Kathy Daneman

Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships The Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowships are $50,000 awards given to honor poets of literary merit appointed to serve in civic positions and to support them in creating new work, as well as ...

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Here are the 2025 recipients of the $50k Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize. Today, the Academy of American Poets announced the recipients of their 2025 Laureate Fellowships, which award $50,000 each to 23 poets laureate currently serving in cities and states across the cou…

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The Academy of American Poets announces new fellows The Academy of American Poets announces its list of 23 new poet laureate fellows, awarding them a total of $1.1 million dollars across the United States.

Big news from @poetsorg.bsky.social - The Academy of American Poets is awarding 23 new poet laureate fellows $1.1 million.

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I completed the Swim 5 Miles in July challenge today for the American Cancer Society--more a feat of scheduling than athleticism. I've been touched by the donations I've received so far, but I'd happily accept more! gofund.me/ee60e48d

Libby Buck's Debut Is a Gentle Summer Read About Finding Your Way Back Home Talking with Hillsborough writer Libby Buck about "Port Anna," her debut novel released by Simon & Schuster earlier this month.

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Dear Jeff Bezos …

Trying to balance a very humane understanding that you’ve been busy with basic reader greed.

Michael Zapata has won the inaugural DAG Prize for Literature. Today, the DAG Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural DAG Prizes, which award $20,000 each to a visual artist, a writer, and a musician “whose work expands the possibilities for Am…

Congratulations to @michaelzapata.bsky.social, winner of the inaugural DAG Prize for Literature. I loved working with Mike on The Lost Book of Adana Moreau—you couldn't ask for a more conscientious citizen (literary or otherwise)—and I am desperate to read his next book.

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Libby Buck on Writing Like an Art Historian This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I am descended from a long line of packrats, people who couldn’t get rid of anything for love or money—especially if somet…

Art historian turned debut novelist @libbybuckwrites.bsky.social writes about how she incorporates her formal training into writing fiction.

Also a drawer full of Izod alligators.

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Swim 5 Miles for American Cancer Society - Donate!, organized by Kathy Daneman I’m swimming 5 miles to help the American Cancer Society (ACS) fight … Kathy Daneman needs your support for Swim 5 Miles for American Cancer Society - Donate!

In honor of my father, who died 12 years ago Friday from pancreatic cancer, I’m raising money for the American Cancer Society. Every dollar helps. If you can donate, please do. Thank you!

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Buckle up, buttercup, it's gonna be a wild ride! 🔥 Gil & the Kills are crashing across the country this fall, so come catch a piece of the HOT WAX action. For tickets and more info, please reach out to hosting bookstores. #books #booktour #hotwaxtour @simonbooks.bsky.social
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“Better” Asks Us to Reframe Conversations About Suicide  - Electric Literature Arianna Rebolini discusses living with suicidal thoughts and why society needs to listen to people who are thinking of dying.

Arianna Rebolini (ariannarebolini.bsky.social) on her debut memoir “Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die,” what getting “better” means, the inaccessibility of behavioral healthcare, and why society is afraid to talk about suicide. (Interview by @marisarussello.bsky.social )

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.

In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.

It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

Book jackets for Libby Buck's Port Anna, Yiming Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, M.L. Rio's Hot Wax, Paul Cornell's The MIghty Avengers vs. the 1970s, Stuart Moore's Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark magic, and Chris Ryall's Daredeveil: Born Again from Bloomsbury Academic's Marvel Age of Comics series.

I am thrilled to introduce my titles for the second half of 2025: Debut novels by Libby Buck and Yiming Ma, @mlrio.bsky.social's breakneck rock novel Hot Wax, and the first three titles in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's Marvel Age of Comics series. Hit me up with those galley requests.

The Islander | Hazlitt The world must appear strange as you peer through our hero’s eyes. Your eyes now.

Debut novel excerpt alert: @hazlitt.bsky.social has an excerpt from Yiming Ma's These Memories Do Not Belong to Us. Read it here: hazlitt.net/longreads/is...

Obscene. Especially considering tax payers have spent $100 million THIS YEAR on Trump's golf trips.

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.

Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers.

Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.

Look for Independent Bookstore Day from the American Booksellers Association.

If only there were some kind of opportunity--say this Saturday--when a person could go into their indie bookstore and celebrate them.

Kirkus calls Better, "A brave narrative of radical empathy both for oneself and for others confronting the darkest darkness."

things like financial insecurity, the relentless expectation of productivity at work, and the total inhumanity of health insurance, particularly for mental health coverage. Don't even ask about reproductive psychiatrists.

My favorite sections (and you'll have to buy the book to read them) are about the language around suicidality and about the external factors that contribute to suicidality--

Did My Son Inherit My Chronic Depression? He has my eyes and my laugh. I worry about what else he has.

I'm thrilled I can share this excerpt from @ariannarebolini.bsky.social's upcoming memoir, Better.

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Graphic for 2025 Edgar Week Symposium on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at the marriott Marquis Times Square. Register Today. 8:30 Registration 8:55 Welcome 9 - 9:50 Can You Juggle? Managing multiple storylines. 10 - 10:50 Do You Remember the First Time? Meet the debut authors. 11 - 11:50 In the Mood: Setting the scene and building suspense. 1 - 1:50 Taking Candy from a Baby: Writing mysteries for young people. 2 - 2:50 It Takes Character: From detectives readers will follow anywhere to the narrators who can't be trusted. 3 - 3:50 Hitting the Books Research and borrowing from reality (fiction / nonfiction) 4 - 5:00 From the Writer's Desk 2025 Grand Masters Laura Lippman and John Sandford.

Have you registered yet for the Edgars Symposium? A day of scintillating panels, capped by a conversation between the 2025 Grand Masters, Laura Lippmann and John Sandford. Missing it would be a crime. #Edgars2025
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Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’ | TechCrunch Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book

This was the part of her wonderful book, Careless People, that made me the angriest. techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/m...

What could possible go wrong? I trust AI as much as I do precogs.

National Library Workers Day. Libraries Work Because We Do. 4.8.25, #NLWD25, ALA-APA

Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support.

Show some love to the library worker in your life today!
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And now all I want to do is lay in bed reading Hark! A Vagrant. This day is suddenly much less productive.

Had a great time talking w @paullisicky.bsky.social about his new memoir, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

cc: @harperonebooks.bsky.social

Best Noir Thriller Books (Gift Article) Sara Gran — whose 2003 novel of demonic possession, “Come Closer,” is a cult favorite — recommends her favorites.

Sara Gran, who knows a thing or two about noir, recommends eight of the best.

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