Kim Weldin

Thanks @turnandwork.com for including my short story “Acts of Service” on their short list! ☺️@necessaryfiction.com @nicholas-claro.bsky.social

You too! 🤓

Love this story and it was amazing to work with you, Kim!

My short story “Acts of Service” out on @necessaryfiction.com Thanks to guest editor @nicholas-claro.bsky.social for selecting this story and editing it with care.

my essay about Angela Carter's mysterious unfinished Jane Eyre sequel is featured in this anthology! so happy to be in the company of so many writers I admire ☺️ happy pub day to everyone, and thank you as always to @autofocusbooks.bsky.social!

Hey BCP fam! We're excited to share that our summer chapbook open reading period is underway. Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, we want to read it ALL!

The nitty gritty full details are available at our website (buff.ly/qnH1l7I).

don’t touch that it’s my emotional support nameless first person present tense unreliable narrator

This is so upsetting 📚

The End of Roadside Attractions - The Paris Review “Is there a connection between dinosaurs and Jesus? When it comes to roadside attractions, the answer is yes!”

“A true roadside attraction was a brainchild of an individual with a vision. These people were usually oddball folks who lived in rural areas.”

Jane Stern on roadside attractions.

The UFO Welcome Center was a roadside attraction in Bowman, South Carolina (not North Carolina as stated in the photo). Sadly it burned down last year. I wrote a short story based on it here: mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...

My short story “Escape Hatch” is up on The Ana Issue #16 and is very inspired by Kate Folk (in particular “The Bone Ward”).

www.wearetheana.com/issue-16

a woman in a black dress is sitting in a car looking out the window . ALT: a woman in a black dress is sitting in a car looking out the window .

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A question I’ve had for myself the last year or so: Will I always be this sad?

A floral flier on a dark background announcing that Black Lily is now reading for Issue 3, which we hope to publish around the summer solstice. Submission guidelines: please send up to 5 poems, up to 3 micros/flashes/hybrids max 1,000 words total, one story or essay up to 2,500 words, and up to 5 pieces of visual art as an attachment (.docx, google docs, PDFs are prob best) with a short bio to blacklilyzine@gmail.com. Swipe through for more ideas of what @morgan.bridges & I are looking for. Stay tuned to meet our new readers & what they’d like to see in the queue as well. And hey, if you haven’t ordered either issue, you might want to see what we’re all about. $8 each or both for $14 (+ shipping which is usually around $4.15 for media mail).

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Lifesaving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another. I/formerly Twitter dasor_fatti

James Baldwin. I’ve been thinking about this for a year.

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ICYMI: the lovely Stone Circle Review published the only thing I’ve let myself write that isn’t the novel in a year. Been a slow publishing year as a result. Grateful to Lee Potts for believing in it.

It’s for the ones who make Xmas, the exhausted, the grieving. CW: death, addiction, alcoholism.

Shirley Jackson’s Sublime First Paragraph in ‘Hill House,’ Annotated Random House copy chief Benjamin Dreyer can work into almost any conversation, no matter the topic, his affection for the first paragraph…

For Shirley Jackson's birthday, here are two lovely breakdowns of her openings to "Hill House" and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" that I like to show my creative writing students.

First up is @bcdreyer.social's annotation of "Hill House": medium.com/@penguinrand...

I've never read Black Tickets/Jayne Anne Phillips. Adding to list. On the other hand, I think about Geek Love and Arty/the ending every so often.

Oyez Review Volume 51 2024 issue of Oyez Review.

Today I'm reading Rebecca Van Laer's short story "Self-care" from Oyez Review Issues 51. I love how she explores the tendency to heal through self-avoidance and expensive health habits, and perhaps most importantly, relationships with others. @rebeccavl.bsky.social
medium.com/oyez-review/...

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Samesies 🥦

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Hope everyone stays safe and firm out their with their boundaries over the holidays

I wrote a memoir called Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, a book that is very sad but also (I think) very funny whose most recent Goodreads review claims the content made someone physically sick 🤩 bookshop.org/p/books/long...

Some great short story writers on here!

Hello 👋

The W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections The W.S. Porter Prize is awarded to recognize a masterfully written short story collection, while also honoring William Sydney Porter, a native born son of North Carolina and an accomplished short …

Writers with short story collections: submissions are open for the W.S. Porter Prize -- winning collection gets $1k + publication regalhousepublishing.com/the-w-s-port...

order some books directly from a small press or independent bookstore, i promise there are few better feelings than directly supporting a small press or independent bookstore