Kris Bigalk
@krisbigalk.bsky.social
Executive Editor, @TrioHousePress.bsky.social; Board member, AWP. Lover of literary poetry and prose. Opinions are my own.
Contest season is about to start! Read some cover letter tips and check out my other posts on submitting on my Substack, Letters From the Editor.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Contest season is about to start! Read some cover letter tips and check out my other posts on submitting on my Substack, Letters From the Editor.
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Creating strong connections with other writers is a great way to feel supported and find new opportunities. Read our executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s tips on how to enlarge your online and in person literary circle:
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Networking Tips for Writers
Introvert, Ambivert, or Extrovert -- Anyone Can Widen Their Network
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September 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Creating strong connections with other writers is a great way to feel supported and find new opportunities. Read our executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s tips on how to enlarge your online and in person literary circle:
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Ever wonder if you need an agent to submit to small presses? Here’s a small press editor’s perspective — read and please subscribe to Letters From the Editor!
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September 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Ever wonder if you need an agent to submit to small presses? Here’s a small press editor’s perspective — read and please subscribe to Letters From the Editor!
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Come to Normandale this fall and take my poetry writing class on campus M/W 12-1:20, starting August 25! I’d love to see you there!
July 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Come to Normandale this fall and take my poetry writing class on campus M/W 12-1:20, starting August 25! I’d love to see you there!
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Ever wonder how to organize and format a poetry manuscript? Check out executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s latest Letter From the Editor: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...
How to Order and Organize a Poetry Collection Manuscript
Tips, Resources, and Encouragement
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July 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ever wonder how to organize and format a poetry manuscript? Check out executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s latest Letter From the Editor: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...
Hey poets -- who among us hasn't grumbled about submission fees and response times when we are submitting our manuscripts? This Letter from the Editor is for you! Please read, share, and subscribe (free option available!).
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July 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey poets -- who among us hasn't grumbled about submission fees and response times when we are submitting our manuscripts? This Letter from the Editor is for you! Please read, share, and subscribe (free option available!).
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Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us!
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@krisbigalk.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social @hawona.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social @raymondluczak.com @josinamm.bsky.social @slipfast.bsky.social @sagirahs.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us!
@krisbigalk.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social @hawona.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social @raymondluczak.com @josinamm.bsky.social @slipfast.bsky.social @sagirahs.bsky.social
@krisbigalk.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social @hawona.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social @raymondluczak.com @josinamm.bsky.social @slipfast.bsky.social @sagirahs.bsky.social
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@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Trio Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry: Mai-Linh Hong (@FleursduMai.bsky.social), Continental Drift!
May 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Trio Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry: Mai-Linh Hong (@FleursduMai.bsky.social), Continental Drift!
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Send us your manuscript during our June Open Reading, 6/1-6/30! Free submissions for those who earn 50K or less; $25 fee for those who earn more. Read full guidelines here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit
May 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Send us your manuscript during our June Open Reading, 6/1-6/30! Free submissions for those who earn 50K or less; $25 fee for those who earn more. Read full guidelines here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit
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Look!!!! Thanks again @triohousepress.org @krisbigalk.bsky.social, I'm so excited 💕
May 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Look!!!! Thanks again @triohousepress.org @krisbigalk.bsky.social, I'm so excited 💕
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BIG EFFING NEWS, Y’ALL!!! 📣📚
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
May 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
BIG EFFING NEWS, Y’ALL!!! 📣📚
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org!!! 🎉
Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂
This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social feels fated. 🧩💫
More soon!
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Win a copy of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by @debkossmann.bsky.social! Enter here before May 22: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
May 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Win a copy of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by @debkossmann.bsky.social! Enter here before May 22: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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Congratulations to Trio House Press cover designer Joel Wyant Coggins, on his cover design for Dressing the Bear by @susanlleary.bsky.social: a finalist for the 2025 da Vinci Eye Award!
March 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Congratulations to Trio House Press cover designer Joel Wyant Coggins, on his cover design for Dressing the Bear by @susanlleary.bsky.social: a finalist for the 2025 da Vinci Eye Award!
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Our nonfiction writing workshop with Victoria Blanco is quickly approaching! Twin City writers who are interested can find the details here: coffeehousepress.org/products/the...
March 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our nonfiction writing workshop with Victoria Blanco is quickly approaching! Twin City writers who are interested can find the details here: coffeehousepress.org/products/the...
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Some new work by @lsevick.bsky.social, author of The Bamboo Wife! 💛❤️
Many thanks to Shenandoah’s Nadeen Kharputly for her series “Small Town Dispatches” that features writers who live and work in small towns. In addition to my contribution, you can read my friend Ann Fisher-Wirth’s piece on Oxford, MS!
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Small Town Dispatches: Leona Sevick – The Peak
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February 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some new work by @lsevick.bsky.social, author of The Bamboo Wife! 💛❤️
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@Triohousepress.bsky.social is thrilled to release the cover of the essay collection Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss and a Home in Time by @snajmi.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy here: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
February 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@Triohousepress.bsky.social is thrilled to release the cover of the essay collection Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss and a Home in Time by @snajmi.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy here: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...
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@izineh.bsky.social
“…all poems are basically political, and it's a matter of legibility. The very medium we use: language. Language is political. It's often the (capital T, H, E) tool of institutional power.”
Read the interview here:
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“…all poems are basically political, and it's a matter of legibility. The very medium we use: language. Language is political. It's often the (capital T, H, E) tool of institutional power.”
Read the interview here:
open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
February 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@izineh.bsky.social
“…all poems are basically political, and it's a matter of legibility. The very medium we use: language. Language is political. It's often the (capital T, H, E) tool of institutional power.”
Read the interview here:
open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
“…all poems are basically political, and it's a matter of legibility. The very medium we use: language. Language is political. It's often the (capital T, H, E) tool of institutional power.”
Read the interview here:
open.substack.com/pub/triohous...
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@christiangullette.bsky.social’s audiobook edition of Coachella Elegy is now available! Only $3.95, and only on Audible! The first audiobook published by @triohousepress.bsky.social
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February 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
@christiangullette.bsky.social’s audiobook edition of Coachella Elegy is now available! Only $3.95, and only on Audible! The first audiobook published by @triohousepress.bsky.social
www.audible.com/pd/B0DR9BH8X...
www.audible.com/pd/B0DR9BH8X...
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In promoting the poetry book of my late wife @saaramyrene.bsky.social, published a few days after her death by @umasspress.bsky.social, I've struggled to get reviews of the book in the world. If you review #poetry or know someone who does and are interested, let me know, and I'll get you a copy
Chamber after Chamber
Chamber after Chamber is about what fractures, fixes, and refills the hearts of two girls as they grow into women. A loose narrative in three sections, the p...
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February 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In promoting the poetry book of my late wife @saaramyrene.bsky.social, published a few days after her death by @umasspress.bsky.social, I've struggled to get reviews of the book in the world. If you review #poetry or know someone who does and are interested, let me know, and I'll get you a copy
Looking forward to diving in to @brianbaumgart.bsky.social’s chapbook!💛🥶💛
January 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Looking forward to diving in to @brianbaumgart.bsky.social’s chapbook!💛🥶💛