🌹Celeste Wakefield

This Sunday, March 8th at 10:30am is the next #TWSOchat where we discuss simplicity in your writing. Is this something that you struggle with in that you tend to overwrite? How do you make your text clean and clear? Open to all writers + follow along with the hashtag above to share your thoughts!

A painting of Edgar Allan Poe with his portrait in the center, a giant raven behind him, a haunted mansion to the right and a cemetery in the foreground.

A panting of a girl as the sun and the moon facing her.

A montage style painting with several hidden faces.

A fairy Queen with transparent moths.

Hi #PortfolioDay I am a traditional artist in San Francisco w/ a background in games, illustration and animation. I am currently interested/looking for work in publishing and galleries. 📚🎨Thank you!

🌿website: www.julialundman.com
☘️ contact: julialundman@me.com

Weekend? What’s that?

Book cover for We Interrupt This Program

Trope list for We Interrupt This Program

Blurbs for We Interrupt This Program"

To free her love, Winnie's gonna have to write something that really, really hurts. But can she finish before her TROPE Town crumbles to dust?

My "hilarious but heartfelt" "We Interrupt This Program" (part of the "Tune"-iverse!) is out on 3/3! 📚👀😅😍🔮

Pre-order now!
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@rfkuang.bsky.social on her Odyssey experience!
Applications are open for Your Personal Odyssey 2026, the one-on-one, online, intensive, customized experience that has helped writers make major breakthroughs!
Choose your pace: 6wks, 12 wks, 18 wks!
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a man and a girl are looking at each other with the words they mostly come at night mostly Alt: Outside, wind blowing her tangled blond hair, a girl (Newt) tells a woman (Ripley) “…they mostly come at night. Mostly.”

With you on my true answer.

✨ I’m excited to share that Orion’s Belt will reopen for submissions from March 1 to May 15! We’ll be seeking spec flash, micro, & poetry, as well as translations & reviews! Most importantly, our payment for poetry & art will increase. Follow us on this new adventure and for more exciting news! ✨

2026’s New Horror Books All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

PLEASE JOIN US FOR: AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY FEBRUARY 28, 2026 | 12–4 A Day Of Books, Community, And Support For Immigrant Rights. Stop by a local bookstore, meet your favorite author, and make a donation. All on-site donations to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota will receive a free signed book (while supplies last). Visit several stores and make a day of it!

AUTHORS FOR MINNESOTA DAY February 28, 2026, 12–4 Please join us in supporting Minnesota bookstores and raising money for immigrant rights. Authors will sign copies of their latest books plus offer giveaways (while supplies last) for donations made on site to either the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota or the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota. Support your community and make a day of it! Bookstores & Assigned Authors Avant Garden • JE Joyce • Kristin Nilsen Big Hill Books • Dylann Crush • Mindy Mejia Birchbark Books • Heid Erdrich Black Garnet Books • Bao Phi • Shannon Gibney • Roxane Battle • Aamina Ahmad Comma • Matt Goldman • Tasha Coryell Content • Allen Eskens Cream & Amber • Curtis Sittenfeld • Erin White Drury Lane Books • Sam Tschida Enchanted Quill • Andrew DeYoung • Kathleen West ⸻ Excelsior Bay Books • John Rosengren • James Dawes Hey Darling • Anna Worth • Ruan Willow Inkwell • Jess Lourey • Kristi Belcamino Irreverent Bookworm • Rebecca Kanner • Andie J. Christopher Lake Country Booksellers • Bill Souder • Lorna Landvik Moon Palace • Josh Moehling • Toni Halleen Next Chapter Booksellers • Sarah Stonich • Laurie Hertzel • Neal Karlen Niche • Laurel Osterkamp • Jenney Egertson • Bill Anderson ⸻ Once Upon a Crime • William Kent Krueger • Allan Evans • Patrick Barb Red Balloon • Margi Preus • Stephen Shaskan • Trisha Shaskan • Payal Doshi Scout and Morgan • Judy Kerr • Jessie Chandler • Nickolas Butler Subtext • Wendy Webb • Kate Allen Tropes and Trifles • Annika Martin • Dean Holmes • Jane Hadley Valley Bookseller • Katrina Monroe • Kim Todd Well Read Books • Jeff Shelby • Beth Balmanno

Feel free to share! More on the #authorsforminnesota event on February 28. Including participating bookstores & authors.

lovely place. please donate.

One Crisis Pregnancy Center Has Received $1.1 Million in Federal Housing Funds Since 2020 A Georgia anti-abortion organization is building a maternity home. Public opposition surfaced allegations of false advertising and medical licensing issues—and resulted in cease and desist letters.

NEW: A Georgia anti-abortion organization that's building a maternity home has received over $1 million in federal housing funds. Public opposition surfaced allegations of false advertising and medical licensing issues—and the CPC responded with cease and desist letters. Read @garnethenderson.com

15 Lies Our Culture Told Us about Birthing and New Parenthood | Celeste Wakefield Get more from Celeste Wakefield on Patreon

This one's for all the parents-to-be, new parents, and those who support them. #MomSky #Poetry www.patreon.com/posts/149915...

it's here! on the heels of our last big snow, enjoy some queer plant-based writing to keep yourself hale, hearty, and very gay!

By entering the competition and in consideration for Hearst publishing your entry, you assign to Hearst the entire worldwide copyright in your entry for all uses in all print and non-print media formats, including but not limited to all rights to use your entry in any and all electronic and digital formats, and in any future medium hereafter developed for the full period of copyright therein, and all renewals and extensions thereof, any rental and lending rights and retransmission rights and all rights of a like nature wherever subsisting.

Venerable magazine Harper's Bazaar is running its short story contest again, with the winner receiving "the chance" of publication in the magazine. Just one catch: per the wording of the guidelines, _just by entering_ you transfer copyright ownership of your story to Harper's parent, Hearst. 1/3

#Creepypasta #HorrorWriter #Writing #ShadowBoxArchives

Do y'all like biblical horror? Then check out the first part of my three-part series about the first family on Earth. Brothers can get on each other's nerves sometimes. Well, maybe not to this degree. Regardless, I hope you enjoy it. ⬇️

Not every journal is for happy thoughts. 🌲🕯️📓
The Wendigo Cryptid Journal is built for cold nights, flickering lanterns, and ideas that feel older than the forest itself. Write carefully.

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#MonsterAndMyth #CryptidJournal #WendigoLore #DarkWriting #MythInspired #FolkHorror

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Good on you! I believe citing sources can cure much of what ails us.

What I love is how you cited your source. See, @cnn.com, it’s not hard to do…when you’re not just making stuff up, at least.

Made a video about how cops weaponize laws against grave robbing(!) to lock up women and pregnant people:

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IG www.instagram.com/reel/DTjvn3j...

a poster for wheel of time shows a woman in a trench coat Alt: a poster for wheel of time shows an ais sadai channeling into the sky.

There is a pattern.

Morning fam! The horrors persist, but so do we 🔥 Whether you write for resistance, love, joy, vengeance, or purely out of spite...get your words IN this week. We need em and we need you 🥰 let folks know how your WIP is going!

The opt-out deadline for the Anthropic settlement has been extended to January 29, by order of the new judge in the case. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

Donald Trump’s racist attack on Somali Americans YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

Futakuchi onna speaks of the Kamaitachi - Nightmare Magazine I. Simple, tiny blood-cuts on a calf. She cut herself shaving. The wind whipped weasel-clawed, in circles around her legs.

Award Eligibility Post: Yokai Poem in Nightmare ( www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/futak...) and "A Crow on the Corpse Road" short story in BCS ( www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-cr... )

'Please help us. We are struggling to find food, and our situation is becoming more painful each day. We can no longer endure this hardship. We need ten kind people to donate $20 each to meet our daily needs. Your support means everything. Please don’t ignore us today!!'

Black-and-white photo portrait of author Eileen Gunn, a fair-skinned woman with wavy hair parted on the side and worn at shoulder length. She wears a black turtleneck and poses before a black backdrop. She looks like she’s trying to be solemn but can’t hold back a faint smile. Photo by Dennis Letbetter.

Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Nisi Shawl, a Black person with curly gray hair. They wear a sleeveless green silk vest garment over a wheat-gold one; a tiara of yellow, blue, and green gems, and unusual metal-framed glasses. They look up at a point above the camera and smile as if they recognize someone.

Have you missed Story Hour? The stories missed you! Join us in welcoming back two of Story Hour’s first superstars, Eileen Gunn and Nisi Shawl. Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PST! And you can absolutely still say “Happy New Year.” @eileengunn.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com