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Iain Grinbergs
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Writer, painter, professor.
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The Thing (1982) is a Thanksgiving movie.

Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Well, this is a first—my flash piece “Bakewell Tarts” was nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2026. Thank you to @hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! Congrats to the other nominees!

#bestsmallfictions #flashfiction #flash #literature #creativewriting #writer #writing
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today, inspired by some of my students’ podcasts on mental health, I ran. It was my first run in months—and it very much felt like it.

They’re all getting zeros.

#mentalhealth #exercise #running #teaching #teacher #professor #educator
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Pleased to have “Batboy,” an unsettling short story told from two POVs, published by Wilderness House. Not for the easily upset.

#fiction #story #shortstory #narrative #literature #writing #writer

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Wilderness House Literary Review
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November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thrilled that @hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social published “Bakewell Tarts,” my flash story about a failing relationship (among other things).

#fiction #flashfiction #literature #literary
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I kind of laugh at the idea of a "reliable narrator". Have you met people?!
September 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I’m thrilled to have my haunted poem “A Letter to the Body after Francis Bacon” in the latest issue of Rogue Agent!

#poem #poetry #literature #philosophy #francisbacon

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Iain Grinbergs — RogueAgent
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September 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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A moth, a mirror, and a wand… RA 126 is here! Ft work by Lalaie Ameeriar, Kathleen Barta, Juliana Briggs, @luannecastle.bsky.social @mfpd.bsky.social @g-bergs.bsky.social Merie Kirby, Jane Lunin Perel, Tala Wilder, Nancy Holt Wright, and Yan Zhang // rogueagentjournal.com/issue126
Issue 126 — RogueAgent
Welcome!
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September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thrilled to have another poem out in the world. I wrote it as a tribute to Suzuki, whose teachings continue to be a great source of comfort.

#poetry #poem #literature #Zen #Buddhism #ShunryuSuzuki

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Iain Grinbergs - Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England) - The Dewdrop
Poet Iain Grinbergs draws our attention to the sacred details around us in "Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)".
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August 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm ecstatic over having two letter poems—one to Jack and one to Karen of Will & Grace—in South Florida Poetry Journal.

Will & Grace was an important show for me while growing up, although I didn't realize the full extent until later.

#poetry #poems #Will&Grace

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SOUTH FLORIDA POETRY JOURNAL
SoFloPoJo South Florida Poetry Journal is an online literary journal established in 2016 that publishes poetry, flash fiction, essays, interviews, art, photography, and reviews. There are no submissio...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The difficulty with writing anything about anything is that any given thing, on closer inspection, appears to be connected to every thing, and now you’ve gone from writing about anything to writing about everything 😅
July 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The most millennial book I’ve ever read—that is to say, I loved it.

#fiction #story #ottessamoshfegh #moshfegh #MyYearofRestandRelaxation #millennial
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’m thrilled to have my 50-word story published in, well, 50-Word Stories! I love the challenge of writing super short stories. Give it a read! It’s only 50 words!

#50wordstory #50wordstories #microfiction #micro #fiction #story #disability #accessibility

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IAIN GRINBERGS: After Feeding the Ducks
I wheel Grandpa to the men’s restroom, but there’s no disabled stall. He struggles into a non-accessible one, clutching the doorframe, the toilet roll holder, reaching. I try to help, but he waves …
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July 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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The evil that men do lives after them
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Pleased to have my letter poem to Thom Yorke published by The Daily Drunk. What a perfect home for it! #poem #poetry #music #radiohead #thomyorke

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Letter to Thom Yorke by Iain Grinbergs
I saw your face in the rain-washed window Of a toy shop at 7pm—your eye a star With its own symmetry. I wanted your talent: I wanted to swell like a synth in love, to unravel In minor keys, to colo…
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June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I have an odd haiku now out in dadakuku. Give it a read! If you don’t, the crows will inform me, and I will come for you in the night. #poem #poetry #haiku #dada

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speaking in captchablake’s tyger owns dotsstuffed possum — Iain Grinbergs
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June 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So pleased that FlashFlood published my story. Give it a read! Or don’t. That’s also fine. #flashfiction #fiction #story
FlashFlood: 'Violets' by Iain Grinbergs #nffd2025
'Violets' by Iain Grinbergs
My fiancée leaps out of the armchair and raps on the living room window. “Hey!” she shouts. I say, “What now?”  “Look,” she says.  A Pomeranian’s in the violets by our mailbox. It cocks its leg. She raps on the glass again. The dog slinks into the nearby azaleas. “Whose damn dog is that?” she says.  “The corner house’s.” “Go talk to them,” she says. “I just planted those.”  I open the front door and step outside. The dog pops its head out, almost grinning, and then yaps. “Get!” I shout, grabbing the broom and shaking it, my socks soaked from the grass. Across the road, a black-haired girl on a pink bike giggles. The iridescent streamers flutter.  Then I realize: I’m becoming Mr. Walker, the old army vet from childhood who hated even the mailman. After his kids died, he got worse. I once saw him slash my dad’s tires. I never told my parents. I didn’t want to. They were too busy yelling, breaking things. I put the broom back and go inside.  “It’s in my violets again,” my fiancée says.  I tell her to stop as I sit down.  “No,” she says. “My daddy would’ve kicked that dog into Georgia.” I turn on the TV. A masked man’s robbing a bank. Gunshots. A woman screams and leaps out of her flats.  “You always avoid things.” “I don’t.” “Like the other day,” she says. “It was just a question. For the future.”  I get back up and grab my keys before getting in the car. My fiancée yells something out of the door and points as I reverse the car, flying backwards, feeling something give.    --- Iain Grinbergs (he/they) is a professor of English. Recently, Bottlecap Press published Vanity Twist, his first poetry collection. 'Violets' was first published by Furtive Dalliance Literary Review in 2018.  
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June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
June 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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[Exit King.]
June 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Sunbeam + our stinky shoes. Rea’s dream combo.

#cats #catlife #tortie
May 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?”

I haven’t teared up from a novel in a long time. This is a book that will stick with me. What a masterpiece.

#novel #literature #englishliterature #ishiguro #masterpiece
May 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM