Loving my current read #shortstorymonth Andrew Porter

Happy #LFLweek ! I left a copy of HERE IN THE NIGHT in Coveside Coffee’s sweet Little Free Library for my Portland, ME loves to find 📚💜

Not going to say I told y’all so but I told you so! I’ve been rooting for my friend Melissa Llanes Brownlee when I first read her wonderful work published. Her trajectory continues to rise. Way to go!

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner Melissa Llanes Brownlee with BITTER OVER SWEET, & our two runner ups, Erica Kent with BLACK DOG, & Mathew Goldberg with NIGHT WATCH!

Thank you everyone who entered, & thank you @deeshaphilyaw for returning as our guest judge! buff.ly/4bleeDY

It's been a mostly excellent year so far, & I'm very excited about the rest of 2024. Here's what I'll be up to:

May 31: Pittsburgh WDW Writing Day Workshops (Writers Conferences) (online pitches)
Jun: campingggg! 😍
Jul/Aug: busy w/ my 5 kids
Aug: Killer Nashville (in-person pitches, critiques, panels)
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I love Kelvin Wilson's brilliant work so much and I am so grateful for this. Thank you so much Kevin and Tor Books (Check Mark) ❤️🙏

I sold a book bc Christy Tending🏳️‍🌈🏴🍉 tweeted abt it! 🙏
Don't underestimate the power of a single tweet/review/kind word in the promotion of #smallpress Books. #Indie authors depend on you 😊

Storytellers Reading w Sarah Layden & Noley Reid | Happening in 2 weeks in #Lafayette
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Discovered on AllEvents.in/app

Glad the gargoyles landed safely!

SFWP

I loved writing this piece and I’m so grateful to Fractured Lit for giving it such a loving home! 💗🔥💗

Ohhh this is going to be so good!

New for #ASmokeLongSummer this year, we're very excited to be hosting a Virtual Book Fair with over 20 small presses! Look at that line-up! We've been recording some fascinating interviews, and there'll be a live panel discussion and amazing book discounts smokelong.com/celebrating-sm…

In case you missed it! 🐦‍⬛🚗🎈

So excited for this tomorrow!
(Register to join us! 👻🪄😈)

'...while you reminisce about that time you and an Army buddy drove his cousin’s Duster straight through the night all the way to Coney Island because neither of you had ever ridden a real rollercoaster, only lived one.'

I'll be reading my story 'Launch Day Conditions: 1986'. Should be a night of stellar storytelling! Hope to see you there -- RSVP: fracturedlit.submittable.com/submit/a7be554…

Did you know that Alina Stefanescu's personal website is basically a writing teacher's dream??

Look at this list of prose poems she offers up!
alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2022/2/18…

author sites are so important for so many reasons; I love how much (and how unexpectedly) they can add to the larger writing community

Write w/Writing Co-lab in July! We have a 3-wk program of classes w/Jiordan Castle, Jennifer Close, Jeanne Thornton, Hannah Bae @hannahbae.bsky.social, Jami Nakamura Lin, Danielle Lazarin, Richard Mirabella, Nat Queen Coal 🪨💎, Nicole Haroutunian, Alex Watson, & Aishwarya Kumar 🌞
writingco-lab.com/summercamp2024

I'm honored to have A Head Full of Ghosts included in the list of 20 horror books from the 2010s.
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