TUESDAY NEXT WEEK — come to The Ethical Society at 9001 Clayton Road for a very special @leftbankbooks.bsky.social event. Kella Thornton (@kellathornton.bsky.social) and I will be talking all things The Veiled Prophet (@haymarketbooks.org) left-bank.com/event/2026-0...

Check out this nice article featuring Lingering Inland contributor @kellathornton.bsky.social! caps.washu.edu/caps-instruc...

CAPS Instructional Designer Contributes to Midwest Book Award Winner - Continuing & Professional Studies

WashU Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS) Instructional Specialist Kella Thornton is among the contributors being recognized after Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest won top honors ...

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Thrilled & honored to have one of my essays in a 2026 Midwest Book Awards-winning anthology (Humanities' category, bb!), edited by @andyoler.bsky.social, published by the @uofillinois.bsky.social press & inspired by the "Literary Landscapes" series in The New Territory Magazine 🎉🪩🌌 Woohoo!

Andy Oler@andyoler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We did it! LINGERING INLAND won a Midwest Book Award! Thanks to contributors Olga Herrera and Liz Wilkinson for accepting on behalf of all our contributors!

Pretty rad that this anthology I'm in, along with so many other amazing writers, has been named as a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the Humanities category ... P.S. A half-off summer sale happening now on this book & others through June 16: share.google/2eFJZfkuE3xo...

2026 Summer Sale - Illinois Press Blog

Keep cool and read books! From June 1 until June 16, you will receive 50% off *ALL* UIP bookswhen you purchase from our website with code SUMMER26. Browse books here. [...]Read More

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Andy Oler@andyoler.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm pretty pumped to announce that LINGERING INLAND has been named a finalist for the Midwest Book Awards in the Humanities category! Thanks again to all 73 contributors as well as The New Territory and @illinoispress.bsky.social for helping make this possible! www.mipa.org/midwest-book...

There could be a personal hole to scream into If you were writing a book you know

I am thrilled to support and celebrate @devintoshea.bsky.social's inaugural book launch tour this summer. Devin's fierce prose and reporting in the Veiled Prophet will be well worth the wait. It's a true honor to join you at Leftbank Books on July 7 📖🙌❣️

Devin Thomas O’Shea@devintoshea.bsky.social · 4mo ago

mark your calendars for TUESDAY JULY 7 at @leftbankbooks.bsky.social —  I'll be chatting with the endlessly talented, the one and only, @kellathornton.bsky.social left-bank.com/event/2026-0...

From Wendy Cope's book, If I Don't Know. #poem #booksky #writing

I'm exceedingly grateful to the incredible editorial team @trampset.bsky.social for a Best Microfiction nomination for "Green" 💚 thank you from the bottom of my heart for this incredible kindness 💚

trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Please help us congratulate our @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social nominees! @ladiwoods.bsky.social @robinwilder.bsky.social @amorak.bsky.social @kellathornton.bsky.social & @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social

Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine share.google/YFRZmrZAfs8k... Wanna party in St. Louis & celebrate the gorgeous, gritty beauty of Midwestern writers? Join me & a bunch of incredible writers, editors, & publishers who make the writing world a better place on 12/13

Lingering Inland Book Launch Party - The New Territory Magazine

Join us to celebrate Lingering Inland, an expansive anthology edited by Andy Oler. 73 original short essays explore locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary […]

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"I am the cool fizz of prosecco sliding down one’s throat during the golden hour. The chartreuse velvet couch we make out on after eating Vietnamese take-out." @kellathornton.bsky.social's "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...

Green

by Michaella Thornton

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Baby's first published prose-poem in @trampset.bsky.social, just in time for Halloween: "Green" trampset.org/green-b178ab...

So honored to be included in this dream publication. This Friday will mark my first-ever prose-poem publication 💚 a beautiful ode to the color green sparked by a writing prompt by the incredible writer and teacher @kathyfish.bsky.social in Casperia, Italy last fall (thank you, Kathy!)

trampset@trampset.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Oct issue drops Fri! Featuring @kellathornton.bsky.social @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social @hellbends.bsky.social @connorharding.bsky.social Ridwan Fasasi, @sainttangerine.bsky.social @mmkaufman.bsky.social @abhii106.bsky.social Genaro Aguilar, & Sara Kaplan-Cunningham Mark those calendars!

Sending love from Iceland 💓🇮🇸🌌

I'm super excited to be in this gorgeous anthology writing about one of my literary heroes, Kate Chopin, and about making art as a single parent when the world is falling apart

Andy Oler@andyoler.bsky.social · last yr.

Check it out: the pre-order link for Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest! This book collects dozens of #LiteraryLandscapes essays, and pre-orders will ship in November—perfect for Christmas! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

One of my favorite poems and poets: "Enough" by Suzanne Buffam | The Poetry Foundation share.google/kRNpFRjNO0FZ...

I'm teaching a five-week humor writing course beginning this week, and while there's an abundance of chaos and tragedy all around us, now, more than ever, we need to also employ humor to satirize, challenge, protest, ridicule, and illuminate what's happening in our country 💓

This weekend I helped a friend move some of their belongings out of their apartment in the Central West End. I won't share any of the photos I took, and I teared up driving to their apartment off Union. If you can, please help the St. Louis tornado relief efforts: www.stlmag.com/news/st-loui...

St. Louis tornado relief and recovery: How to get and give help

In the face of devastating loss, the St. Louis community shows grit and support.

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Success sometimes looks like eating red beans & rice on the porch of my brick bungalow while pale pink peonies bloom, Ani singing through the window, & I just finished meeting with my childhood library system, where I will be facilitating a workshop with a publisher whose work elevates the Midwest 🩷

Wound by Larry Levis I've loved you as a man loves an old wound picked up in a razor fight on a street nobody remembers. Look at him: even in the dark he touches it gently.

Human beings are not an “administrative error”

Hey Kansas City writers! I'm facilitating a Micro Essay Writing in-person workshop in collaboration with The New Territory Magazine & The Story Center of Kansas City, Missouri on May 31, 2025 from 10 AM-4 PM Central. To register for this free workshop, please visit: www.mymcpl.org/events/10615...

Plein Air Micro Essay Writing | Mid-Continent Public Library

Join The New Territory magazine and The Story Center for a full-day intensive on the micro essay form.

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How to be roasted by my 8yo right before bed this evening: read a graphic novel about dinosaurs, and she dead-eyed looked at me and smiled as she asked me: "So, these dinosaurs were around in the '80s right?" Sis, 65 million years ago dinosaurs died out. Not the '80s, not when I was a child 😭😂😉

💖 While you are at #AWP25, please make sure to pick up a copy of SCREAM QUEEN by our own @cdeskilson.bsky.social from @acrebooks.bsky.social & THANKS FOR THIS RIOT by @janellebassett.bsky.social from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social 💖

I could not be at AWP this year because of work. I'm sad to miss all the good talk about reading & writing. Also, as someone with a new-ish book out, I guess I'm missing the opportunity to spread the word - so here goes: I hope you'll consider ordering SAD GROWNUPS: bookshop.org/p/books/sad-...

Sad Grownups

Check out Sad Grownups - <p><strong>For those who've been sad and tried not to be, seventeen stories about the absurdity of searching for joy in a dying world. </strong></p><p><br></p><p>A neighborhoo...

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In a world full of cowards, I’m begging all of us to be fearless. To dig deep. To find someone or something to stand up for. To make things with our whole heart. To care about the most vulnerable. To write as if our lives depend on it. To do the right thing despite the cost. Now is the time.

Who are the five writers that made you? Toni Morrison Dorothy Allison Mary Gaitskill Jo Ann Beard Sei Shōnagon ❤️

Barlow Adams@barlowadams.bsky.social · last yr.

Who are the five writers that made you? William Faulkner Anton Chekov Percival Everett Shirley Jackson Kurt Vonnegut

Ever read a line in a book you want to commit to memory, it's so beautiful and true? I just began Raven Leilani's novel Luster, and swoon 💜

We're going to pay $150 for prose, poems, art, and beyond, for TBQ8, which will also be in print and released in the fall. We open 4/20. Official call and guidelines coming soon! Follow us, read all of our back issues online for free, and live más!

Peak girlhood is eating Girl Scout Cookies (s'mores is auh-mazing) while watching Alive Australia (also peak disassociation with everything going on) 😜

I keep thinking about our public school system & how gutting the DOE, which is on Trump's agenda, is going to hurt so many children in so many long-lasting, irreparable ways As the mother to a child with a 504 plan, I'm furious & ready to fight so hard for basic human decency in our government