Patrick Thomas Henry

Chloe—I’m so sorry that this happened. I can only imagine how gutting it is for all of you. Thinking of you and yours!

Chloe is simply one of the best and most generous folks in the literary community. Please consider helping her family out, if you can!

Bright Lights in the Steel City: On Geoff Peck’s City of Clans - Pittsburgh Review of Books Reading Geoff Peck’s City of Clans punched a return ticket to a rite of passage, one I’d long ago filed in the recesses of my memory. A Friday night in

“Even though it is set in the Pittsburgh of 2009, City of Clans is necessary and timely, fiercely rebutting the voices clamoring for a super-charged restoration of masculine values.”

@patrickthomashenry.bsky.social on CITY OF CLANS, out now from University of Iowa Press. pghrev.com/bright-light...

I would like to have a word with the writers room about our storyline

Careers The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.

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The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

"The decision to close a university press has wide-ranging implications for not only the home institution & its reputation within the academic community but for the pursuit of intellectualism & critical inquiry in academia and beyond," writes Jeremy Chow @insidehighered.com.

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The students in our MFA program have published the latest volume of their literary journal Paper Dragon (with some help from Drexel Publishing Group).

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On the other hand: there are so many first-time submitters in this round of submissions I’m reading for MLS, and it’s just a joy to see their unbridled enthusiasm for fiction and poetry. That hope and energy are truly special to see!

Going to take a break from reading submissions, after encountering this cover letter that called magic realism and fabulism cheap, trendy, and meaningless…

Unsolicited pro tip: please don’t do this in your cover letter.

Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions For younger writers, ages 15-21

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

Notre Dame Press is hiring! Come work with meeee! 🤠

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

To celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth, we’ve compiled a list of books in translation in our newest blog post! Use code RUP30 on book purchases published by @bucknellupress.bsky.social for a discount and free US shipping.

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All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Join SmokeLong for Promptember! This series of write-ins and open mics is free! Let's write! Donations will go to @sundresspub.bsky.social and their fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...

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Sundress Reads: Review of Practice for Becoming a Ghost - The Sundress Blog Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024) is a collection of sixteen short stories from critic and author Patrick Thomas Henry. It is a twisting, surreal book about ghosts, fa...

I’m humbled by Natalie Gardner’s effervescent review of PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST on the @sundresspub.bsky.social blog! I love her perfect description of my book as “a multivocal rat-king of a collection operating by the logic of dream.” sundressblog.com/2025/06/09/s...

Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team? We're looking for a Creative Director! Applications open May 19 - June 9 For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com

Big opportunity alert: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Creative Director!

More details at the app link in our bio ( splitlippress.submittable.com), but everyone's favorite point to note:

*yes we pay*

Really looking forward to hearing from you all!

Look at me. I am in the chair. I am the writer now.

some books you should grab on #IndieBookstoreDay! (that's today!) 🧵

In honor of independent bookstore day:

1 like equals one book you should definitely pick up from your favorite bookstore

We're so excited to announce: APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🤩
SLM is expanding our Social Media Team!

Our mag is an all-volunteer team with a passion for words, art, and just good vibes ✨ Apply on submittable ASAP--applications are open for 1 week! buff.ly/3RlJZb1

Photograph of Erin Vachon, with the text "Welcome to the Team, Erin Vachon, Multigenre + Chapbook Editor" alongside the Split/Lip Press logo

Explanation of the Multigenre + Chapbook Submissions reading period, including the notice "Opening April 2026." The call states: If you thought Split/Lip already broke boundaries, we just got even weirder. While we will continue to accept boundary-breaking manuscripts across submission calls, we are hunting for the truly experimental and strange in our new Multigenre + Chapbook Submissions cycle. Coming April 2026, we’ll be looking for chapbooks (in all genres) as well as full-length hybrid manuscripts. Give us your collection of sonnets as visual objects. Family documents collaged against microfiction. Historical archive redacted into polyphonic novel. Your life story unfolded in burning haibun. We want your weird and your wondrous, your in-between manuscript you’ve always dreamed about publishing. Give us your very best and your strangest.

Banner welcoming Erin Vachon, with their biography below: Erin Vachon is the Multigenre + Chapbook Editor for Split/Lip Press, the Multigenre Reviewer-at-Large for The Rumpus, and the Senior Reviews Editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. Their writing appears in the Wigleaf Top 50, Black Warrior Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Brevity, and The Anarchist Review of Books, among others. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions. They received their M.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island. Erin writes and edits outside Providence, RI.

VERY big announcement: we'll be opening a completely new genre for submissions, starting in April 2026, and we've got our editor all picked out!

Help us welcome long-time novel/novella reader @erinvachon.bsky.social to the role of Multigenre + Chapbook Editor!

Congrats, @erinvachon.bsky.social!

Congrats!!! What an absolute dream journal—I teach pieces from there constantly, and can’t wait to add this one to a syllabus! ☺️

I’ll be reading from my debut short story collection, PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST, this evening! If you’re near UND, you can catch me live in room 406 of UND’s Chester Fritz Library. I’ll also be live streaming from Instagram (@patrick_t_henry over there). It gets started at 8:00 ET / 7:00 CT!

For the night crowd:

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This is tonight, and you can still register to join us by Zoom or in-person! Really excited to dig into robot design theory and philosophy for a bit this evening, in good company!