Helen Phillips
@helencphillips.bsky.social
author of hum & the need & others https://www.helencphillips.com/
with much gratitude to @climate-fiction.bsky.social
Climate Fiction Prize@climate-fiction.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe're thrilled to announce that Hum by Helen Phillips is the winner of the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize! “Hum deals with love, community and family in the face of the climate crisis, privilege and the age of AI.” Arifa Akbar, Chair of Judges
The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️ The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it. Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk
Our sinister Summer 2025 issue is out now! Guest-edited by Victor LaValle, this issue features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S. A. Cosby, Joanna Pearson, Carolyn Ferrell, and more. Grab your copy today: https://pshr.us/summer25
NEWS: The full author lineup for the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival is out now! Mark your calendars for September 6th. 👇 newsroom.loc.gov/news/more-th...
More Than 90 Authors to Join the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival
Uniting book lovers for 25 years, the Library of Congress National Book Festival will return on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
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HUM is out in paperback today. 2 events: DENVER, CO: Thur, 6/12, 7pm @ Lighthouse, alongside Eileen Myles, @tonytula.com, & Matthew Zapruder: lighthousewriters.org/.../visiting.... KINDERHOOK, NY: Fri, 6/27, 6pm @kinderhookbooks.bsky.social, in conversation w/ Paul Yoon: www.kinderhookbooks.com
New fiction in our Spring Issue by Helen Phillips. "Clutching her belly, doubled over in pain, nauseated, I knew her well, a half-empty container of cheap deli soup in her hand, about to miscarry into someone else’s toilet."—Helen Philips
BOMB Magazine | The Coat
A hole in the pocket of an old coat leads to unexpected discoveries in this short and metaphysical story.
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Elastic, the print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, is here. Our first issue, on the theme of dying, is available for order now—and it’s stacked, to put it mildly. Fifty contributors. 176 lush pages filled with work that bends time and space and perspective. Nab a copy at elasticmag.com.
NYC friends, a reminder that I'll be having my book launch at McNally Jackson Seaport on May 14th! With special guests @helencphillips.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, and Chloé Cooper Jones! Please RSVP if you can come! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/spaces...
