Seattle Public Library is now accepting applications for a six-month residency in its Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers' Room, which is located on the 9th floor of the downtown library. It's a shared "beautiful, contemporary light-filled space with large windows looking southwest. There are six writing desks, each with an adjustable chair, light, and outlet." Twenty writers have access to the room at a time; this would be ideal for research-intensive projects or for writers who are in desperate need of a place to do their work.

Author Myriam Gurba, who recently received a lot of attention for calling out the author of the memoir American Dirt, was placed on leave from her teaching job after she protested the treatment of some students on social media. The school claimed Gurba's actions were “disruptive to the school.” Now, Gurba's students are protesting her removal:

A group of fellow students and I started a protest at school because we need our voices to be heard. We will not be silenced any longer! pic.twitter.com/KxS02hDm4a

— jazzy jukes ☀️ (@jazmine_okay) February 24, 2020

Can't stop thinking about how Jo got $20 for a short story sale in Little Women, in the 1860s, and that's still a common payrate for short fiction now, in the year of our discontent, 2020.

— do i dare to eat a 🍑 (@NicasioSilang) February 25, 2020

Challenge: take the first line of a famous novel but replace one of the nouns with "Hot Pockets heiress."

I'll go first:
"You better not never tell nobody but the Hot Pockets heiress." https://t.co/YqMKhMNgLd

— Allison Epstein 🐝 (@rapscallison) February 25, 2020