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Thanks for reading, Lisa! 🙂

Pour one out for the GOAT.

You can’t be a literary interviewer without reckoning with the work and influence of Michael Silverblatt.

Ours is not a large tribe—especially not over time. Very few people devote decades to this oddball, obsessive niche. I should know. 1/

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Thank you, Deborah!

Extremely honored to be lonlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

So happy you enjoyed it! Thank you, Eric!

Thank you, Eric! 🙂

Thank you, @ericscottryon.bsky.social! 🙂

The Writer’s Desk with Andrew Porter - Gemini Ink

I had a blast doing this Writer’s Desk interview with Gemini Ink. You can read the full interview on their website. Also, If you’re interested, I will be offering a two-part Zoom lecture with Gemini Ink in February. Details at this link: geminiink.org/the-writers-...

Thank you so much for the very kind words and for reading my first collection!

Thank you to Ron Spatz and Alaska Quarterly Review for inviting me to read my short story “Mennonites” (originally published in AQR) as part of the Alaska Quarterly Review “ Pièces de Résistance” Reading Series. You can listen to the entire story at this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZJ...

Excited to be be giving a craft lecture on setting and atmosphere as part of @geminiink.bsky.social’s Literary Masters Series this spring. If you’re interested in registering, you can find more info on Gemini Ink’s website: Geminiink.org.

Congratulations!

I’m looking forward to it!

Excited and honored to be the 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology! ✨

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social

Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Thanks so much, Aaron! That means a lot, and congrats on the notable mention! I noticed that too! And yeah, I’m sure I’ll love Chris’s story. I’m a big fan! 🙂

Thanks so much for reading, Aaron! And I look forward to reading Chris’s story!

Spent my morning drinking coffee, reading the @andrewporter01.bsky.social story in this year's BASS, and writing the intro for then publishing this @livesinpages.bsky.social story.

Pretty great start to the day! (Now I gotta spend the rest of it prepping for tomorrow's first day of the semester...)

Episode 711: Andrew Porter — Writer's Bone Author Andrew Porter joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest novel The Imagined Life.

Best of 2025: Andrew Porter

Thank you so much, Evan. That’s a high compliment. I’m so happy to know you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for reading it, Evan! And thank you for the very kind words!

Vigil - The Cincinnati Review I remember feeling a restlessness in my twenties and moving quite often, not always to different cities or parts of the country, sometimes just to

a beautiful and haunting story about friendship, art, and the muddle of one's life in their 20s. This story, I think, serves as a kind of coda to @andrewporter01.bsky.social collection "The Disappeared." The story here is available to read online thru 12/21 www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

Thanks so much for sharing this, Keith, and thanks also for the very generous words about the story! So happy to know you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for reading, Sudha! And thanks for the kind words!

Absolutely love this story by @andrewporter01.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 👇🏽

Honored to see The Imagined Life included among these terrific books! Thanks, Peter!

Vigil - The Cincinnati Review I remember feeling a restlessness in my twenties and moving quite often, not always to different cities or parts of the country, sometimes just to

Excited to have a new story (“Vigil”) in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! It’s free on their site through Sunday!

www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

Congratulations, Jen! I loved your story!