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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop is offering free shipping on all orders today. Just saying 🥺

Check out Every Galaxy a Circle - An Intriguing Journey through the Cosmos of Human ExperienceIn Every Galaxy a Circle, Chloe N. Clark masterfully intertwines memories, ghost...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 1d

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 2d

The brilliant writing ideas always come late at night.

memo note that says "next chapter: they go to pizza house and nothing happens."

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 2d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · 3d

Who's ready to send JAKE some weird shit? General subs open 8/20

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 5d

Yo writer types save the date! The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, CONVERSATIONS & CONNECTIONS: PRACTICAL ADVICE ON WRITING, is coming back to American University in Washington DC on April 18, 2026! Registration will open soon. Hope you'll join us for a fun, positive, productive day!

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing, is coming back to American University in Washington DC on Apri l18, 2026!

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 5d

Same here! Figured you were already in.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 5d

Fuckin A.

Screen capture from TV show The Lowdown, Ethan Hawke saying "It's just that the world is crazy, and they hate writers."

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 11d

ESPN game day crew looks like they're about to get their annual family pictures taken on the beach in the outer banks.

Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 12d

Physical objects!

Stack of books, Aliens Attack by Dave Housley

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 12d

Roy! Congratulations! Great news.

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social)
whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

Totally agree! Something I have in my "what are literary magazines and why you should care" thing I do sometimes for students. Gives you a very clear view of what stands out and how subjective the process is. My thick rejection skin is from those early days reading for @barrelhouse.bsky.social.

Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 13d

I started at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in 2018. It changed my trajectory as a reader & writer. I'm beyond grateful to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social & Split Lip! I'm stepping down this month bc of work obligations. But: volunteer at litmags! The community&experience will change you in the best ways!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 13d

Turns out, if you loved Reservation Dogs and are a fan of The Long Goodbye, the Before Trilogy, Elmore Leonard, Jim Thompson, Run the Jewels, Coen Brothers movies, and more... THE LOWDOWN is basically porn/drugs.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

Same! Feel like they made a show just for us?

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

Have no choice but to agree, Ethan Hawke on The Lowdown.

Screen capture from TV show the Lowdown, Ethan Hawke saying "what is success anyway? Making money or writing the book."

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

YES!

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

Dealing with the pressing issues from a particular moment on a small corner of the internet from 2012 over here! I guess I forgot this happened or the algorithms weren't fine tuned enough to tell me this happened.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 13d

Saw Pulp Fiction last week & remembered a thing I wrote on my lil blog when Dalkey posted a ridiculous call for an intern (miss u early lit internet ❤️💾), and was surprised to find Vice had reprinted it: The Gimp From Pulp Fiction Applies for Dalkey Archive Internship. www.vice.com/en/article/t...

The Gimp from 'Pulp Fiction' Applies for a Literary Internship

For the last several years, I have been employed as a gimp in a box in the basement of Zed's Pawn Shop in Canoga Park, Los Angeles. I am tethered. I sleep in a four by two foot storage locker. In all ...

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 14d

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

SLM is looking for flash and fiction readers. Apply online September 24 to October 1. splitlip.submittable.com

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 15d

"The regime is disappearing people" has traditionally been a pretty strong rallying cry when it's happened in other places.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 16d

Out of all the Pennsylvania/Philly specific details on Task I'm always most impressed when a character says "P.A." instead of "Pennsylvania," a thing I had no idea I did until a few years ago.

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Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 16d

This is tomorrow in Philadelphia and the more of you show up the more of a public spectacle Hannah and I will make of ourselves

SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 17d

This Tuesday at 7pm EDT, @samuelashworth.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social will be participating in the literary throw down of the year at The Head & The Hand!

Learn more and how to register right here: buff.ly/oqdsqDX

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 17d

Cat zoom.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 18d

I agree with James, this is a good one.

James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social · 18d

‘Maybe it does matter. Maybe it all matters.’

Gosh, this is good. @aaronburch.bsky.social in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social 🎳

pitheadchapel.com/the-bowling-...

The Bowling Story

Aaron Burch What happened was, I got divorced. You could take it back further—moving out, separation, sleeping in different rooms, therapy, affairs, fights, resentment, etc.—but none of that really…

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