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Laura Nagle
@lauralnagle.bsky.social
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🙋‍♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt

🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge

✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!

🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
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lauralnagle.bsky.social
How I’ve been greeted upon my return from work the last couple of days 😻
A dilute tortoiseshell cat naps with her head leaning on her human’s forearm. She is also using a pink mouse pad as a body pillow. A tuxedo cat is stretched out on his side on a gray and blue area rug with his white neck and belly fur exposed. He is in the middle of a happy roll.
September 17, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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bdralyuk.bsky.social
Come one, come all!
nimrodjournal.bsky.social Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 3d
We’re opening our free submission window in October, and we cannot wait to read your poems and stories! nimrod.utulsa.edu/submissions-...
September 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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ellipsiszine.bsky.social
Submission details: www.ellipsis-zine.com/submit
September 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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jamestatehill.bsky.social
Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good.
Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
September 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
lauralnagle.bsky.social
They’re cute and they know it. #caturday
A dilute tortoiseshell cat has her paws draped across her human’s forearm. She turns her insouciant gaze directly toward the camera like the supermodel she was born to be. A tuxedo cat lies on his back atop a cat tree and looks into the camera. He’s pretty sure he’s just as cute upside down as he is right side up.
September 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Promptember is coming. October 11th to November 2nd. An in-between sort of almost month of prompts, webinars, open mics. And Promptember is free. Yep. Zero dolares. This one is on us. Stay tuned for details.
Against a prairie landscape with horses dancing through the sky, the text reads "another mysterious, in-between month of live write-ins, workshops and prompts" PROMPTEMBER October 11 - November 2 2026
September 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
lauralnagle.bsky.social
Someday, hopefully decades from now, I’ll be on my deathbed and burst out laughing, and what I’ll be thinking about is the time some dude referred to a novel’s plot and characters as RAW DATA 😂
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 9d
"the raw data of a novel" 🙃

The way AI evangelists talk about art is truly alien to me. (From a comment left on an article of mine.)
If you put in the raw data that is needed to write this novel and all the ideas are yours what is wrong with having AI write it? All the foundation was yours. Maybe you're not that great of a writer, but hey you can sure craft a plot and storyline, build characters and design your own world. Yet the problem comes in putting it all together. Isn't that writers use to do before AI was hire GHOST writers to finish a manuscript?
September 9, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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lorifontanes.bsky.social
did someone say Halloween 🎃👻💀??!
bulbculture.bsky.social Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 10d
🚨 It's ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 🚨

CHANDELIER, Bulb Culture Collective's e-zine, is back!

Our new theme?

💀 GLOWERING 🎃

When submissions open on September 15, we'd love to see your spookiest and most eerie previously published writing!

Think Halloween!

Glowering will publish October 30, 2026
Bulb Culture Collective presents Chandelier: Glowering! Submissions opening September 15, 2026! An eerie looking chandelier is against a black background. The text, in contrast, is in stark white.
September 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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littranslate.bsky.social
🎉 We're delighted to announce the winners of the 2026 ALTA Travel Fellowships! buff.ly/DeTJ9EL

📚 Venka, 2026 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow (Telugu)
📚 Cynthia Shin (Korean)
📚 @hammadrind.bsky.social (Urdu, Panjabi, Welsh, Persian, Arabic)
📚 Naomi Harris (Hittite)
📚 Piera Chen (Chinese)
September 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Join us on September 19 at 6PM EST to celebrate Travis Flatt's flash collection, Such Late Night Radio. For more information: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/106713...
September 4, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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smokelong.bsky.social
Please help us celebrate these writers, all previous or current SmokeLong workshop participants, who reported publications in August! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Workshop Celebration - August 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
Each month we celebrate our current and previous workshop participants’ publications reported to us through Submittable (The SmokeLong Workshop Prize). Each of the publications below, with the excepti...
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September 2, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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identitytheory.bsky.social
Free subs are open for September! We're also accepting staff applications.
Identity Theory Submission Manager
Identity Theory has published original literature—fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and more—online since 2000.Based in southern Nevada and featuring an international staff of three dozen editors, ...
identitytheory.submittable.com
September 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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heyflashvillage.bsky.social
@smokelong.bsky.social Do you know about The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest? It's an annual comp now, open to fiction, CNF, prose poetry, previously published and unpublished, and also translations. We want it all. Deadline Nov 15. 250 words or fewer. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2026 - SmokeLong Quarterly
The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...
www.smokelong.com
September 1, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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gabino.bsky.social
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
September 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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littranslate.bsky.social
📣 The 2027 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! tinyurl.com/2rc443mz

This program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator.
September 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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havehashad.com
Next sub call coming in ~48 hours (Wed, 9/2, 9pm central time), from our friends and yours, @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social!

*full sub call language in alt text and replies*
Choose Your Own Constraint! Hey hey, HADders! Lexi Rosen, here. While you can normally find me honking over at Silly Goose Press, Aaron and Crow were kind enough to pass over the keys to the skull pile this week and I can't wait to hand some out! I am SO excited to read your very best, RULE FOLLOWING pieces. I'm interested in constraints, patterns, syllables, rhyme schemes — whatever rules you've decided to follow are fair game for this call. Prose and poetry are welcome, but know that I prefer flash fiction and poems that can stick to one-ish page, and let's limit page counts to 3-5ish. That said, I care way more about the rules you're choosing to follow than the ones I lay out for you. Pretty please with a cherry on top let me know on a separate page (the last page, if possible!) of your attached submission document what rules and parameters you've decided to set (ie, I didn't use the letter E throughout the piece, I only wrote in haiku, every third word is an onomatopoeia, I had to use the word canteloup at least twice, etc), and feel free to include something about why, if you wanna — I love a craft choice and would love even more to hear about your process.
September 1, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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travisflatt.bsky.social
(pt.1)
Online Release Reading for Such Late Night Radio by Travis Flatt (Bottlecap Press)

September 19 at 6pm EST

feat.
Coleman Bigelow
Linda M. Bayley
Elissa Field
Dawn Tasaka Steffler
Mario Aliberto
Liz Rosen
Beth Sherman

This will be live on ZOOM .

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Such Late Night Radio, by Travis Flatt
Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...
bottlecap.press
August 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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xraylitmag.bsky.social
X-R-A-Y subs will be open tuesday 9/1, at 7pm central thanks

xray.submittable.com/submit
August 30, 2026 at 5:07 PM
lauralnagle.bsky.social
Wrapping up @smokelong.bsky.social’s #ArchiveChallenge with @abbymanzella.bsky.social’s “Intervals on the Beach at Dusk” in @tinymolecules.bsky.social. Love the tension between the narrator’s theoretical knowledge and the stress that inhibits her music-making. www.tinymolecules.com/issues/seven...
Issue Seventeen — Tiny Molecules
Issue 17 - Autumn 2023
www.tinymolecules.com
August 29, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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julietemckenna.bsky.social
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d
Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds
Exclusive: Number of times AI lies, ignores instructions and pursues goals in harmful ways almost doubles in July Incidents of AIs escaping users’ control to lie, ignore instructions and pursue goals in harmful ways have hit a new high, according to research that also suggests the severity of deception and misalignment is worsening. Analysis of real-world loss of control incidents involving AI models flagged by businesses and individuals almost doubled in July compared with June, with more than 300 cases in the month, according to the Loss of Control Observatory, which monitors reports made by AI users on the social media platform X. Continue reading...
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August 29, 2026 at 7:45 AM
lauralnagle.bsky.social
Such effective use of the collective point of view in "The Last Friendly’s in Cattaraugus County" by Kristen Zory King in @tinymolecules.bsky.social! #ArchiveChallenge (also, now I wish I still lived near a Friendly’s) www.tinymolecules.com/issues/eight...
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August 29, 2026 at 1:25 PM
lauralnagle.bsky.social
I was driving this afternoon behind a Kia Soul with a bumper sticker reading "CAUTION! Max Capacity 16 Clowns," and it delighted me.
August 27, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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smokelong.bsky.social
We'll be sending out the invitation to join the workshop site on August 27th. Come write with us! Fitness is not a cult no matter what people say. #kumbaya
www.smokelong.com/smokelong-fi...
SmokeLong Fitness — The Community Workshop - SmokeLong Quarterly
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join...
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August 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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gabino.bsky.social
A good day to remind everyone that Dolly loved books. She gave millions upon millions of books to children. Folks who want to ban books and cut funding to libraries and book-related programs? We’re coming for you in the name of Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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mdbell79.bsky.social
For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.
Generative AI Policy: Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines (I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience) Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)
August 24, 2026 at 6:43 PM