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Notes from the Editor’s Desk: May 2025

Authors Guild Sues to Bring Back Grants; Major Newspapers Use AI to Recommend Books that Don’t Exist; Plus Publishing Opportunities,  Success Stories, and Editing Jobs This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is an opportunity for me to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This…

Scavengers: Now Seeking Submissions

Scavengers is a journal of hybrid, experimental, cross-genre, mixed-media, fragmentary and flash writing. Produced by Querencia Press (a publisher that aims to “amplify overlooked voices”), Scavengers is looking for writing that’s difficult to classify or publish elsewhere: “Give us the weird art you think no one will love, the almost stories, the things you don’t…

How to Get Back Into Writing

Ratika Deshpande Last year, while I wrote a lot, I also went through long phases where I couldn’t find the time to write, or didn’t feel like writing, until the state of not-having-written became too much to bear. When I did sit down to write, I couldn’t. The built-up frustration of the time away from my…

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