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Patrick Thomas Henry

@patrickthomashenry.bsky.social
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Winner, 2022 NeMLA Creative Writing Book Award for Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024). Author of The Work of the Living (Clemson University Press, 2024). Fiction & Poetry Editor, Modern Language Studies. Caution: has cat.

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 04/08/2026
These are the books we currently have available for review, with instructions at the top re: how to get in touch if you're interested in reviewing one of them for us.
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Books Available For Review
Books Available for Review Do get in touch if you’re interested in reviewing one of these books or something not listed; check our guidelines first, before you make contact. We review new works of lit...
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We may be late into June, but you can still catch my story “Into the Dream City,” which is this month’s featured fiction in @thirteenbridges.bsky.social!
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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Oh my gosh, what an awesome review of TQT! Thank you so much, @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social!
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The erasure project of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, the newest book by Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, transforms a 1960s etiquette guide for girls into a crackling, second-person narrative about what teenaged girls in America really experience. Check out my review in @hfr.bsky.social!
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Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training
Readers of Mahler’s other excellent essay collections—Curing Season and A Calendar Is a Snakeskin—already know that form is clay in her hands, and she has a potter’s fine touch in shaping every wor…
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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Feel your emotions about etiquette at the link in bio 🍴 Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training @autofocusbooks.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/06/16/t...
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Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training
Readers of Mahler’s other excellent essay collections—Curing Season and A Calendar Is a Snakeskin—already know that form is clay in her hands, and she has a potter’s fine touch in shaping every wor…
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"to make a rabbit, she said, you melt down squares of pure-cacao despair" A piece full of starling images from @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social; wonderful thematic cohesion and originiality of character www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I’m so grateful to @tinymolecules.bsky.social for publishing my flash fic, “On Auditioning to Become the Next Cadbury Spokes-Bunny,” in their latest issue. It’s an honor to share that space with the other dazzling stories in the issue! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Chloe is simply one of the best and most generous folks in the literary community. Please consider helping her family out, if you can!
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Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Even though it is set in the Pittsburgh of 2009, City of Clans is necessary and timely, fiercely rebutting the voices clamoring for a super-charged restoration of masculine values.” @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social on CITY OF CLANS, out now from University of Iowa Press. pghrev.com/bright-light...
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Bright Lights in the Steel City: On Geoff Peck’s City of Clans - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Reading Geoff Peck’s City of Clans punched a return ticket to a rite of passage, one I’d long ago filed in the recesses of my memory. A Friday night in
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 03/01/2026
I would like to have a word with the writers room about our storyline
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V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Apply to work in our great creative writing program! The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"The decision to close a university press has wide-ranging implications for not only the home institution & its reputation within the academic community but for the pursuit of intellectualism & critical inquiry in academia and beyond," writes Jeremy Chow @insidehighered.com.
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Why Close Bucknell University Press? (opinion)
Erosions of shared governance, narrow definitions of “student-centeredness” and a broader abandonment of a liberal arts ethos all lie behind the closure announcement. In an Aug. 14 email, Bucknell University provost Wendy Sternberg notified the university community that Bucknell University Press would cease to exist at the end of the academic year. Without consulting BUP’s faculty editorial board, which oversees the press and falls under the auspices of the provost’s office, or Bucknell’s faculty or staff at large, the decision was rendered a fait accompli that blindsided the local Bucknell community as well as past, present and prospective BUP authors, editors and contributors.
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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The students in our MFA program have published the latest volume of their literary journal Paper Dragon (with some help from Drexel Publishing Group). drexelpaperdragon.com/volume-10/
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Volume 10 - Paper Dragon
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
On the other hand: there are so many first-time submitters in this round of submissions I’m reading for MLS, and it’s just a joy to see their unbridled enthusiasm for fiction and poetry. That hope and energy are truly special to see!
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Going to take a break from reading submissions, after encountering this cover letter that called magic realism and fabulism cheap, trendy, and meaningless… Unsolicited pro tip: please don’t do this in your cover letter.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
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Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
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Megan Levine (she/her) @meganlevine.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Notre Dame Press is hiring! Come work with meeee! 🤠
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit
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BucknellUPress.bsky.social @bucknellupress.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
To celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth, we’ve compiled a list of books in translation in our newest blog post! Use code RUP30 on book purchases published by @bucknellupress.bsky.social for a discount and free US shipping. To read, shop our catalog, and more: linktr.ee/bucknellupress
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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: buff.ly/UiOAr5M
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join SmokeLong for Promptember! This series of write-ins and open mics is free! Let's write! Donations will go to @sundresspub.bsky.social and their fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Sign up to be part of the coolest lottery ever. 📼✨
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’m humbled by Natalie Gardner’s effervescent review of PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST on the @sundresspub.bsky.social blog! I love her perfect description of my book as “a multivocal rat-king of a collection operating by the logic of dream.” sundressblog.com/2025/06/09/s...
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Sundress Reads: Review of Practice for Becoming a Ghost - The Sundress Blog
Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024) is a collection of sixteen short stories from critic and author Patrick Thomas Henry. It is a twisting, surreal book about ghosts, fa...
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 19/05/2025
Big opportunity alert: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Creative Director! More details at the app link in our bio ( splitlippress.submittable.com), but everyone's favorite point to note: *yes we pay* Really looking forward to hearing from you all!
Want to join the Split/Lip Press Team?

We're looking for a Creative Director!

Applications open May 19 - June 9

For more details, visit splitlippress.submittable.com
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Look at me. I am in the chair. I am the writer now.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 26/04/2025
some books you should grab on #IndieBookstoreDay! (that's today!) 🧵
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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In honor of independent bookstore day: 1 like equals one book you should definitely pick up from your favorite bookstore
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We're so excited to announce: APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🤩 SLM is expanding our Social Media Team! Our mag is an all-volunteer team with a passion for words, art, and just good vibes ✨ Apply on submittable ASAP--applications are open for 1 week! buff.ly/3RlJZb1
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 06/03/2025
VERY big announcement: we'll be opening a completely new genre for submissions, starting in April 2026, and we've got our editor all picked out! Help us welcome long-time novel/novella reader @erinvachon.bsky.social to the role of Multigenre + Chapbook Editor!
Photograph of Erin Vachon, with the text "Welcome to the Team, Erin Vachon, Multigenre + Chapbook Editor" alongside the Split/Lip Press logoExplanation of the Multigenre + Chapbook Submissions reading period, including the notice "Opening April 2026." The call states: If you thought Split/Lip already broke boundaries, we just got even weirder. While we will continue to accept boundary-breaking manuscripts across submission calls, we are hunting for the truly experimental and strange in our new Multigenre + Chapbook Submissions cycle. Coming April 2026, we’ll be looking for chapbooks (in all genres) as well as full-length hybrid manuscripts. Give us your collection of sonnets as visual objects. Family documents collaged against microfiction. Historical archive redacted into polyphonic novel. Your life story unfolded in burning haibun. We want your weird and your wondrous, your in-between manuscript you’ve always dreamed about publishing. Give us your very best and your strangest.Banner welcoming Erin Vachon, with their biography below: Erin Vachon is the Multigenre + Chapbook Editor for Split/Lip Press, the Multigenre Reviewer-at-Large for The Rumpus, and the Senior Reviews Editor for SmokeLong Quarterly. 

Their writing appears in the Wigleaf Top 50, Black Warrior Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Pinch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Brevity, and The Anarchist Review of Books, among others. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions. They received their M.A. in English from the University of Rhode Island. Erin writes and edits outside Providence, RI.
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’ll be reading from my debut short story collection, PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST, this evening! If you’re near UND, you can catch me live in room 406 of UND’s Chester Fritz Library. I’ll also be live streaming from Instagram (@patrick_t_henry over there). It gets started at 8:00 ET / 7:00 CT!
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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
For the night crowd: Hannah Grieco's enthralling debut story collection, First Kicking, Then Not, is now available for pre-order. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @writesloud.bsky.social
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is tonight, and you can still register to join us by Zoom or in-person! Really excited to dig into robot design theory and philosophy for a bit this evening, in good company!
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I haven’t been on here much because my day job is 5 jobs in a trench coat, so please forgive this blatant self-plug! But I found out a little bit ago that my debut short story collection was longlisted for The Story Prize. Just breathless and stunned and joyed and don’t know what to say!
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
ASU's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is hiring a communications coordinator! Among other duties, this person assists with my Worldbuilding Initiative, which has brought in writers like Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Arkady Martine, etc. Please apply! asu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/ASUStaffCare...
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External Relations and Advancement Specialist 2
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External Relations and Advancement
Time Type:

Full time
Max Pay – Depends on experience:

$58,000.00 USD Annual
Job Description:
Salary Range: $52,000 - $58,000; DOE
The ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics seeks a coordinator of Events and Communication who is energetic and passionate about helping raise the new profiles of the Center emphasizing humane technologies, cultivating virtues and values, and imagining ethical futures. The position will report the Assistant Director of the Center to achieve established goals and objectives.
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 01/02/2025
oh man! just found out that the University of Montana got my 2020 CutBank story "The Hidden People" back up on these interwebs!! An Icelandic ghost story here for your reading pleasure scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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the aurora borealis shines brightly over a lake
Alt: the aurora borealis shines greenly over a glassy lake
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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We're back! 📚 No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you! Our submission period for debut novels will take place next month, Jan 11–12! Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Reminder that Short Story, Long submissions opened today, will be open all December. 3k-8k words, $100 for accepted stories + paired with original, commissioned art (I still have 13 pending subs from last call that I'm hoping to finish this week!) ashortstorylong.submittable.com/submit
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Short Story, Long Submission Manager
Short Story, LongIf we're open, there will be a category or two below. If there's nothing below, we're not taking submissions right now. Thanks!We're now for the month of September! I'll reopen again ...
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Patrick Thomas Henry @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wowsers. This place is such a breath of fresh air after the former bird app. Also: it’s just nice to see an app that’s actually making literary content accessible, instead of burying it under 3 billion crypto scam tweets.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ploughshares is hiring a new Editor-in-Chief, which is also a faculty appointment in the dept where I work (either a pro or a con, depending on your inclination to meet me for lunch occasionally).
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Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares | Open-Rank Faculty Position in Writing, Literature and Publishing
Join our community and experience Emerson College! The Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invites applications for an Editor-in-Chief for the literary journal Ploughshares / open-rank (t...
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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hey everyone, L Mari's here!
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
1. here's the whole thread for those who are curious 2. I said this on twitter, figured I'd repeat here — if one of you is interested and intrigued by this, but feel overwhelmed by the idea or the money, I'd be happy to help and advise in some way, could cover some web presence fees, etc.
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cream city review @creamcityreview.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has an undergraduate lit journal, Furrow, now in its 25th year! They are now open for submissions: art (incl. comics), nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. It is free to submit, all undergraduates are eligible. Please share widely! sites.uwm.edu/furrow/submi...
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