Go off, queen 👏👑

This essay is by far the most personal piece I have ever written, and publishing it feels like the scariest—and most important—thing I have ever done.

It is about the hell that was my childhood, and how systems of power and abuse are created—and upheld.

guernicamag.com/the-protagonis…

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Edgar Allan Poe will be like “I know a spot” and then you're buried underneath a floorboard.

At #willapabayair , by the Pacific, and you can’t tell me a Studio Ghibli film hasn’t been inspired by this place

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Joe Jonas is banned from Ba Sing Se.

Stoked to have a chap coming out from carrion bloom books -- aka one of the most exciting small presses going at the moment. (Also to share a literary home with Cat Ingrid Leeches. Been working on this one for nearly a decade. It's grown with me, so I'm excited to see its next mutations.

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics)
Enjoy the #supermoon !

As a virologist and a writer, looking back at the past three years, I am AGHAST that #breadloaf 's COVID policy was to FORCE COVID POSITIVE PEOPLE TO TRAVEL.

If your conference's policy is to SEND PEOPLE WITH COVID HOME, you should just not have a conference.

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man ⚡️⚡️⚡️

I hope my king Richard Siken knows he’s not obligated to reply to all the ransoms on bird app

One of those incredible literature moments: George Emerson throwing Lucy’s photographs into the Arno in Forster’s A Room With A View (1908)

Very excited for this! And hope to convince a few of you to consider the PhD route 😍💫🥳 #AWP24

Debut by a dear friend 😍

Took about 0 pics Sewanee Writers' Conference but glad to know when the inimitable Ananda Lima caught some snaps, she prioritized things like my uno face 😘

Didn’t realize that the most exciting thing about my time at Sewanee Writers' Conference would be rescuing a lost dog, fittingly named Harper Lee 🐕‍🦺