Richard Mirabella 🐝
@rpmirabella.bsky.social
Writer, reader, office potato. I'm queer. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
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Two years, two editions of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Thanks to everyone who supported this book over the past two years.
It's Capricorn season, which means I will be turning a year older, I will finish my revisions, I will still not learn how to let people help or take care of me; I will not be taking questions. I will remain alluring. I will still not be able to fix my face when I'm not enjoying myself.
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's Capricorn season, which means I will be turning a year older, I will finish my revisions, I will still not learn how to let people help or take care of me; I will not be taking questions. I will remain alluring. I will still not be able to fix my face when I'm not enjoying myself.
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More art, more books, more music in 2026! I live for this stuff
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
More art, more books, more music in 2026! I live for this stuff
Someone at work gave me a tin of those delish Danish butter cookies, or as I like to call them now "bloating diarrhea hell-fart cookies." (I'll be giving them away).
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Someone at work gave me a tin of those delish Danish butter cookies, or as I like to call them now "bloating diarrhea hell-fart cookies." (I'll be giving them away).
So yeah, all you need to do to get back into long reading stretches is find the right book. This is SO GOOD. The Disappointment by @scottjbroker.bsky.social comes out in March 2026 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🥰
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So yeah, all you need to do to get back into long reading stretches is find the right book. This is SO GOOD. The Disappointment by @scottjbroker.bsky.social comes out in March 2026 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🥰
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The fragmentary > the complete
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The fragmentary > the complete
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THREAD:
I'm a college prof, & I've seen an uptick of students saying, "Why do I have to take this course if I already took it in high school?" Which, may sound like a legit gripe. However, it's not. Let me explain.
Start here: "Why should a student take a writing class every year of high school?"
I'm a college prof, & I've seen an uptick of students saying, "Why do I have to take this course if I already took it in high school?" Which, may sound like a legit gripe. However, it's not. Let me explain.
Start here: "Why should a student take a writing class every year of high school?"
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
THREAD:
I'm a college prof, & I've seen an uptick of students saying, "Why do I have to take this course if I already took it in high school?" Which, may sound like a legit gripe. However, it's not. Let me explain.
Start here: "Why should a student take a writing class every year of high school?"
I'm a college prof, & I've seen an uptick of students saying, "Why do I have to take this course if I already took it in high school?" Which, may sound like a legit gripe. However, it's not. Let me explain.
Start here: "Why should a student take a writing class every year of high school?"
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My bday was yesterday. For belated bday present, please consider donating (or at least sharing).
Folks are welcome to match my $50!
Love.
Folks are welcome to match my $50!
Love.
Thank you all for contributing and sharing our Blanket Friday campaign. We raised a total of $5,643 for Sameer Project's Give Warmth to Gaza campaign!!!
If you missed us this weekend, you can donate directly to them here: chuffed.org/project/1491...
If you missed us this weekend, you can donate directly to them here: chuffed.org/project/1491...
RETURN HOME x The Sameer Project
"GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" this Winter season...
chuffed.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My bday was yesterday. For belated bday present, please consider donating (or at least sharing).
Folks are welcome to match my $50!
Love.
Folks are welcome to match my $50!
Love.
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I am going to stop acknowledging the current literary genres and only discuss stories in new categories like “manic” “bucolic” “uptempo” and “jamming”
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I am going to stop acknowledging the current literary genres and only discuss stories in new categories like “manic” “bucolic” “uptempo” and “jamming”
REFUSE! 💥
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
REFUSE! 💥
Listening to the Temu version of Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald's "On My Own" on Tidal. I think it's sung by Katti Fatelle and Marty McDowell.
December 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Listening to the Temu version of Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald's "On My Own" on Tidal. I think it's sung by Katti Fatelle and Marty McDowell.
Can someone bring me a Vintage Cola Olipop? I ran out and it's the only thing keeping me alive.
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Can someone bring me a Vintage Cola Olipop? I ran out and it's the only thing keeping me alive.
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Bookstagrammers: I only read 300 books this year!! 🤮
Me (a practically brain dead writer who can barely bring himself to stand up a few times every 12 hours): Book? 🤕
Me (a practically brain dead writer who can barely bring himself to stand up a few times every 12 hours): Book? 🤕
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Bookstagrammers: I only read 300 books this year!! 🤮
Me (a practically brain dead writer who can barely bring himself to stand up a few times every 12 hours): Book? 🤕
Me (a practically brain dead writer who can barely bring himself to stand up a few times every 12 hours): Book? 🤕
I love this thread!
🧵 This morning I was reminded by Kumail Nanjiani (on the Wild Card podcast) of the importance of learning from your artistic community. So I thought it would be fun to do a thread of at least one thing I've learned from each writer/book/story I've read this year. Add yours & let's keep it going!
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I love this thread!
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writing is funny. you write your silliest thing yet and then a reader tells you it is "really beautiful"
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
writing is funny. you write your silliest thing yet and then a reader tells you it is "really beautiful"
I'm going to need to put some latkes on my S.A.D. later.
December 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I'm going to need to put some latkes on my S.A.D. later.
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I’m so excited for this benefit reading. I hope you can make it! Huge thanks to our former fiction editor @jonmcconn.bsky.social for the brilliant inspiration & legwork to harness AWP for community-building in this way. So thrilled to spotlight CHARM—a fantastic local literary organization!
⚡Ready for our BIG NEWS? Headed to AWP '26?⚡ We're excited to announce that we will join friends in a special fundraiser for CHARM, an AWESOME organization that supports & publishes young writers in Baltimore. We can't wait to see you there✨
🩷 Check out CHARM's site: buff.ly/UPIHfk7
🩷 Check out CHARM's site: buff.ly/UPIHfk7
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I’m so excited for this benefit reading. I hope you can make it! Huge thanks to our former fiction editor @jonmcconn.bsky.social for the brilliant inspiration & legwork to harness AWP for community-building in this way. So thrilled to spotlight CHARM—a fantastic local literary organization!
December 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Looking for a holiday book gift? I'd be honored if you considered She's Under Here: "A hurricane, elegant and visceral"— Luis Urrea. "Cinematic, heart-thumping detail"—NPR. "A genuine tour-de-force, blistering with intelligence and dark wit"—Erika Krouse. "Truly compelling reading"—Minn Star Tribune
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Looking for a holiday book gift? I'd be honored if you considered She's Under Here: "A hurricane, elegant and visceral"— Luis Urrea. "Cinematic, heart-thumping detail"—NPR. "A genuine tour-de-force, blistering with intelligence and dark wit"—Erika Krouse. "Truly compelling reading"—Minn Star Tribune
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Part of the unique joy of this collection was writing for other disabled people and creating crip kinship from afar. Thank you Mialise and @nervetowrite.bsky.social for this generous conversation.
Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
December 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Part of the unique joy of this collection was writing for other disabled people and creating crip kinship from afar. Thank you Mialise and @nervetowrite.bsky.social for this generous conversation.
Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...
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oh this life of tears and giggles, sobs and great big guffaws
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
oh this life of tears and giggles, sobs and great big guffaws
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Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson.
ART by Eric Calloway.
PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social.
buff.ly/xfJzbi6
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Ok! I got my first ever short fiction acceptance--from a dream journal!!!
December 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ok! I got my first ever short fiction acceptance--from a dream journal!!!
I miss my Twitter lit community. It really didn't respawn here for me. It's ok. You don't have to defend Bluesky. I'm just saying it's not the same. It's not.
December 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I miss my Twitter lit community. It really didn't respawn here for me. It's ok. You don't have to defend Bluesky. I'm just saying it's not the same. It's not.
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shoulda put this together in a more legible format. something more like this, probably.
December 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
shoulda put this together in a more legible format. something more like this, probably.