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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 10h

I can never predict which books are actually going to make me cry and when one hits, it is so wonderful and such a nice release. (Also I haven't read mama day in like 16 years and can remember nothing of it now!)

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 1d

at a point of such profound disillusionment that I am making plans to have two glasses of pinot and fall asleep twenty minutes into shrek 2 as a fun treat

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 1d

I know I'm still alive because I cried my way through the last thirty-five pages of Heart the Lover like I was a child having to endure the ending of When the Red Fern Grows again

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 6d

my story “Icediver” is in this anthology! you could say it’s a mermaid story, but really it’s about being an outcast, finding your people, and repairing subsea fiber-optic cables. check it out!

Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 7d

A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...

Cover art by Abi Stevens for Reckoning: A Chorus, Divergent, featuring an eight-winged moth framed in pink and orange moons and rainbow colored clouds

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 6d

my english teacher once told me the most beautiful phrase in the English language is dubai chocolate labubu

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 7d

someone might have one of the most demented stories she's ever written reprinted in this:
www.hingstonandolsen.com/store/the-20...

Kevin Wilson's 12 Days of Stories [PRE-ORDER] — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

Hear ye! Contained within are a dozen outstanding short stories, as selected by author and short-fiction savant Kevin Wilson. Whether you savour them one day at a time as a countdown to Christmas...

www.hingstonandolsen.com

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 12d

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 12d

2025's biggest jump scare is when someone begins a sentence with, "I've been doing my own research."

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 14d

YESSSSS! Congratulations!!!! (and congratulations to me and the rest of the Kelly Link fan community that get to read all of your books!)

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 15d

t's hot pynchon fall, where almost everyone in the news has a stupid name, the grift is on, and we're all either deteriorating from paranoia or seeing reality in all its firework against a night sky sharpness

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 19d

the cognitive exhaustion of seeing many people returning to "resistance" posting where the only resistance is some clicks and engagement instead of actually pointing people toward ways of helping those who need it or doing actions safely

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 19d

Hey Friends, this week in Minneapolis there were two shootings at homeless encampments, making it even harder for our neighbors. Sanctuary Supply Depot is raising money to help bring a little more comfort and care. If you have a few dollars to spare (they're only trying for $300!), info below:

Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 20d

We have our big weekly event tomorrow where people come get showers, hot food, groceries, harm reduction, clothes, camping supplies, and consult with resource navigators - who can help get some extra snacks for people who have been too traumatized this week?

Flyer on blue, purple, and pink ombre: We want to provide extra snacks at Friday showers after everything our residents have been through this week. Can you help us raise $300? venmo: supplydepotmpls

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 21d

Duck Duck Coffee will be doing a directed donation drive today - please bring t shirts, underwear, ibuprofen/acetaminophen, shorts, drinks, and especially SHOES during business hours today!

Screenshot from Duck Duck Coffee's Instagram showing a table outside the coffee shop with handwritten signs advertising the donation drive for Sanctuary Supply Depot.

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 22d

@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social needs you right now, follow them for lists of what they need & other ways to support

Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 22d

A second mass shooting of a homeless encampment in Minneapolis. Five more people died. Meanwhile, congress is working on passing the ability to jail homeless people for up to 30 days or charge them $500. It bans camping on public property. abcnews.go.com/US/people-hu...

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Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 22d

This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!

A garbage truck in front of many destroyed tents and pallets.

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 22d

I matched this! And if $25 is rough right now, $7 can buy water that people desperately need on these ninety degree days

Rachel @rachmarie.bsky.social · 22d

It’s a good day to donate to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social. I just donated $25 if anyone wants to match me

Sanctuary Supply Depot @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social · 22d

This camp is being violently evicted right now in the wake of a devastating shooting. People are mourning community members and simultaneously having their homes bulldozed. If you have t shirts, drinks, aspirin, new underwear, or cigarettes please bring to 1100 E Lake between 3-7 for distro!

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23d

I am so thrilled to share that an excerpt of BEINGS, with an incredible introduction by @debbieurbanski.bsky.social is now up at @electricliterature.com, which I've been reading since its earliest days, and which I've always dreamed of placing fiction in <3

electricliterature.com/beings-by-il...

A Honeymoon Disrupted By a Close Encounter - Electric Literature

An excerpt from BEINGS by Ilana Masad, recommended by Debbie Urbanski

electricliterature.com

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Dana Diehl @danadiehl.bsky.social · 24d

Support a truly magical residency. I am auctioning off a couple copies of The Classroom and one of my little David Lynch cups. I wrote one of the first stories in my new collection at SAFTA. It is a special place for me and so many others. @sundresspub.bsky.social
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SAFTA/Sundress fundraising auction

As many of you know, Sundress’ residency program nurtures and empowers writers underrepresented in literary publishing. “Amazing,” “life-changing,” and “productive” are some of the words used to descr...

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 29d

some times I think it'll be a miracle if I stay in academia for another ten years and then some days one of my classes reads Laura van den Berg's "The Pitch" and keeps saying to each other, "did I ever tell you about my other son?" in increasingly dramatic and delighted fashion

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 29d

If New Zealand is okay and you're fine with greater Oceania I have a recommendation! You might like The Mires by Tina Makereti (it comes out in the US on September 25 and while the copy makes it sound very normie, there is a swamp narrator) : bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Mires: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · Sep 8

for a minute there I was tracking the authors posting about how their publishers hadn't registered copyright, and it was A LOT. I'm really genuinely glad to see that at least one has decided to do right by their authors.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Sep 8

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.

Every pub should do this.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Sep 7

this part right here is gonna create massive resentment in the industry. the copyright registration system and the fact that you apparently have to pay a bonus fee for protection from big companies pirating your work (and that tons of publishers never paid the bonus fee...)

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · Sep 7

it's fun that you can get angel-numbers brain about everything in publishing. it's terrible that you can get angel-numbers brain about everything in publishing.

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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · Sep 5

Adrienne!!! ahhhh but also hello, so we're feeling some similar things

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