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Amy Stuber
@amystuber.com
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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
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Foggy morning drive
Landscape w green and yellow grass in the foreground and rangy plants behind and trees in fog behind them. Mainly greens with orange and yellow flowers here and there
October 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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
screenshot of Bookshop site with purple background, multiple bright-covered book covers listed here https://bookshop.org/lists/short-story-standouts?page=1
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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this picture of my older child - long ago - popped up on my phone, and i love it so
Elementary-aged girl with light-colored hair in bun, striped black and white tip and striped colorful leggings, pink socks, sitting and reading. book in an orange chair next to a light wood table with a plant on it
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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
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Little thing: if you are a person who likes notebooks, this is a very good one (bit of a notebook splurge). Also Wonder Fair in Lawrence, KS, has all the good notebooks and pens, and they ship anywhere and quickly.
Tan spiral note notebook by maruman with two pens sitting on top of it
July 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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56 today. Family, walks, food, worked on the novel, talked, read, laughed, tried for a little to forget the world.
Teenager with shoulder length curly hair wearing red Kramer books t-shirt sitting next to middle aged woman with blonde-ish wavy hair in light blue button up - both smiling, against backdrop of stone wall
July 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I’ve never felt any patriotism. Loyal mainly to the idea of taking care of the earth and each other.
Country road at dusk- tall rows of green corn on the right - blue and pink sky, gravel road, grackles on a telephone wire
July 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Younger kid’s 17th birthday, tiny unbothered empty stone chapel on campus. Sitting on the floor while he plays an old beautiful organ, forgetting the whole world for a few
Stained glass windows - three - arching at the top, vibrant blues and purples. Reflecting on the light tile Floor
June 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Came across this writhing pack of snakes today.
May 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I’m happy to be doing this Story Center Speaker Series event (in conjunction w Midcontinent Public Library and Rainy Day Books)!

If you’re in the Kansas City area, I hope you’ll consider attending! May 14 at 7 pm. Register here www.mymcpl.org/events/10616...
Flyer for story center speaker series for event for sad grownups - by amy stuber - link to register for event is here https://www.mymcpl.org/events/106161/story-center-speaker-series-amy-stuber flyer is black background photo of Amy stuber, book cover which is horizontal blue purple and green strips on an off white background. Flyer has yellow and white lettering w event details - may 14 at 7 pm
April 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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I promise to stop talking about this today (there are obviously far bigger things happening) but I did want to call out that these books are all from small/university presses. In a lit world where it’s really hard to break a collection out, I’m grateful for the attention to small-press books!
Screenshot of Pen Robert w Bingham prize finalist list announcement from here https://pen.org/announcing-the-2025-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/
April 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Free speech protections fully invalidated. This is heartbreaking and terrifying
Pic of Columbia Spectator post with title “Louisiana judge rules deportation case against Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ‘24 can proceed
April 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This book - so many iterations and rejections and years of giving up and starting again - and now I’m so happy to see it on this finalist list. (Biggest thank you Stillhouse Press and Bingham judges 💚).
Photo of book covers of five finalists for the Pen Robert W Bingham prize for debut short story collection - lists here https://pen.org/announcing-the-2025-pen-america-literary-awards-finalists/
April 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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When your kid is getting his braces off and this is the non-work to-do list
Spiral notebook with one note in all caps that says “buy corn”
April 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Wait, a cake picnic? I would have flown to San Francisco had I known.
San Francisco legion of honor in background with rows of white table clothes tables in front of it, each tables covered with cakes of all shapes, sizers, and colors - Probably hundreds of visible cakes
March 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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How had I not read this before? So very good
The cover of Rebecca Lee’s book Bobcat - off white cover with pen and ink drawing of a bobcat with the tail feathers of a bird sticking out of its mouth).
March 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A mere 33 years into my writing career, I published a book. It's such a thrill to see it here. (much ❤️ Stillhouse Press! Big thanks @penamerica.bsky.social & judges@leahhampton.bsky.social Sarah Shun-lien Bynum @wendywimmer.bsky.social. (Happy to be here w my friend @janellebassett.bsky.social!)
Prize announcement for the longlist of the 2025 Pen/Robert W Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection including 9 book covers https://pen.org/announcing-the-2025-pen-america-literary-awards-longlists/
March 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Republicans in Congress somehow not bothered by the fact that under a dictatorship they too lose their power.
“If anyone is being detained or removed based on the administration’s assertion that it can do so without judicial review or due process,” said Jamal Greene, a law professor at Columbia, “the president is asserting dictatorial power and ‘constitutional crisis’ doesn’t capture the gravity of the situation.”
March 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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You either believe in free speech, or you do not. And Chuck Schumer does not.
I’m curious how you think about how protests should be addressed, considering the context of what you just said. The Trump administration just announced it’s pulling $400 million in funding from Columbia University, giving the reason as “relentless violence, intimidation and antisemitic harassment.” I’m wondering what you make of that. Columbia did not do enough. I criticized them. And believe me, I believe in free speech, I believe in the right to protest, as you read in my book. I started my career protesting the Vietnam War. I say to some people, “If I were your age, I’d be protesting something or other.” So I get that, and I love it, and it’s about America. But when it shades over to violence and antisemitism, the colleges had to do something, and a lot of them didn’t do enough. They shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. Columbia among them. So what did they do? They took away $400 million. I’m trying to find out what they took away. Are they taking away money from cancer research, or Alzheimer’s? What is the $400 million? It could be hurting all students. Students who go there who have nothing to do with the protest, students who might have protested peacefully, or Jewish students who were victims of some of those protests. So I think we have to see. My worry is that this $400 million was just done in typical Trump fashion: indiscriminately, without looking at its effect.
March 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It’s the little things right now. This magnolia tree’s branches outside my window
Blond wood piano with plants and books on it and dark-wood trimmed window outside of which are the branches of a small magnolia tree in bloom
March 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Distractions: long walk to the cemetery, an unexpected wishing tree + younger kid’s new records
Large tree trunk with tags of many bright and pastel colors ha going from it and a sign that says “wishing tree.” Each tag has a person’s wish written on it. A series of records on a table William Onyeabar, wire, eno and fripp, the feelies
March 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Went out to the wetlands tonight to remind myself of the bigger world
March 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Archaeological finds
Red Sony discman and black Sony Walkman on wooden table
March 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Good morning to my little
Didion shelf
Bookshelf with a row of Joan Didion titles -including Book of Common Prayer and Salvador, two of my favorites
March 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I keep wondering when/if neglect or reckless endangerment cases will happen. Interesting/related study:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Screenshot with Excerpt from linked article - excerpt is: Most courts (7 of 9) considered vaccine refusal to constitute neglect. In the 4 cases decided in jurisdictions that permitted religious exemptions, courts either found that vaccine refusal did not constitute neglect or considered it neglect only in the absence of a sincere religious objection to vaccination. Conclusions. Some states have a legal precedent for considering parental vaccine refusal as medical neglect, but this is based on a small number of cases. Each state should clarify whether, under its laws, vaccine refusal constitutes medical neglect.
March 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM