Alannah Hensley

In honor of lesbian visibility day I will be going visibly insane

they actually ate this SO BAD i fear😭

Zoila Guerra Sandoval lost her former partner, Jose Mynor Lopez, in the 2024 Key Bridge collapse. In response, the government offered her permanent residency if she applied. She did. Clerical errors blocked it. Now, she faces deportation and possible separation from their 7-year-old U.S. citizen daughter, who has already lost her father. A promise was made and broken. A mother should not have to fight to stay in the country where her partner gave his life working.

My MFA was good for my writing. I know people dismiss it, but it was a couple years spent aggressively pursuing what it taught me. Most of all, I read. And read. And read more. And got appropriate feedback. Better writing followed. You don't need a degree to do that,but I did.

Issue 21 is live! See work by @shontewrites, Khari Dawson, Ruby Davis, Jade Ferrante, Maria Golosnaya, Tariq Karibian, Noel Munguia-Moreno, Mather Schneider, and Sehee Oh. Plus, a review of Canon by Paige Lewis and an interview with the author! mudroommag.com

I think whoever prepared his body must love what they do. Because he looks so clean.

BREAKING: Louisiana has advanced one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country. It would force homeless people to choose between jail and involuntary treatment, make them pay for it, and if they can't pay, force them to perform unpaid labor. housingnothandcuffs.org/2026/04/16/sta…

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A direct link to my piece "Hogzayden" in CJ. A shoutout goes to @SmokeLong and @helenrye for looking over my piece before I sent it to Adam for his consideration. cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/hogzayden.html

There should also be a MacArthur Dumbass Grant where they give you $800 to do something interesting but fundamentally very stupid.

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Shannan combed through some recent issues of The Paris Review and traced where the writers were publishing before they landed there 👀 
Read the full list here: bit.ly/m/ChillSubs FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - it is one of our paid pieces.

We're so excited to welcome Jon Repetti to Deep Vellum as our new Marketing Director! Jon is a book marketer and literary critic whose work has appeared in LARB, Cleveland Review of Books, Review31, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English from Princeton and grew up in NYC.

it is Valentines Day I want to bring back one of my favourite tumblr posts

Me watching Bugonia

Scoop: DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify approx 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants the AI tool deemed as related to DEI, which were then terminated in April of last year, according to a new court filing released today. Among the terminated grants were a film analyzing how baseball helped heal frictions between the U.S. and Japan caused by World War I; a documentary titled "The Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust;" a film focused on the Colfax massacre of 1873, where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of Confederate soldiers and KKK members; and a film about the first female pilots to fly for the U.S. military during World War II. politico.com/newsletters/we…

Making the whispering earring required reading

@ewenglass If through submittable, withdraw the whole submission. If not through submittable, let them know you do not grant them the copyright to the work. That will be sufficient on your end as the submitter. Sorry they are being unprofessional.

Wow, have just had the worst experience with a lit mag who suggest I can not withdraw work that has since been accepted elsewhere as their submission period has ended (??!)

You are speaking to me as if I am a horse you own instead of a horse you are lucky to have stumbled across in a meadow.

Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Shonté Daniels & Niamh Cahill oneartpoetry.com