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Misha Rai

@misharai.bsky.social

Writer| Dana Award & Dogwood Prize| Fellow-Kenyon Review, MacDowell, Ucross, Woodrow Wilson, VCCA| Scholar-Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference| Assistant Professor of English & Creative Writing, Sewanee| Contributing Editor-Kenyon Review

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Assistant Professor, Poetry (Tenure-Track) - Sewanee, Tennessee job with The University of the South | 37886424 The English and Creative Writing Department has recently initiated a major in Creative Writing (in addition to a Creative Writing Certificate). Poetr

Sewanee: The University of the South is looking to employ a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry. Deadline: Nov 3.
If you see this post please share the link posted below widely.
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20.09.2025 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gorgeous.

11.07.2025 18:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the bear the bear the bear the bear

26.06.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So honored to be interviewed by Third Coast! We discussed many lovely topics, including but not limited to violence and defecation

16.06.2025 22:05 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I can’t wait to read this!

11.06.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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miCRo: "A Village Tries On Her Skin," by A. A. Balaskovits In this Shirley Jackson-like fable, A. A. Balaskovits gives us a glimpse into collective cruelty and our age-old fear of, and fascination with, difference.

Deeply honored to have my latest flash, about a selkie and her skin, in the Cincinnati Review miCRo: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-...

11.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Huge congratulations to @blackquisition.bsky.social for selling bet debut novel, Stable! I can’t wait to read this book and celebrate it!!! @henryholtbooks.bsky.social

04.06.2025 01:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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I have read, twice, Kevin Wilson’s Run for the Hills. Kevin does a thing, that I think is synonymous with brilliant writing, he makes a character think or say a thing that is true for the character, the story they are in, & also for the world at large. In so doing he makes the reader see themselves.

31.05.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

23.04.2025 23:52 — 👍 5211    🔁 2216    💬 61    📌 125

Granta mourns Mario Vargas Llosa. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on all of his writing for the magazine, from his fiction to his account of running for the presidency of Peru.

14.04.2025 14:36 — 👍 75    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 1
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SITA IN EXILE has been reviewed by Scroll.IN! You can read the review here: scroll.in/article/1080...

13.04.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is so well deserved! Go Mols!

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Meet Miami University Press #AWP25 bookfair - T249. Book signing w/ Fictions author Ashley Honeysett Saturday 3.29 10:30AM. Novellas! Poetry! Translation! Image of Ashley Honeysett and a table with press books displayed.

Meet Miami University Press #AWP25 bookfair - T249. Book signing w/ Fictions author Ashley Honeysett Saturday 3.29 10:30AM. Novellas! Poetry! Translation! Image of Ashley Honeysett and a table with press books displayed.

We're in Los Angeles this week- Thurs-Sat! Visit us at #AWP25 bookfair – T249 🤩

Stop by on Saturday for a book signing featuring FICTIONS author @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social at 10:30AM

26.03.2025 16:45 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m going to be zooming in for this, but I’m so glad to be part of this community at 100 West Corsicana, and I can’t wait to be there soon to do work that feels urgent to me.

13.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Of the moment — The Palisades Review OF THE MOMENT

Today, I have a short non-fic piece about a monument I walk past every day in The Palisades Review. Free Gaza. Free all of us.

12.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
LIT UP! An offsite reading for AWP.

LIT UP! An offsite reading for AWP.

While you're making your AWP plans, don't forget about this one! The featured readers are going to bring down the house. We're excited to co-host w/ @adroitjournal.bsky.social & @pleiadesmag.bsky.social. See you soon!

09.03.2025 16:43 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

Done!

08.03.2025 02:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don’t enjoy listening to my own voice or even watching myself, I am grateful to lend my voice to an organization that’s changed my life, as it has done for countless others. @kenyonreview.bsky.social
supports the making of art in its rawest, most honest form. And to do that is radical.

27.02.2025 17:31 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Grateful for the opportunities—still profoundly surprised that I get to do this thing I love. Mindful that in undertaking this work, especially now, I also have the opportunity to give back. Excited to soon be part of this community and to stand alongside the very talented A. A. Balaskovits.

09.02.2025 00:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“In a village everyone knows everyone’s business. In a village it’s much, much easier to eat what you’ve been served.”
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel

28.01.2025 22:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to the winners and it’s nice to be on the list of finalists with l Latifa Ayad whose story was a finalist for flash fiction. Going to go celebrate this moment!

27.01.2024 02:23 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

“I have come here often. A whole childhood, every single day. All these arrivals are false, because in reality I was born here. Here I can do nothing but return.”

—Kerstin Elkman

07.01.2024 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Can’t wait to read this copy of @kenyonreview.bsky.social freshly arrived in my mailbox. I love all the work our team chooses and I absolutely posed the book because it’s gorgeous!

26.09.2023 18:19 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

“Eating is an agricultural act.”
—Wendell Berry

23.09.2023 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A cover reveal//inaugural issue of SWING: New Writing That Moves You. In awe of the art & can’t wait to read all the work—beautiful/moving—within its pages. Thank you to poet, Leigh Anne Couch, & her team. I’m on the advisory board. Do submit—swing.submittable.com/submit

19.09.2023 15:21 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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