We now have the cover art for our punk-prog literary band "The Quills". Now, we just need to record the album!

An awesome-funny-heartfelt collection! Bertaina is one of the better Andrew storytellers out there. He lifts our moniker up.

Had a fantastic night yesterday at a reading hosted by Andrew Bertaina and Lauren D. Woods! Fellowship and stories and some really solid metaphors to boot - what else can you want :)

love the verve and humor and heart in this piece! Sample line: "The sign over the beer garden depicted a phoenix emerging from its pile of ash. Renewal. A message too blatant to be mine."

Wow, Christopher Notarnicola has a wonderful grasp of craft. Love the way he talks about storytelling! I'm super honored to have him review and think through this flash piece of mine with SmokeLong.

Not only has this piece introduced me to a cool new word ("aphantasia"!), more importantly, this piece is full of surprising turns and insights and honesty. The author opened up new tabs in my brain. I don't know if "hyperlink" is a verb. But I felt "hyperlinked" :)

I know I've done something right when I'm on a list with Lauren D. Woods :) Super excited to be considered for the Moon City Fiction Award with these talented writers!!

Agreed, super honored to be on this list! Congrats to Varun Gauri for winning and to Keosha Jay and the other semifinalists!

Had a great time at the 804 reading series last night! Thanks to everyone who showed up and shared their work. And thanks to Lauren D. Woods and Andrew Bertaina for hosting and opening up their homes to everyone!

Congrats to @MarkLKeats on the chapbook publication! I've been a fan of Keats' since his early poems with Grecian urns, but, honestly, he gets better and better. More seriously, I've read drafts of many of these pieces and they're absolutely fantastic! Can't wait to get a copy 😀

I have many talented friends who publicize their many talented deeds on Twitter. I am bad at Twitter. Ergo, I've missed many of these deeds. I would like to say that I have a life and that's why I'm bad at Twitter. This is not true. As is evident from my use of the word "ergo."

wow, this is a gorgeous poem! Where was this on Valentine's Day for all the people who were looking to plagiarize other people's hearts?! I would plagiarize this heart :)

Nathan Fielder + Arielle Bernstein = I'm in! ♥️

Love this piece by Lena Crown ! The concept is stellar, the language a light-show. One of many wonderful lines: “It looked like a pixelated body falling in slow motion down a flight of stairs, forever.”

I was lucky enough to read an early copy. It's rare when the content is as good as the title! The collection is a tour-de-force of artistic alchemy: transforming loss and longing into light.

Excited to be interrogating (er, "conversing") with Andrew Bertaina tomorrow at the event! The book is fantastic: one of the few titles where the content is as awesome as the title.

YES!! Congrats! I'm so excited to read this collection soon :)

Hell yes - preorder complete!! Nick Rees Gardner has a knack for verve and humor and heart (the trifecta I look for as a reader). Super excited to give this collection a read soon :)

Reading Nick Rees Gardner's collection and loving it! My description of the book: What if Etgar Keret wrote Jesus' Son? In other words, it's frenetic, funny, heartfelt, and just really good. He's reading at Kramer's today at 7 PM. Be there or be without good sentences.

Incredibly excited and honored to be published by YesYes Books!! Amazing news :) Couldn’t have done it without my lovely writing friends here in DC and elsewhere who have been incredibly supportive throughout!