We're THRILLED to announce the winners of our 2023 Short Story Contest, judged by Ernesto Mestre-Reed (Ernesto Mestre 🇨🇺🇺🇸)! bkreview.org/plus/2023-shor… Check out the amazing work of our winner Daniel Barrios (daniel barrios) and runners up Eugene Stein and Torsa Ghosal (Torsa Ghosal | @torsa.bsky.social)

Hippos at the Cincinnati Zoo getting some pumpkin snacks.

psa x

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Here are our upcoming reading periods for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025.

Aljazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and Ramy El Rafey were killed by a targeted Israeli airstike while covering the death of Ismail Hinayeh in front of his home in Gaza. Aljazeera presenters are breaking down in announcing it. I'm breaking down writing this.

Fashionably late, I have entered the chat (reviewed My First Book for Bookforum Magazine ) bookforum.com/fiction/zoom-a…

Bro Anuel AA’s toupee flying on stage really made my summer🤣🤣😂

A rare African black leopard under the stars - a photo that took the photographer 6 months to capture 📸: Will Burrard-Lucas

Gratitude.

Just a baby capybara following mom on their big adventure! 🥰

phoebe's submissions are officially now open! For 54.1 we will be a paying market,  $30 per piece accepted, a flat rate for all genres (poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and art). Sub link in bio!

The Summer 2024 issue of Action, Spectacle is live! Guest edited by Alena Graedon, Carol Mitchell, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Michael Chang, Molly Gaudry, Nikki Herd, Roberto Tejada, Said Sayrafiezadeh, and Shane Book. action-spectacle.com

Psst: The application for the 2025 Periplus Fellowship — offering mentorship and community to writers of color — is now open! 🥳 Learn more and apply by 9/20 at bit.ly/periplusfaq. There's no fee to apply. Please help spread the word: retweets and other sharing welcome!

Yves Adams, a Belgian photographer managed to photograph a picture of a rare yellow penguin.

Let's give a shout out to the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. Mandemosle un saludo a la gente que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art

“When I’m writing, I’m feeling something like, I want to entertain you for twenty pages. I want you to keep reading.” —George Saunders buff.ly/45EgwdL

Ramiro was picking mangoes in Coachella CA last week. The temperature was 85° at 10am when this was taken and by the afternoon it was 112°. Today temps will reach 118°. #WeFeedYou #HeatJustice

“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.” —James Earl Jones, RIP (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024)

gaslighting myself into thinking everything will be okay