LOUISVILLE!!! Have you registered for this yet?! ROSS GAY! TENTH ANNIVERSARY! GRATITUDE! byway-books.com/events?fbcli...

👋 from a teensy tiny wv visit

HAPPY FKA TWIGS NEW ALBUM DAY ✨ It’s a ripe time to revisit this poem I crafted after her last album for NEON DOOR.

🇫🇷 French word of the day: éberluer = to dumbfound

glamping update he lives here now

what writer named a group of vultures feeding on a carcass a “wake,” because I love it

best gift received this year

HAPPY NEW YEAR or, THANK GOD IT’S FINALLY 2025 🪩

2 hours deep at the drivers license office & the camaraderie in this line could top Larry-David-sharing-water-at-the-Georgia-polls

yes I’ve always been good at sawing down trees & serving closed eyed lewkz

Brief hiatus but I’m baaaaack here I guess

In celebration of Sarabande’s ✨30 Anniversary✨, we are thrilled silly to be partnering with MISSION CREEK to present a special LIVE episode of LIVE WIRE RADIO! Learn more and purchase tickets at the link in our bio! @simonshieh.bsky.social

GALLEYS OF @whitneycollins.bsky.social’s RICKY ARE HERE!! Believe me when I say this book is hilarious, wacky, and BRILLIANT. If you're a reviewer who would like a copy, message me! (Out from @sarabandebooks.bsky.social on 6/25!)

Never leave thy book in the direct path of sunlight lest it be reclaimed.

how your email finds me:

Oh, the Humanities!

✨CALLING ALL POETS!✨ The Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Hanif Abdurraqib will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

✨ATTENTION FICTION WRITERS!✨ The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Lauren Groff will select one winning manuscript for publication by Sarabande Books. Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

✨Calling all essayists! ✨The inaugural Sarabande Prize in the Essay is accepting manuscript submissions through February 15! Learn more and submit at the link in our bio!

Yes, I’m still here, and yes, I’m mostly just duplicating @sarabandebooks.bsky.social content, but do you or do you not want to know about 👏👏👏 this 👏incredible👏lineup👏of👏opportunities?!?! 👏👏👏

Merry christmas from me and this lil cutie 🌈

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“Books before billions”! You all get it. 💛🌈 THANK YOU!!

Books are important. Art is important. Culture is important. I live by this, & every member of our small (& mighty! team lives by this. Dear ones, if you, too, share these values, I hope you'll consider supporting @sarabandebooks.bsky.social this #Giving Tuesday!

“They were trying to evacuate from the north to the south, when they were stopped at a checkpoint with a lot of others. Mosab was ordered to put his son down and then the army grabbed him, along with a lot of other men, 200, his wife said. His wife has not heard from him since.”

YOU ALL!!!

This book. Just wow.

this week

Next Wednesday, 10/25, the KAC will graciously host a webinar to showcase the work of all of the grant recipients. I’ll be reading and talking a bit about my work and creative process. I hope you’ll join us! 10am. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This year has offered an abundance of surprises, among them, this exciting, thrilling, bubbly news: I’ve been awarded an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council for my poetry collection-in-progress. I am beside myself with gratitude —to the KAC, to the panelists, to the NEA…

these gorgeous galleys are about to hit mailboxes! (feat. views from my @sarabandebooks.bsky.social reading corner)

Ahem ahem! 👏👏👏

Listening to @joannaenglert.bsky.social talk up Bluesky during a social media presentation at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social so I had to put it on Bluesky.

Thank you @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @thenation.com for shouting out @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and our fellow independent nonprofit presses. There's a reason we dedicate ourselves to publishing the work that we put out, even when the conglomerates don't rightly recognize the value.

This is so fascinating. “Literary fiction” has certainly carried a varied history of meaning. And like anything purporting mild success, the market has been able to co-opt and redefine that term. No matter the label, important, non-commercial literature continues to be born, and *read*,…

Sarabande proudly presents “A Reading and Conversation with Sarabande Anthology Poets on Writing & Addiction” as a featured mainstage event at #AWP24. If you are attending #AWP24, we hope you’ll consider attending this important conversation.

Happy Fat Bear Week to those who celebrate 🥲

*UPDATE*: We’ll be set up after 1:00 PM on Sunday! Due to Friday’s flooding and flight cancellations, our schedules have changed, but we’re still coming to sling your favorite books from 1:00-6:00! Come and see us! @kristenmiller.bsky.social @joannaenglert.bsky.social

@sarabandebooks.bsky.social poets are here! @karismaprice.bsky.social @sjane.bsky.social @simonshieh.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @petermishler.bsky.social @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social …& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social @danikaaaaaah.bsky.social & moi

🔴 COMING SOON: 10/24/23 🔴 Pre-order your copy today at the link in our bio.

I saw Green Day last night so here are some jobs I had in high school which required borrowing my parents’ old Ford Explorer & blasting my inherited copy of “Dookie” every commute: -Dairy Kastle, gonna call this *soft serve specialist* -Kroger, cashier -Piano teacher & accompanist

Writer friends! Who will be here? I want to see you! Come say hi to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social !

Whether or not you’re from Louisville, go watch WRESTLERS on Netflix. So many talented fellow Louisvillians & friends worked on this docuseries & really, they did an *incredible* job. (Also coming soon out of Louisville: WILDCAT with Ethan Hawke!!! So many talented friends at work!!!) Go Lou. 🖤

Just can’t wait for Moira McCavana’s ELECTRODOMÉSTICOS (coming February 2024)? Then check out McCavana’s newest story in the current issue of THE PARIS REVIEW (out now)! Visit the link in our bio to pre-order McCavana’s debut collection. ⚡️

Finally, and finally, and finally: what I’ll be (appropriately) busy with until the Mortal Kombat 1 drop🤘🤠🤘

Oh hi, it’s me, another Kentuckian waking up, turning on the radio, and finding a reason to shout “Fuck Daniel Cameron” during my morning commute.

This. Book! The first time I read this manuscript, it was in one quick sitting. I sped through it. I got goosebumps. I gasped. I dog- eared every page. And then I immediately read it again.