Alisha Erin Hillam
@aehillam.bsky.social
Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with poems + CNF at ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Lunch Ticket, Consequence Forum, and others. 2025 AIR Literature Västra Götaland Artist in Residence. Historian, Hoosier, & traveler, now based in Europe.
One of the better interviews with me you’re likely to read. They gotta send me more grad student interviewers
“They got to send me more grad student interviewers” says @themountaingoats.bsky.social after talking with @indyweek.bsky.social writer (and current grad student) Shelbi Polk. Read their sprawling conversation here. indyweek.com/news/culture...
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Honoured to have this essay about my grandparents and the German experience of displacement, exile and migration in the mighty @thediasporist.bsky.social. Sincere thanks to @juliabosson.bsky.social & @rmiecz.bsky.social for all the work put into it. thediasporist.de/east-prussia...
East Prussia is Dead – the Diasporist
My grandmother Cäcilie, who was born in 1923 and whom we called Cilly for short, was a short, rotund woman full of energy and with a roaring, infectious laugh.
thediasporist.de
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Honoured to have this essay about my grandparents and the German experience of displacement, exile and migration in the mighty @thediasporist.bsky.social. Sincere thanks to @juliabosson.bsky.social & @rmiecz.bsky.social for all the work put into it. thediasporist.de/east-prussia...
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December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Qajar painting of woman doing a handstand, Iran, early 20th century, oil on canvas
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November 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The Island of Rhodes https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-island-of-rhodes-1861
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Island of Rhodes https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/the-island-of-rhodes-1861
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It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
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Sabina Nordqvist is writing romance with disability at the center and I'm here for it
It’s All in Your Head
A “poignant and swoony” romance about a woman with a rare neurological condition who agrees to fake-date the hot guy in her chronic pain support group—...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Sabina Nordqvist is writing romance with disability at the center and I'm here for it
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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To anyone who thinks people who pirated copies didn't have $ anyways so those aren't lost sales -- those are lost LIBRARY sales.
Request books! Libraries are great.
Request books! Libraries are great.
November 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
To anyone who thinks people who pirated copies didn't have $ anyways so those aren't lost sales -- those are lost LIBRARY sales.
Request books! Libraries are great.
Request books! Libraries are great.
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I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
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Figures In A Coastal Landscape At Sunset https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/figures-in-a-coastal-landscape-at-sunset
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Figures In A Coastal Landscape At Sunset https://www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/figures-in-a-coastal-landscape-at-sunset
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"The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free."
-Charles Tart
-Charles Tart
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free."
-Charles Tart
-Charles Tart
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@monikarusvai.bsky.social @aehillam.bsky.social hi both! Just sending a link to @dustpoetry.bsky.social which published Breakfast TV today -
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/breakfa...
You can access the rest of the journal from there too, have a good w/end!
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/breakfa...
You can access the rest of the journal from there too, have a good w/end!
Breakfast TV by Sarah Wallis
Breakfast TV I would swear my soulsmells like cheese on toast,the buttered kindand roasted under the grill in Hadestime, that melt on sizzlethe Worcester sauce, and always cursedto be an empty or mis...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@monikarusvai.bsky.social @aehillam.bsky.social hi both! Just sending a link to @dustpoetry.bsky.social which published Breakfast TV today -
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/breakfa...
You can access the rest of the journal from there too, have a good w/end!
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/breakfa...
You can access the rest of the journal from there too, have a good w/end!
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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!
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.
What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket *Day 5*
Day five and only four remain! Pour out a cold plum for yesterday’s runner-ups, including “This Is Just To Say,” bad art friend, and the transparency and advocacy campaign #PublishingPaidMe The fou…
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November 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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!
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!
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November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
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I'm from the Midwest, where no insult could be more vicious than "Well. Aren't you special."
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm from the Midwest, where no insult could be more vicious than "Well. Aren't you special."
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Scrivener forever
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Scrivener forever
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Join us for a night of literature and community with our free quarterly Online Open Mic Salon with host @kiklodge.bsky.social.
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Join us for a night of literature and community with our free quarterly Online Open Mic Salon with host @kiklodge.bsky.social.
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
As usual, it will feature excellent readings and a highly competitive quiz.
Reading spots are limited, so sign up soon!
how am I supposed to get any revising done when my first Swedish snowfall is happening outside the window
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
how am I supposed to get any revising done when my first Swedish snowfall is happening outside the window
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Note: open access is good. Paying writers out of your profits is better.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Note: open access is good. Paying writers out of your profits is better.
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I mostly tilt at other windmills, but academics don’t have to participate in this economy. It’s a choice. You could make a different choice. you could do it tomorrow.
Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I mostly tilt at other windmills, but academics don’t have to participate in this economy. It’s a choice. You could make a different choice. you could do it tomorrow.
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this catalog is utter book-person catnip
Our physical copies haven't arrived yet, but the IDEA of your book is alive & kicking amidst the noise & the rain (weird themes arose over the course of this monster) of our holiday catalog.
simplebooklet.com/holiday-cata...
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Holiday Catalog 2025
Holiday Catalog 2025
simplebooklet.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
this catalog is utter book-person catnip
woke up this morning to a "these poems don't fit with our latest issue but we really like them, keep it up" rejection, so I am pretty sure today is going to be a good day
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
woke up this morning to a "these poems don't fit with our latest issue but we really like them, keep it up" rejection, so I am pretty sure today is going to be a good day