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
People pretending Last Christmas isn't one of the 10 greatest songs of the last 50 years is one of the weirdest holiday traditions, but hey, whatever gets you in the spirit.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
People pretending Last Christmas isn't one of the 10 greatest songs of the last 50 years is one of the weirdest holiday traditions, but hey, whatever gets you in the spirit.
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Delighted my book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press) is featured, along with a writing prompt I was invited to put together. I'm grateful to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and AWP.
The days are shorter, which means it’s the perfect time to cozy up with the December issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE! Curl up and read about marketing poetry, the present and future of narrative medicine, how humor works in prose, and more!
December Homepage
December 2025 Writer's Chronicle issue
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December 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Delighted my book, Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press) is featured, along with a writing prompt I was invited to put together. I'm grateful to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and AWP.
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How are poetry collections marketed by @triohousepress.org, BOA Editions, & The University Press oh SHSU? Find out in this gift article from The AWP Writer’s Chronicle, featuring Associate Editor @natashakane.bsky.social!
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December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How are poetry collections marketed by @triohousepress.org, BOA Editions, & The University Press oh SHSU? Find out in this gift article from The AWP Writer’s Chronicle, featuring Associate Editor @natashakane.bsky.social!
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/TWC/2025...
Those opening 2 seconds when you don't know if you're getting Mr. Mister's Kyrie or The Who's You Better You Bet. Pure terror.
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Those opening 2 seconds when you don't know if you're getting Mr. Mister's Kyrie or The Who's You Better You Bet. Pure terror.
Wife was on GoodReads recently & said one reader of Blind Man's Bluff reported that although my memoir was not the book about Cold War submarines they were expecting, my book was still okay.
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Wife was on GoodReads recently & said one reader of Blind Man's Bluff reported that although my memoir was not the book about Cold War submarines they were expecting, my book was still okay.
Want to hear a scary story? At Thanksgiving, a friend's sister made a dish that was boiled carrots topped with corn flakes.
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Want to hear a scary story? At Thanksgiving, a friend's sister made a dish that was boiled carrots topped with corn flakes.
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"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
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Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
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Imagining the Truth
Nicole Walker expands the boundaries of creative nonfiction when facts can’t tell the whole story.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Lord, the relief and joy of realizing you're going to write the book you most want to write, regardless of its commercial prospects.
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Lord, the relief and joy of realizing you're going to write the book you most want to write, regardless of its commercial prospects.
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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.
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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.