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ICYMI, @sesmith.lol wrote about how algospeak is aiding our inability to name all the horrors that are currently taking place in our dystopian world! Read now: www.theflytrapmedia.com/algospeak-wi...
Thank you so much, Jennessa! Happy to connect with you here btw π«Ά
An excerpt of my forthcoming memoir, The Sound of Burning: a Mother, a Daughter, a Murder (UGA Press, 2026) is out now in @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social (TW: blood) hypertextmag.com/no-contact/
We prefer these inventions to the truth of the orphan train movement, which was, in the end, a social engineering experiment that preyed on some of our most vulnerable, populating stolen land with stolen lives. To acknowledge that reality requires grappling with the fact that we allowed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children to be determined by the classist, racist philosophies of a Protestant minister who was not an elected official. This is the real legacy of our past, one that still colors our child welfare system today, where conditions of poverty are commonly cast as grounds for removal. Many poor children-and especially poor brown and Black childrenβare still not believed to be able to make something of themselves without losing their families.
one 2025 book i really admire, and havenβt discussed enough, is @kwistent.bsky.social βs critical history of modern American orphanhood, THE SUN WONβT COME OUT TOMORROW. This book limns the ideologies of βchild rescueβ that shaped the development of US foster care and adoption. it pulls no punches.
Democracy Now! is looking for early-career journalists to join our team as one-year fellows in the video and digital departments. All fellowships are paid, full-time positions with benefits. More details at democracynow.org/jobs
If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
Kristin Collierβs mother took out hundreds of thousands of dollars of private student loans in her daughterβs name. But as @kwistent.bsky.social explains, Collierβs new book on student debt doesnβt cast her as a villain.
!!!! So gratified to have this story enjoy a wide reach, especially since foster care is a really under-covered topic. Read it here: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Catrileo's author photo. In the bottom lefthand corner is the book cover for Chilco. The cited information, but not the quote, appear in white to the right of the book cover.
"I can never tear myself away from who I am, and at my core, Iβm a poet."
Permanent Knots and Anti-Colonial Archives: @nxo.bsky.social interviews Daniela Catrileo about Chilco (@fsgbooks.bsky.social).
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We're hiring: Director of The Writers Workshop and Programs and Special Projects Administrator
Spread the word: we're searching for the right people for two critical roles at KR: Director of The Writers Workshop and Programs and Special Projects Administrator.
Find the job descriptions and applications at the link in our bio.
Five colorful issues of ShΕ Poetry Journal laid next to each other on a light grey mottled background. Black text on a pale cream background reads: "Open for Cover Art / ShΕ No. 8 (Winter 2025/26) / Free to submit / Closes October 12 / shopoetryjournal.submittable.com / ShΕ Poetry Journal / An Arizona-based print journal"
We are seeking cover art for our winter issue!
Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. Itβs free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium.
Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart
Get those poems, graphic narratives, and flash prose pieces ready! The Commuter will be open for submissions from 9/15 - 9/21, or until our submission cap is reached β‘ π‘ We can't wait to read your work!
π’ Call for Readers!
Iron Horse Literary Review is looking for new Readers to join our team! If youβre connected to Creative Writing through a graduate program, teaching, or publication experience, weβd love to hear from you.
Interested? Send a brief application to ihlr.mail@gmail.com
This weekend is the last chance to get your work in.
Submissions close Sunday at midnight (PT).
Submit: shopoetryjournal.submittable.com
If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.
β’ Payment is one contributor copy
β’ We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize
β’ We award prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet
Mark Butcher 1) Sandra used AI to write a report 2) Bill used AI to summarise the report 3) Bill used AI to write questions about the report 4) Sandra used AI to respond to the questions 5) Bill used AI to create a presentation about the report 6) Jane used AI to take notes from the presentation 7) Janeβs team used AI to summarise the notes she shared No one wrote the report, no one ever read the report, no one understood the questions or the answers. No business value was achieved But but but AI adds business value
Even linkedin gets it
"Nonfiction allows me to write the truth of my experience in a world that seeks to silence this truth. There is a freedom in the genre that girls and women are not afforded in our current cultural and political climate." ~ @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Β brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/s...
It's not too late to send us your manuscript! We're still accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, chapbooks, anthologies, and more.
Full submission guidelines are on our website and our Submittable. We can't wait to read your work!
blacklawrencepress.com/submissions-...
SUBMIT TODAY at the link in our bio!
Lee Cole recalls being a working class writer attending a prestigious MFA program and considers the absence of working class perspectives in our literary institutions.
An actual summer reading list of real books compiled by real critics! I'm in here singing praises of Alice Bolin's new collection: www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
Warm pastel brown/orange colors on a pale blue background. Text reads: Get your packets ready! Submissions open June 1. ShΕ No. 8 Winter Issue
Mark your calendars: ShΕ Poetry Journal opens for submissions on June 1! Weβll be reading for our winter issue, ShΕ No. 8.
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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We're so lucky to have this interview! Check out @kristiosorio.bsky.social and Sarah Perry discuss the clichΓ© of memory, vulnerability, and "the sweetness of survival" @adroitjournal.bsky.social !
It was an honor and a joy to talk with Sarah Perry about her new book, moving on from the Murder Memoir, and so much more! Check out our conversation over at @adroitjournal.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/2025/04/09/a...
As an author, the last thing I need is for AI to engage with my book. I hope for real readers and critics to connect with it, and do respond to it as humans. And as a freelance critic, I want media outlets to invest in substantive reviews and essays, and to pay critics for our labor appropriately.