The Secrets of the Old Post Cemetery: An Ohnita Harbor Mystery
An Ohnita Harbor Mystery
Congratulations to MFA alumnus Tricia Crisafulli on the release of her third Ohnita Harbor mystery, The Secrets of the Old Post Cemetery, which is out today from Woodhall Press!
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New post up on our Word Cafe site by Northwestern School of Professional Studies MFA student Kevin McEvoy about his favorite indie bookstore - the @strandbookstore.bsky.social in NYC!
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
05.10.2025 15:55 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Swing Magazine | Porch TN
Literature in a print magazine: Nashville spirit, national sway. Issue 1 is available now! Submit your work for the Spring 2024 issue by December 10, 2023.
Congratulations to fiction alumnus Jeremy T. Wilson, whose new short story, "Where Are You From?", was published in the Spring/Summer 2025 Issue of SWING!
www.porchtn.org/swing
#shortstories #story #fiction #shortstory #literaryjournal #litmag #amreading #amwriting
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Trauma and American Fascism
Join our discussion on trauma and American fascism with authors Zak Mucha and Michael Zapata
If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link β¬οΈ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...
08.09.2025 23:57 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
π’ JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side!
Deadline to apply is 9/15:
blockclubchi.co/417MIqG
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Brett Brown on What He's Currently Reading :
School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University
Looking for a new book to add to your reading list? Current MA student Brett Brown shares a book recommendation/summer reading pick: Taiye Selasi's "The Sex Lives of African Girls."
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
#amreading #amwriting #novels #fiction #taiyeselasi
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Join us tomorrow, Tu, 8/19, 6 PM, (doors: 5:30 PM), 500 Main St., Evanston, IL for a faculty & graduate reading, cohosted by @bookedevanston.bsky.social & Brothers K Coffee!
Readers: Betsy Haberl, Alexandria Haynes, Jared Spitz, Ryan Rivera, Faisal Mohyuddin billy lombardo @loriraderday.bsky.social
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I will be reading with a group of writers from @nugradwriting.bsky.social tomorrow in Evanston at Brothers K Coffeeshop. Going to be a good time!
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Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...
04.07.2025 20:24 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
MFA Fiction Alumnus TJ Jaffe: Jail Is a Four Letter Word :
School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University
Whether in or out of prison, artists are curious about sounds, silence, beats, meaning, and music-making.
Sharing a new Word Cafe post from MFA fiction alumnus TJ Jaffe, "Jail Is a Four Letter Word."
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
#writing #nonfiction #teaching #creativewriting #mfainwriting #fiction #amwriting #activism #poetry #poems #volunteer #write #writers #writingcommunity
12.07.2025 19:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...
04.07.2025 20:24 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
From "So Many Promises And So Many Lies" by S. Afzal Haider, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
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From "Chicken Man" by Elizabeth McKenzie, @elizabethmck.bsky.social CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
19.04.2025 23:27 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
From "Henriette's Trick" by Signe Ratcliff, βͺCQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardeeβs and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.socialβ¬
17.05.2025 01:20 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Summer Issue Launch Event: Cowell Ranch Historic Hay Barn β Catamaran Literary Reader
Join us in celebrating the launch of Catamaranβs 48th issue!
β¨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
π€Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...
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I need this right now
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Join us on Aug 19 in Evanston, IL for a faculty & alumni reading, cohosted by @bookedevanston.bsky.social (venue is Brothers K cafe, 500 Main St.) Alumni: @betsyhaberl.bsky.social, Alexandria Haynes, Jared Spitz, Ryan Rivera, & faculty: Faisal Mohyuddin, Billy Lombardo, @loriraderday.bsky.social! βοΈ
18.06.2025 23:30 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ankurthakkar.com who will publish his debut novel, Blow Yourself Up, in 2026!
08.05.2025 20:57 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Exclusive Cover Reveal: A First Look at Lori Rader-Dayβs βWreck Your Heartβ - Chicago Review of Books
An exclusive cover reveal of Lori Rader-Dayβs βWreck Your Heart.β
Fiction faculty @loriraderday.bsky.social will be participating in Thrillerfest in New York City from June 19 β 21. Her new novel, WRECK YOUR HEART (for cover reveal - click on link), will be out on January 6, 2026 from Minotaur/St. Martinβs Press! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/02/e...
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Our pleasure, Ignatius!
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REMINDER: April is Procrastination Awareness Month.
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Our pleasure!
06.06.2025 22:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βBy middle age some doors have closed for everyone, but others have opened and thereβs a lot going on inside those rooms.β
Super pleased by this careful & generous attentionβ
06.06.2025 20:02 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Emily Updegraff Shares a Book Recommendation :
School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University
I came across Amorak Hueyβs 2021 poetry collection
Our most recent Word Cafe post offers a poetry collection recommendation: @amorak.bsky.social's DAD JOKES FROM LATE IN THE PATRIARCHY - the post was penned by current MFA student Emily Updegraff!
#poetry #mfainwriting #poems #creativewriting #amwriting #poets
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06.06.2025 16:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ignatius2u.bsky.social who was named one of Newcity's LIT 50!
The list isn't yet online, but it's in a Newcity print version if you're in the Chicago area. (Print subscriptions are also available for mailing). lit.newcity.com
01.06.2025 21:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Congrats to MFA alumnus @arammrjoian.bsky.social whose debut novel WATERLINE will be published Tue 6/3! He & fellow MFA alumnus @jbohnsack.bsky.social will be in conversation on Th. 6/5 at the Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago 7 PM!
More info here:
www.bookcellarinc.com/aram-mrjoian...
26.05.2025 10:55 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
For our inaugural issue we will award a prize to one fiction piece and one nonfiction piece. Submissions are free. All regular reading period submissions received by 7/31 will be considered.
www.broadripplereview.com
Please consider sharing this opportunity with your fellow writers.
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Legendary home of 18 miles of new, used & rare books since 1927. Located at Union Square and UWS.π Shop online at http://strandbooks.comπ
Poet. Scotlandβs Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! πͺπΈπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
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Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. π π π Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
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Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
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Family owned indie bookstore
πEdwardsville, IL
new + used books, gifts and more
social worker, psychoanalyst, author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work... and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. See inventingrealityediting.com
author of books. host of the otherppl podcast. in-depth interviews w writers. founder of DeepDive. hermit. good at walking.
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Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press)
Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge)
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman
Finishing 1st novel
Independent literary magazine honored by Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Essays, and the Pushcart Prize
Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly #literary #magazine #publishing #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, and #art. West Coast themes, writers from everywhere!
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com
author of The Portable Veblen and The Dog of the North, editor at Chicago Quarterly Review and Catamaran
Indie bookstore in Evanston, IL. One room of books and weβre really nice people!
Iβm really nice and co-own a really cute bookstore! Booked in Evanston, IL. Mom and extrovert. Loves exclamation points!
Poet with autism and a really big cat. Here to connect with fellow bookish people and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him β’ 35 β’ NJ β’ www.brandondiehl.net
The St. Martinβs Publishing Group is a leading publisher of books designed to entertain, inform, and delight. Our imprints include St. Martinβs Press, Minotaur Books, Wednesday Books, St. Martinβs Griffin, St. Martinβs Essentials, and Castle Point Books.
Part time botanist, part time YA author, full time madwoman. Autistic and disabled. I throw axes for fun. Would love to meet other writers!
Writing, reading, musicking and pondering.
Fix your hearts or die.
