Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com
Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
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Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com
· May 9
Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)
What is this weird stuck time of life, the year before no kids in the house, the year after doing something I always wanted to do, my parents old, me old or getting there. Stuck but racing. Still the trees at night and the orange moon half eaten by clouds. Still tomorrow.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What is this weird stuck time of life, the year before no kids in the house, the year after doing something I always wanted to do, my parents old, me old or getting there. Stuck but racing. Still the trees at night and the orange moon half eaten by clouds. Still tomorrow.
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What a beautiful way to wake up this morning. I’m a curmudgeon about politicians, but this is what leading with love looks like.
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What a beautiful way to wake up this morning. I’m a curmudgeon about politicians, but this is what leading with love looks like.
If the message is not just dem party business as usual and is instead about how to improve the lives of working people practically and meaningfully, about inclusivity and dignity, delivered with freshness and authenticity, people will show up! Democratic socialism! Mamdani! Yay!
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If the message is not just dem party business as usual and is instead about how to improve the lives of working people practically and meaningfully, about inclusivity and dignity, delivered with freshness and authenticity, people will show up! Democratic socialism! Mamdani! Yay!
people in a lot of states are about to lose their SNAP benefits. If you are in a position to help with food aid, please do. Donate to a local food pantry, reach out to people you know who are food insecure and share meals, whatever you can do!
October 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
people in a lot of states are about to lose their SNAP benefits. If you are in a position to help with food aid, please do. Donate to a local food pantry, reach out to people you know who are food insecure and share meals, whatever you can do!
all these republicans claiming the private messages of their young republicans don't represent their party's ethos.
look who they elected. look what he's said on the record. look at the policy he's driving each day.
those messages are exactly who they are as a party.
look who they elected. look what he's said on the record. look at the policy he's driving each day.
those messages are exactly who they are as a party.
October 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
all these republicans claiming the private messages of their young republicans don't represent their party's ethos.
look who they elected. look what he's said on the record. look at the policy he's driving each day.
those messages are exactly who they are as a party.
look who they elected. look what he's said on the record. look at the policy he's driving each day.
those messages are exactly who they are as a party.
My younger kid, Ben Patterson, has a flash piece up @januaryhouselit.bsky.social! If you like weird little college towns, generalized eccentricity, and birds, I hope you'll read it: januaryhouselit.com/2025/10/13/n...
Notes From the Frontier
by Benjamin Patterson The year was coming to a close, but it hadn’t closed, right at that moment when the scales shift and autumn begins to tip into winter (think grayscale images, shavings of fros…
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October 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My younger kid, Ben Patterson, has a flash piece up @januaryhouselit.bsky.social! If you like weird little college towns, generalized eccentricity, and birds, I hope you'll read it: januaryhouselit.com/2025/10/13/n...
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Free shipping today at @bookshop.org which means that yes now is a perfect time to pick up MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US!
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Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure
Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure
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October 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Free shipping today at @bookshop.org which means that yes now is a perfect time to pick up MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US!
bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
bookshop.org/p/books/magi...
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Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!
I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:
I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:
October 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!
I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:
I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:
Excited to be on this Ingram Spark "Short Story Standouts" list (via @bookshop.org), alongside the amazing @writesloud.bsky.social & Stillhouse press-mate @kristinaten.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Excited to be on this Ingram Spark "Short Story Standouts" list (via @bookshop.org), alongside the amazing @writesloud.bsky.social & Stillhouse press-mate @kristinaten.bsky.social
dragging people (some children) out of their homes in the middle of the night - ICE is uniformly despicable, but this feels like the next level of horror
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
www.wbez.org
October 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
dragging people (some children) out of their homes in the middle of the night - ICE is uniformly despicable, but this feels like the next level of horror
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
www.wbez.org/immigration/...
My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
My book came out October 8, 2024. (After 30+ years of writing, a book!)
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
I've been so grateful to anyone who has read it. I had a little goal of reaching 1000 copies sold (small press goals!), and we're close to that. I hope you'll consider ordering, reading, sharing reviewing on Goodreads, etc.💙
this picture of my older child - long ago - popped up on my phone, and i love it so
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
this picture of my older child - long ago - popped up on my phone, and i love it so
Coming up on the one-year anniversary of my book’s release. If you’d like a copy, I have three to send - comment and I’ll send to you!
September 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Coming up on the one-year anniversary of my book’s release. If you’d like a copy, I have three to send - comment and I’ll send to you!
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Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
September 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reminder! We're looking for volunteer Fiction and Flash Fiction Readers! Join the SLM FAM! This weekend would be a great time to apply! 😉
I printed up a big chunk of my in-progress novel, and it felt like something! So it seems like a good time to say that I'm so happy and grateful to be working with
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
September 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I printed up a big chunk of my in-progress novel, and it felt like something! So it seems like a good time to say that I'm so happy and grateful to be working with
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
@mlwyd.bsky.social on this and any other projects! (@tridentmediagroup.bsky.social)
I started at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in 2018. It changed my trajectory as a reader & writer. I'm beyond grateful to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social & Split Lip! I'm stepping down this month bc of work obligations. But: volunteer at litmags! The community&experience will change you in the best ways!
September 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I started at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social in 2018. It changed my trajectory as a reader & writer. I'm beyond grateful to @maureenlangloss.bsky.social & Split Lip! I'm stepping down this month bc of work obligations. But: volunteer at litmags! The community&experience will change you in the best ways!
My mom: I’m having my rat girl summer.
Me: what?
My mom (she’s 85): you don’t know anything.
Me: what?
My mom (she’s 85): you don’t know anything.
September 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
My mom: I’m having my rat girl summer.
Me: what?
My mom (she’s 85): you don’t know anything.
Me: what?
My mom (she’s 85): you don’t know anything.
I learned SAD GROWNUPS was removed from consideration for Kansas Notable Books (along w other books the deciders worried might endanger future federal funding). This isn't a bitter post. More sad that libraries feel compelled to make choices like these in these censor-y times.
Sad Grownups
Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Winne...
bookshop.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I learned SAD GROWNUPS was removed from consideration for Kansas Notable Books (along w other books the deciders worried might endanger future federal funding). This isn't a bitter post. More sad that libraries feel compelled to make choices like these in these censor-y times.
My children are listening to Pavement and reading Joy Williams and Denis Johnson as if fully inhabited by the ghost of my 90s self
September 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My children are listening to Pavement and reading Joy Williams and Denis Johnson as if fully inhabited by the ghost of my 90s self
there have been 36k gun deaths this year. only one has gotten republicans' attention, and still they don't want to change gun regulations
September 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
there have been 36k gun deaths this year. only one has gotten republicans' attention, and still they don't want to change gun regulations
firing someone for simply quoting the supposed free speech champion? for using his own words to demonstrate what he thought? @karenattiah.bsky.social
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
firing someone for simply quoting the supposed free speech champion? for using his own words to demonstrate what he thought? @karenattiah.bsky.social
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...
JR Fenn's quietly disquieting and beautifully lush flash, "Cassandra" is up at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social today, and I really hope you will read it and share it!
Cassandra — Split Lip Magazine
In the morning, she biked up the path by the slough. At the station, she started the coffee. A moose stood grazing in the back yard, unbothered. She checked the AP wire, the police blotter.
splitlipthemag.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
JR Fenn's quietly disquieting and beautifully lush flash, "Cassandra" is up at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social today, and I really hope you will read it and share it!
white supremacists and right-wing extremists are responsible for the majority of extremist or politically-motivated shootings in the US. This is easily verifiable to anyone who cares about facts.
September 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
white supremacists and right-wing extremists are responsible for the majority of extremist or politically-motivated shootings in the US. This is easily verifiable to anyone who cares about facts.
Love these thoughts about novel writing and reading, from Renee Gladman’s MY LESBIAN NOVEL @dorothyproject.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Love these thoughts about novel writing and reading, from Renee Gladman’s MY LESBIAN NOVEL @dorothyproject.bsky.social