Patrick Thomas Henry
@patrickthomashenry.bsky.social
Winner, 2022 NeMLA Creative Writing Book Award for Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024). Author of The Work of the Living (Clemson University Press, 2024). Fiction & Poetry Editor, Modern Language Studies. Caution: has cat.
These are the books we currently have available for review, with instructions at the top re: how to get in touch if you're interested in reviewing one of them for us.
Books Available For Review
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We may be late into June, but you can still catch my story “Into the Dream City,” which is this month’s featured fiction in @thirteenbridges.bsky.social!
Thirteen Bridges Review@thirteenbridges.bsky.social · 2mo agoCheck out this month’s fiction, poetry, and CNF at the links below. Fiction by Patrick Henry: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/june-2026-fi... Poetry by Ellis Purdie: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/june-2026-po... CNF by M. Mendoza Nilsson: www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/june-2026-cn...
Oh my gosh, what an awesome review of TQT! Thank you so much, @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social!
Patrick Thomas Henry@patrickthomashenry.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe erasure project of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, the newest book by Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, transforms a 1960s etiquette guide for girls into a crackling, second-person narrative about what teenaged girls in America really experience. Check out my review in @hfr.bsky.social!
The erasure project of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING, the newest book by Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social, transforms a 1960s etiquette guide for girls into a crackling, second-person narrative about what teenaged girls in America really experience. Check out my review in @hfr.bsky.social!
Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training
Readers of Mahler’s other excellent essay collections—Curing Season and A Calendar Is a Snakeskin—already know that form is clay in her hands, and she has a potter’s fine touch in shaping every wor…
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Feel your emotions about etiquette at the link in bio 🍴 Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training @autofocusbooks.bsky.social #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/06/16/t...
Nonfiction Review: Patrick Thomas Henry Reads Kristine Langley Mahler’s Essay Collection Teen Queen Training
Readers of Mahler’s other excellent essay collections—Curing Season and A Calendar Is a Snakeskin—already know that form is clay in her hands, and she has a potter’s fine touch in shaping every wor…
heavyfeatherreview.org
"to make a rabbit, she said, you melt down squares of pure-cacao despair" A piece full of starling images from @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social; wonderful thematic cohesion and originiality of character www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
twenty-six — Tiny Molecules
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I’m so grateful to @tinymolecules.bsky.social for publishing my flash fic, “On Auditioning to Become the Next Cadbury Spokes-Bunny,” in their latest issue. It’s an honor to share that space with the other dazzling stories in the issue! www.tinymolecules.com/issues/issue...
twenty-six — Tiny Molecules
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Chloe is simply one of the best and most generous folks in the literary community. Please consider helping her family out, if you can!
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
“Even though it is set in the Pittsburgh of 2009, City of Clans is necessary and timely, fiercely rebutting the voices clamoring for a super-charged restoration of masculine values.” @patrickthomashenry.bsky.social on CITY OF CLANS, out now from University of Iowa Press. pghrev.com/bright-light...
Bright Lights in the Steel City: On Geoff Peck’s City of Clans - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Reading Geoff Peck’s City of Clans punched a return ticket to a rite of passage, one I’d long ago filed in the recesses of my memory. A Friday night in
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I would like to have a word with the writers room about our storyline
Rajiv Moté@rajivmote.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhoa. On this very date in 1990, the U.S. apprehended Manuel Noriega in the "Operation Just Cause" invasion of Panama.
Apply to work in our great creative writing program! The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
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The Visiting Writer Chair will consult closely with, and work under the direction of, the Director and Assistant Director of Creative Writing on Edelstein-Keller annual programming. The programming is facilitated by staff support and agreed upon by the Creative Writing Program faculty.
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"The decision to close a university press has wide-ranging implications for not only the home institution & its reputation within the academic community but for the pursuit of intellectualism & critical inquiry in academia and beyond," writes Jeremy Chow @insidehighered.com.
Why Close Bucknell University Press? (opinion)
Erosions of shared governance, narrow definitions of “student-centeredness” and a broader abandonment of a liberal arts ethos all lie behind the closure announcement. In an Aug. 14 email, Bucknell University provost Wendy Sternberg notified the university community that Bucknell University Press would cease to exist at the end of the academic year. Without consulting BUP’s faculty editorial board, which oversees the press and falls under the auspices of the provost’s office, or Bucknell’s faculty or staff at large, the decision was rendered a fait accompli that blindsided the local Bucknell community as well as past, present and prospective BUP authors, editors and contributors.
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The students in our MFA program have published the latest volume of their literary journal Paper Dragon (with some help from Drexel Publishing Group). drexelpaperdragon.com/volume-10/
Volume 10 - Paper Dragon
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On the other hand: there are so many first-time submitters in this round of submissions I’m reading for MLS, and it’s just a joy to see their unbridled enthusiasm for fiction and poetry. That hope and energy are truly special to see!
Going to take a break from reading submissions, after encountering this cover letter that called magic realism and fabulism cheap, trendy, and meaningless… Unsolicited pro tip: please don’t do this in your cover letter.
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
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Notre Dame Press is hiring! Come work with meeee! 🤠
Paths in Publishing @pathsinpub.bsky.social · 9mo ago#PublishingJob Alert!!🚨 @undpress.bsky.social is hiring a Marketing and Sales Coordinator! 📖 1-2 years in prior publishing or marketing experience required 📖 University press experience is preferred 📖 Up to $26/hour, full-time 📖 Deadline of 12/1/25 More details: careers.nd.edu/search-caree...
Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit
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To celebrate #NationalTranslationMonth, we’ve compiled a list of books in translation in our newest blog post! Use code RUP30 on book purchases published by @bucknellupress.bsky.social for a discount and free US shipping. To read, shop our catalog, and more: linktr.ee/bucknellupress
All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions. Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M
Join SmokeLong for Promptember! This series of write-ins and open mics is free! Let's write! Donations will go to @sundresspub.bsky.social and their fellowships/residencies for trans, black and/or indigenous writers. www.smokelong.com/ready-for-pr...
I’m humbled by Natalie Gardner’s effervescent review of PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST on the @sundresspub.bsky.social blog! I love her perfect description of my book as “a multivocal rat-king of a collection operating by the logic of dream.” sundressblog.com/2025/06/09/s...
Sundress Reads: Review of Practice for Becoming a Ghost - The Sundress Blog
Practice for Becoming a Ghost (Susquehanna University Press, 2024) is a collection of sixteen short stories from critic and author Patrick Thomas Henry. It is a twisting, surreal book about ghosts, fa...
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Big opportunity alert: we're open for applications to join the Split/Lip Press editorial team as our Creative Director! More details at the app link in our bio ( splitlippress.submittable.com), but everyone's favorite point to note: *yes we pay* Really looking forward to hearing from you all!
some books you should grab on #IndieBookstoreDay! (that's today!) 🧵
In honor of independent bookstore day: 1 like equals one book you should definitely pick up from your favorite bookstore
We're so excited to announce: APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🤩 SLM is expanding our Social Media Team! Our mag is an all-volunteer team with a passion for words, art, and just good vibes ✨ Apply on submittable ASAP--applications are open for 1 week! buff.ly/3RlJZb1
VERY big announcement: we'll be opening a completely new genre for submissions, starting in April 2026, and we've got our editor all picked out! Help us welcome long-time novel/novella reader @erinvachon.bsky.social to the role of Multigenre + Chapbook Editor!
