August is coming to an end, but I started my new job this week as a managing editor at Iron Horse. I'm so excited!!! BTWs, submissions are open for the The Long Story Prize and NaPamo. Submit. Here's a picture of me at the office: #WritingCommunity #phdlife #PhD #readingcommunity

Our submission gate for the 2024 NaPoMo prize is now open! 🥳 Send packets of up to 5 poems to our contest. Winner's prize is $1000, and we pay and publish ten finalists! Submit here: ironhorse.submittable.com

Fans of literature and art, take note! The Harbinger, TTU’s undergraduate literary journal, will hold a launch party for its 2022-2023 issue on September 14th at 7:30 p.m. Central. Come for the snacks, stay for the fabulous readings!

Congrats to PhD alumnus Samodh Porawagamage, who won the Burnside Review Press Award for his collection of #poems, Becoming Sam, which traces a #childhood in Sri Lanka against the backdrop of the disastrous #tsunami of 2004. Jaswinder Bolina judged. Look for the launch in 2024!

Join Professor #WilliamWenthe for the #virtual launch of his latest #poetry collection, The Gentle Art: Poems, which examines the life and art of the controversial painter, James McNeill Whistler. LSU Press Thursday, September 7, from 2 to 2:30 p.m. CST. fb.me/e/1l6jamlnS

Congrats to alumna Bria Winfree for the publication of her #videoessay, "On Living Holy," in TriQuarterly. Bria wrote and produced the #essay in Leslie Jill Patterson's Spring 2023 Micro Memoir Workshop. Watch it right here for #free! triquarterly.org/issues/living-….

Don't forget to join LSU Press & William Wenthe on Facebook Live for the virtual #booklaunch of his latest #poetry collection, The Gentle Art: Poems. This afternoon. 2 p.m. CST! Attend and get a #discount code to purchase the book! fb.me/e/1l6jamlnS

Don't forget Tim Hernandez's visit to Texas Tech University. This Thursday night, 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 001 of the English & Phil Building. It promises to be an inspiring evening! TTU English Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers #poetry #nonfiction

Last week, Tim Z Hernandez gave 2 readings at Texas Tech--one on campus & one as keynote at the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference! What a storyteller! So inspiring! Books: sold out! If you get a chance to meet Tim or hear him read, take it! #amreading #SomeoftheLight #AllTheyWillCallYou

I’m usually not one to try to mobilize readers and social media to do a click, but … I Was a Teenage Slasher is somehow on the shortlist for the Fallon Boom Club? Votes much, MUCH appreciated, as is spreading the good word. Thank you in advance. the-tonight-show.com/fallon-book-cl…

I Was a Teenage Slasher, the latest novel by Stephen Graham Jones, is competing in Jimmy Fallon's summer book club. Vote for this #RedRaider right here. the-tonight-show.com/fallon-book-cl… TTU English TTU Arts & Sciences TTUCreativeWriting #fromhereitspossible

Vote for Texas Tech University alumnus Stephen Graham Jones in Jimmy Fallon's Summer Book Club. His latest novel, I Was a Teenage Slasher, is one of six nominees. the-tonight-show.com/fallon-book-cl… TTU Arts & Sciences TTU English #amreading