This week's story is "Plaster" by David Szalay. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Congrats my clever feller for placing this piece on Warhol's EMPIRE in 3:AM Magazine's Minute 9 series of film essays.

just to make sure i really do have a nervous breakdown this year: going to start a lit mag, online first, print/subscription later. if u write fiction or essays or poems and are interested hmu x

Issue Six of The Pig's Back is now available for pre-order. Featuring essays and fiction from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright, Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong (@samfurlongtighe), Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens (Kathy Stevens) and Paul Whyte (Paul Whyte). Link below 🐷

The theme of this week's Moth Studios Challenge is loss.The work must be completed within two hours and submitted from 9-11pm on Tuesday evening to The Moth Studios (by private message on FB). The challenge is open to everyone. Please share and good luck! 🎨 Edvard Munch

🐷 Issue Six 🐷 is back from the printers and will be dropping in through letterboxes and into the best bookshops in the next few days. Featuring new work from Emily Iseult Duggan, Máiréad Enright, Laura Fitzgerald, Sam Furlong, Kerry Mahony, Kathy Stevens and Paul Whyte.

After our sold-out fiction workshop, Andrew Cowan and I are delighted to be running two more online creative writing workshops this June-July! There are a few spots left in either class, so if you want to raise your manuscript game this spring, join us. Suitable for all levels,

The Bridgerton star has also set up a fundraiser and will match donations up to £10,000. glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nicola…

“My classmates would crowd around asking to hear my stories. When I think back to it now, I realize that’s where my writing career began.” —Yu Hua buff.ly/rEgIV3W

We're coming to a Barnes near you! (Assuming you're near Barnes, London).

death kit Link here! deathkitcom.wordpress.com/dallas-cowboys…

Grateful for this handsome new UK edition of Aug 9–Fog, published by Book Works, designed by Traven T. Croves (Matthew Stuart + Andrew Walsh-Lister), with quotes from artists I admire

NEW: on this month's episode Nicole Flattery is joined by Tenaya Steed Tenaya to read and discuss her story 'Water Lilies' from the latest issue of The Stinging Fly magazine, Issue 52, Volume Two. Listen Here: stingingfly.org/podcast/tenaya…

For The Drift , I wrote about the aesthetics of the White House’s grotesque deportation memes: thedriftmag.com/agit-slop/

“You shouldn’t write without inspiration—at least not very often.” —Lorrie Moore buff.ly/HTcDCb5

“You build a novel. You have to build it like a building so that it stays standing when you’re not in it.” —Rachel Cusk buff.ly/v7ECrnq

"Peter had told me they couldn’t get you off the mountain—something about money, and you being too heavy. I didn’t get it. I remembered how he used to pick you up like you were a sack of potatoes." — Snow White, Kathy Stevens

“There was a bush that emitted a strong smell almost exactly like that of semen. Some men and women noticed it as they passed by. It was rather shocking, in a vicar’s garden.” We’ve unlocked “The Fête” by Tom Crewe in our Summer issue. buff.ly/QIJSuTo

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏