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FSG literary fellowship is open until July 13 fsgfellowship.com

FSG FellowshipThe FSG Writer’s Fellowship is a yearlong program designed to give an emerging writer from an underrepresented community additional resources to build a life around writing.fsgfellowship.com

Henry Dumas was an excellent short story writer and poet. Toni Morrison was a fan of his work. The Arkansas International's short story contest in his honor is open now. I published a piece in the journal last fall and had a very good experience. www.arkint.org/henry-dumas-...

Henry Dumas Fiction Prize — The Arkansas Internationalwww.arkint.org

Stop in for an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to celebrate the virtual launch of volume 10 of the Best Spiritual Literature anthology on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 7 PM Eastern. Registration for the online reading is free: secure.givelively.org/.../best-spi....

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I did an interview about keeping notebooks / diaries / journals in @kellymcmasters.bsky.social newsletter. Thanks again, Kelly, for allowing a member of the journaling tribe to share. kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...

SHOW ME YOUR DIARYfeaturing writer Stanley Stockerkellymcmasters.substack.com

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PRACTICAL MEDICAL ADVICE FOR FEMALE SUBJECTS OF THE CAPE COLONY by Karen JenningsShould you find yourself as one of the enslaved in a private home at the Cape, beaten for insolence, or for burning the beans, or any other such infraction, take care to call on the snuff shop of free...www.lazuliliterarygroup.com

Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social "The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."

An invaluable guide to applying for writing residencies from Prince Shakur. Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship. open.substack.com/pub/princesh...

How to Master The Writing Residency ApplicationAn ESSENTIAL Checklist for fine tuning your application every time to make the process faster and to get more acceptancesopen.substack.com

"Through the peep hole I saw a harried-looking white woman. Though she appeared younger than me, her hair was brittle and frizzed and her cheek bones stuck out painfully. She was curled over a package buried against her chest. It was wrapped in a blanket and had the form of a human."

Love what Joyce Carol Oates had to say about the forms a short story can take. She basically said there are no rules except one: it can't be boring.

Finally cracked the code on a short story paragraph that I've sweating over for a while. Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.

Ever feel like you'd kill a mf for harming a fictional character? Listening to Joni Mitchell's "Cherokee Louise" had that effect on me. But then maybe she wasn't a fictional character? Mitchell seems to have often written about real people. So much the worse if she was real.