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Want help submitting short stories and essays to literary magazines? Check out this class: "4-WEEK: SUBMIT NOW—SHORT STORY/ESSAY EDITION" Wed nights, 6:30-8:30pm MT, 1/ 8-29, with Lighthouse Writers Workshop. I hope to see you there! lighthousewriters.org/workshops?work…

Today is pub day for my short story collection, Save Me,Stranger. I began this book in 2013, so it's been a long trail. I feel very weepy and grateful today.

Holy crap, thank you to Lizz Schumer at People Magazine for selecting my janky-ass short story collection as a People Pick of the week! Not the most bizarre thing to happen this year, but...still amazing!

Tomorrow evening at West Side Books—I hope to see you there!

Friends and family, email me if you're planning to come in person; I'll send you the coupon code so it's free (and livestream is free automatically). Register for in-person/livestream here: lighthousewriters.org/workshops?work… I hope to see you there!

Want to escape this country for a little while? Come write with me in Mongolia! I’ll be teaching a 10-day writing retreat with The Himalayan Writing Retreat June 18-28, recently featured in the NYT. himalayanwritingretreat.com/event/mongolia/ nytimes.com/2025/02/13/fas…

Twin Cities folks, please join me as I talk/excitedly babble with my literary hero, Louise Erdrich on Thursday, 3/6 at 7pm. I can't believe I get to meet and talk with this extraordinary writer! Birchbark Bizhiw, 1629 Hennepin #275, Minneapolis.

Hi folks! If you're planning to come to the Tattered Cover Colfax at 6pm tonight for the reading and convo with Erika Wurth, here's the registration link—I guess you can choose a $5 gift card or registration with a signed copy of the book: eventbrite.com/e/erika-krouse…. Thanks, all!

Please join me, Arsen Kashkashian and Maeve Conran at the Boulder Bookstore 3/12 at 6:30p for the KGNU Radio Book Club LIVE show. $6 ticket sale includes $5-off coupon for Save Me, Stranger or any other bookstore purchase. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/erika-krouse… Boulder Book Store

Writers! Join me and instructors Andrea Dupree, Mike Henry, Karen Palmer, Juan Morales, and Suzi Q. Smith at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Grand Lake Writers Retreat this summer from July 13–18 in Grand Lake, CO. Register here: lighthousewriters.org/retreats

I belatedly found this video Louise Erdrich made; it blew my mind and made me cry. Let's add a shout-out for Louise's most recent novel, The Mighty Red. Soulful, elegant, hilarious, wry, audacious, staggering, gorgeous, riverine...Such a remarkable writer.

Join Dan Jorgensen, Paloma Barraza, Jane Thompson, and me at ReadCon in Greeley tonight at 5:30 to celebrate ReadCon! Free event sponsored by High Plains Library District, at their LINC Library Innovation Center, 501 8th Ave. Greeley. Details below! highplains.libcal.com/calendar/hpld/…

I've never had a lucky short story until now! I just got word that "Eat My Moose" will be included in Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025, edited by Don Winslow and series editor Steph Cha, out I'm October. Thank you both for this incredible honor! bookshop.org/p/books/the-be…

Thank you to the Mystery Writers of America for selecting my short story, "Eat My Moose," for Best Short Story of 2025. What an incredible honor; I'm feeling overwhelmed and very goofy. Congratulations also to all the amazing nominees and winners!

Writers! I’ll be teaching the following classes at Lit Fest this June at Lighthouse Writers Workshop—I hope you can join me! Link here: lighthousewriters.org/workshops?work…

Writers! I still have some open spots in my Lit Fest classes this/next week at Lighthouse Writers Workshop—come join me! Link here: shorturl.at/0Vlnf