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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · 6d

If a story appears in TWO anthologies, that means it isn't a fluke, right?

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · 14d

I've become one of those people who only posts to self-promote, so people will be right to ignore me. But being a Best American Short Stories contributor is too big a deal not to shout it into the void. Thanks so much @cathomps.bsky.social @pronounced-ing.bsky.social, Nicole Lamy, etc!

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · May 14

It still doesn't feel real, but I've started getting emails from the @marinerbooks.bsky.social marketing people, so apparently I really am going to be in Best American Short Stories 2025! Thank you Harvard Review, @cathomps.bsky.social @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · May 23

Eating disorder

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you!!!

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · May 14

It still doesn't feel real, but I've started getting emails from the @marinerbooks.bsky.social marketing people, so apparently I really am going to be in Best American Short Stories 2025! Thank you Harvard Review, @cathomps.bsky.social @pronounced-ing.bsky.social

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · Mar 1

I knew I shouldn’t have used that @!*$# AI!

Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · Mar 1

A classic example of how Google's AI is garbage, it doesn't understand that the Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm a finalist!

New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social · Feb 24

Announcing the finalists for the 11th annual NER award for Emerging Writers: Temperance Aghamohammadi, Cristina Alexandra Pop, Zen Ren, Nathan Curtis Roberts, Laura Schmitt, & Tianyi.

The winner will be announced in March.

Congratulations to all six finalists!

www.nereview.com/2025/02/24/a...

Announcing the Finalists for 2025

It is with enormous pleasure that we announce the finalists for the eleventh annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers.

www.nereview.com

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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social · Nov 18

Experience New England Review issue 45.3 in a new way by listening to audio recordings by contributors Matt Donovan, Christine Grillo, & Liana Kapelke-Dale.

Listen in here: www.nereview.com/audio/

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Nov 16

@jillmaio.bsky.social Oh it's safe for us to follow each other again!

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Nov 15

Hey, authors new to Bluesky: We've gathered a little starter pack of publishers, organizations, and publications to follow and help populate your feed with literary resources.

go.bsky.app/bQfVJ6

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Nov 15

I'm glad your friend recommended sef-promotion. These books are relevant to my interests... Well, they're relevant to my life at least!

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Nov 15

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Nov 15

I have TWO books and they are both VERY GOOD

You should buy them as a set because the first is the queer Mormon story as told through a Mormon lens and the second is the queer Mormon story when we say eff that lens and we live in the way that brings us the most happiness

I spoke to you with silence by Kerry Pray and Jenn Lee Smith

THE BOOK OF QUEER
MORMON
JOY
EDITED BY
KERRY SPENCER PRAY
FOREWORD BY CAROL LYNN PEARSON

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Nov 15

You know what would make great lunch-break reading? Split Lip's brand new NOVEMBER ISSUE! https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

Split Lip Magazine

Split Lip Magazine is a voice-driven literary journal with a pop culture twist. We publish online monthly and in print. Poetry, fiction, memoir, flash, reviews, interviews, art.

buff.ly

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Nov 14

A theology journal publishing fiction by a queer agnostic? It's more likely than you think! Thank you @ecotheo.bsky.social

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Feb 20

Exciting mail day! A thousand thanks to @cathomps.bsky.social and everyone at Harvard Review. This has been a lovely experience.

(The story is part of my "gay Utahns in the pandemic" triptych. Another is coming out in a few weeks from NER. The third is still available, editors HMU!)

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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · Jan 12

Meanwhile in Chile, my book from 2000 will soon be out in Spanish, thx to the wonderful Francisco Cardemil and the folks at Pez Espiral! Pretty buff statuary…

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Oct 7

I've lightened up to the extent that I no longer pay attention, because I don't think it's good enough to warrant my time. Is that the appropriate extent of lightening up?

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Oct 7

Not the point of this post, but it's a divine injustice that Rami Malek has an Oscar and Carly Chaikin doesn't.

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Oct 6

Actual "Bucket List" journal acceptance today. If it had just come seven days sooner, I could have kept believing I was psychic!

Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Sep 26

My prediction that something good would happen in September is perilously close to not coming true. Am I... not psychic?

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Oct 5

Well it must literally be the literal truth, if we both say so! (Typeo or not.)

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Nathan Curtis Roberts @bannedinutah.bsky.social · Oct 5

I agree... it's literally the strongest thing about their "brand."

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