reema
@reemarp.bsky.social
🧿 fiction writer. 2024 jennifer weiner fellow (by blue stoop). best of the net finalist, wigleaf top 50 longlist, pushcart nominee. at work on short story collection & novel.📍CHI
www.reemarao.com | IG: reema.rp
**trying to be on here more, but IG is better
www.reemarao.com | IG: reema.rp
**trying to be on here more, but IG is better
Thank you @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and Danielle Lazarin for recognizing my story “Unidentifiable Cells” for this prize! I am in awe and so very grateful!
Happy New Year from Pithead Chapel! Kick off the year by reading incredible writing selected by Danielle Lazarin for the Larry Brown Short Story Award contest issue. Read here: pitheadchapel.com/2025/01/01/v...
@reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
@reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
Volume 14, Issue 1
PHOTO PROVIDED BY TOM RANKIN THE 2024 LARRY BROWN SHORT STORY AWARD ISSUE AWARD WINNER: UNIDENTIFIABLE CELLS BY REEMA RAO SECOND PRIZE: AND ONLY I REMAIN BY MICHAEL PEARSON THIRD PRIZE: A TIME TO C…
pitheadchapel.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and Danielle Lazarin for recognizing my story “Unidentifiable Cells” for this prize! I am in awe and so very grateful!
I am over the moon to share this 💫 I’m in such good company. Can’t wait to share the story in the January issue!
We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2024 Larry Brown Short Story Award! Please join us in congratulating these incredible writers: @reemarp.bsky.social @mbvalente.bsky.social
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
You can read their stories in the forthcoming January issue!
December 14, 2024 at 6:35 PM
I am over the moon to share this 💫 I’m in such good company. Can’t wait to share the story in the January issue!
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I'm done crying over this shit. They want us miserable and helpless. I'm just contrarian enough to refuse to indulge them. I'll be over here making art, making plans and looking after my people.
November 20, 2024 at 1:19 AM
I'm done crying over this shit. They want us miserable and helpless. I'm just contrarian enough to refuse to indulge them. I'll be over here making art, making plans and looking after my people.
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Congrats, @reemarp.bsky.social !! 🐸💙🎉
July 16, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Congrats, @reemarp.bsky.social !! 🐸💙🎉
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"I think about dying a lot these days. But mostly that my crush Sheila might catch me dying. I once heard her tell another teacher that the sensitive boys are her favorite, though I don’t think that means sick boys." @reemarp.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
March 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
"I think about dying a lot these days. But mostly that my crush Sheila might catch me dying. I once heard her tell another teacher that the sensitive boys are her favorite, though I don’t think that means sick boys." @reemarp.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
(Happy writing news abounds) I couldn’t imagine a better home for this one than Witness. Thank you to the editors for believing in the magic 💫
https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/devi-maa/
https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/devi-maa/
Devi Maa By Reema Rao-Patel - Witness Magazine
by Reema Rao-Patel There was no funeral for Devi, no puja for final rites, no pyre. That day, six months ago, crashes into the shores of Sriram’s mind the way Devi’s blood spilled from her little...
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org
October 15, 2023 at 10:55 PM
(Happy writing news abounds) I couldn’t imagine a better home for this one than Witness. Thank you to the editors for believing in the magic 💫
https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/devi-maa/
https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/winter-2023/devi-maa/
Um wow. A second nom for BotN this year, from The Lumiere Review! "First Summer" is one of the first short stories I'd written, and I'm so happy it found its place in the world and now this. Many thanks!!
https://lumierereview.com/nominations
https://lumierereview.com/nominations
Nominations - Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize - The Lumiere Review
The Lumiere Review is the brightest literary magazine around. We are always open to poetry, prose, and art submissions. Read our online issues and interviews.
lumierereview.com
October 15, 2023 at 10:53 PM
Um wow. A second nom for BotN this year, from The Lumiere Review! "First Summer" is one of the first short stories I'd written, and I'm so happy it found its place in the world and now this. Many thanks!!
https://lumierereview.com/nominations
https://lumierereview.com/nominations
Ten personalized rejections means acceptance is coming soon, right? RIGHT? Or is it just many rejections lol.
October 11, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Ten personalized rejections means acceptance is coming soon, right? RIGHT? Or is it just many rejections lol.
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Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)
October 4, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)
An acceptance from Hayden’s Ferry Review!!!! What a dream 🤩 & for one of my favorite stories written to date (we can pick favorite children right?)
September 27, 2023 at 10:35 PM
An acceptance from Hayden’s Ferry Review!!!! What a dream 🤩 & for one of my favorite stories written to date (we can pick favorite children right?)
so excited to join the roots.wounds.word community as a fellow in dawnie walton’s workshop this january 🤗 looking forward to a week of feeling held and healed.
September 27, 2023 at 6:46 AM
so excited to join the roots.wounds.word community as a fellow in dawnie walton’s workshop this january 🤗 looking forward to a week of feeling held and healed.
Immense gratitude to the @flashfrog.bsky.social team for this nomination!! 🎉
Huge congrats to @reemarp.bsky.social and @jjlofflin.bsky.social for these much deserved Best of the Net nominations! 🐸✨
September 13, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Immense gratitude to the @flashfrog.bsky.social team for this nomination!! 🎉
📣 Chicago writers: Dipika’s myth and magic class/workshop was such an incredible one. It’s where I wrote one of my favorite stories to date, soon to be published. Highly recommend!
New classes starting very soon (one in person, one online) from two of StoryStudio Chicago's most beloved instructors,
Sarah Terez Rosenblum and Dipika Mukherjee. If you sign up for one or both, you're totally allowed to buy yourself a back-to-school outfit.
Sarah Terez Rosenblum and Dipika Mukherjee. If you sign up for one or both, you're totally allowed to buy yourself a back-to-school outfit.
September 11, 2023 at 12:07 PM
📣 Chicago writers: Dipika’s myth and magic class/workshop was such an incredible one. It’s where I wrote one of my favorite stories to date, soon to be published. Highly recommend!
I'm 3wks postpartum. I wrote this when trying for our baby & channeled all my fears into it. And I just have to acknowledge the painful truth of these words I wrote: "You cried for months and so did she, which made you cry some more." https://t.co/QcSOqgJDqG
HER TWINN™
An eerie mommy story by Reema Rao-Patel
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September 10, 2023 at 10:31 PM
I'm 3wks postpartum. I wrote this when trying for our baby & channeled all my fears into it. And I just have to acknowledge the painful truth of these words I wrote: "You cried for months and so did she, which made you cry some more." https://t.co/QcSOqgJDqG
Between my raging postpartum hormones and the influx of pub rejections and acceptances this week, I am a MESS.
August 30, 2023 at 6:52 PM
Between my raging postpartum hormones and the influx of pub rejections and acceptances this week, I am a MESS.
‼️TIN HOUSE AUTUMN‼️ *falls to the floor*
August 30, 2023 at 6:45 PM
‼️TIN HOUSE AUTUMN‼️ *falls to the floor*
An acceptance from The Los Angeles Review ✨ for a flash piece that is so deeply raw and personal to me (though what writing isn’t?). Can’t wait to share soon.
August 29, 2023 at 10:16 AM
An acceptance from The Los Angeles Review ✨ for a flash piece that is so deeply raw and personal to me (though what writing isn’t?). Can’t wait to share soon.