops from great teachers. Just $10/session for members; available in person (Winnetka, IL), on Zoom, or via recording. Everything writing. #amwriting
Off Campus Writers' Workshop
ocww.info
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Hey #WritingCommunity. Check out ocww.info, celebrating 80 years of supporting #writers. Weekly lectures/workshops from great teachers. Just $10/session for members; available in person (Winnetka, IL), on Zoom, or via recording. Everything writing. #amwriting
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MudRoom is open for submissions through November 25! Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art for Issue 20.
Submissions — MudRoom
Submissions are open! Send us your work through November 25.
www.mudroommag.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MudRoom is open for submissions through November 25! Send us your prose, poetry, and visual art for Issue 20.
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Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize!
Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social
"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social
"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize | New Flash Fiction Review
Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year's entries.
newflashfiction.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Writers - enter the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize!
Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social
"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
Max 500 words
Fee $10
Closes 15 Oct
Judge: @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social
"The ability to evoke. The ability to use the shadings of words, the nuances of language. The mot juste... You have to stick the landing.”
newflashfiction.com/get-ready-fo...
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LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT to submit to our Halloween issue four! Our theme is "Foxglove," aka our poison issue ☠️
Submit your original poetry, visual art, translations, fiction, and nonfiction pieces inspired by our theme here: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissions by 9/30.
#opensubmissions
Submit your original poetry, visual art, translations, fiction, and nonfiction pieces inspired by our theme here: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissions by 9/30.
#opensubmissions
September 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
LESS THAN ONE WEEK LEFT to submit to our Halloween issue four! Our theme is "Foxglove," aka our poison issue ☠️
Submit your original poetry, visual art, translations, fiction, and nonfiction pieces inspired by our theme here: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissions by 9/30.
#opensubmissions
Submit your original poetry, visual art, translations, fiction, and nonfiction pieces inspired by our theme here: wildwillowmagazine.com/wwmsubmissions by 9/30.
#opensubmissions
"Be sure your character is not miniature in your miniature story, or you risk your story seeming anecdotal." (paraphrased from Fred Shafer at Off Campus Writers' Workshop right now. #amwriting #WritingCommunity
September 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Be sure your character is not miniature in your miniature story, or you risk your story seeming anecdotal." (paraphrased from Fred Shafer at Off Campus Writers' Workshop right now. #amwriting #WritingCommunity
The Not So Lowly Pen, new on About Write, the craft column of Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #amwrting #WritingCommunity #writingtools #writingresources ocww.info/About-Write?...
Off Campus Writers' Workshop - About Write
ocww.info
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Not So Lowly Pen, new on About Write, the craft column of Off Campus Writers' Workshop. #amwrting #WritingCommunity #writingtools #writingresources ocww.info/About-Write?...
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12 Fictional Character Archetypes to Know Before You Start Writing
https://blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-write/writing-tips/character-archetypes via BookBaby #WriteTips
https://blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-write/writing-tips/character-archetypes via BookBaby #WriteTips
12 Fictional Character Archetypes to Know Before You Start Writing
Unlock the power of these 12 fictional character archetypes to create compelling and well-rounded characters in your story. Read our guide to learn more!
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September 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
12 Fictional Character Archetypes to Know Before You Start Writing
https://blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-write/writing-tips/character-archetypes via BookBaby #WriteTips
https://blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-write/writing-tips/character-archetypes via BookBaby #WriteTips