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Amy Morais
@amymorais.bsky.social
Writer & designer. Easily distracted by cats.
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The bracket finals are here! “Cat Person” and Joyce Carol Oates square off in the fight to officially be named the most iconic moment of the literary internet.
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Championship Round*
We’ve reached the finals, after a week of nostalgia and a weekend of quarterfinal voting. The final two are a fitting last pairing, though we were sad to see Should writers read? and @GuyInYourMFA …
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Also why do I always want to write something the length of a novella?
Don’t touch that it’s my emotional support folder of half-finished short stories that I like to pretend is a collection.
don’t touch that it’s my emotional support second short story collection I must write before my first novel
November 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Don’t touch that it’s my emotional support folder of half-finished short stories that I like to pretend is a collection.
don’t touch that it’s my emotional support second short story collection I must write before my first novel
November 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Everything in this bracket needs to be part of a formal archive. Literary Twitter as The Algonquin Hotel.
Hard to know how this is going to shake out! The remaining four are all killer no filler

I also spoke to @danaschwartz.bsky.social, a.k.a. GuyInYourMFA, about making the quarterfinals and about Literary Twitter fame!

Get in there and vote!
Only two match-ups remain before we move on to the final round! Vote in our What Was Literary Twitter? bracket to determine the greatest moment of the literary internet.
November 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The Kafka museum in Prague is fabulous, and a number of the exhibits focuses on his relationship to the office, which he clearly hated.
January 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM