I'm seeing so many presses opening up to book and chapbook submissions right now and I know you want your book published really badly and this is not a subtweet. But do your research into presses, their editors and their catalog before you send them your precious manuscript.1/🧵

We here at little Agate Publishing don't have a single book on the The New York Times 100 best list. But we did launch the careers of authors responsible for four of the books on that list, by publishing their first books. And that's just how it works for a lot of companies like ours.

Loved being part of NYWC when I was still living in NYC… And ditto to what Aaron says in here…

In 1998, Octavia Butler warned that the US would enter into a 30 year period of chaos, starting around 2015, during which America would elect a christofascist president named “Donner” who uses the slogan “make America great again.” And that’s why you read small press books!!

7.13 Books author Padma Viswanathan will be launching her memoir LIKE EVERY FORM OF LOVE with Tracy O’Neill at @center4fiction - centerforfiction.org/event/memoir-m…

Today is the pub date of Padma Viswanathan's LIKE EVERY FORM OF LOVE, a memoir of true crime and friendship - 7.13 Books #32. Originally published by Random House Canada last year, the US edition is our first memoir. ORDER NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/like-e…

General fiction submissions are open again. Our next themed submission period, Hunger, will begin in September. necessaryfiction.submittable.com/submit

For The Atlantic, I wrote about the brilliant Joanna Russ and her extremely gay realist novel, recently reissued by Feminist Press: theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

Spread the word, y'all: HONKY comes out TOMORROW with Cowboy Jamboree Press (subs open 4 A CASE OF KINK). Here's what the genius Leland Cheuk had to say: "Drevlow’s work alternates between the crude, the touching, and the hilarious. If it were up to me, I’d name Drevlow the poet laureate of Northernass Wisconsin."

Would you or someone you know like to be my next editorial assistant? app.jobvite.com/m?37Yghnwu #job

#ClipOfTheDay: Padma Viswanathan, author of Like Every Form of Love (7.13 Books), and Tracy O'Neill, author of Woman of Interest (HarperOne), discuss their memoirs and how they broke genre conventions to craft their stories The Center for Fiction. at.pw.org/ONeillAndViswa…

Some news! In a totally surreal turn of events, I wrote a novel! And it's going to be published by Little, Brown and Co! I'm ridiculously excited to work with the brilliant Vivian Lee to bring this dark, queer, woodsy, Midwestern fever dream to life. HEMLOCK, coming soon! 🌲🦌👻🖤

MacDowell has no residency fees, and we provide need-based stipends to defray costs that accrue during an artist’s stay, such as rent, utilities, childcare, and lost income. In addition, artists may also seek reimbursements for travel to and from their residencies.

hey psychos we're back sep 3 come join the partee writingco-lab.com/classes/ungodl…

Such an insightful and wonderful essay and I’m not just saying it because I’m the mom to Jason Jacoby Lee

Happy pub day to Katherine Anne Porter prize winner Linda Watanabe McFerrin, whose poetry collection POST-APOCALYPTIC VALENTINE is 7.13 Books #33. Anne Lamott says “She is soulful and precise, eloquent and full of life.” ORDER IT NOW: bookshop.org/p/books/post-a…

Thanks Hannah Bae @hannahbae.bsky.social for including 7.13 Books’s Fall title by Linda Watanabe McFerrin in the San Francisco Chronicle Fall Books Preview!

Sunday! Brooklyn! I'll be at Unnameable Books to help John Madera launch his new collection NERVOSITIES!