"Finch"
a typewriter haiku
by Caro Macon Fleischer
from @storystudiochicago.bsky.social StoryBall!
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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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New Claire Fuller alert! 📚📚📚
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An interview with Adrian Matejka about his new book, "Be Easy: New and Selected Poems."
Get your ticket for Chicago's hottest summer festival! Early Bird tickets are available now for StoryBoard Festival, August 15 at the Newberry Library -- a full day of creative writing, craft, and community. Choose from 15 classes and craft lectures.
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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
"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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"No matter what demons the mothers in this story are facing they are at fault because we expect motherhood to be enough for them."
@saralippmann.bsky.social's interview with Shasta Grant on "When We Were Feral" (@regalhouse.bsky.social) is out now.
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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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Jennifer Messner
"A story embedded within a novel, encased in an essay pouring into its center."
Mia Rhee's review of “Whistler” by Ann Patchett (@harperbooks.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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Kathleen Rooney
Chicago Review of Books
"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
Our review of Melissa Albert's new novel, "The Children."
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...
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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...
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...
I first came across the work of Shasta Grant more than a decade ago, albeit anonymously, when I judged the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split Lip Press in 2015. Grant’s razor sharp flash stood out...
