Fantastic piece by @NicoleShawan Guernica: How To Apply Makeup guernicamag.com/how-to-apply-m… via Guernica Magazine

Lampblack is accepting submissions of previously unpublished poetry, prose, & criticism for its DIASPORA issue. Submit via email to [email protected]. Please include your name, the title of your submission, and the genre in the subject line of your submission.

Get it together, Ankeny

Juliana Fonda, a broadcast engineer at WNYC, said that she was on the N train when she heard the shots from one car over.

Here is some of what I shared on the New York City Council floor a few minutes ago: This Tuesday, April 12th, my daughter left our home at about 8:20, headed to the 36th train station for school.

I spent many months investigating the 2020 Moria refugee camp fire on the Greek island of Lesvos –– the inhumane conditions of the camp, the pressurizing circumstances leading up to the fire, & the saga of the 6 young refugees accused of setting it. I hope you'll give it a read.

Very proud to have been a part of @SliceMagazine and so sad it’s come to a close. Please enjoy the incredible beauty and talent in these pages ❤️ Many thanks and much love to Celia, Maria, @bethblachman, @NicoleShawan, the nonfiction reading team and all the friends I’ve made ✨

It is a tremendous honor to have my story published in @SliceMagazine's final issue alongside so, so many writers I admire. Thank you mattgallagher0 for selecting me (and writing an intro that's far too kind), and Marae Hart for being a brilliant editor: slicemagazine.org/emerging-voice…

12 years ago today my dad was killed in Afghanistan. I shared a bit about that day with @SliceMagazine—about what I could piece together of his last day, the moment I found out, and making sense of it all. I hope you take a minute to read it today: slicemagazine.org/emerging-voice…

It's here and it's stunning—inside and out. I know I've held so many of these poems close these past few years. Available for pre-order now!

With much of eastern Kentucky under water after devastating floods, worth revisiting Alex Acquisto’s in-depth look at why these communities are so vulnerable — and why climate change is going to make it so much worse. kentucky.com/news/state/ken…

JOB ALERT: Catapult is hiring an editorial assistant to support our book editors; starting salary is $42k publishersmarketplace.com/jobs/view.cgi?…

We are in desperate need of composition notebooks! Incarcerated folks use them to write, draw, and create while locked behind bars. That's something we want to support. If you do, too, consider sending us some! No spiral-bound notebooks, please. Mailing info below. 👇

Four years ago in the East Room of the White House I was told to sit down during a press conference on midterm election results. I tried to ask about voter suppression. I was continuously told to “sit down.” Four years later,yesterday I was able to ask three questions.

Yo, I’m looking for illustrators for a paid project & collaboration with The Met Museum. Please share and link me any accounts/portfolios.

In his opening remarks, Iowa House Speaker Speaker Pat Grassley said they are ready to push back against "the radical social agenda being forced upon us and our children by the left." This is the 7th year of an Iowa Republican trifecta.

Happiest of paperback pubs to this dream of a book ✨ Congratulations, Sequoia Nagamatsu

NBA X NICKI in 45 mins. Retweet if your vagina is juicy. Retweet if your penis is decent. Retweet if you like me. All of my moots let’s go. Deleting & midnight. 🫠

One last time, I’m running my book club / craft class on Best American Essays 2022, 4 sundays in June & July. Let’s read & study this wonderful anthology together! Link below, or visit Writing Co-lab for more info

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher who was told to stop using his book on growing up Black in America in her advanced English class. apnews.com/article/tanehi…