Excited and honored to be the 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology! ✨

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Spent my morning drinking coffee, reading the @andrewporter01.bsky.social story in this year's BASS, and writing the intro for then publishing this @livesinpages.bsky.social story. Pretty great start to the day! (Now I gotta spend the rest of it prepping for tomorrow's first day of the semester...)

Best of 2025: Andrew Porter

a beautiful and haunting story about friendship, art, and the muddle of one's life in their 20s. This story, I think, serves as a kind of coda to @andrewporter01.bsky.social collection "The Disappeared." The story here is available to read online thru 12/21 www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

Absolutely love this story by @andrewporter01.bsky.social @cincinnatireview.bsky.social 👇🏽

Excited to have a new story (“Vigil”) in the latest issue of @cincinnatireview.bsky.social! It’s free on their site through Sunday! www.cincinnatireview.com/articles/vig...

So thrilled to see my novel The Imagined Life selected as one of Esquire’s “Best Books of 2025!” www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Thank you so much, @ericscottryon.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Anju Sharma and the other finalists! This was a delight to judge!

Extremely honored to be longlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize! And especially honored to be included among this stunning group of authors!  www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/20...

A huge thank you to The New Yorker for including The Imagined Life among The Best Books of 2025! ❤️

Honored to see The Imagined Life on NPR’s “Books We Love “ list for 2025! And grateful to NPR book critic Michael Schaub for these very kind words about the novel!

My little big Texas book tour for I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES is done. Austin/San Antonio - yay! Big thanks to @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social and Bookwoman, @ramoreeves.bsky.social for organizing it all, and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for reading with me. 💜 🐻 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

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San Antonio! I’ll be reading with the amazing @sherrieflick.bsky.social at @thetwigbookshop.bsky.social on Saturday (6 PM)! We’d love to see you!

Thank you so much, @willmusgrove.bsky.social! 🙂🙏

Sundays are for reading books by @andrewporter01.bsky.social 💙

Last day to submit!! ⬇️

Excited to be on the @texasbookfest.bsky.social panel “Excavating the Past: Road Trips to Self Discovery” with author Annie Hartnett on Saturday, November 8 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM in the Capitol Extension Room E2.012 (moderated by Susannah Auby). Book signing to follow at 12:15 PM.

Extremely honored and thrilled to see The Imagined Life longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction!!!

It’s truly a dream to have my story “Angelo” selected by Celeste Ng for this year’s edition of Best American Short Stories! Special thanks to Nicole Lamy and @marinerbooks.bsky.social and to Laila Lalami and Ladette Randolph for selecting it for @pshares.bsky.social (where it first appeared)!

Had such a lovely time last night at the UK launch event for The Imagined Life at Brick Lane Bookshop in London! 🇬🇧 Huge thanks to author Curtis Garner for the amazing questions and to Millie Guille, Europa Editions and @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social for hosting! ❤️

Thank you so much, @drmcgowan.bsky.social! 🙂

Thank you so much for the kind words, @nicktankard.bsky.social! I just visited both of those bookstores in the past couple days myself! 🙂

TONIGHT! 🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life Brick Lane Bookshop | £6 Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing. buff.ly/WZOMbpF

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6 Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing. buff.ly/WZOMbpF

London! 🇬🇧 This is happening THURSDAY at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social! The UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life! This Thus (Oct 9) I’ll be reading and talking with author Curtis Garner at 7 PM. If you’re in London, I would love to see you! ❤️ @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6 Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing. buff.ly/WZOMbpF

London 🇬🇧 • Oct 9 • Come see us!

🚀 Book Launch: The Imagined Life Oct 9 | Brick Lane Bookshop | £6 Celebrate the release of The Imagined Life with award-winning author @andrewporter01.bsky.social, joined by Curtis Garner, author of Isaac. Expect a powerful evening of readings, conversation, Q&A, and signing. buff.ly/WZOMbpF

London! 🇬🇧 Next Thursday (Oct 9)

Honored and excited to be the Selecting Eddie the @wigleaf.bsky.social Too 50 2026!

Huge honor to hear @andrewporter01.bsky.social read from his book THE IMAGINED LIFE (my favorite book of the year) and @mdbell79.bsky.social to moderate. And got to see my AZ writer friends! Great evening! 🙏

London! So excited for this event on Oct 9! 👇

Wonderful to attend a reading by @andrewporter01.bsky.social and @sallywenmao.bsky.social moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social at Changing Hands in Tempe yesterday. And it was great to see you @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social @karakahnke.bsky.social 💜

Final reminder. @andrewporter01.bsky.social, Sally Wen Mao, and @mdbell79.bsky.social Tonight at Changing Hands, Tempe. It is free. And it is going to be fabulous. Stop by if you can!

Tempe/Phoenix area! So exited for this even tomorrow! 😍

You can join @mdbell79.bsky.social @andrewporter01.bsky.social and Sally Wen Mao for a free reading tomorrow at Changing Hands Bookstore Tempe at 7pm. As my dad used to say, be there or be square! Save your spot at www.changinghands.com/event/septem...

Thank you so much, @mdbell79.bsky.social!

Thank you, @mdbell79.bsky.social ! 🙏🙂

Absolutely thrilled with this incredibly generous and insightful review of The Imagined Life in Rain Taxi by reviewer and writer @jmfletcher15.bsky.social. I’ve been a longtime fan of the incisive reviews in Rain Taxi and am so honored to get such a kind and lovely review in their pages!

A big thank you to J.D. Isip for interviewing me about The Imagined life for the September issue of the Blue Mountain Review! You can read the full interview here: t.co/OUSmdDHpK6

I started the run listening to @andrewporter01.bsky.social’s fantastic novel THE IMAGINED LIFE, until a passage about Fleetwood Mac made me put on “Gold Dust Woman,” which made me want to hear Hole’s cover of it, which meant eventually listening to Live Though This in the final miles. Pretty great!

On October 9th at @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social "The Imagined Life" by @andrewporter01.bsky.social, talking with Curtis Garner.

London! 🇬🇧 So excited to be coming to the UK in October for the UK Book Launch for the British edition of The Imagined Life (Europa Editions)! On October 9, I’ll be reading & talking with author Curtis Garner at Brick Lane Bookshop in London. 7 PM. Details here: bricklanebookshop.org/product/book...

Arizona friends, I’ll be reading with Sally Wen Mao as part of Virginia G. Piper Center Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at Arizona State University in Tempe. September 25, 2025 at 7 PM at Changing Hands Bookstore, followed by a conversation moderated by @mdbell79.bsky.social!

One of my favorite mail days of the year! Congratulations to @loriostlund.bsky.social, Madeline Ffitch, Zack Salih, and others included in these pages! I was especially happy to see Jane Kalu’s story “Sickled” from America Short Fiction included, one of my favorites of the past year!

The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter: ‘In the imagined life, so much is different’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/09/the-... via @alifeinbooks.bsky.social

New on my blog - The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter: ‘In the imagined life, so much is different’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/09/the-... #BookSky