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PR and PM operations systems for books, publishers, SMBs and nonprofits. Run by @hintsofheather.bsky.social This feed highlights client work, industry news, and birds.
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Happy to have a new governor AND to be on my way to Santa Fe New Mexico for this 11/7 reading at Entropy Gallery. Reading Art’s poems on the plane I discovered his family name, Bontempi: aha! 🍄 #fungi #poetry #santafe
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Did I mention that I wrote this book about you? You haunt the town of Elsewhere. The oracles help you find alternate paths back here. And today (Jan 31) is the last day to get 25% off and free shipping on pre-orders! @blacklawrence.bsky.social

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January 31, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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A Grain of Sand in Lambeth has a cover! Many thanks to Caroline Dickens and the folks at UN Press for the design. Official release is December 2nd, which I am happy to share with the wonderful Jami Macarty’s The Long Now Conditions Permit, whose cover I also love. Preorder links below in comments.
July 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Big beautiful news, friends: I won the Fence Modern Poets prize, and my book will be out in the winter. It’s called The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor, and it contains lots of collage-poem pieces, like the one here.

I am so delighted and honored and moved I keep swooning mid-step.
March 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Here for community & to mumble abt lit & to find new people to read. Not big on self-promo, but also: Art, sanitoria, the angels of history in a state of decline, Kabbalah and bad sex, fake memoirs, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, diasporic longing, inherited trauma & the dangers of commemoration...
November 16, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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It's time ⏰ to pre-order my third collection of poems, tic tic tic--a book that brings hope & resilience in these chaotic and frightening times. Thank you so much for supporting my writing, it means so much. 🙏😘❤️ #poetry #newbook #Resist #hope #resilience #PreOrderNow
June 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Writers and literary organizations urge the Portland Book Festival “to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.”
An Open Letter to the Portland Book Festival
We, the undersigned writers & literary organizations, many of whom have been a part of the Literary Arts ecosystem in some way—whether the Portland Book Festival, as finalists or winners of the…
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July 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I’m delighted to have a new interview up at Speaking of Marvels today! Huge thank you to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for everything!

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Daniel Lassell
“I’m fascinated with what memory entails and implies — it’s the memories of events we’ve experienced in our lives that comprise our character, and how we interact with the world.” The E…
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March 26, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Obviously happy that the bird team won.
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I still can't believe this news. L'Air du Temps was reviewed in Publishers Weekly!

"Josefowicz provides plenty of rich period detail through the voice of her spunky heroine.. Fiends for 1980s nostalgia ought to seek this out."

www.publishersweekly.com/9781646034215
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L’Air Du Temps by Diane Josefowicz
Josefowicz (Ready, Set, Go) blends family drama with a crime story in her breezy if unbalanced latest. Zinnia Zompa, the novel’s...
www.publishersweekly.com
March 15, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Congrats, Poets of the NBA Poetry long list! John Lee Clark @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social Annelyse Gelman, José Olivarez, Craig Santos Perez, Paisley Rekdal, Brandon Som, Charif Shanahan, Evie Shockley & Monica Youn #NBAawards #poetry @nationalbook.bsky.social
September 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM
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Having just come out of a great conversation with Oliver de la Paz about his new book The Diaspora Sonnets, I want to encourage everyone to read this great piece by Kimberly Alidio on his book, and for someone to send that man an invite code for this place.
What Home Is Isn’t That by Kimberly Alidio | Poetry Foundation
In The Diaspora Sonnets, Oliver de la Paz explores immigration in personal and linguistically patterned lyrics.
www.poetryfoundation.org
July 28, 2023 at 1:29 AM
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With apologies to those who follows me on multiple platforms, here's the 4th (5th?) post of my cover reveal for my story collection. So damn happy! 3.19.24 Propeller Books.

Signed pre-orders from my fave local indie: www.jmichaelsbooks.com/pages/books/... #authors #writingcommunity #coverreveal
September 19, 2023 at 6:10 PM
THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN, out this week from Oregon State University Press. Walk with Andrea Carlisle into an old age that is not to be feared, reviled, or silenced, but instead embraced with curiosity and wonder. osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/there-w....
August 29, 2023 at 11:53 PM
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No agent? No published book?

Our editors can’t wait to hear from you!

Our next 📚book submissions period for nonfiction nature writing will take place Sept 2–3!🍃

Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
Book Submissions - Tin House
OVERVIEW: Three times per year, Tin House offers a two-day submission period for writers to submit their work. Eligible writers must not currently have an agent, and must not have previously published...
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August 28, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Birds are the maddest creatures
A hummingbird’s wings can beat 70 times a second, as can its rage
August 29, 2023 at 1:29 AM