Happy Nightbitches' Day to all who celebrate 🌸🩸

2 amazing 📚 in the #Audible #audiobook sale today! Go get:

CHER AMI & MAJOR WHITTLESEY by Kathleen Rooney for $6.99!
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and THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM by Jared Yates Sexton for $6.99!
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Sharing this from the Timothy McSweeney archive - still so funny! mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-l…

Save the dates! July 19-20, 2024
The Northwestern University Summer Writers' Conference
Hosted by Northwestern School of Professional Studies Northwestern MA in Writing/MFA in Prose & Poetry

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Our next admissions deadline is 7/15! MA & MFA degrees in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, dual genre, publishing & prof. development - more info here. #amwriting #writingcommunity #MFA #amreading #fiction #nonfiction #poetry #publishing #writingworkshop

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Please save the date! Friday, 8/16, 6 PM, 405 Church St., Evanston, IL - our next graduate reading, feat. Nimra Chohan, Rachel Kennedy, Natalia Nebel, Michele Popadich, Josh Reuss, & Irene Yeh!

Free event but pls RSVP:
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#prose #poetry #literary #event

New list of agents presently or soon to be accepting queries up today.
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Bookish annual and monthly subscriptions are 20% off.
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shout outs to Christine Sneed & ZYZZYVA

True Failure 2/25/25 preorder if you love me or if you want to read the book

“I don’t think making art is, or should be, a political act. But I do think it’s a moral act. Our mission is to entertain, but also to enlarge the moral imagination of our readers, to awaken their empathy.”
— Steve Almond talks to Christine Sneed
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'The greater the resistance to the telling of a particular story, the greater the value in its being told.' HOW TO WRITE THE UNBEARABLE STORY Steve Almond Zando Poets & Writers pw.org/content/truth_…

Mile-High MFA poetry faculty, Suzi Q. Smith, is on the news inspiring the public with her poetry! Regis University Suzi Q. Smith #MileHighMFA

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Do you want to try your hand at writing image-driven flash fiction? Then this coming Wednesday's class is for you with Christine Sneed!

Register here: writersleague.org/calendar/writi…

I'll be teaching an online flash fiction class - March 13 - 6:30 - 9:30 PM CT - more details here! writersleague.org/calendar/writi…

Thanks to Leslie Jill Patterson, Josh Luckenbach, and everyone at Iron Horse for publishing my new story in their brand-new Party Issue! Glad to be printed alongside other writers such as my friend Teresa Milbrodt.

Few of you've asked so here's my next (and last class till fall) GUT REAL is an anti-workshop workshop for the busy writer trucking through their WIP--all gut, all forward motion, all active listening, no prep. Join this May + funnel the energy into summer
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Today, I'm recording this story for a podcast. I feel like it's one of my best pieces and I'm so honored by the response it's received. Thank you. 💙

In this Episode 224 clip, ⁦Peter Coviello⁩ discusses a core theme of his book, the interplay between love and sorrow, as well as how love for art isn't mutually exclusive with critique.

Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Buy from UChicagoPress: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

At long last, the cover of my new book, which contains everything I know about writing, based on 30 years of teaching and failing and trying again. It's short: