Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸

He/Him | Fiction Writer | 'The Outskirts' in @VagabondCityLit | 'The Next Bus' in @AlliumJournal

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Hey everyone in the Twitter #WritingCommunity, I'm an author who tends to write fantasy/sci-fi with a focus on working class experiences. I finally made an account here to connect with other writers, so if you have something you're excited about I can read somewhere, let me know!

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Just wanted to pop back onto twitter dot com to encourage people to check out "The Outskirts" in Vagabond City!! Huge thanks for providing such a wonderful home for a story that means a lot to me-- this is a great issue that I'm super proud to be a part of!!! #WritingCommunity

[Vagabond City Lit @VagabondCityLit]

Issue 107 is live!

https://t.co/fPtCWCTsOW

[Seize The Press Magazine @SeizeThePress_]

We're ESPECIALLY open to writers who work normal working class jobs, are out of work, or can't work cos of disabilities. Too much short fiction is written by the professional managerial class and caters to centrist liberal sensibilities. We've really got to change it man.

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

What do AI submitters even get out of this? Has anyone told them this industry isn't exactly a goldmine?? This shit is so silly

[Uncanny Magazine @UncannyMagazine]

Please SHARE! Writers! We want to apologize that we are still processing the recent short story submissions. Uncanny Magazine was hit with a massive volume of submissions due to AI subs. We hope to get through the pile over the next two weeks. Thank you for your patience.

[Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson]

This is Beirut now. Just like the West Bank a few hours ago. Just like Gaza every night.

This is not “counterterrorism”

This is not “self defence”

This is colonial violence, done across the Middle East with the support of western governments, and should be called out as such.

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

A new malignant growth has emerged from the scaly backside of late-stage capitalism: product movies!!! Read about this unsightly new Hollywood horror in Issue #3 of @RedSheepMag

[Red Sheep @RedSheepMag]

We're excited to announce that for issue #3, Clown Town, we will have our first film review essay by @ZenzolaNick !
If your interested in reading about the implications of product movies such as Air, Flamin' Hot and Barbie, the issue comes out on the 1st of July - Patreon in bio

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Fun call for submissions from an exciting new mag, and really just an excuse to write some clown shit!! Send something in!!!

[Red Sheep @RedSheepMag]

Issue # 3 Theme:

Cₗₒwₙ Tₒwₙ

Ruffles and Ribbons

Silly as gibbons

Are they funny or frightening

Let art or word be enlightening

And your soul be forgiven

by them

Send in something funny

and get pocket money

What is the definition

of a clown.

Deadline: June 29th

[Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose @AlliumJournal]

Congratulations to the graduates of Columbia College Chicago’s writing programs on being recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2024 Awards and Achievements!

#CSPAawards #columbiauniversity

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

They’re going to invade Rafah any minute now. 1.5 million people are at risk of being wiped out. I can’t believe everyone just let this happen. Shame on the world.

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

George Méliès was a cinematic visionary not for his innovative work with special effects, but because he understood the universal appeal of a bunch of little weird guys hopping around like monkeys and doing somersaults over each other

[Mariah Woelfel @MariahWoelfel]

Breaking: The Chicago City Council has become the largest city in the country to pass a cease-fire resolution as four months of bombardment by Israel into Gaza has killed more than 26,000 people and displaced nearly 2 million others. The vote was 24-23.

[JVP Chicago @JVPChicago]

While City Council members are in session, hundreds of Chicagoans are downstairs in City Hall making their voice heard! #ChicagoForCeasfire

[Her name is Palestine 🇵🇸😇 @ayshaaa_48]

Bisan has updated and it’s just getting more depressing. There is no break in Gaza. This is worse than fcking genocide. 🇵🇸

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Notice that even in America’s telling of events, Yemen’s blockade has been bloodless. The complaint, now being answered with American bombs, is “weeks of delays in shipping times.” Yemen’s nonviolent efforts to stop a genocide is met, unsurprisingly, with more western violence.

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

@samtasticbooks Bucket O' Blood in Chicago is great :)) https://t.co/S9IacNRUPF

[alexgourevitch @alexgourevitch]

CNN (accidentally?) interviewed Mustafa Barghouti about Israel-Palestine. Can’t think of the last time I saw anything like this on mainstream U.S. television. Zakaria seems not even to know who he’s talking to.

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Finished rewriting it from scratch, and draft 2 clocks in at 127k words. I learned some valuable things this time around, but unfortunately one of those things means I need to rewrite it again lmfao. I'll check back in next year 🤡

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Finished the first draft of my urban fantasy WIP yesterday, just under 92k words!! Now it's time to rewrite the whole thing 🙃

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

Nope really had me lying awake at night thinking about "what if there's a chimp wandering around my apartment rn"

[Nick Zenzola 🇵🇸 @ZenzolaNick]

HUGE thanks to @AlliumJournal for providing such a great home to a story I'm super proud of! This issue is packed with fantastic work, and I'm so grateful to have a place in it