Sharing a recent micro-story by current fiction MFA student, Kevin McEvoy published recently by the online journal 50 Give or Take @northwesternsps.bsky.social
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08.12.2025 23:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Arcturus
The Chicago Review of Books presents Arcturus, an online literary magazine of new perspectives in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid genres.
Congratulations to @laurazhang.bsky.social, MFA student at @northwesternsps.bsky.social, on the acceptance of an excerpt of her novel-in-progress by Arcturus Literary Magazine (arcturusmag.com)!
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06.12.2025 01:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congrats to MFA fiction alum @devintoshea.bsky.social whose book THE VEILED PROPHET will be published in June 2026 by the great @haymarketbooks.org! Link to preorder:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
27.11.2025 17:48 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Congratulations to current MA student in fiction, Brett Brown, whose short story, "A Picture of Fragility," was a second runner-up in the 2025 Gulf Coast Magazine Prize!
27.11.2025 17:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New post on our program's Word Cafe blog by current MFA student Nathaniel Foster, former LAPD officer and forensics teacher to middle school children this past summer at Northwestern University!
"Should Goldilocks Be Arrested?"
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
02.11.2025 17:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Spooky season reads to keep you awake at night, at prices that you can't find anywhere but at The Strand. Hit the link for our full collection of cheap thrills πππ
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20.10.2025 21:04 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Great talk w Amber Sparks coming up tomorrow. She returns to the show for the first time in 13 years, celebrating the publication of her debut novel, HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (Liveright).
Stay tuned...
20.10.2025 17:40 β π 23 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0
MFA fiction alumnus Patricia Crisafulli shares her thoughts on the experience of writing her recently published novel, THE SECRETS OF THE OLD POST CEMETERY, the third in a series. Her post is up now on our program blog, WORD CAFE βοΈ @northwesternsps.bsky.social
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
20.10.2025 21:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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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07.10.2025 19:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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
22.09.2025 15:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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:
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08.09.2025 01:00 β π 19 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
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
26.08.2025 20:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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
18.08.2025 23:35 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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!
18.08.2025 14:40 β π 7 π 3 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
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."
30.03.2025 15:06 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
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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author of THE VEILED PROPHET, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. writing in @thenation, @slate, @jacobin, @proteanmag, @boulevardlitmag β he/him β rep: Erik Hane, Headwater Literary
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Author of novels: THE VISITOR; A FACE IN THE MOON; story collections BROTHERS, FATHERS, AND OTHER STRANGERS; PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART.
Fiction Editor of Blue Lake Review.
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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
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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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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
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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.
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