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Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

▶️ NOW PLAYING: @shelbyhinte.bsky.social's debut novel HOWLING WOMEN (@leftoverbooks.bsky.social) is a gripping desert noir about a woman on the run, searching for renewal, drinking too much, trying to outrun her past in a desolate town. We talked about it. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

In Episode 982 of the Otherppl with Brad Listi podcast, a conversation with Shelby Hinte, author of the debut novel HOWLING WOMEN, available from Leftover Books.

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Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

When authors you truly admire have good things to say about your own writing...it's just the best feeling in this game there is. Thanks so much to THE @shelbyhinte.bsky.social for this awesome blurb for COUNT THE DUST. Out in December from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social y'all.

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New interview up at Zona Motel where I talk about big life changes, god, and writing. open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/maybe-im-j... Check out our review of Howling Women, a novel by @shelbyhinte.bsky.social / @leftoverbooks.bsky.social

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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Eclectic Reading Summer to Recover 🧠 from Diss, Books 1-4 weirdly paired well for thinking about how to rebuild, burn down, turn on the past in ways I didn’t expect. Thanks to @sgj.bsky.social @caseyjohnston.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @shelbyhinte.bsky.social

From left to right: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, A Physical Education by Casey Johnston, Immediacy or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh, Howling Women by Shelby Hinte

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fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Don’t sleep on this one. Grab it! Compelling novel @shelbyhinte.bsky.social @leftoverbooks.bsky.social

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I've been doing some great reading for the #100smallpress project. Currently reading/recently read powerful books by @nassos.bsky.social @shelbyhinte.bsky.social @jonathanin2k.bsky.social @michaelamoscody.bsky.social and @writesloud.bsky.social

The books covers of HOWLING WOMEN by Shelby Hinte, SOUR CHERRY by Natalia Theodoridou, THE LOWEST BASIN by Jonathan Danielson and STREETS OF NASHVILLE by Michael Amos Cody

Art for Hannah Greico's collection of stories FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT. A woman in a field with birds flying in the background

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Katie Hunter @katiehunter.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Desire, rage, and a vortex in the desert: Howling Women (by the incomparable @shelbyhinte.bsky.social) is the debut novel you need to read. So excited to see it in the world!

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j. archer avary 🌵🌵🌵 @joeyflash.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Look what arrived in the northeast of England @shelbyhinte.bsky.social

Cover of howling women by Shelby Hinte (purple type on black with green iguanas and a hypnotic black and white graphic)

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What a pleasure to read an advance copy of @shelbyhinte.bsky.social's HOWLING WOMEN, out today from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social. Check out CJ's review then follow the link to order yours. It's a stellar read. www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/shelby-hinte...

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Shelby Hinte's Howling Women

VORTICES: SHELBY HINTE'S HOWLING WOMEN a review by Adam Van Winkle “I did it. I shot James Dixon.” The Sabine people were an ancient Italian tribe renowned for their fierceness in battle...

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New interview up in @bombmag.bsky.social today where I got to talk to Rebecca van Laer about Howling Women, desire, and writing as an altered state. 🖤🌀 bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 23/04/2025

Immediately teaching this lesson to all NYU students lol

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HAD @havehashad.com · 23/04/2025

🚨🚨 Submission Call Time! 🚨🚨 We're going to be open for submissions for ONE HOUR... late tonight/early tomorrow morning! shoutout the night owls, the early risers, but maybe most of all, the int'l peeps! this link will be live between 4am and 5am ET havehashad.submittable.com/submit/32629...

Submissions will open for one full hour, so insofar as you're racing, you're doing so against the clock rather than each other.

BUT. We're HAD, so we gotta mix it up.

Let's make that hour middle of the night! (At least for me here on the east coast. And, really most of us in the US.) Y'all gotta stay up late, or wake up early, or wake up in the middle of the night just to prove to us you love us, or be international (I hope this time works for the international skullers?).

Which is all to say...
Submissions will be Thursday, April 24, 4am – 5am ET.

A few specifics:
No theme
600 words max
Any/all genre ok
For poems and reeeeal short stuff, you can send two, but make 'em short!

You (probably, hopefully) know the deal.I am going to try to get through as many as possible, as fast as possible, but its a timed call rather than quantity so I have no idea how many I'll get, so getting through everything might spill over into the next day or two... or longer? We'll see!

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Had a really fun conversation about HOWLING WOMEN and morality in literature with Michael Jerome Plunkett on the LitWar Podcast open.spotify.com/episode/0uZt...

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Two weeks until HOWLING WOMEN is out. If you are in the Bay Area, come celebrate with me on May 10th in San Francisco. www.writingsalons.com/event/book-l...

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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Absolutely honored to read "Bill Murray Encounters Bigfoot" alongside @stutz-writes.bsky.social, @adamvoith.bsky.social, @adamvoith.bsky.social's yellow phone, @shelbyhinte.bsky.social, and @kylerseibel.bsky.social this weekend--such an iconic reading! Thanks to @adamdeutsch.com for the rad photos.

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Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

More reading photos: Me @shelbyhinte.bsky.social @kylerseibel.bsky.social The floor of Book Catapult

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you are in LA this Friday come hang. I will be reading with this group of wonderful writers!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I don't really wanna read fiction by anyone who talks about having an MFA or anyone who talks about not having an MFA.

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Day 3 of HOWLING WOMEN blurb drops. Words by "literary it girl" Allie Rowbottom. In an interview for @electriclit.bsky.social she said to me "you actually don’t want everyone to like your work. If you’ve made work everyone likes, it’s middle of the road & unchallenging." Wise woman.

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Charlene Elsby @charleneelsby.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Heyyyyyyyy! They’re featuring my book in a horror batch on Book Sirens. Sure the book is out, but that doesn’t mean I suddenly hate reviews. Get at it! booksirens.com/bundle/3471

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Horror ARCs You'll Love

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Day 2 of Howling Women blurb drops 🖤🌀 If you know me then you have probably heard me talk about how much I love @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's work. His novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim is one of my favorite books, so I was absolutely floored when he read HW and said nice things about it. bookshop.org

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

6 weeks from today HOWLING WOMEN will officially be out in the world, so this week I am sharing some nice blurbs. First up: words that made me cry from Chelsea Bieker Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/howl... Or order from your local indie

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Kevin M. Kearney @kevinmkearney.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

TWO WEEKS AWAY

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

So, this is happening. So many feelings. #stoprepeatinghistory #writingcommunity #memoir #nikkei

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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

some news! my book is coming out with @sweettrashpress.bsky.social via @houseofvladpress.bsky.social see you in Fall 2025 😘

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Returned to my WIP and just discovered Microsoft word is suggesting track changes...like full on section rewrites. Have other ppl experienced this?! As if the ai copilot thing wasn't bad enough. Might officially need to start writing w/another word processor. Suggestions?

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Tamiko Nimura @tamikonimura.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Confession: I love reading acknowledgments. Maybe you do too? I wrote this essay for us. Thanks to @shelbyhinte.bsky.social at Write or Die Magazine for giving this piece a home. writeordiemag.com/essays/ackno...

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Acknowledgments — Write or Die Magazine

Ever wonder how writers go about crafting the acknowledgements page of their books? Tamiko Nimura writes about it in her thoughtful and hilarious essay "Acknowledgements."

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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Write or Die is raising funds for editor Tamar Mekredijan, who just lost her home in the wildfires—please boost and donate if you can! this is such a heartbreaking loss for sweet Tamar and her family and anything you can give helps ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-tamar...

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Donate to Help Tamar Mekredijan and Family Rebuild After Wildfire Loss, organized by Write or Die Magazine

My name is Kailey DelloRusso, and I am the founder of Write o… Write or Die Magazine needs your support for Help Tamar Mekredijan and Family Rebuild After Wildfire Loss

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

favorite books i read this year: Madwoman, Chelsea Bieker The Hypocrite, Jo Hamya Still Born, Guadalupe Nettle Appendix Project, Kate Zambreno Wellness, Nathan Hill (contemplated not adding this one, but since I couldn't shut up about it feel it deserves a spot on the list)

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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Writing a novel is irrational and insane and I'm proud to be an irrational and insane person.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This @amystuber.com story is the best story I’ve read in a while. Working my way through this collection slowly, savoring a story here, a story there, and it’s all pretty great; this story alone is worth picking it up.

Doctor Visit
You have the tiniest little baby cataracts, the ophthalmologist tells me, and he laughs, because apparently, cataracts, when small, are funny. I'm in the chair with the thing that looks like a 1970s TV robot hovering in front of my face and I don't think it's funny because 1) all I can imagine is my eyes becoming increasingly cloudy and unusable and 2) cataracts are in most cases a final-third-of-life thing or at least indication you've stopped walking on a path and are now on the stairs, and who knows how many stairs there will be, but you're on the stairs.
Ishould mention that we are fucking, the ophthalmologist and me--not in the office, but as a routine. And with some brutality, because I've never had patience for sex that is soft.
Even though he's divorced, and I'm divorced, we don't fuck in beds. We meet. Cars on farm roads. Bathrooms of chain stores. Basements of open houses. Once in a com maze at a pumpkin patch. It's always quick and fleeting, no lounging on comforters after, and thus a reminder about life and how it's easier but worse to hold yourself out, to stay cloudy and beyond harm.

hand holding paperback:

SAD GROWNUPS
SHORT STORIES
AMY STUBER

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Wrote about my top 2 favorite books of 2024. You can read the full reviews here: writeordiemag.com/features/sta...

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Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

y'all @lindsaylerman.bsky.social's interview with Sarah LaBrie in @thecreativeindependent.com is so good 😭 made me want to write! thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

We have to tell stories, and we have to tell them in the best possible way we can, in our moment in history. And so I was like, OK, fine. I'll serve the gods of literature in whatever way I need to, even if that means that I produce something that I couldn't imagine myself producing 10 years ago. But that's good. I have to change. We have to change.

I love that. Yeah. Then maybe that's what our social responsibility is, because I definitely don't think it's our responsibility as writers to show people what's right. I don't know that what I'm talking about is even a political responsibility. It's not. It's to keep writing and to write well and to be true to whatever that invisible dream force is that drives you to do it is, as opposed to the one that says, make as much money as you can and then die.

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It's the holiday season, so now is a great time to go on a sugar cleanse, right? Everyone will love my sugar free desserts at the holiday parties, right?!

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My reading mood the last few weeks has been big windy novels that fuck me up a bit. Includes: Wellness by Nathan Hill, Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker, and Long Island Island Compromise by Brodesser-Akner...what should I read next? I want the same but different!

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's true! You can now preorder HOWLING WOMEN 🖤🌀 a.co/d/ik2X38J I also have arcs for anyone interested in reviews ✨

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Fantastic cover @mrwojorising.bsky.social ! Congratulations @shelbyhinte.bsky.social ! I'm excited for your book!

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Very excited to reveal the cover of HOWLING WOMEN coming 4.29.2025 from @leftoverbooks.bsky.social. So grateful to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for the incredible cover design! 🖤🌀 You can now preorder here or wherever else you get your books: amazon.com/dp/B0DPBMRVJR

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LEFTOVER Books @leftoverbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

COVER REVEAL ALERT. HOWLING WOMEN @shelbyhinte.bsky.social www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPBMRVJR or wherever books are sold. Big shoutout to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for his wonderful design.

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

And now for the hard stuff: wrote this essay after a lil reading with my Autofocus fam (shoutout @aaronburch.bsky.social + @hollypelesky.bsky.social) about a splinter I lodged in my body; a metaphor about publishing Snakeskin last year but also A LITERAL SPLINTER writeordiemag.com/essays/splin...

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Splinter — Write or Die Magazine

Just in time for holidays with family, Kristine Langley Mahler shares on the emotional landmines of writing about people we love in this personal essay.

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Love this essay by @suburbanprairie.bsky.social so much! writeordiemag.com/essays/splin...

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Finished reading WELLNESS by Nathan Hill this weekend. I have mixed feelings about it, but it made me cry. Been a while since a book had me in tears. What's the last book that made you cry? I want to feel ravaged by a novel this holiday season! (plz nothing that is also a morality lesson though)

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Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I made this Yellowstone Bingo card just in time for us to hate watch Yellowstone tonight ;)

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