Thanks for the shoutout, Keith! 🙂

If you enjoy reading and talking about short stories, this is the substack for you.

Just joined Substack. If you’re interested in following, I’ll be posting about short story collections at @andrewporterwriter!

Thanks so much. Karen!

Premio Lattes Grinzane 2026: i finalisti e il Premio Speciale - Fondazione Bottari Lattes Julia Deck (Francia), Mathias Enard (Francia), Andrew Miller (Regno Unito), Andrew Porter (USA) e Clara Usón (Spagna) sono i finalisti della XVI edizione. Premio Speciale Lattes Grinzane 2026 a Amitav...

Incredibly honored and thrilled to learn that The Imagined Life is a finalist for the International LATTES GRINZANE Book Prize!! 🇮🇹

Here's the press release: fondazionebottarilattes.it/premio-latte...

MEMOIRS: FAMILY FUNCTION & DYSFUNCTION MEMOIRS: FAMILY FUNCTION & DYSFUNCTION, a session at the 14th Annual San Antonio Book Festival on April 11, 2026

Excited to be moderating the panel “MEMOIRS: FAMILY FUNCTION & DYSFUNCTION” with brilliant memoirists @amandauhle.bsky.social and Stefan Merrill Block at the San Antonio Book Festival this Saturday (4/11) at 3:00 PM at the Launch SA Center! #SABF sabookfestival.org/schedule-eve...

Join us in congratulating our fiction selections for the 2026 Best of the Net issue. The Great Renunciation by @laurenbarbato.bsky.social, The Sisters by @angieellis.bsky.social, The Harvest by Katie Field, Year of the Rat by @kirakh.bsky.social, and Baby Teeth by Sofia Sears are our fiction selections for 2026! Special thanks to @andrew.porter.writer for judging.

Join us in congratulating our fiction selections for the 2026 Best of the Net issue.

Special thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social for judging.

#bestofthenet #fiction

Honored to be included in this year's Best of the Net anthology! Huge thanks to @andrewporter01.bsky.social, @keithlesmeister.bsky.social, and the editors!

bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-2/2026-...

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Thanks for reading, Lisa! 🙂

Pour one out for the GOAT.

You can’t be a literary interviewer without reckoning with the work and influence of Michael Silverblatt.

Ours is not a large tribe—especially not over time. Very few people devote decades to this oddball, obsessive niche. I should know. 1/

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Thank you, Deborah!

Extremely honored to be lonlisted for the 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize!

So happy you enjoyed it! Thank you, Eric!

Thank you, Eric! 🙂

Thank you, @ericscottryon.bsky.social! 🙂

The Writer’s Desk with Andrew Porter - Gemini Ink

I had a blast doing this Writer’s Desk interview with Gemini Ink. You can read the full interview on their website. Also, If you’re interested, I will be offering a two-part Zoom lecture with Gemini Ink in February. Details at this link: geminiink.org/the-writers-...

Thank you so much for the very kind words and for reading my first collection!

Thank you to Ron Spatz and Alaska Quarterly Review for inviting me to read my short story “Mennonites” (originally published in AQR) as part of the Alaska Quarterly Review “ Pièces de Résistance” Reading Series. You can listen to the entire story at this link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZJ...

Excited to be be giving a craft lecture on setting and atmosphere as part of @geminiink.bsky.social’s Literary Masters Series this spring. If you’re interested in registering, you can find more info on Gemini Ink’s website: Geminiink.org.

Congratulations!

I’m looking forward to it!

Excited and honored to be the 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology! ✨

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: Andrew Porter!

Announcing our 2026 Fiction judge for the Best of the Net Anthology: @andrewporter01.bsky.social

Check out all our judges at bestofthenetanthology.com/2026-judges/

Thanks so much, Aaron! That means a lot, and congrats on the notable mention! I noticed that too! And yeah, I’m sure I’ll love Chris’s story. I’m a big fan! 🙂

Thanks so much for reading, Aaron! And I look forward to reading Chris’s story!

Spent my morning drinking coffee, reading the @andrewporter01.bsky.social story in this year's BASS, and writing the intro for then publishing this @livesinpages.bsky.social story.

Pretty great start to the day! (Now I gotta spend the rest of it prepping for tomorrow's first day of the semester...)

Episode 711: Andrew Porter — Writer's Bone Author Andrew Porter joins Daniel Ford on the show to chat about his latest novel The Imagined Life.

Best of 2025: Andrew Porter

Thank you so much, Evan. That’s a high compliment. I’m so happy to know you enjoyed it!