Clare Beams
@clarebeams.bsky.social
writer (novels THE GARDEN, THE ILLNESS LESSON, and story collection WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED); faculty at the Randolph MFA and the University of Pittsburgh MFA
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oh shit i had totally forgotten what it felt like for something good to happen
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
oh shit i had totally forgotten what it felt like for something good to happen
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Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
October 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Ladies in Hating @alexandravasti.bsky.social
The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré
Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social
The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social
The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré
Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social
The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Ladies in Hating @alexandravasti.bsky.social
The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré
Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social
The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social
The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré
Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social
The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social
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Books I loved in waning daylight:
🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social
🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson
📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social
🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar
🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social
🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson
📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social
🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar
August 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Books I loved in waning daylight:
🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social
🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson
📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social
🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar
🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social
🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson
📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social
🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar
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So excited I can finally share that First Love is a @lambdaliterary.org award finalist in bisexual nonfiction!!!
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...
Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards
This year marks 37 years
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July 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
So excited I can finally share that First Love is a @lambdaliterary.org award finalist in bisexual nonfiction!!!
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From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕
“To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...”
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“To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...”
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Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone
I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,
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July 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕
“To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...”
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Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
“To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...”
@clarebeams.bsky.social
Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
Thrilled to have a story in the beautiful new Moon issue of @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social , one of my forever favorites, in wonderful company!
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Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone
I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,
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July 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Thrilled to have a story in the beautiful new Moon issue of @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social , one of my forever favorites, in wonderful company!
ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
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"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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May 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Pittsburgh! I get to talk to the brilliant Rachel Khong as part of the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival on Saturday! Free (though pre-registrations get priority), 11:30am at the Carnegie Library-- join us?
Headliner: Rachel Khong In conversation with Clare Beams
Rachel Khong will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books!
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May 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Pittsburgh! I get to talk to the brilliant Rachel Khong as part of the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival on Saturday! Free (though pre-registrations get priority), 11:30am at the Carnegie Library-- join us?
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I woke up depressed by the NEA news but also angry. They’re stifling the best that has been thought and done (in the sciences as well as the arts) to push a shallow alienated world of slop and brainrot and I will never stop hating them for that
May 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I woke up depressed by the NEA news but also angry. They’re stifling the best that has been thought and done (in the sciences as well as the arts) to push a shallow alienated world of slop and brainrot and I will never stop hating them for that
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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How High We Go in the Dark doesn't have mushroom zombies or ruthless leaders of militias, but it still has lots of super sad times + bonus robot dog, telepathic pig, futuristic alternative funerary practices, space travel, and lots of 80s music. #booksky
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Obsessed with 'The Last of Us' Season 2? Try these 8 post-apocalyptic, zombie books
Post-apocalyptic survival, bioweapons and touching bonds at the end of the world. These adrenaline-packed books read like "The Last of Us."
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April 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
How High We Go in the Dark doesn't have mushroom zombies or ruthless leaders of militias, but it still has lots of super sad times + bonus robot dog, telepathic pig, futuristic alternative funerary practices, space travel, and lots of 80s music. #booksky
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Loved finding THE GARDEN here, in excellent company!
Books by Maggie Nelson, Julia Alvarez, Claire Lombardo, and more are among the 25 titles out in paperback this April.
Maggie Nelson! Julia Alvarez! Claire Lombardo! 25 new books out in paperback this April.
April is here, the fourth (and, for Eliot, the cruelest) month in a year that has felt like many cruel years already, dense with the weight of so much political tumult. But it may also be a month o…
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March 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Loved finding THE GARDEN here, in excellent company!
SO excited to get to do a group paperback launch with superstars @crystalhanak.bsky.social , @iamlisako.bsky.social , and Xochitl Gonzalez on April 15 at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn!
www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...
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On the Joys of Literary Community
Black-owned independent bookstore and wine bar in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
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March 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
SO excited to get to do a group paperback launch with superstars @crystalhanak.bsky.social , @iamlisako.bsky.social , and Xochitl Gonzalez on April 15 at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn!
www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...
www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...
THE GARDEN is out in paperback (cheaper! lighter!) on April 8th! Hearing from this novel's readers over the past year has meant the absolute world to me.
March 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
THE GARDEN is out in paperback (cheaper! lighter!) on April 8th! Hearing from this novel's readers over the past year has meant the absolute world to me.
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I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva!
"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm
Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm
Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
March 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva!
"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm
Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm
Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
A recent bright spot: I have a short story about the surrealities of parenthood in the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net . Very grateful to Rita Bullwinkel and everyone at McSweeney's for giving "Playspace" such a beautiful home.
March 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A recent bright spot: I have a short story about the surrealities of parenthood in the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net . Very grateful to Rita Bullwinkel and everyone at McSweeney's for giving "Playspace" such a beautiful home.
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Practice imagining that the world could be otherwise.
Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:
Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
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March 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Practice imagining that the world could be otherwise.
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So, here it is: the revealing of The Cover.
🎪✨ Step right up for a playfully macabre and thrilling adventure! Join in for a ride in #OneOfUs by Dan Chaon, where orphaned twins escape their villainous uncle and find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival. This tale of suspense and wonder arrives on 9/23/25: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
So, here it is: the revealing of The Cover.
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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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ACIP—the external CDC advisory committee for US vaccine policy—is not meeting next week, as scheduled. This is a big deal; Americans rely on up-to-date information about eff. and safety of vaccines to make evidence-based decisions.
We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…
We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…
February 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
ACIP—the external CDC advisory committee for US vaccine policy—is not meeting next week, as scheduled. This is a big deal; Americans rely on up-to-date information about eff. and safety of vaccines to make evidence-based decisions.
We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…
We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…
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Omg, y'all.
PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT
@writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.
Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!!
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@writesloud.bsky.social Hannah Grieco's captivating debut short story collection introduces us to women hungry to know who they are outside the expectations of others.
Pre-order one of the most anticipated books of the summer!!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
February 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Omg, y'all.
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i wrote a new newsletter. it's about shifting political realities, the imperative of collective meaning-making, and NPC smathewss.substack.com/p/how-it-is?...
how it is
trying to write a few true and simple things about the present time
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February 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
i wrote a new newsletter. it's about shifting political realities, the imperative of collective meaning-making, and NPC smathewss.substack.com/p/how-it-is?...
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I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far
February 14, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far