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9 Lit mags closing soon that pay writers and don't charge fees • Nashville Review | $25/poem; $100/prose • Haven Speculative | 8/word; $20/poem • Augur Magazine | CA$0.14/word; CA$100/poem • Blue Marble Review | $30/poem; $45/prose; $75/art • Cast of Wonders 8¢/word • FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | 8/word; $50/poem • Philadelphia Stories | $50 (print) • Breath & Shadow | $25/poem or short prose; $40/long prose • IHRAM Publishes | $50/piece August 26, 2025

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Anthropic Lawsuit Update: Settlement Reached with Pay-Out to Authors - The Authors Guild Anthropic and the plaintiffs in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit have reached an agreement to settle their case after formal negotiations, including mediation with a third-party mediator. The parties wi...

Anthropic class action lawsuit: What happens next?

9/5 - The parties will present a comprehensive settlement proposal with the full settlement terms.

9/8 - A hearing is scheduled where Judge Alsup will review the terms of the settlement.

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A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Idaho has deputized private citizens to hunt libraries. Under its new book ban, anyone can sue a library for having a book they think is inappropriate.

The Authors Guild and publishers are suing Idaho in federal court to stop this draconian ban.

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BOMB Magazine - BOMB Open Submissions 2024 BOMB will open for submissions on November 18. We are currently looking for fiction, essays, and graphic narratives. We will accept submissions through December 1 or until we reach our limit of 500, w...

🔔 Attn Writers 🔔 BOMB Magazine is open for submissions!

Send us your short stories, essays, graphic narratives, and chimerical in-betweens.

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Those dead leaves are so good for the soil, the monarchs, life!

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The Authors Guild, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, David Baldacci, George R.R. Martin, and 13 Other Auth... New York, N.Y., September 20, 2023—The Authors Guild and 17 authors filed a class-action suit against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York for copyright infringement of their works of fiction...

We have organized a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement of their works of fiction on behalf of a class of fiction writers whose works have been used to train GPT. The plaintiffs in the case include John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, Victor LaValle, George R.R. Martin, and others.