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James Tate Hill
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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
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October's Writer's Chronicle is here with essays & conversations & excerpts! AI in the creative writing classroom, remedies for envy, the power of scent, speculative nonfiction, remembering Edmund White as a queer mentor, & so much more! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
cover of October 2025 Writer's Chronicle, which shows a professor with a computer screen face smiling and shrugging while standing in front of a board that reads “Error: 404” and lecturing to students with computer screen faces
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Happy 10th bday to my debut novel! Coincidentally Black Lawrence Press is having a Back-to-School sale, perfect for an academic satire that's also a murder mystery & disability narrative. Get 40% off w/ code BACKTOSCHOOL40 until 9/15! blacklawrencepress.com/books/academ...
book cover of Academy Gothic by James Tate Hill. The top features a headstone that reads Parshall College Established 1889. The lower border is blades of green grass . A gold starburst sticker on the lower right says winner of the Nilsen Prize for a first novel.
September 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Excited to bring you June's Writer's Chronicle! Convo w/ agents & authors about publishing in a time of unrest; a guide to teaching genre fiction; Lori Ostlund & Susan Muaddi Darraj on writing in a terrible world; baseball & prompts & excerpts & much more! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
cover of June's Writer's Chronicle shows 5 small dragons in an oversized birdbath in front of a city skyline
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM