won a thing at a time (aka now) when i really needed a win 🥲

Bright idea: hire our 2024 Sukenick Contest winning co-author of THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD @sophieklahr.bsky.social as your editor, then submit your shined-up manuscript to the Sukenick Contest, OPEN NOW! fc2.org/prizes/

Our Two Annual Innovative Fiction Contests are OPEN~ send us your manuscripts! ( & yes, sorry not sorry for jumping on this particular meme train 😘) fc2.org/prizes/

In which Kazim Ali, final judge of our Doctorow Prize, tells us what he is hungry to read 🎼 Submit now, until November 1st! fc2.org/prizes/#doct...

Some thoughts & books from our 2026 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest Judge @alvinlu.bsky.social ~ Submissions are open until November 1st ~ award is publication and $3,000 ~ learn more: fc2.org/prizes/

Looking for some literary assistance? An editor for 3 poems or a whole manuscript? Office Hours? Submission management? I've got you <3 www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

I'll say a sonnet is a little song to hold a thing that otherwise cannot be held: a lonely thing; a death; a bear. -Tender by Sophie Klahr #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

Congrats to Corey Zeller, co-author with @sophieklahr.bsky.social of our 2022 Sukenick Contest Winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD! Our Contest Submissions are open now! fc2.org/prizes/

Our contests are OPEN until November 1st! Learn more in the thread & submit today! fictioncollective2.submittable.com/submit

Contests open on Friday!

We are big fans of @sophieklahr.bsky.social and one of our former interns worked closely with her. It was life changing. Highly recommend.

If you sign up for my NEWSLETTER ~ you will get some EXCLUSIVE discounts on my summer editorial services! www.sophieklahr.org#/contact/

Today’s poem is selected by Sophie Klahr (@sophieklahr.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Prayer Bones” appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, 2005. Shared here with deep gratitude.

*One day left* to get 50% off poetry by co-author of our 2022 Sukenick Contest winner THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD. Read @sophieklahr.bsky.social's poetry collection from @univnebpress.bsky.social alongside her winning book co-authored with Corey Zeller www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

Here's a summer sonnet - "Summer Job, June" - which won a contest in Washington Square Review: www.washingtonsquarereview.com/sophie-klahr/ This poem appears in my book MEET ME HERE AT DAWN (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social). If you'd like a copy, I'm happy to send you one! Venmo $18 to sophie_klahr !

The @univnebpress.bsky.social is having a Summer Sale til July 31st! If you've been yearning for sonnets and poems of open spaces, you can get my collection TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD for 50% off here with code 6SUMM25 . www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...

Here's "Kairos" in @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, the final poem in my collection MEET ME HERE AT DAWN, from @yesyesbooks.bsky.social. If you'd like a copy of the book, I'm happy to send one to you personally (with gratitude to KMA Sullivan) ⭐ Venmo $18 to sophie_klahr aprweb.org/poems/kairos

Work with THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD co-author @sophieklahr.bsky.social ! Spool through the thread below:

i gave some queer thoughts & excerpts on/of THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD last year - here's that feature again <3 Thx to @fictioncollective2.bsky.social www.uapress.ua.edu/blog/pride-f...

Get in touch if you'd like some caring & careful constructive criticism! Always delighted to read your work <3 www.sophieklahr.org/editorialser...

Announcing our 2026 CONTEST JUDGES! THRILLED to have @kazimali.bsky.social judge the Doctorow Prize, which awards publication & $15,000 to anyone who has published 3 books! @alvinlu.bsky.social will judge the Sukenick Contest, which awards publication & $3,000! Learn more: fc2.org/2026-prize-j...

Support the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice ic4ij.org/get-involved

if you're looking for a residency, I highly recommend Atlantic Center for the Arts! (they're wonderful re: financial support - I attended a residency with Gregory Orr for free in 2012). Fatimah Asghar is leading the poet cohort this fall : atlanticcenterforthearts.org/residencies/...

#PoetryMoment "Tender" by @sophieklahr.bsky.social from Threepenny Review, Fall, 2022

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YA'LL with 3 books previously published (in ANY genre) this is such a great opportunity. The associated cash prize is $15,000 🔥🔥🔥

YES, you read that right, our Sukenick prize is DOUBLING! The contest will open to submissions on August 15 & the judge will be announced this summer! Learn more : fc2.org/sukenick-pri...

'let's fucken go' i whisper to myself as i crack my 4th diet coke of the day

SPREAD THE WORD! A good thing. "Confidential, poet-to-poet support to cover submission fees and help give your poetry book an at-least-a-little-more-fair chance to get in front of publishers. Over $10,000 given to more than 200 poets since March 2021." www.poetrybulletin.com/p/submission...

Snag a signed copy of MEET ME HERE AT DAWN (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social), poems by THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD co-author @sophieklahr.bsky.social ! And/or, get her 2022 Sukenick-contest winning book written w/ Corey Zeller for 30% off w/ discount code AWP: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

a poem from my book MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( @yesyesbooks.bsky.social ) - 🌌 It's my birthday on Saturday & I could use...some cash. Buy a copy of the book from me for $18 (or $20 if you are able to cover the $4 shipping cost) ! 💙 Venmo at sophie_klahr 🌌 limited copies available

o hello friend

sending love to anyone who Mother's Day is difficult for- I get it. Poem originally appeared in Iterant.

from my book MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( @yesyesbooks.bsky.social ), a poem inspired by Carl Phillips. ~ For a copy of your own, send $18 via Venmo (just search my name) & put yr address in the notes <3

Going insane reading this Politico story about Musk's AI servers poisoning the air of a 90% Black community in Memphis followed immediately by this Washington Post story about states lining up their own communities to host the next ones

Stop using AI. We're all going to fucking die and if you want to leave anything behind you better start screaming in your own words

UGH to this world. UGH & sending solidarity to anyone who has lost their grant. 💔 lithub.com/trumps-nea-i...

Grateful to be included in this beautiful anthology from @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social : bookshop.org/p/books/poet...

Looking for support with writing, submissions, artist statements & more? Follow this thread & check out sophieklahr.com/editorialservices ! You can also email me at [email protected]

Do you live in PITTSBURGH? My super bookworm parents are selling the house they've lived in for over 50 years and we have TONS OF FREE BOOKS - DM me & come & get some.

To keep in mind as we roll towards when our annual book prizes open in August 🤩 For those of you feeling like "huh?" - scoop up our new titles like Candace Nunag's A SOLAR FLARE or Patrick Lawler's CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS to get excited about what genre means to us!

Trump is going to sign an executive order aimed at boosting coal mining. This is not just on the wrong side of history; it's the wrong side of geology. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

everyday is Caturday with Squid

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.” “Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

For Poetry Month, use code 6PM25 at checkout for 40% off my book TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD, now through April 30th at @univnebpress.bsky.social : www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/the-backwate...

Me on this finely written book: "New to the coauthors, I was shocked by the prose, a kind of invocation of the lonely memories of cross-country drives. Also captures the still hollow moments of the pandemic years better than anything else I've read."

In celebration of Earth Day, you can get 50% off an ebook version of THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD from now 'til April 30th via @fictioncollective2.bsky.social with code EARTHDAY at checkout: www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366203...

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