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@reemarp.bsky.social
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🧿 fiction writer. 2024 jennifer weiner fellow (by blue stoop). best of the net finalist, wigleaf top 50 longlist, pushcart nominee. at work on short story collection & novel.📍CHI www.reemarao.com | IG: reema.rp **trying to be on here more, but IG is better

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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Thank you @pitheadchapel.bsky.social and Danielle Lazarin for recognizing my story “Unidentifiable Cells” for this prize! I am in awe and so very grateful!
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I am over the moon to share this 💫 I’m in such good company. Can’t wait to share the story in the January issue!
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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm done crying over this shit. They want us miserable and helpless. I'm just contrarian enough to refuse to indulge them. I'll be over here making art, making plans and looking after my people.
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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Congrats, @reemarp.bsky.social !! 🐸💙🎉
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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
"I think about dying a lot these days. But mostly that my crush Sheila might catch me dying. I once heard her tell another teacher that the sensitive boys are her favorite, though I don’t think that means sick boys." @reemarp.bsky.social mrbullbull.com/newbull/fict...
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
(Happy writing news abounds) I couldn’t imagine a better home for this one than Witness. Thank you to the editors for believing in the magic 💫 witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/…
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Devi Maa By Reema Rao-Patel - Witness Magazine
by Reema Rao-Patel There was no funeral for Devi, no puja for final rites, no pyre. That day, six months ago, crashes into the shores of Sriram’s mind the way Devi’s blood spilled from her little...
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Um wow. A second nom for BotN this year, from The Lumiere Review! "First Summer" is one of the first short stories I'd written, and I'm so happy it found its place in the world and now this. Many thanks!! lumierereview.com/nominations
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Nominations - Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize - The Lumiere Review
The Lumiere Review is the brightest literary magazine around. We are always open to poetry, prose, and art submissions. Read our online issues and interviews.
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Ten personalized rejections means acceptance is coming soon, right? RIGHT? Or is it just many rejections lol.
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Our colleagues at Gettysburg Review have received some devastating news. It’s alarming for the literary community as a whole, & the SLM fam encourages everyone to voice their thoughts to the university that defunded them. All our voices matter! More info in this pic (thx @bullcitypress.bsky.social!)
Dear Friends, Contributors, Subscribers, & Supporters of Literature,
After 35 years of editorial and publishing excellence, the president of Gettysburg College has decided to end the Gettysburg Review. Lauren & I are understandably devastated. We have been offered a rationale for this decision, but it's frankly one that neither Lauren nor I understand or accept. It was made clear to us that they know little about who we are, what we do, and what our value is, and could be, to the Gettysburg College campus. 
We encourage you to reach out to the college’s president, Bob Iuliano, and provost, Jamila Bookwalla. Tell them what you think of this decision & the merits of publishing great literature.
riuliano@gettysburg.edu 
(717)337-6010
jbookwal@gettysburg.edu
(717)337-6820
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We would love to hear about what the Gettysburg Review has meant to you. Please send condolences, anecdotes, and other stray and helpful thoughts to Lauren & me, and if we can, we will share them...
Mark Drew, Editor
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
An acceptance from Hayden’s Ferry Review!!!! What a dream 🤩 & for one of my favorite stories written to date (we can pick favorite children right?)
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
so excited to join the roots.wounds.word community as a fellow in dawnie walton’s workshop this january 🤗 looking forward to a week of feeling held and healed.
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
Immense gratitude to the @flashfrog.bsky.social team for this nomination!! 🎉
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
📣 Chicago writers: Dipika’s myth and magic class/workshop was such an incredible one. It’s where I wrote one of my favorite stories to date, soon to be published. Highly recommend!
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
I'm 3wks postpartum. I wrote this when trying for our baby & channeled all my fears into it. And I just have to acknowledge the painful truth of these words I wrote: "You cried for months and so did she, which made you cry some more." t.co/QcSOqgJDqG
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HER TWINN™
An eerie mommy story by Reema Rao-Patel
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
Between my raging postpartum hormones and the influx of pub rejections and acceptances this week, I am a MESS.
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
‼️TIN HOUSE AUTUMN‼️ *falls to the floor*
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reema @reemarp.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
An acceptance from The Los Angeles Review ✨ for a flash piece that is so deeply raw and personal to me (though what writing isn’t?). Can’t wait to share soon.
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