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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Next Thursday night 10/16 at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, talking to my pal @ambersparks.bsky.social — please join us!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 4h

Going on tour next week! Come say hi please don’t make me read to myself and that one guy who’s actually got earbuds in

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Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social · 7h

FIT INTO ME: A Novel: A Memoir by Molly Gaudry is now available for preordering! The book releases on 12/9. Reserve your copy now with free shipping with the code here: icont.ac/518tw

FIT INTO ME by Molly Gaudry Now Available for Preorder

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 12h

This week in our October series of spooky stories is "Jenny Greenteeth" by JS Apsley.

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 9h

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 12h

Our Fall 2025 issue is out now! Read longform prose by Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Fortunato Salazar, Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell), Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, and Mary Winsor. Start reading: https://pshr.us/fall25

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 12h

This week in our October series of spooky stories is "Jenny Greenteeth" by JS Apsley.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 1d

Nadia Staikos discusses her debut novel UNTIL THEY SLEEP (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) with Brooke Randel necessaryfiction.com/interviews/t...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 1d

Nadia Staikos discusses her debut novel UNTIL THEY SLEEP (@guernicaeditions.bsky.social) with Brooke Randel necessaryfiction.com/interviews/t...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

Thanks for asking. Our focus is on publishing new work, and to that end we request only first serial rights, so we aren't generally looking for reprints.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d

Gaby was the marketing/publicity lead for Horror For Weenies and she's a MARVEL - please hire her for staff and/or freelance work!

gaby iori @gabyiori.bsky.social · 2d

...anyway! I am looking for work (and have been for months actually!!) and also soft-launching that I'm doing freelance marketing and publicity. if you have a book coming out that you think would benefit from a thoughtful publicist/marketer, I'd love to help you get it into the world!

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

Also exciting to invent the word “accounce” when I scheduled this post at 5:30am or so.

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Sally Rudolf @wildsustenance.bsky.social · 2d

Please check out my review of Alice Chadwick's gorgeous debut novel @necessaryfiction.com!

#booksky
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 2d

Send me your work!

Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

We're pleased to accounce that submissions are now open to be read by guest editor @demisty.bsky.social until November 3.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 2d

DARK LIKE UNDER by Alice Chadwick (@biblioasis.bsky.social). Reviewed by @wildsustenance.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/dark...

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 3d

The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026, and we're open for registration! It's $95, and that includes the one-day conference, 1 book, 1 meeting w an editor, and your choice of literary stuff from our partner presses. www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections, is coming back to DC on April 18, 2026.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 3d

today, around your lunchtime or your afternoon rest time or your evening wind down, depending on your time zone:

Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 10d

ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)

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you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025). Ab...

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10d

Hello! I am teaching a course for the splendid American Short Fiction MFA for All, on physicality in fiction. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject. Kevin Wlson & Tommy Orange are also teaching! Deadline to sign up for my class is 10/5.

americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

MFA for All - American Short Fiction

MFA for ALL MFA for All was born from our desire to create a space where MFA-quality instruction is widely accessible to writers no matter their age, background, location, or financial situation. MFA ...

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Mike Meginnis @mikemeginnis.bsky.social · 6d

A quick thread about what this podcast is and why. The short version is that the literary podcast I want—one that is focused on being a reader, where the guests are not mostly writers or academics, and you don't have to read the same books to enjoy the conversation—didn't really exist.

Mike Meginnis @mikemeginnis.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning pizza enthusiasts! I have a new podcast about reading. It officially launches today. It's called Library Pizza. You can find it in all of the usual places. Links at librarypizza.com. In the first episode, Tracy and I talk about aliens, Godzilla, and sour candy.

The Library Pizza podcast art, featuring a slice of pizza on an open book.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 7d

Kicking off our annual October series of spooky stories is "Rainmaker" by @daisyravenel.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/rain...

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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 7d

Please join us in welcoming our new Fiction Editor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding! Submit your fiction for him to read by November 15th. Read more about Paul below, or visit our website: https://pshr.us/newfictioneditor

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 7d

Fresh ink, y'all: pvdeye.org/no-shortcuts...

No Shortcuts: 'Ways Home: Stories' by Karen Lee Boren

Speaking with The Alembic after the publication of her first book, Girls in Peril (2006), the Providence writer Karen Lee Boren described adolescence “as a time when young people, often [...]

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 7d

Kicking off our annual October series of spooky stories is "Rainmaker" by @daisyravenel.bsky.social necessaryfiction.com/stories/rain...

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 8d

If you're in our area, this might be of interest

Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 8d

On October 8, we will host a panel on Irish Women Writers!

Chaired by Marjorie Howes (BC), this event has a book launch for Paige Reynolds' (Holy Cross) new book & a panel discussion, including Claire Bracken (Union College), and Kate Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College)

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