Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here:
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Fall reading from @haymarketbooks.org:

Azadi, Arundhati Roy
Revolution Today, Susan Buck-Morss
A Map of My Want,
@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social

At some point, I became one of those people who gets excited when a new data report drops. I literally just got a glass of water, some snacks, and snuggled in place to read a new report related to my research. What is this?!

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Congrats to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Thank you! Still dancing around!

Love to see it! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Thank you!

I did a thing! My second poetry collection, A MAP OF MY WANT (@haymarketbooks) won the Midwest Book Award for Poetry!

I know it’s been a minute. Slowly but surely making my way back over here!

Delighted to see two Acre authors celebrated for their contributions to literary Chicago! Congrats @thejs3.bsky.social (DEFIANT ACTS) and @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉
lit.newcity.com/2025/06/04/l...

So excited to tell you about Ragdale’s annual fundraiser, More Than a Novel Affair, which I co-curated… It’s two days: Friday May 16 and Saturday May 17. If you’re in Chicago, FRIDAY’S event is more convenient: It’ll be at the Newberry Library (in partnership with @storystudiochicago.bsky.social) 🧵

It features five seriously amazing authors (@kazimali.bsky.social, @jamiattenberg.bsky.social, Xochitl Gonzalez, Chigozie Obioma, and Claire Lombardo). They’ll be in conversation—moderated by the wonderful @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social—about making space for art and finding your voice.

You hussle your whole life looking for a way into the light only to find yourself already glowing.

I hope you keep reaching—your time is coming. I promise.

I’m not at AWP this year but I’m internet lurking during my trip to NYC. 👀

Thank you! 🙏🏾

Congratulations to Acre author @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social (HOODWITCH)! 🎉🎉🎉

🙏🏾🙌🏾

Leaning all the way into spirit’s gift of transformation, today!

Grace and gratitude to the teams at The Mellon Foundation and @haymarketbooks.org.

Grace and gratitude to my readers.

Grace and gratitude to my people and my people’s people.

May the light find us always.

Applications for @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's, sixth annual StoryBoard conference are now OPEN! Spend a week studying with one of these 8 amazing instructors -- either in-person or online -- in August. Apply are here:
www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c...

#writingcommunity

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

My millennial lover archetype according to the nostalgic trip I just went on via YouTube:

1/3 Travie McCoy
1/3 Lauryn Hill
1/3 Vin Diesel

Explains the last 20 years. 🤣🫠

As an astro-spiritualist, I’m oddly hopeful. I’ve documented signs of the nation’s fall for years, so this moment doesn’t surprise me.

What does surprise me is this sudden knowing that after we bring a stop to the oligarchy—we could be the ones to construct a new and more empathetic constitution.