Dean Bakopoulos

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Natalie Bakopoulos and conversation with @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social !

Meet @aceisjoy.bsky.social, one of our fiction grads and social media intern, whose time in the program led to personal development on and off the page.

✍️ The application period for the 2026 FSG Writer’s Fellowship is now open! The application period began on June 16, 2025, and closes on July 18, 2025 . More information about the fellowship can be found at fsgfellowship.com.

This is why we can’t have nice things like a publishing industry

I’m a tad biased but I’ve read this ARC and I loved this novel and I think you will too!

Want to learn more about applying to the MFA Program for Writers.

Two weeks from today, Sunday June 8th at 1pm ET, meet our director and learn how to prepare your application.

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer

🙌 Here comes @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON (thanks @nytimes.com) 💥💥💥 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

“It took me ten years to live and two years to write” is how Bob Dylan once described Tangled Up in Blue.

The song not only opens the masterpiece that is his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks, it’s key to unlocking the whole record. 🧵

Seems low who are you using

Amazing that anyone could believe that this institution was/is anything more than a place sloppy, unsuccessful and racist intellectuals could try and glorify themselves as bastions of free speech and free thought

I know the trend of students using AI to cheat is sad, sure, but so is grading, so let’s abolish the grading system at all levels of education and find news way to teach and motivate ourselves and our students and evaluate their work.

One of the great feelings of middle aged Dad is ripping three extra sets of weights bc Dylan’s “Things Have Changed” comes on the shuffle play

Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.

✨Cover Spotlight!✨

Check out the fantastic cover for ✨Archipelago: A Novel (8/19/25) by @nataliebakopoulos.bsky.social — designed by Beth Steidle, Tin House director of design & production.

"A gorgeously sly page turner.”
—Laura van den Berg

More: bit.ly/ArchipelagoN...

He will not hesitate to kill as many popes as it takes

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Even Kane? He’s a citizen!

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

kfor.com/news/local/w...

FOX NEWS CARD: PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS: DECLASSIFIED THE JFK FILES ENDED FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR PAPER STRAWS ENDED PRODUCTION OF THE PENNY NEWS LIVE (Stephen Miller in a window explaining why this is awesome)

This is so funny, I might have to print it out and frame it

Not yet!

I saw SINNERS two nights in a row it was that good

This is the point in the commercial where I look at you, smile and nod, take a bite of the tomato in my hand, enjoy it, then look down, pick up dog poop, and hurl it at the politician speaking in the park while you heartily applaud

Holy fuck SINNERS is Cinema. @ryancoogler.bsky.social did it just went out there and did it

Waiting to be looped in soon

God love Ryan Coogler for taking his clout from Black Panther and David Zaslav’s money to make a horny, gory, morally grey, politically complicated, very funny original adult art movie shot on IMAX 65mm for real—that a bunch of industry insiders were rooting for to fail.

I suddenly wondered if the final speech @carriecoon.bsky.social gives at the end of White Lotus deliberately echoes Sonya’s last speech at the end of Uncle Vanya. This is why I’m an insomniac

Sign that says NO KING with a crossed-out gold crown

Sign: NO KING Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door

Sign: My Gay Agenda: Impeach his ass

Small child holding a sign: NO KINGS NO NAZIS

No Kings protest in Santa Fe, NM

Cincinnati is showing up to protect democracy!
#50501
#HandsOff