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: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

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! open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

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!

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!). open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

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

@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!

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

Look!!!! Thanks again @triohousepress.org @krisbigalk.bsky.social, I'm so excited 💕

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!

Win a copy of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by @debkossmann.bsky.social! Enter here before May 22: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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.

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!

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...

Some new work by @lsevick.bsky.social, author of The Bamboo Wife! 💛❤️

@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...

@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...

@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...

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!💛🥶💛

On Inauguration Day, @ajfields.bsky.social & @evalangston.bsky.social spoke w National Book Award winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha about Palestinian writing, language, & genocide. Listen here: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Love Is An Action open.substack.com/pub/literary...

Snowball enjoying a sunbeam.

I am so excited for you all to read this book — read this short interview I did with the author! If you or a loved one has ever struggled with letting go of possessions, cleaning out a relative’s home, or recasting family narratives, you’ll love it.

In the past three days I have made: Caramel corn, sugar cookies, chocolate covered pretzel rods, Swedish meringue cookies, fudge, chocolate caramels, lemon bars, a spiral ham, a turkey, fondant potatoes, cauliflower curry, two egg bakes, Greek salad, blueberry muffins, and beet salad.

I’m making chocolate caramels, using a recipe from 1933 that my grandma got from her friend Hattie, and passed down through my aunt. Holiday food connects my grandma to my kids, who never met her. Those are the things I think about as I prepare for Christmas. 🎄❤️

As of today, I have a new chapbook of poetry out in the world. Let me introduce you to Cold Is Cold Is Cold! Order here: bottlecap.press/products/cold

We are so excited to unveil the cover for Martheaus Perkins’ debut poetry collection, The Grace of Black Mothers, described by John Keene as “drawing a complex and bountiful Black world in the face of anti-Blackness…” Pre-order your copy today at triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Humberto Ak'abal

@heideerdrich.bsky.social is reading from her new release, Verb Animate, this Saturday, Dec 14, 7 pm, at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis — we hope to see you there!

We are so excited to reveal the cover of one of our July 2025 books, Voice / Poems by @susanap.bsky.social (Susan Azar Porterfield) featuring cover art by Jeffrey Scherer! Preorder your copy today ✨ triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Trio House Press is a small nonprofit press. Please support our mission of publishing literature that promotes empathy & understanding. Whether you can give $10 or $100, your gift is valued & needed. With gratitude, Kris & Natasha (or buy a book from us - that helps too!) www.givemn.org/story/Trio

Free shipping on titles by @lenakt.bsky.social @christiangullette.bsky.social @susanlleary.bsky.social @lsevick.bsky.social @izineh.bsky.social and many more — plus buy two get one free! Only this weekend at triohousepress.myshopify.com #supportindiepresses

the glacial kettle pond i walk to every day is getting iced over + i am absolutely not ready for this + will i ever come to terms with WI winters: a very short photo essay + existential crisis 🥶

Had a married parent tell me this weekend “I could never parent alone like you.” Please don’t say that to single moms because yes you could. We do it because we have to. And so would you because you do whatever you have to for your kids

Hey all - Here’s a Starter Pack of literary people, stores, and orgs in Minnesota. Please tell us who we missed and we will add them! go.bsky.app/9CtADwX

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Mug of the day, day # 2: keep or toss?

Relatedly, everyone should know about the @bombmag.bsky.social list of residencies they put out seasonally! bombmagazine.org/discover/fel...

I am keeper of the post-MFA tumblr (crowdsourced) which has tons of info on post-MFA fellowships, BUT it also has info on residencies—with a whole section of shorter residencies for caregivers! Pass it on! #writers #writingcommunity post-mfa.tumblr.com/residencies

If you are a copyeditor, I hope something excessively kind or wonderful happens to you today ✨

⏰ Midwesterners, it’s TIME: time to prepare the breakfast casserole & place it lovingly in the fridge so it’s ready to pop in the oven the morning after your relatives arrive.

We are so pleased to announce the acquisition of Glassful of Prayer by Anthony Ceballos — coming in October 2025 from @triohousepress.bsky.social

@krisbigalk.bsky.social hello Kris - you're on my editors & readers list. bsky.app/profile/laco... and this pinned post gives you 3 starter packs and 4 lists - poets, writers, litmags (400+) and editors bsky.app/profile/laco...

A forever favorite from Stanley Kunitz 💙