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"This was my slide into writing something that turned out to be a futuristic world."
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social's interview with @debolinunferth.bsky.social on "Earth 7" (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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"From an eerie start to an astonishing finish, The Children seeps into every pore."
Lucy Rees's review of “The Children” by Melissa Albert (@wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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"A testament to what speculative fiction can do by making the psychological physical."
@reemasabrina.bsky.social's review of “Sublimination” by Isabel Kim (@torbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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"Many of us want to create a thing that is better than the skills we have, and to get there, you must be self-assessing and critical."
@samforbreakfast.bsky.social's interview with @adrianmatejka.bsky.social on "Be Easy" (@liveright.bsky.social) is out now.
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"In sculpting, you are given the piece of wood or stone and then you have to work it, whereas with writing you have to create the stone or wood, which is harder." Maddie Schultz's interview w/ Claire Fuller on "Hunger & Thirst" (@tinhouse.bsky.social) is out now.
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New Claire Fuller alert! 📚📚📚
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It's been a busy week here at StoryStudio!
✍️ We launched four new cohorts of Novel In A Year
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Hunger and Thirst, a literary horror and suspense novel set in 1980s Britain, felt like it was made for me to read. The story follows Ursula in two time periods: her teenage years, where she is a poor...
"Finch"
a typewriter haiku
by Caro Macon Fleischer
from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social StoryBall!
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Chicago Review of Books
Chicago Review of Books
Chicago Review of Books
A week after my #debut #poetry #book SO grateful for reviews/interviews @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social @christopherofspace.bsky.social Helena de Groot @poetry.foundation Janday Wilson New Haven Independent @karlajstrand.com @msmagazine.com The Poetry Shop 5 @katiekemple.bsky.social @therumpus.net
Jennifer Messner
"In sculpting, you are given the piece of wood or stone and then you have to work it, whereas with writing you have to create the stone or wood, which is harder." Maddie Schultz's interview w/ Claire Fuller on "Hunger & Thirst" (@tinhouse.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/09/c...
StoryStudio Chicago
StoryStudio Chicago
Hunger and Thirst, a literary horror and suspense novel set in 1980s Britain, felt like it was made for me to read. The story follows Ursula in two time periods: her teenage years, where she is a poor...
Today, Deb Olin Unferth publishes her seventh book, Earth 7, an innovative science-fiction novel that animates the isolation, loneliness, and intimacy that comes with an incinerated planet and a popul...
