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Andrew Porter

@andrewporter01.bsky.social
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Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com

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Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Three weeks until pub day for ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY. I'm thrilled to share this blurb from Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social, whose work both as a professor and a writer has been an inspiration to me. Preorders available wherever books are sold.
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Had such a blast at the Six Bridges Book Festival, and it was so surreal to have the actor Judge Reinhold show up out of the blue to surprise me with a Fast Times at Ridgemont High t-shirt! Still can’t believe that happened!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking forward to be in conversation about my novel The Imagined life with author Jeff Condran at the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock, Arkansas on Sept 30. The event starts at 6 PM in the Ron Robinson Theater! I’d you’re in the Little Rock area, I’d love to see you! ❤️
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thrilled to be visiting the University of Arkansas on Sept 30 as part of their 2026 Visiting Writers Series! Details about the event above. If you’re in the Little Rock area, I’d love to see you!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you, Karen! That’s so kind of you!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you, @lesliepwriter.bsky.social! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Friends, independent filmmaker Kera Dacy is filming an adaptation of my short story “Vines” and is close to reaching her funding goal but still needs a few more donations. If you’re interested in supporting this film, please visit the Seed & Spark link below: Link: seedandspark.com/fund/vines-1
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you, Swetha!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you, Melissa!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks so much, Richard! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thanks for sharing, Melissa! 🙂
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Alfred A. Knopf @aaknopf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Out today: 🪱 HIDDEN CREATURES by Dino Martins 📑 AXE IN BLOSSOM by Franz Wright 🖊️ YOU WON’T GET FREE OF IT by Rachel Aviv And now available in paperback: 🌴 THE IMAGINED LIFE by Andrew Porter
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Thank you so much for the kind words, Matt! And for sharing this! 🙂
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I love this book. Happy paperback day, Andrew!
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Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Highly recommend!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Thank you so much, Sabrina! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Today is PAPERBACK PUB DAY for The Imagined Life!! ❤️😍🎉 Huge thanks to @aaknopf.bsky.social and Vintage Books for sending me these copies and for doing such an amazing job with the design of this beautiful paperback edition! 🌴
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Thank you so much!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Had so much fun talking to Ashleigh (in London 🇬🇧) and Lucy (in New Zealand 🇳🇿) about The Imagined Life on their wonderful podcast Long Distance Book Friends, which is based on their lifelong friendship and their lifelong love of books! You can listen to it here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations! I loved your story! 🙂
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations to contributor B. Do, whose miCRo, "Revision," was selected by contributor @andrewporter01.bsky.social for inclusion in this year's @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50!
Magazine-style cover showing two winged cherubs kneeling beside a central ornate chalice, painted in pastel greens and purples, with the title "the wigleaf top 50 [very] short fictions" displayed across the bottom.Heading reading "B. DO, 'Revision'" with the word Revision highlighted in red; below it, italicized credit reading "from The Cincinnati Review."
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Eileen! I loved your story! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It was such an honor and a delight to serve as the Guest Selecting Editor for the 2026 Wigleaf Top 50! Congratulations to all of the authors whose stories were selected and also to all of those on the longlist! 🎉 And huge thanks to @sudhab.bsky.social and the rest of the Wigleaf staff! ❤️
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Richard! I loved your story! 🙂
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Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social for publishing "Volcano People" and thanks so much @wigleaf.bsky.social and @andrewporter01.bsky.social for selecting it for Wigleaf Top 50! 🥰🌋
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Cole! Loved your story! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Julia!
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Julia Strayer @juliastrayer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Honored to have a story selected for The Wigleaf Top 50! 🥰 Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social and @havehashad.com for publishing the story, “Small, Ambiguous Moments,” and thanks to the entire @wigleaf.bsky.social team and Guest Selecting Editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Swetha! Well deserved!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Congratulations, Dawn! I loved your story! 🙂
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Congratulations, Anna! And well deserved! 🙂
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
this is my first time ever being selected for the Wigleaf Top 50! so thrilled & delighted. thank you to @sudhab.bsky.social, Scott Garson + the @wigleaf.bsky.social team, @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, & @havehashad.com 💀 🪦 🤍
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions

Series Editor: Sudha Balagopal — "Writers produced an astonishing treasure trove of stories this year..." 

Selecting Editor: Andrew Porter — "Occasions such as this always feel like a gift to me..."

Anna Vangala Jones story “Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic” from HAD was selected At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is the pub date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. 
Below that is the text of the story: “—we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.”
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Congratulations, Kathy! I loved “Wyoming!” 🙂🎉
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I'm honored to have made the list with my flash, "Wyoming," published in the debut issue of Hot Flash Literary. Thanks to @sudhab.bsky.social & the Top 50 team & huge thanks to Selecting Editor @andrewporter01.bsky.social Looks like a GREAT list & longlist. Congratulations to all! 💙
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Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Thrilled to have my weird martyrs story "Ontkommer" in @wigleaf.bsky.social's Top 50! Many thanks to the Wigleaf team, guest judge @andrewporter01.bsky.social, and @djpoissant.bsky.social for publishing this in @theflreview.bsky.social! cah.ucf.edu/floridarevie...
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Ontkommer - The Florida Review
Kim Magowan   My husband is Catholic and more devoted than I like, though it didn’t stop Matt from marrying me. In September, our ten-year-old son Ethan will be confirmed—a strange verb. As babies, bo...
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Robert Nagle (aka idiotprogrammer) @nagletx.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
2/2 QUOTE: "I just enjoy stories that explore absences & mysteries & unanswered or unanswerable questions. I’m intrigued by the idea of things that were once there vanishing, & what one has to do to accept & move on in their absence." bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @andrewporter01.bsky.social
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BOMB Magazine | Andrew Porter by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
The short story writer on past versions of ourselves, working with a small cast of characters, and the role music plays in his work.
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It’s not too late to sign up! Happening in a few hours! Come join us and hear @ericscottryon.bsky.social talk about his beautiful debut novel!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
So happy to hear that! 🙂
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Read an entire book yesterday. Giddy with summer free time. Up next:
The cover of The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter on my wooden coffee table
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thank you so much for reading, Lisa!
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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 31/05/2026
I found some more books that can be read anytime during the year, but Pride Month seems like an excuse to show off what I’ve got to look forward to. Again, what would you choose, or what should I prioritise?
A horizontal stack of six books on patterned fabric. Spines read: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove; Old Wounds by Logan‑Ashley Kisner; The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter; Spread Me by Sarah Gailey; Open Throat by Henry Hoke; Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor.A horizontal stack of six books on patterned fabric. Spines read: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker‑Martin; A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper; Birds of Paradise by Oliver K. Langmead; Key Lime Sky by Al Hess; Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; Piper with the Gates of Dusk by Patrick Ness.
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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/b... Sly Delmore Schwartz reference in this review of Andrew Porter's "The Imagined Life," on the list for the Twain Prize. Congrats to Andrew Porter.
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A Novel That Takes On Life’s Greatest Mystery: Our Parents (Published 2025)
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thank you so much!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thank you so much, Lisa!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thanks, Matt!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thanks so much, Sabrina!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thank you!
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Incredibly honored and thrilled to learn that my novel The Imagined Life has been longlisted for the 2026 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award!!✨ marktwainhouse.org/2026/05/28/t...
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Grateful for the nice early press from Spain about the Spanish translation of The Imagined Life,, including a kind shoutout as a “title to watch” in Vogue España! 🇪🇸 www.vogue.es/articulos/no...
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