Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten."
#copyediting
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Sometimes the answer to the question "How should this sentence be punctuated?" is "It should be entirely rewritten."
#copyediting
Bidding is open! Publishing for Minnesota has already raised $60K for MN orgs in the first 9 hours. Auction closes Friday at 12:45pm EST.
Filming federal agents in public is not a crime, nobody should be harassed or restrained for doing so, nobody should have their phone confiscated for it, and nobody should get the death penalty for it. This is supposed to be a free Republic, not an authoritarian police state.
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you werenβt boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.
This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
Minneapolis.
We donβt need to compare what happened in Minneapolis to Nazi Germany. We can compare it to what has happened in Minneapolis before.
Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag
π₯ COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPENπ₯
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices
A Charity collection coming in October 2026π€β οΈπ³οΈββ§οΈ
Art by @mxmorgan.com
All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Mentors Part 1: Molly McDonough Deena Helm Julie Lew Megan Bontrager Seren Kilig Natalie KikiΔ Deandra Davis Christie Curry Eunice Kim Carmeline Melchior Corvin A. Doupagne Rachel Kitch Samantha Chong Fatiha Rais Shepard DiStasio Thea Liu Damara Allen Karis Rogerson
Mentors Part 2: Julie Hafsa Derbal Tali Shammas Lilly Lu Cassy Klisch Camille Chong Bayley Mae Amanda Helander Libby Kennedy Taylor Pitts Shaina Cordas J.D. Myall Asia Murphy Grace Morrow Meredith Mooring Ellen Mulholland Chantel Pearson Stephanie Kim Johnson Caitlyn Averett Sabina Martin
We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.
Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!
π’ποΈFor interested partiesβmentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
OMG congrats, Jenny!!!
A flyer that says come move into our neighborhood, and says that we are looking to hire an agent and some interns this summer, and to head to our website for more info.
A few folks have asked since opening the agency if we might be growing, and the answer is yes!
Weβre looking to bring on another agent, as well as some interns, this summer. Details are over on the olβ website. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/opportunities
Our latest latest national disgrace.
Pie chart with breakdowns of age demographics: Adult: 47.8% Middle grade: 8.9% New Adult: 10.4% Picture Book: 1.5% Young Adult: 31.5%
Pie chart with breakdowns of genre: Fantasy: 49.6% Historical: 3.7% Horror: 7% Literary fiction: 3.3% Mystery: 2.6% Romance: 7% Science Fiction: 9.3% Thriller: 3.7% Contemporary: 8.1%
Pie chart breaking down applicants by marginalized community: LGBTQ+: 23.4% Queer: 14.1% Transgender: 1.7% Non-binary: 3.5% Neurodivergent: 16.6% Autistic: 6.6% Chronically ill: 5.8% Mentally ill: 10.2% Deaf/HOH: 0.4% Blind/Visually impaired: 0.6% Chronic pain: 5.6% Disabled (other) 1.5% Other: 4.4%
Pie chart breaking down applications by race: Black or African American: 10% Hispanic or Latino: 8% Middle Eastern or North African: 2.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.3% White: 58.2% Other: 5% American Indian or Alaska Native: 1% Asian: 13.7%
As we approach another quarter of Round Table Mentor, weβre taking a look at who applied for our program! As a reminder, here at RTM, our goal is to ensure that at least 50% of mentees and mentors are People of Color. Hereβs how the numbers shook out for applicants.
this is so real
SUBMISSIONS WINDOW OPEN FOR **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY PLEASE** UNTIL APRIL 1st!
We're looking for 1+ Weird Folk Horror story for our quarterly New Weird magazine THE SKULL & LAUREL, now until April 1st.
Length: 100 to 4999 words
Submissions info here:
tinyurl.com/2na7fhww
Hail the Tenebrous Cultπ€β οΈ
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
(Scroll down.)
The Skull & Laurel in the colors of the trans pride flag against a black background Text: YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY BOOK TWO 2026
So uh see here's the thing
me, already an anxious flyer: guess I'm grounded for the next four years π«‘ this is so messed up.
I need a villain with big "new year, same old me" energy
A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty. KEY POINTS INCLUDE: βSCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. βAfter Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for βinsubordination.β β The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this
While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT! Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to. SPEAK OUT!
We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices. We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions. When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities
We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better. We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.
The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY TO A WRITING MENTORSHIP (ft the old guard of mentorships, my experience as a mentee, and Roundtable Mentor)
in 2022, I was a mentee hopeful with a manuscript that would later become my debut novel. Why did i choose to do a mentorship?
Round Table Mentor graphic announcing one more week to apply. roundtablementor.com/apply
Applications are open now! If you are an unagented author seeking mentorship in trad or indie publication, we hope you'll consider applying to Round Table!
We close to mentee applications at 12pm EST on December 15th! Mentees will be announced February 1st.
#writingcommunity #querying #mentorship
mentee applications now open roundtablementor.com/apply
We are officially open to mentee applications! Go to the website to apply!
And don't worry if you need some time--mentors will not be reviewing applications or requesting manuscripts until after the application window closes at 12pm EST on December 15!
*feral screaming*
Text: I hope youβre ready to submit to RTM? Mentee apps open in 1 week. Image: arms (labeled me) grab baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng (labeled manuscript)
Go to RoundTableMentor.com for more info :)
#writers #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #roundtablementor
Text: Mentors prepping for tomorrowβs AMA. Image: Bougie ginger cat in sparkly sunglasses, cape and pearls sits on tan couch with houseplant and lamp behind.
Our βAsk Me Anythingβ event begins tomorrow on Insta & X! Prepare your questions for a specific mentor, or for any mentors taking that dayβs category!
Nov 19: Adult/NA
Nov 20: YA
Nov 21: MG
Nov 22: PB, GN, Screenwriting, Short stories, NF
#roundtablementor #writers #writingcommunity
#amquerying writers, I'm a mentor with this program this year! Applications open 12/1 π«‘
so I should start posting here again huh