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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 28m

In this generative session we will explore techniques and writing exercises that defy notions of what “storytelling” can be. We’ll focus on voice, character, and emotional experience in settings that range across what reality COULD be! Scholarship available!

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West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social · 1d

“The Salvage is an adventurous gothic trip through Scottish tradition.”

Excerpt from review of Anbara Salam’s The Salvage, new from @tinhouse.bsky.social.

Read the full review at the link below:

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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · 1d

Three cheers for @wendyjfox.bsky.social & @electricliterature.com for championing small press books! Adding GREAT DISASTERS by @grady-chambers.bsky.social ( @tinhouse.bsky.social ) to my to-read list of books set in Chicago at the turn of the 21st century.

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

Need more small presses in your literary diet? Oh do we have the list for you!

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 23h

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G.G. Silverman @ggsilverman.bsky.social · 23h

And gratitude to @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Workshop 2020 & Writing x Writers Boulder (especially Ramona Ausubel) for more craft inspiration that led to my manuscript being not just publishable, but notable—a finalist for 8 awards. Ok, come back tomorrow for COVER REVEAL?

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 23h

In this session, we will examine and attempt various stylistic and formal strategies of first-person narration. Together, we'll explore ways of inhabiting a first-person voice and so much more! Scholarship available!

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Media description: An ad for an online class. A photo of a person with long hair smiling into the camera. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Saturday, October 25, 9am - 12pm PST, Strategies of First-Person Narration: The I Who Writes and the I on the Page with Natalie Bakopoulos

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Emily Nemens @emilynemens.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait until FEB to get your mitts on CLUTCH?
@tinhouse.bsky.social and @zandoprojects.bsky.social are doing a Goodreads galley giveaway, you can enter now: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Book giveaway for Clutch by Emily Nemens Oct 01-Oct 30, 2025

Enter to win one of 30 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 01-Oct 30, 2025. We're giving away 30 galleys of Clutch by Emily Nemens! Enter to...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 1d

🧡 💀Available now! 💀🧡

The Salvage by Anbara Salam is out now!

A Town & Country Gizmodo, and GoodReads Best Book of Fall!💀🧡

Read more:
tinhouse.com/book/the-sal...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 1d

In this generative intensive, we’ll study the engines of published works and the techniques that make them compelling. Plus, we’ll practice building and emphasizing our own engines through generative exercises and discussion!

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Media description: An ad for an online class. A photo of a person with long dark hair wearing a white jacket. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, October 19, 1 AM – 2 PM PST, Make Your Story Move: Honing the Engine with Kyle Lucia Wu

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 3d

There's still time to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!

Applications close today, October 6th. Don't miss out on your chance to expand your writing community and level up your craft at this fully remote experience!

Apply here: tinhouseworkshop.submittable.com/submit/17761...

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felicialowj @felicialowj.bsky.social · 4d

It’s my first full night of the @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn SFF online workshop! ☕️🍵🧋Will I still be alive at 7am SGT? :p

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 5d

You won’t want to miss The Salvage by Anbara Salam out next week! 💀🧡

“Anbara Salam is a master of suspense.” —Rene Denfeld

💀🧡Read more & preorder:
tinhouse.com/book/the-sal...

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 6d

So excited that I've been invited to audit the @tinhouse.bsky.social Autumn workshop. 😍

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 6d

Working through familial and historical archives, this generative craft intensive engages how we can grapple with the difficulty of research through memoir, poetry, and hybrid texts. Scholarship available!

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Media description: An ad for an online class. A person in a long dress holding their wrist and looking into the camera. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, October 26, 10am - 1pm PST, The Ghost Archive with Jane Wong

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 6d

There are FOUR days left to apply to the 2026 Tin House Winter Online Workshop!

Writers Who Live Outside of the United States: We will be offering fifteen scholarships for writers who reside outside of the United States.

Apply here: tinhouse.com/workshop/win...

Media description: An ad for an online writing workshop. Text reads: 2026 Winter Online Workshop, Writers Who Live Outside of the United States Scholarship, Feb 7 - 16, Applications due Oct 6th, Tin House Workshop

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 7d

Cover Spotlight!💃🦜✨

👀 this fantastic cover for Lucky Girl, debut novel by @allietagledokus.bsky.social (11.11.25)!

“A rollicking ride about the weird world of teenage stardom...as binge-worthy as reality TV.”—Kirkus Reviews

Cover design: Beth Steidle

✨Read more+ preorder: bit.ly/LuckyGirlNovel

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Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social · 7d

Dream come true!! 🌿

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 7d

🎉Thrilled to announce we'll publish the novel OPPO by Christopher Beha in 2027!

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Nova Ren Suma @novarensuma.bsky.social · 8d

I'm one of the @tinhouse.bsky.social faculty doing a reading in the coming days and you can attend online for free! I'm reading this Saturday, Oct. 4 at 3pm PST (6pm EST), sharing from my latest WAKE THE WILD CREATURES. I'd love to see some friendly faces there! All readings are open to the public!

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 7d

Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁

For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.

Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 7d

🎉Thrilled to publish debut nonfiction UPROOTED: A CHINESE AMERICAN STORY OF SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE by @vanessahua.bsky.social — Spring 2027!

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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 8d

A woman wanders the Balkans, looking for herself. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a... @tinhouse.bsky.social @wendybeselhahn.bsky.social #booksky

Archipelago | Washington Independent Review of Books

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com

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Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social · 9d

I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗

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Grady Chambers @grady-chambers.bsky.social · 9d

It is one of the truest joys of my life that Great Disasters is officially out today from @tinhouse.bsky.social 💥

I am profoundly grateful to the press, and to editor Elizabeth DeMeo, whose wisdom and insight did so much to help this book become.

tinhouse.com/book/great-d... ❤️

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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 9d

"The novel aches with the ambiguous grief of growing apart from friends."

@ansonjtong.com's review of “Great Disasters" by Grady Chambers (@tinhouse.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/30/i...

Inaction is a Choice in Grady Chambers’s “Great Disasters” - Chicago Review of Books

It can be easy to slip into the belief that you’re all on the same journey when you see the same people everyday at school, have been to their house, come from the same place. Only in the years after ...

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 9d

💐Congrats @ogracebankole.bsky.social !

Finalist for 🏆2026 PNBA Book Award!

Read more: www.pnba.org/2026-shortli...

#pacificnwbookaward #pnba

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