i’m lying in the evening sun rain on my hammock finishing up @janellebassett.bsky.social’s short story collection and babes it’s divine. supremely clever and skillfully nuanced. like if andrew porter was a hilarious woman with religious trauma. so yeah, i recommend.

Recently, the Schooner's Graduate Research Assistant Manasseh Awuni spoke with @janellebassett.bsky.social about her collection Thanks for This Riot, winner of the 2023 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. Read the interview on our blog: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

@mollyandrearyan.bsky.social has excellent instincts and asks the best questions! Split Lip fiction peeps @maureenlangloss.bsky.social @annablabs.bsky.social @janellebassett.bsky.social & co = absolute dream team. So sharp, generous, kind, patient!

Join us at the AWP Bookfair in Los Angeles next week for author signings with three Raz/Shumaker Book Prize winners: Lory Bedikian, @janellebassett.bsky.social, and @jaredharel.bsky.social. We'll be at Booth #466!

"Bassett excels at depicting the uneven burden of intimacy borne by women. It strains her characters’ relationships with their children, their partners, and themselves." Thankful for this review of THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by Mike Nees in Full Stop. www.full-stop.net/2025/02/05/r...

My first publication!!! A short story out with Split Lip today @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0125...

Art & words will help us get through 2025. We are honored & grateful to present our beautiful JANUARY ISSUE: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR WORDS: @zoebflavin.bsky.social @sashabrown.bsky.social @jillkitchen.bsky.social & Ciara Alfaro ART: Daisuke Takakura PLUS: Jessika Bouvier interviews Shze-Hui Tjoa

embodiment

"I can summon my anger the way newborns can fall asleep––anywhere, at once, and deeply." Thanks for This Riot, Janelle Bassett #SundaySentence @janellebassett.bsky.social

sweetheart, it’s your turn to tell the evil clown puppet what you want for Christmas

Such a fun surprise to see Thanks for This Riot on Chicago Review of Books’ Best of 2024 list. ✨✨ chireviewofbooks.com/2024/12/17/t...

The holiday season brings the gift of our DECEMBER ISSUE!! 💝 A big thank you to our contributors🥰: WORDS: Vanessa Blakeslee, Nini Berndt, Brooke Randel, & Kaitlyn Airy ART: Vónbjørt Vang PLUS: Jamey Baumgardt interviews Richard Mirabella Start reading here: https://buff.ly/2Z36noR

the hill to die on

i promise you have have far more in common with every trans person than you do with the corporate or government elite

anatomy lessons in the desert

stages of grief

gussied up to go to the truck stop like a true ozarker

the kind of girl who gets carried away

Let's make a "notable small press books of 2024" list! Any genre, 2024 release, small/university/indie press. I will start with two I loved Nicole Haroutunian's CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press); @janellebassett.bsky.social's THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (@univnebpress.bsky.social) Please add yours & share!

more fun in the new world

My book, THANKS FOR THIS RIOT, is a collection of 15 stories which are arranged by type of riot: external riots (threats and violence), internal riots (secrets and lies) and laugh riots (growing and trying). If sad/funny is your salty/sweet, you can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/than...

there's a weird lull post book release, when you feel like: did this even happen? anyway, if you're interested in short stories about sad people doing not great things & trying to be happy, consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: tinyurl.com/2tcjb6cr (Please share this, if you don't mind 💙) #booksky

I channeled my post-election sad/anxious energy into a giant holiday Gift Guide for writers and readers! Maybe there's something here you want www.maureenlangloss.com/maureens-gia...

waning fertility

Please help us welcome our gorgeous new 💫 NOVEMBER ISSUE 💫 https://buff.ly/2Z36noR Sending LOVE & THANKS to our contributors 💖 WORDS: C. Russell Price, @christinajcooke.bsky.social , Victoria Hood & Thomas Kearnes ART: Zhuo Xiong PLUS: @alhs.bsky.social reviews Sarah Ghazal Ali’s THEOPHANIES

I guess I'll do a little intro? I'm a 7th-gen Ozarker who writes stories, works in a library, makes digital collages, has 2 kids and a long-term sweetheart. My story collection THANKS FOR THIS RIOT came out in Sept & I edit fiction at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. + I'm bi, cold, anxious & confused.

Heyo, logging on for the first time in a year. My book THANKS FOR THIS RIOT came out in September. Here is a chat @chrisdennis.bsky.social and I had about the book, featuring sneaky Christianity, familial love and fit throwing! www.jezebel.com/janelle-bass...

Our NOVEMBER ISSUE is finally here! WORDS by @lesliepwriter.bsky.social M. Ezra Zhang, Rachel Girty, & Michael Todd Cohen ART by Kadazia Allen-Perry PLUS Madeleine Bazil reviews Aria Aber & Anna Rollins reviews Anna Gazmarian splitlipthemag.com

Book mail! Congrats @raniqualee.bsky.social

ICYMI: Carly Alaimo’s “Describe Your Most Recent Episode, Ctd.” is one of the best hermit crab stories we’ve received in recent memory, infusing an intake form with palpable rage, trauma, and a yearning to do better. @splitlipthemag.bsky.social

Humble brag: my pants match my cat, I’m so lucky

We're SO excited to bring you our stunning OCTOBER ISSUE!! 🧡 WORDS by Eliza Gilbert, Carly Alaimo, Pepper Cunningham, & Jennifer Battisti 🧡ART by Yixuan Wu 🧡PLUS Genevieve Hartman interviews Justine Chan splitlipthemag.com

Happy birthday to this little book that went further than I could ever have dreamed

Very much related to this bit from Edan Lepucki's newsletter and thought some of you might, too. ("The Baby on The Fire Escape" by @jcfphillips.bsky.social is a GREAT book on this topic)

The 1 thread I saved from Twit: Something I've been thinking about is flash not as a set form or simple word count max, but a philosophy of craft. When I'm writing flash I don't allow myself the luxury of sprawl. When I'm writing longer, it's easy to give in to the urge to let it all hang out.

ICYMI: We loved Moises Delgado’s “The moon is a white corn tortilla…” on sight! Just look at that title! Doesn’t it make you want to dig in? @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/fiction/0923...

Demons HATE fresh air

From the Prairie Schooner newsletter. Love the shout-out to @smokelong.bsky.social 🩷🩷

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Hello SEPTEMBER ISSUE!! ✨ Check out all this magic ✨ WORDS by Emily Costa, Moisés Delgado, Elizabeth Koster & Stephanie Kaylor ART by Michael Young PLUS our own Maureen Langloss interviews Kate Doyle & Daniel Garcia reviews Taneum Bambrick buff.ly/2Z36noR

Join us in congratulating our 💥 Best of the Net 2024💥 nominees!! This work blew us away! buff.ly/3P29Ks9

Did you hear that @janellebassett.bsky.social just won Prairie Schooner's Raz-Shumaker Book Prize????? Her book THANKS FOR THE RIOT will be published with University of Nebraska Press next year! Check out this interview with her from before she was famous!!

"She was not the kind of person to go quietly, so I wanted to make a little noise in her honor." In our ongoing interview series, SLM intern AJ Jolish talks with fiction editor @janellebassett.bsky.social about childhood, superpowers, and more: buff.ly/3KRRRee

Words! What’ll they do next?

“Joan observes me, like always, to see if I am the version of her mama that talks and smiles and really hears or the far-away version who falls into puddle trances and only weakly nods in response to questions.” So glad I stumbled onto this.

How about I use my bluesky to tell you what different trash heaps resemble AND ONLY THAT

https://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/janelle-bassett I’ll post something stupid soon but first, here’s my latest pub