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Jeffrey Dale Lofton

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RED CLAY SUZIE The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Longlist Georgia Author of the Year Sr Advisor at Library of Congress Inside Voices Podcast JeffreyDLofton.com

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AWP24 panel on autobiographical fiction: Now that you’re older, make inferences about what flummoxed you in the past. @chrisdennis.bsky.social @jeffreydlofton.bsky.social @sashavasilyuk.bsky.social

09.02.2024 18:40 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Fun!

30.11.2023 22:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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COMING SOON! Robert Gwaltney and I had a chin-wag-on-the-front-porch kind of visit with @zacharysteele.bsky.social to discuss his novel PERFECTLY NORMAL.

#wellreadmagazine #insidevoices #betweenthepagespodcast #podcastersofinstagram #comingofage #autismawareness #authorsofinstagram #bookrelease

24.10.2023 02:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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@rasheed.bsky.social enthralled and entertained Robert Gwaltney and me during our conversation for this month’s issue of #WellReadMagazine’s INSIDE VOICES.

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#litearymagazine #mygovernmentmeanstokillme #lgbtq #betweenthepagespodcast #insidevoices #authorinterview

10.10.2023 02:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Local libraries can save democracy, one reader at a time The American Library Association reports there were more than 1,200 attempted book bans in 2022, compared to 700 in 2021 and 200 in 2020.

"September is “Library Card Sign-Up Month.” It is not widely known or celebrated, but it should be. The tenor of our times requires those of us who understand the power of books to get involved. The children of today need our help." - Alice Faye Duncan

26.09.2023 11:27 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Audiobook deal! @gabino.bsky.social's THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME is just $4.99 at Chirp Books! #horror #ad #amreading #amreadinghorror

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21.09.2023 18:43 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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Thrilled to share that BREATHE & COUNT BACK FROM TEN won the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in the YA/MG category! Thank you to the WLT for honoring this book about a disabled Latinx teen with mermaid dreams! Huge congratulations to all the winners & finalists! writersleague.org/programs/ann...

15.09.2023 14:55 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
logos + info: The Inner Loop Retreat at Cacapon, Jan 5-8 2024, in collaboration with Mason Jar Press and The Writer's Center

logos + info: The Inner Loop Retreat at Cacapon, Jan 5-8 2024, in collaboration with Mason Jar Press and The Writer's Center

the good news keeps a'comin! Join us for a fab writing retreat in the mountains of West Virginia! 4 days writing at gorgeous Cacapon State Park 🌲

Apply by November 1st to come along!
www.theinnerlooplit.org/cacaponretre...

13.09.2023 17:20 — 👍 31    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 4
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Thrilled that BuzzFeed News came calling and spoke to the heart of my book. 📚

13.09.2023 16:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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If you’re in DC hope you can join!

26.08.2023 00:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My Shirley Jackson Award is here and it is GORGEOUS.

01.09.2023 18:52 — 👍 112    🔁 5    💬 11    📌 0
2023 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Fiction and Nonfiction Longlists – all longlisted titles can be found at https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-book-prize

2023 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Fiction and Nonfiction Longlists – all longlisted titles can be found at https://www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-book-prize

So grateful to the librarians & library staff at Brooklyn Public Library for selecting A Living Remedy for this longlist! It’s an honor to be in the company of many writers I admire, to be recognized by this great library system, to be a writer of library books ♥️ www.bklynlibrary.org/support/bpl-...

05.09.2023 20:31 — 👍 57    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

Cynthia Graham Hurd Memorial Award 2023, a travel award of $1,500 for library employees to attend the Charleston Library Conference, sponsored by Springer Nature. Applications due Sept. 29.

www.springernature.com/gp/librarian...

06.09.2023 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy birthday!

01.09.2023 11:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@marthaannetoll.bsky.social I'm pleased to see you here as well. Hope to catch up in real life and soon!

30.08.2023 04:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Announcing The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Longlist | The Center for Fiction We are pleased to announce the longlist for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize. The twenty-five debut novels were selected from over 160 submitted titles with U.S. publication dates between...

I feel as though I've just won the literary lottery. Being among such talent and accomplishment is nothing short of thrilling. A thousand thanks! #TheCenterforFiction
tinyurl.com/58yu6k7s

#Red Clay Suzie
#FirstNovelPrize

25.08.2023 23:13 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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