round-up: 1/28

mini gift guide, what i'm reading, tweets, etc.

Happy Friday & welcome to my *third* newsletter this week! I promise to let up now. Back to my M/F schedule.

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Housekeeping

• In review

• Mini gift guide

• What I’m reading

• Quotations

• Tweets

• Resources

• Prompts

---

Housekeeping:

As always, if you’re from the US, you can snag 5 books for $30 from my website.

Alternately, you can subscribe to receive a book in the mail every! single! month!

& yes, I make hand-cut collages. They’re one-of-a-kind & always under $15.

---

In review:

This week’s posts:

round-up: 1/24

on stamina

---

Gifts for the gays in your life:

1. This sticker (by Audrey Gidman, no less! Read their stunning poem in TWR.)

2. This ring

3. These earrings

4. This sticker set

5. This sticker

6. This zine

7. This pin

8. This patch (bought this version for someone I was dating last year)

9. This print

10. This bumper sticker

---

What I read last week:

• A Very Hard Year: Looking back at 2021, Roxane Gay

• 20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

What I want to read:

• On the Importance of Knowing Your Worth As a Writer, Down to the Dollar

I’m also really excited to read The myth of the lone creative genius, which I anticipate has a lot in common with my own thinking. You might read that and then my post:

on showing your work, etc.

---

Quotations:

I know how lucky I am but luck is powerless in the face of grief.

-Roxane Gay

---

Tweets:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

i love not supporting problematic editors. i love not promoting their journals. it is free and very easy to do

brittany spanos @ohheybrittany

screaming at the last line of this

arabelle sicardi 英梅 @arabellesicardi

today is a good day to pre-order books, barnes and nobles is running a 25% off discount on preorders right now. pre-orders help debuting authors A LOT

matt @mattxiv

american education system is failing us

Sonia Weiser @weischoice

My brother just got married but I almost have 20k followers so I think I'm the one who's most loved here.

matt @mattxiv

just learned born to die turns TEN today… shaking crying screaming projectile vomiting

hotmessbian 👩🏿‍🤝‍👩🏽 @hotmessbian

looking to have a bit of homoerotic tension. serious inquiries only.

Diana Rose, starpoet @ddamascenaa

the embarrassing agony of having needs

Naz @nazzobetweeting

modern day dating is making out at a bar one night and then just watching each other's instagram stories everyday until you die

🚣‍♂️ @daveloach2

i love how insane everyone is becoming

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

every time i meet a pretty girl:

---

Resources: