James Tate Hill
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
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Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.
If you missed last night's TWC Live! with literary agents Maggie Cooper, Danya Kukafka, & Eric Smith talking publishing in a time of unrest, i.e. what authors can expect from publishing today, it's now up on AWP's YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/live/4fFYD0x...
TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest
YouTube video by AWPWriter
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November 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you missed last night's TWC Live! with literary agents Maggie Cooper, Danya Kukafka, & Eric Smith talking publishing in a time of unrest, i.e. what authors can expect from publishing today, it's now up on AWP's YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/live/4fFYD0x...
Join us in just over 2 hours! Free and open to all!
“TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest” premieres TONIGHT at 7:00 p.m. ET! See @frecklywench.bsky.social, of Aevitas Creative Management, Danya Kukafka of Trellis Literary Management, and @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social of Neighborhood Literary on AWP’s YouTube channel.
TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest
TWC Live! returns November 13, and this time literary agents will be expanding on June’s Big Conversation in the magazine: “Publishing in a Time of Unrest.”
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November 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Join us in just over 2 hours! Free and open to all!
If by disability narratives you mean stories about the body and/or the mind, which all of us possess, then yes, I believe disability narratives are for everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
If by disability narratives you mean stories about the body and/or the mind, which all of us possess, then yes, I believe disability narratives are for everyone.
What I love most about writing is that it isn't publishing.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What I love most about writing is that it isn't publishing.
Went to movies Sat & asked for audio description headset & kids working had no idea what I was talking about. Manager confirmed that theater has no accessibility devices. Went to national chain theater. First device didn't work. Exited movie to get replacement device. It partially worked. It's 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Went to movies Sat & asked for audio description headset & kids working had no idea what I was talking about. Manager confirmed that theater has no accessibility devices. Went to national chain theater. First device didn't work. Exited movie to get replacement device. It partially worked. It's 2025.
Friends lately have been assuring me good things are going to happen & I'm not sure if this is because they're correct, because I've surrounded myself with optimists, or because I'm clearly so pessimistic that they can tell I need to hear something positive.
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Friends lately have been assuring me good things are going to happen & I'm not sure if this is because they're correct, because I've surrounded myself with optimists, or because I'm clearly so pessimistic that they can tell I need to hear something positive.
So excited to moderate this totally free event, open to all! Thanks so much to Maggie & Danya & Eric for donating their time & wisdom!
The next TWC Live! event premieres November 13. Three agents—@frecklywench.bsky.social, Danya Kukafka, and @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social—will discuss how publishing is responding, or not responding, to social, political, and economic changes in America.
TWC Live! Literary Agents on Publishing in a Time of Unrest
TWC Live! returns November 13, and this time literary agents will be expanding on June’s Big Conversation in the magazine: “Publishing in a Time of Unrest.”
www.awpwriter.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
So excited to moderate this totally free event, open to all! Thanks so much to Maggie & Danya & Eric for donating their time & wisdom!
Less than 2 shopping months left to figure out what to tell relatives who ask when the next book is coming out if you don't feel like telling them the truth which, if you're between books, is maybe never.
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Less than 2 shopping months left to figure out what to tell relatives who ask when the next book is coming out if you don't feel like telling them the truth which, if you're between books, is maybe never.
Felt this one in a few places.
Just a lil’ ramble about dated content in books, stories existing for a specific moment, and why that’s perfectly fine. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/ericsmit...
Should Books Be Here for a Good Time, or a Long Time?
Some musings on stories that grow "dated" and why that's actually okay.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Felt this one in a few places.
We were under a FROST ADVISORY last night and I told my wife I bet it's gonna be Mending Wall.
October 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
We were under a FROST ADVISORY last night and I told my wife I bet it's gonna be Mending Wall.
Just wanna be successful enough to shift a paradigm.
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Just wanna be successful enough to shift a paradigm.
Teacher says every time I send a circling back email, I get a circling back email about scheduling my overdue colonoscopy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Teacher says every time I send a circling back email, I get a circling back email about scheduling my overdue colonoscopy.
Academy Gothic on this spooky sale list! Thanks, BLP!
For the last half of October, we're promoting spooky & speculative titles! We can't help but think it's a great time to stock up for the Gothic Lit season we all know and love. 🖤
These titles are on sale for $10 or less, with e-book versions for $5 or less. Shop the sale at buff.ly/QWF7eht.
These titles are on sale for $10 or less, with e-book versions for $5 or less. Shop the sale at buff.ly/QWF7eht.
October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Academy Gothic on this spooky sale list! Thanks, BLP!
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Hi friends! This Wedesday, I'm talking We Lived on the Horizon, Utopia-Dystopias, and who gets to be human with ASU's Worldbuilding Initiative! You can attend in-person if you're local, or online if you're not.
I even have a slide with a guillotine.
asuevents.asu.edu/event/fall-2...
I even have a slide with a guillotine.
asuevents.asu.edu/event/fall-2...
Fall 2025 Worldbuilding Distinguished Lecture with Erika Swyler | ASU Events
Arizona State University welcomes the nationally bestselling author of The Book of Speculation Erika Swyler as a guest in its Fall 2025 Distinguished Worldbuilding Initiative Lecture series. Swyler wi...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hi friends! This Wedesday, I'm talking We Lived on the Horizon, Utopia-Dystopias, and who gets to be human with ASU's Worldbuilding Initiative! You can attend in-person if you're local, or online if you're not.
I even have a slide with a guillotine.
asuevents.asu.edu/event/fall-2...
I even have a slide with a guillotine.
asuevents.asu.edu/event/fall-2...
All the Email We Cannot Read
October 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
All the Email We Cannot Read
Top 5 worst thing about being a writer is when you tell a friend you just finished a book & they think you mean finished writing a book. Like, no, I just read something, but please be proud of me anyway.
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Top 5 worst thing about being a writer is when you tell a friend you just finished a book & they think you mean finished writing a book. Like, no, I just read something, but please be proud of me anyway.
Last night we encountered tofu made from pumpkin seeds called Pum Fu & you guys I cannot get Pum Fu Fighting out of my head.
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Last night we encountered tofu made from pumpkin seeds called Pum Fu & you guys I cannot get Pum Fu Fighting out of my head.
It's such a great conversation, whatever you know or think you know about AI, and it's our gift article so totally free & shareable for all!
I really enjoyed being a part of this panel discussion on AI in the writing classroom. Thank you to the other professors and to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and The Writer's Chronicle for the opportunity!
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
The Big Conversation
Douglas Dechow, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Hannah Grieco, Anna Leahy, and Nora K. Rivera discuss generative AI’s effects on teaching, learning, and creative writing.
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It's such a great conversation, whatever you know or think you know about AI, and it's our gift article so totally free & shareable for all!
October's Writer's Chronicle is here with essays & conversations & excerpts! AI in the creative writing classroom, remedies for envy, the power of scent, speculative nonfiction, remembering Edmund White as a queer mentor, & so much more! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
October's Writer's Chronicle is here with essays & conversations & excerpts! AI in the creative writing classroom, remedies for envy, the power of scent, speculative nonfiction, remembering Edmund White as a queer mentor, & so much more! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
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Last chance to enter to win free books! Celebrate the publications of the 2024 AWP Award winners by entering our giveaway! Just follow us on socials and enter using the link below! Open to US residents only.
AWP Award Series Giveaway
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October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Last chance to enter to win free books! Celebrate the publications of the 2024 AWP Award winners by entering our giveaway! Just follow us on socials and enter using the link below! Open to US residents only.
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Next Tuesday, #SerendipityLit CEO Regina Brooks will be moderating an @awpwriter.bsky.social webinar with Umair Kazi, Jaime Wolf, and @thadmcilroy.bsky.social about the ever-shifting legal landscape surrounding AI and copyright.
Learn more: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
Learn more: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
AWP Member-Only Live Event: Authors’ Rights in the Age of AI
AWP members, you asked for it, and we’re making it happen! Regina Brooks, AWP board member and president of the Association of American Literary Agents, moderates as three invited experts outline the ...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Next Tuesday, #SerendipityLit CEO Regina Brooks will be moderating an @awpwriter.bsky.social webinar with Umair Kazi, Jaime Wolf, and @thadmcilroy.bsky.social about the ever-shifting legal landscape surrounding AI and copyright.
Learn more: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
Learn more: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
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If you subscribe to @awpwriter.bsky.social The Writer's Chronicle, there's a sneak peek of Bitter over Sweet and a prompt from me!
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Bitter Over Sweet
Santa Fe Writers Project
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October 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you subscribe to @awpwriter.bsky.social The Writer's Chronicle, there's a sneak peek of Bitter over Sweet and a prompt from me!
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
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My essay "The Unbearable Privilege of Breathing," written during the heart of COVID-19, is published in the latest Writer's Chronicle as a sneak peak for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social.
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
unMothered, unTongued
University of Georgia Press
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October 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My essay "The Unbearable Privilege of Breathing," written during the heart of COVID-19, is published in the latest Writer's Chronicle as a sneak peak for unMothered, unTongued, newly released from @ugapress.bsky.social.
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
This ain't no disco.
Ain't no country club either.
This is autofiction.
Ain't no country club either.
This is autofiction.
October 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This ain't no disco.
Ain't no country club either.
This is autofiction.
Ain't no country club either.
This is autofiction.