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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

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Shazzie @readeratwork.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Here are my April book recommendations! Check out the titles that impressed me here: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/s... @dragons.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social 📚💙

Covers of The Poet Empress, Saoirse and The Beheading Game

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Newest addition to my bookshelf 📚 "The Beheading Game" by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social ❤️ I've been looking forward to reading this for ages!

Photo of me holding "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thanks for reading The Beheading Game—glad you enjoyed it!

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Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Really loved this reimagining of Anne Boleyn by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social. Fantastical, suspenseful, compassionate, & with a sapphic side quest to boot 👑

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The Beheading Game: A Novel

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Now here's ep. 395B! Rebecca Lehmann shares THE BEHEADING GAME, a sharp-as-knives work of speculative historical fiction that imagines Anne Boleyn's mysterious resurrection after her execution. @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/03/26/t...

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“No Country for Old Jenn” Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

And this book and fascinating and wild and cathartic as hell. Thanks @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sending so much virtual support. Hang in there. It will get better 💜

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Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"The thing about the story that I find resonant and that I think resonates with people 500 years later is that in so many ways, it seems like she's a woman being punished for her power and her success." @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, author of The Beheading Game:

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Rebecca Lehmann: Resurrecting Anne Boleyn and Going from Poet to Novelist

Eva and Amanda chat with Rebecca Lehmann, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood and bringing a poetry background to novel-writing.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This convo was a delight! Tune in to hear me talk The Beheading Game, Anne Boleyn as a mother, and my own attempts at “pizza” parenting 🍕😂

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Beheading Game is an Indie Next Pick for April!!! Plus, tour dates! Pre-orders open now: 3/24 pub date US, 3/26 pub date UK @crownpublishing.bsky.social

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Hi All!! The Beheading Game pubs on 3/24 US @crownpublishing.bsky.social & 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). What if Anne Boleyn woke up after her execution, sewed her head back on & tried to kill Henry VIII before he could remarry? Long may she reign 🪡🗡️👑 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786110...

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The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann: 9798217086481 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to...

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It was a DELIGHT to talk THE BEHEADING GAME with @chatteronbooks.bsky.social Link below to listen and also link below to pre-order TBG—out 3/24 US, 3/26 UK 🪡👑🗡️

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A great little book haul from the @nolapoetry.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social's chapbook waiting for me. Can't wait to dig into poems from @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social & Patrycja Humienik.

Book covers of The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann, Love Prodigal by Traci Brimhall, Slip by Nicole Callihan, We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik, Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler, and Extinction Level by Amorak Huey.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I

am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann

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Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

My huge thanks to Susie of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for this brilliant sounding The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social coming from @vintagebooks.bsky.social Harvill in March www.penguin.co.uk/books/476256...

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

With generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award 15 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published in 2025. Award winners include @skyskkyy.bsky.social, @thomaskneeland.bsky.social, @ellgpeck.bsky.social, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, and more. go.unl.edu/bfya

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Annual Award Winners

Lawrence Foundation Award $2000
Skyler Melnick, "Sisterhood of Dirt," Fall 2025

Virginia Faulkner Awards $500
Morgan Christie, "Sapphire Gurl," Spring 2025
Ben Freedman, "That Summer," Fall 2025

Bernice Slote Award $500
Luca van der Heide, "Halina's Guest House," Fall 2025

Edward Stanley Award $500
Thomas Kneeland, two poems, Fall 2025

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Annual Award Winners

Strousse Award $500
Migwi Mwangi, "Like So, Like So," Fall 2025

Ervin and Loretta Krause Freedom of Expression Award $500
Ell Peck, "A Paper Lantern Over the Light: Becoming Blanche DuBois," Fall 2025

Jane Geske Award $250
Carolina Murriel, "Driving My Tías Through Miami," Spring 2025

Hugh J. Luke Award $250
Priyam Goel, "3 White Witches," Winter 2025

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Annual Award Winners

First Place Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award $1500
Rebecca Lehmann, seven poems, Spring 2025

Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards $500
Fayssal Bensalah, ""Your Son Is with Pollen and Dust," Fall 2025
Virginia Kane, two poems, Winter 2025
Dominic Russ-Combs, "Faith," Winter 2025
George Uba, two poems, Spring 2025
Anthony Yarbrough, "Cruiser," Spring 2025

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social is a brilliantly original debut novel which imagines the undead Anne Boleyn plotting vengeance on her murderers with the aid of fenlander Alice. Brilliant #Tudor history with a good sprinkle of magic - out 26th March! 🪐📚💙

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The Massachusetts Review @themassreview.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Sharing the latest publications from MR contributors, including David Ricchiute, Amanda Hawkins, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and more! themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/contributo...

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Contributor Publications Winter 2024-2025

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m thrilled to announce my forthcoming novel, The Beheading Game, about my girl, Anne Boleyn 🎉🥳🍾🗡️

Publisher’s Marketplace description of the forthcoming novel The Beheading Game, by Rebecca Lehmann, acquired by Crown.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Chicago!!! I am reading from The Sweating Sickness TONIGHT at 6:30pm at City Lit Books with @rubenq.bsky.social —come join us for an evening of poetry in the Windy City (but hopefully not too windy…).

A flier advertising a reading with Rebecca Lehmann and Ruben Quesada, featuring pictures of each author and details of the event.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Look I’ve thrown a lot of shade at Thomas Cromwell but the man had a pet leopard and loved to dress in black velvet so…irl I probably would have been his friend.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Valentine’s Day is a great day to order a copy of The Sweating Sickness, and dream about the spouse awaiting us all one day: death ☠️ University of Pittsburgh Press (link to order below) @upittpress.bsky.social

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.

The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann propped against house plants.

Rebecca Lehmann holding The Sweating Sickness against a brick wall.

The Sweating Sickness propped against a window.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I mean, standard spelling rules are that you should double a consonant before adding “ing” so in addition to looking better it makes more sense. But ditto with towards & colour!

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

My tragic flaw is that I revert to British spellings when stressed because I read too many British/Canadian novels as a kid.

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Fred Schmalz @fredschmalz.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits! Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company. Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm 2145 W Walton RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“I’ll move back/to the Midwest, and leave bone cold/New England far behind. I can imagine/all the tattered houses fading from sight/over the back of my son’s car seat as we drive/down the tollway, the mountains receding like sad/contractions” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social “Into the Firmament”

INTO THE FIRMAMENT

Into the firmament I stitched my farewell. The crocuses I planted while pregnant got eaten by deer. I’d be eight months in now, if I hadn’t lost the baby. What is the firmament, anyway? What is fire? I wonder when I lie in bed half awake/aware. The same student comes in with her poem about how hard it is to write a poem. I imagine placing her in the firmament too, joints pressed into stars that litter the sky. It was the morning the secretary’s son broke three ribs in a car accident, the day I got cheap carnations at work from a man in the hall I didn’t even know. I made tape into circles and stuck the circles to the backs of children’s drawings about peace, stuck the drawings to butcher paper to hang in the hall. Everyone said, “I’m so sorry about what happened to you with that student.”

They meant the one who wrote a poem about my pussy and turned it in for a homework assignment. I wore a polka dot dress. I know how to dance the polka, a little bit, having grown up in Wisconsin. Soon, I’ll move back to the Midwest, and leave bone cold New England far behind. I can imagine all the tattered houses fading from sight over the back of my son’s car seat as we drive down the tollway, the mountains receding like sad contractions, the popcorn I’ll spill on the car floor as I check the route on my phone, the car pushing to the boozy forever of winter sun and forgetful grey Lake Michigan, who will signal hello with each crested wave, who will welcome me home with a smile of mussel shells and alewives, and innumerable tan brick lighthouses,
swaddled in steel railings that will make my son’s hands smell like hot pennies. Rebecca Lehmann.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Oh I would love to go to that specific pairing.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Ah yes, memories of MLA Boston coming back to me, when I ran from hotel room to hotel room, and the last interview where the person kept yawning bc it was 5pm and they’d been doing it all day. After that year I refused to go to MLA and just Skyped or didn’t interview…

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Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It’s official: engaging with art and culture benefits health & wellbeing. In the UK, it generates £8bn/year in quality of life improvements & higher productivity. Starving the Arts won’t help Canada’s productivity gap. #cdnpse @ucalgary.bsky.social #ArtMatters www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing, research finds

Engaging with arts improves quality of life, increases productivity and creates financial ‘dividend’

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Reading my first Sally Rooney novel and can I just say I love her attention to clothing? I love clothes, and the way she details what people are wearing is deeply satisfying.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Oh god so true! And later I’ll take my dog on a walk through her favorite streets and praise her for peeing on everyone’s mailbox posts…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024

it’s all the purest distillation of the idea that society doesn’t actually exist. the only thing that exists is some amorphous “liberty” that entitles you to a life without obligations or responsibilities or anything that might impose a duty on you or a limit on your conduct

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Let me get this straight: you can now literally take a shit in the halls of Congress, and it’s not a crime? Cool cool cool cool cool.

NT Times headline saying Trump will pardon Jan 6 insurrectionists in the “first hour” of his presidency.

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Rebecca Lehmann @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I feel like at this point you could probably find The Paris Review more easily.

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