I'm back from a grueling 2000-mile road trip with the wonderful news that my story, 'Tea with the Queen,' is now available online. It was the winner of the 2023
Prime Number Magazine Award for Short Fiction. Thanks to Press 53 and judge Dennis McFadden!

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The official press release for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize is out and this quote from Cecily Wong has me feeling very seen. 🩷❤️ Thank you! 🩷❤️

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Incredibly grateful to have my story “A Day at the Beauty Supply” nominated for Best of the Net!
Thank you Split Lip Magazine 🙏🏾

Happy Birthday Chris Dennis 🫶

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Join us in congratulating our 💥 Best of the Net 2024 💥 nominees!! WEAR A MASK b. ray crowell antmen ✌🏼🦭 Matthew Tuckner avery! (they/them) Verna Zafra-Kasala Daniel Kent Foley Theresa Pisani @ryansingerart1 Brianna Johnson andy ⭐️ lopez Ajay Makan Dina L. Relles buff.ly/3P29Ks9

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Fiction Editor Janelle Bassett won the 2023 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize! Her short story collection, THANKS FOR THE RIOT, will be published by Univ Nebraska Press next year! Congratulations!

are we still doing the b&w photo thing?

ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Poetry Editor Dr. Bitch's brilliant new collection is coming soon! FALSE OFFERING is 'a sexy romp' and 'equal parts rage and rebellion' and you can pre-order it now: buff.ly/44wpidp

Thrilled to have a couple poems in the latest issue of The American Poetry Review. Here’s one about what you actually get when you have a baby.

My Spotify Wrapped is going to have a lot of weird ASMR tracks on it this year. (tap, scratch, whisper, brush, heyyyyy)

Don't miss this terrific interview with the talented Janelle Bassett by AJ! I especially loved how Janelle describes her experience as an editor Split Lip Magazine !

From the Split Lip Magazine blog: I chatted with AJ about writing eulogies, shuffling cards, and the perfection of Pee-Wee's Playhouse

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'She was not the kind of person to go quietly, so I wanted to make a little noise in her honor.' In our ongoing interview series, SLM intern @Ziskayt talks with fiction editor Janelle Bassett about childhood, superpowers, and more: buff.ly/3KRRRee

Truly enjoying my week-long residency in Arkansas. I’ve been thinking a lot about all the smart, creative women in my family and how they never got a week to themselves, much less a week to devote to their own thoughts and ideas.

(extended coughing fit)

Made it to my writing residency! First order of business: Renew vows to self in tasteful outdoor ceremony

Heads up to ppl coming KC for AWP:

Don’t miss the miniatures museum!

(These came up in my photo memories from 2019.)