Congratulations to alum @giano.bsky.social, whose BookEnds novel AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) charges into the world today!

Congratulations to the amazing BookEnds cohort Eight! We can't wait to see your books in the world, @michaelfynan.bsky.social @julesdonne.bsky.social Jeanette Jouili Maddie Oatman Mahajoy Laufer Tom Pyun Joanna Anderson @laylaschlack.bsky.social Molly Turner Amy Purcell and Max Mellas!

Welcome to our new cohort! We are thrilled to introduce the Nines, @horrencusimano, Michaela Anchan, Nicholas Johnson, Cime Bruce, Nina Smilow, @JennamaFerg, Devan Kreisberg, Anna Mandelbaum, Marion Wyce, Niki Singh, Anne Zimmerman, and Abby Latour. Can’t wait to dive into revision with you soon!

Thrilled to announce the forthcoming short story collection by @nationalbook.bsky.social Award nominee, longtime BookEnds mentor, and @stonybrooku.bsky.social Creative Writing faculty @karenebender.bsky.social! Preorder through the link in our bio, and look for a BookEnds bookclub with Karen soon!

Love and gratitude to our co-founding director @susanmerrell.bsky.social, who will be stepping down from BookEnds in 2026. Read more about Susie's path in her essay "Holding the Novel," published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Link in our bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

We are thrilled that alumni Giano Cromley’s BookEnds novel American Mythology is available for preorder now! Pub date July 15, 2025, look for a bookclub event in early autumn! Preorder link in bio. @giano.bsky.social @susanmerrell.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Fellows, mentors, and alumni! We are thrilled to welcome @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social as our guest speaker on revision at our virtual retreat on Saturday, January 18. Invitations and links in your email and on Slack. See you there!

Applications are now closed, and we have the delightful task of continuing to read the thoughtful work that's been submitted for the 2025-26 BookEnds cohort! Thank you for trusting us with your work. Learn more about our acclaimed novel revision program through the link in our bio.

Two slots and less than forty-eight hours to go before our applications close for the 2025-26 cohort for BookEnds, @stonybrooku.bsky.social's acclaimed novel revision program! Learn more and apply through the link in our bio.

Only two days left to submit your application to the critically acclaimed @stonybrooku.bsky.social novel revision program BookEnds! Learn more and apply through our website at the link in our bio. We can't wait to read your work! @susanmerrell.bsky.social @megwolitzer.bsky.social

There are only a few application slots left for our 2025-26 fellowship! Learn more about our acclaimed novel revision program and apply through the link in our bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

The BookEnds Team reminds you to keep writing. Our applications close Dec. 4 or when we receive fifty applications, and there are only a few submission spots left. We look forward to reading your work.

Fellow and mentor Daisy Florin, whose BookEnds novel MY LAST INNOCENT YEAR (@henryholt, 2023) was @nytimes Editors' Choice: "My BookEnds years gave me exactly what I needed to get my novel across the finish line: smart readers, a supportive community, and a brilliant mentor." Apply now, link in bio!

We've received more than half of our applications in two weeks! Applications close Dec. 4 or once we receive 50 submissions. Time is running out, apply now to our singular novel revision program. Learn more and apply through the links in our bio! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Inaugural cohort member Alison Fairbrother's BookEnds novel THE CATCH (2022, Penguin Random House) was named a @nytimes.com Editors’ Choice. Applications are open now until 12/4 or once we receive 50 submissions. Link in our bio! @stonybrooku.bsky.social @susanmerrell.bsky.social

Applications are open now until December 4, or when we receive fifty submissions! Think BookEnds is right for you? Check out our virtual Open House through the link in our bio. We look forward to reading your books! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Such a lovely Open House yesterday! Please check out the recording at the link in our bio. And don't wait to apply - we close Dec 4 or when we've received 50 applications, and slots are filling fast. Be in touch with questions! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Think the BookEnds novel revision program might be right for you? Join us today @ 4 pm ET for a virtual Open House with program co-founding directors @susanmerrell.bsky.social Merrell and Meg Wolitzer, with program mentors, current fellows, and alums! Register, link in bio! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Our program works! But don't take our word for it - 2022 Fellow Giano Cromley's BookEnds novel AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (Doubleday) comes out next year! Reg @ link in bio, our Open House next Monday 10/21. Spplications open now! @stonybrooku.bsky.social @susanmerrell.bsky.social

Application season is here, and we can’t wait to read your books! Think BookEnds might be right for you? Register at our virtual open house next Monday 10/21–link in bio! Apply soon—we close 12/4 or once we receive 50 applications!

"[Mentor] Rachel [Pastan] helped me turn my draft manuscript into a novel with narrative drive and agency." Jennifer Yeh's BookEnds novel is represented by Eloy Bleifuss Prados at Neon Literary. Our program works! Subs open 10/15, join our Open House 10/21! Links in bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Congrats to longtime BookEnds mentor @MatthewKlam, whose short story "Hi Daddy" was published in @newyorker @nyerfiction this week! Think BookEnds is right for you? Applications open 10/15! Join us for our virtual Open House on 10/21 for more info. Registration link in bio! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

From alum and mentor Vanessa Cuti, author of the BookEnds novel The Tip Line. Applications for the 2025-26 cohort open October 15! Want to learn more about our singular novel revision program? Join us for our virtual Open House on Monday, 10/21. Registration link in bio!

Congratulations to BookEnds alum Rachael Warecki, whose work-in-progress, "Souls on Board," was recently included in Black Spring Press's new CrimeBits anthology, judged by Lee Child! @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Applications for BookEnds open in two weeks! Join us for an Open House to learn more about our novel revision program and community on October 21. Registration link in bio! We can't wait to read your books.

Interested in applying to BookEnds? Join us Monday, 10/21, 4 pm ET for a virtual Open House, with directors @susanmerrell.bsky.social & Meg Wolitzer plus mentors, students, and alums! Meet & greet & ask us questions! We can't wait to read your novel. Link in bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

"Of course, Helen had to go! How had I not seen it?" Over at the BookEnds blog, read 2024 Fellow Caitlin O'Neil's reflections on cutting characters from her novel during her work with program co-director Meg Wolitzer. Link in bio!

Over at the BookEnds novel revision program blog, great news about forthcoming novels from our Fellows and much much more! Link in bio.

Congrats to BookEnds alumni Caitlin Quinn, whose horror story “They Slice Meat on the Right” was released on TALES TO TERRIFY’s podcast! Link in bio.

Two weeks from tonight! Join us Sept. 11, 7-8 pm EST for the BookEnds BookClub, ft. PEARCE OYSTERS Zibby Books) program alum Joselyn Takacs, in convo with her mentor and program director @megwolitzer! Link in bio.

Congrats to our 2024 Fellows! We can't wait to see your novels in the world, Jeannie Tseng, Emily Barasch, Sam Corradetti, Sanja Jagesic, Caitlin O'Neil, Erin Fahy, Eddy Ozoma, Goldberry Long, Caitlin Quinn, Liza Jones, Eliza Amon, and Hannah Thaggard!

We are beyond excited for the publication of BookEnds 2022 Fellow Joselyn Takacs' novel PEARCE OYSTERS (Zibby Books)! Preorder signed copies with the link in our bio. Bookclub ft. Joselyn with mentor and program co-director Meg Wolitzer on September 11. Mark your calendars!

Tonight! Join us for the BookEnds BookClub, ft. mentor Eve Gleichman and their co-author Laura Blackett, in convo with program co-founding director Meg Wolitzer. Preorder signed copies of TRUST & SAFETY from @booksaremagicbk. Link in bio!

Happy Pub Day to mentor Eve Gleichman and their co-author Laura Blackett! Join us for the BookEnds BookClub tomorrow night with program co-founding director Meg Wolitzer, and order Trust & Safety today! Link in bio.

One week from tonight! Join us for the BookEnds BookClub, ft. mentor Eve Gleichman and their co-author Laura Blackett, in convo with program co-founding director Meg Wolitzer. Preorder signed copies of TRUST & SAFETY from Books Are Magic. Link in bio!

Welcome to our full 2025 cohort! Molly Turner, Thom Pyun, Layla Schlack, Amy Purcell, Max Mellas, Tochukwu Okafor, Jeanette Jouili, Joanna Anderson, Jules Donne @julesdonne.bsky.social, Mahajoy Laufer, Maddie Oatman, and Michael Fynan. So glad you're here!

Program mentor Eve Gleichman's novel TRUST & SAFETY, co-authored with Laura Blackett, is out two weeks from today! Pre-order and join us for the BookEnds BookClub with Eve and Laura in conversation with co-founding director Meg Wolitzer on Wed 5/22! Link in bio.

Current fellow Caitlin Quinn's short story “Asbury Park: October, 1976” was just published at All Worlds Wayfarer! Check it out: www.allworldswayfarer.com/story3/

Rachel León interviewed her former Bookends Pod Mate Nora Decter for her substack—Pub Cheerleaders—to mark the publication of Decter’s latest novel, WHAT’S NOT MINE. Link in bio.

With the announcement of our new cohort, alum Suzanne LaFetra Collier reflects on serving as one of the BookEnds manuscript screeners. Link in bio!

One week from tonight! Join us on youtube for the BookEnds BookClub ft. 2021 Fellow and Stony Brook Creative Writing MFA alum Nora Decter's WHAT'S NOT MINE (ECW Press) in conversation with her mentor @susanmerrell.bsky.social! Info in bio. @stonybrooku.bsky.social

Congratulations to 2021 BookEnds Fellow and Stonybrook Creative Writing MFA Alum Nora Decter, on pub day with her BookEnds novel WHAT'S NOT MINE (ECW Press)! Order through the book club link in our bio, and be sure to join us next Wed 4/10 for Nora in conversation with her mentor @susanmerrell!

Introducing our new cohort, BookEnds Fellowship 2024-25! Welcome, Molly Turner, Thom Pyun, Layla Schlack, Amy Purcell, Max Mellas, Tochukwu Okafor, Jeanette Jouili, Joanna Anderson, Mahajoy Laufer, Maddie Oatman, and @michaelfynan.bsky.social!

Hearty congratulations to incoming 2025 Fellow Tochukwu Okafor and 2022 Fellow Marco Kaye, who have been named a finalist and to the shortlist for the 2024 Disquiet Prize for Fiction!

Please join us for the BookEnds BookClub 2024, 7-8 pm EST on Wednesdays: - Wed 4/10 ft. Nora Decter & @susanmerrell.bsky.social - Wed 5/22 ft. Eve Gleichman with co-author Laura Blackett & Meg Wolitzer - Wed 9/11 ft. Joselyn Takacs & Meg Wolitzer Preorder and youtube links in bio!

Alums, a reminder! This Wednesday 💥

Congratulations, Meg! Our co-founding director of Meg Wolitzer's novel The Interestings is being adapted for the stage, with a score by Tony nominee Sara Bareilles and a book by Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl!

Hooray! Joselyn Takacs' BookEnds novel PEARCE OYSTERS (Zibby Books) is now available for preorder! Joselyn will be in conversation with her BookEnds mentor Meg Wolitzer in July at our Book Club - preorder link for signed copies coming soon!

We're thrilled that BookEnds mentor Eve Gleichman's novel Trust & Safety (Dutton Books) is available for preorder now! Link coming soon to preorder signed copies in advance of our book club, ft. Eve with coauthor Laura Blackett, in conversation with BookEnds co-founder and -director Meg Wolitzer,

Beyond delighted to announce that Nora Decter's BookEnds novel WHAT'S NOT MINE (ECW Press) is available for pre-order now! ow.ly/Ghvh50Qjava