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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Henry Dumas was an excellent short story writer and poet. Toni Morrison was a fan of his work. The Arkansas International's short story contest in his honor is open now. I published a piece in the journal last fall and had a very good experience. www.arkint.org/henry-dumas-...

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Henry Dumas Fiction Prize — The Arkansas International

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I had to look that up. Looks scary!

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That's a children's book waiting to be written. Tiny Apartment Building: When a Bunch of Tiny Houses Get Together and Have a Party

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Stop in for an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to celebrate the virtual launch of volume 10 of the Best Spiritual Literature anthology on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 7 PM Eastern. Registration for the online reading is free: secure.givelively.org/.../best-spi....

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025

Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!

On Fes is a Mirror by Chantal James
Out October 28, 2025 from Willow Books

I hate how quiet it's kept that Chantal James is one of the most brilliant writers writing. I read Fes Is a Mirror faithfully, amazed at the level of skill, of world-creation, and of wisdom contained within its pages. James is so careful with her characters, no matter how reckless their situations. She's so intentional with her language and every sentence is delicious. It's the kind of book you throw across the room because it pierces your heart, but you pick back up again and cradle because it's so beautiful. No lie: Fes Is a Mirror is a masterwork.

- Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Look at Bezos making it rain, but not in a good way.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

My plan is to chillax as much as possible.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I did an interview about keeping notebooks / diaries / journals in @kellymcmasters.bsky.social newsletter. Thanks again, Kelly, for allowing a member of the journaling tribe to share. kellymcmasters.substack.com/p/show-me-yo...

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SHOW ME YOUR DIARY

featuring writer Stanley Stocker

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Wow. That really is beautiful. For a second, I wondered if it was art and made of paper.

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Joris Lombaert @j357l.eurosky.social · 08/05/2025

The kids are ok.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I see what you did there, Tim-Tim. Bravo.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I have it on great authority that a villanelle is a villainous, nay, traitorous sonnet.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Delighted to have a story "The Hunt" in the latest issue of African American Review. Thank you to editors Aileen M. Keenan and Nathan L. Grant. @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social "The families of the old men would gather at Front Camp to see whether their people would be let go."

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Wonderful. I love the line about you and the caterpillar being appalled.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Yes, indeed. I loved that. Thank you for sharing.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

An invaluable guide to applying for writing residencies from Prince Shakur. Also, if you are member of the global majority, please consider applying for the Baldwin for the Arts fellowship. open.substack.com/pub/princesh...

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How to Master The Writing Residency Application

An ESSENTIAL Checklist for fine tuning your application every time to make the process faster and to get more acceptances

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

People on meds need love too, broski

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Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Please, please, please, I need your help! (it's for next year's rankings...) Does anyone have a copy of Best New Poets 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023 and/or 2024? If not, could you please retweet? Thank you so much! 🙏

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Same. It looks fantastic, but I just can't buy another streaming service until I cancel another one.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"Through the peep hole I saw a harried-looking white woman. Though she appeared younger than me, her hair was brittle and frizzed and her cheek bones stuck out painfully. She was curled over a package buried against her chest. It was wrapped in a blanket and had the form of a human."

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I have given in to that urge. Saturday morning writing from bed is now my thing. Which is where I came across the below. Thought of your work when I saw it. Grants for visual arts journalism. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Thank you. I suspected as much. I shall now go kick nonpet rocks.

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Here goes nothing. CLUB CONTANGO is eligible for the Hugo awards (novel) if you're so inclined. 🎲🔥 Single mum on a corporate-owned space station has three jobs and zero fucks left to give until murder, and union scabbing, breathe too close for comfort.

‪Thomas Ha‬ ‪@thomasha.bsky.social‬
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*whispering under breath* also included in UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES coming Sept. 2025 from
@undertow.bsky.social
and available for preorder and may be an important keystone/throughline story that links with others. *cough*

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories (PRE-ORDER) — Undertow Publications
Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...
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‪ZD Dochterman‬ ‪@zddochterman.bsky.social‬
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From 2022, but my favorite story I've read this year.

An eerie, almost spectral, minimalist prose. It builds suspense not around the question of "what will happen?" but rather "what is happening?" A land of intangibility & memorylessness.

From
@thomasha.bsky.social & @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

Thomas Ha > House Traveler > Bourbon Penn
The five of us were gathered on the floor of one of the last houses, trying to decide which of the group would be the one to go outside. Sitting around an electric camping lantern, our legs crossed li...
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‪Ivy Grimes‬ ‪@ivygrimes.bsky.social‬
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The new bookstore
@eveninghouse.bsky.social
run by
@johnchrostek.bsky.social
and Amanda is great for book-hunting! Check out the helpful curated lists. I ordered two fascinating books from here that I hadn't heard of before visiting the site.

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Evening House Books
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‪Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf‬ ‪@eliaseells.bsky.social‬
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It's #MAR10Day! And also six months of COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES out in the world. I'm sipping a Mariogarita this evening to celebrate and I hope you will to!!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elias...

Self-portait with COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES and a Mariogarita
ALT

The reference photo for the illustrat…

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Please ask her if I'll ever get back my pet rock that my college girlfriend never gave back after we split up.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Thanks for sharing, Han. Made me think of Merwin's "Berryman" I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can’t you can’t you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don’t write

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"Berryman" - Merwin Conservancy

I will tell you what he told me in the years just after the war as we then called the second world war don’t lose your arrogance yet he said you can do that when you’re older lose it too soon and you ...

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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

…your art comes out of your life, and you have to keep living until you have enough to write about. Read, read, read. Art begets art. Jane Kenyon

BRADT: What do you take that to mean?

KENYON: You really have to turn your complete attention to something large, something that makes you forget who you are and where you are and what you have and what you don't have. You have to bring your awareness completely to this new thing.

BRADT: Suppose you were a modern-day Rilke, and let's say a Ms.
Kappus wrote you for advice. And suppose she had at least a glimmer of talent. What would you say to her?

KENYON: I'd say that your art comes out of your life, and you have to keep living until you have enough to write about. Be patient if you can. Find friends whose judgment you trust and work with them on everything you do. Read, read, read. Art begets art, and you need to read - not just English poets but poets of other cultures and times and traditions. Don't be discouraged if the world doesn't beat a path to your door. If anyone had told me when I was beginning to write poems with serious intent, in my twenties, that it would be another ten years before I published a book, I would have said, "I just can't take that kind of time. I'm running on a different timetable." I think I've become more patient with the years; I'm learning to take the long view.

BRADT: Suppose Ms. Kappus asked you, "What's the poet's job?"

KENYON: The poet's job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it; to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so im-portant, and yet so difficult to name. The poet's job is to find a name for everything; to be a fearless finder of the names of things; to be an advocate for the beauty of language, the subtleties of language.

A Hundred White Daffodils Jane Kenyon

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Love what Joyce Carol Oates had to say about the forms a short story can take. She basically said there are no rules except one: it can't be boring.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Finally cracked the code on a short story paragraph that I've sweating over for a while. Gonna celebrate with some ice cream.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My goodness. What a wonderful cover.

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’ve been hit with the gun that lays you off so… hello, I’m Aysha, I write for games. Experience with both indie and AAA, along with IP writing and worldbuilding. I’ve lead teams and i’m great in a room. Hit me up

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Y'all got nary a clue. You are clue-free. Thou art unencumbered by clues. A clue hast not darkened thine door. A clue tornado has passed through Manhattan and the NYTimes trailer remains unscathed. The NYT is swimming in a river of clues and remains unwet. Y'all not like us.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A poet friend introduced me to her Travelogue album and I fell in love pretty much for the 1st ime besides the one or two songs I knew from my childhood. The voice, the poetry, the composition of the songs. I've never really gotten into Dylan but she would be my vote for a singer/song writer Nobel.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Damn. I was afraid she was real. Thank you for sharing.

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Stanley Stocker @stanleystocker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ever feel like you'd kill a mf for harming a fictional character? Listening to Joni Mitchell's "Cherokee Louise" had that effect on me. But then maybe she wasn't a fictional character? Mitchell seems to have often written about real people. So much the worse if she was real.

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