Media description: An ad for an online class. A head shot of a person with glasses looking into the camera. Text reads: 2026 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, February 1, 11am - 2pm PST, Writing Towards Liberation with Maya Cheav⁠

Join us in this poetry and fiction-focused workshop where we will utilize generative prompts to start new projects that write towards your own personal liberation and the social liberation of the world at large! Scholarship available!

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Calling all essayists! Disrupting your writing process will force you to write in new ways, which can help you unlock new ideas and discoveries on the page! Learn helpful strategies and gain generative exercises in this craft intensive.

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In this intensive suitable for prose writers, we will discuss a range of interdisciplinary work and theory and engage in generative exercises to explore the possibilities afforded by illegibility, opacity, and the refusal to explain!

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SPRING into uninterrupted creative time at a writing Residency in scenic PDX! Applications are due December 30th!

Our residencies include a stipend, private accommodation, Lyft credit, a reading/reception at Bishop & Wilde, and much more!

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Read more about @biancatherosestone.bsky.social's new collection ✨The Near and Distant World (1.13.26) & preorder now!
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The Best Books We Read in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books A list of the best books the CHIRB team and contributors read this year.

Parsed through stacks of ARCs & chose 2025 favorite books, like One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (@aaknopf.bsky.social), Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou (@tinhouse.bsky.social), & Sacrament by Susan Straight (Counterpoint).
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The Best Short Story Collections of 2025 - Chicago Review of Books Our favorite short story collections of 2025.

@penguinpress.bsky.social, @wwnorton.com, @tinhouse.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, and University of North Texas Press.
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Sit back, relax, and listen to Jeannie Vanasco read an excerpt from her superb new memoir, A SILENT TREATMENT (@tinhouse.bsky.social) -- the official December pick of the Otherppl Book Club.

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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TUMOR RESPONSE At North Star Bar, my aunt and I ordered most of the appetizers on the menu: rockfish bites, a pound of steamed shrimp, lemon-pepper hot wings. Over the feast, I saw her cry for the first time about the glioblastoma, about the invasive brain-tissue shift that would only extend her life by months. She murmured something about hair loss, and I searched for what to say-wishing her fate was one I could delay. It's gonna be alright, she whispered, recomposing. Careful, hands dusted in Old Bay, as she wiped what we were both digesting from her face. Will you take me to the water, she asked as she returned to peeling the carapace off a shrimp's body, exposing its pink flesh.

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 21 is 'Tumor Response' from 'Blue Opening' by Chet'la Sebree 💙 @tinhouse.bsky.social

Media description: An ad for an online class. A photo of a person in a black dress sitting against a fence. Text reads: 2026 Tin House Craft Intensives, Saturday, January 17, 9am - 12pm PST, Discovering Characters with Jeanne Thornton

In this intensive, we’ll examine how authors have achieved some of literature’s greatest characters, and then, in a series of practical exercises, we’ll discover and develop rounded characters that connect to our own deep experiences! Scholarship available!

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Check out my incredible interview with Natalia Theodoridou, author of Sour Cherry from @tinhouse.bsky.social up now at MichelleReneeBrady.podbean.com!!

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Media description: An ad for an online class. A head shot of a person with glasses looking into the camera. Text reads: 2026 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, February 1, 11am - 2pm PST, Writing Towards Liberation with Maya Cheav

Join us in this poetry and fiction-focused workshop where we will utilize generative prompts to start new projects that write towards your own personal liberation and the social liberation of the world at large! Scholarship available!

Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/wint...

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Calling all essayists! Disrupting your writing process will force you to write in new ways, which can help you unlock new ideas and discoveries on the page! Learn helpful strategies and gain generative exercises in this craft intensive.

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Debut author over 40? Apply to come hang out in Portland in April. If you want, we can go get coffee or something.

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Create space for your work, words, and springtime at the General Residency in PDX! Applications due on December 30th!

General Residency, April 2026: This residency is open to any writer working on a full-length manuscript.

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A writer's residency specifically for writers debuting after the age of 40? Amazing!!!

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BLOOM your writing at the Debut 40 Residency in scenic Portland!

This residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, Lyft credit, a reading/reception at Bishop & Wilde, and plenty of uninterrupted creative time in beautiful Portland! ⁠

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How gorgeous is the cover of this poetry collection from @tinhouse.bsky.social, y’all? Gonna dive in by the fire this weekend.

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THIS WEEKEND! This course will examine the effect that dialogue in all forms and methods—narratively, temporally, syntactically—manipulates both tension and movement within a scene. Generative exercises included!

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The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernández is a @scifri.bsky.social Book Club pick for January!📚💥

To celebrate, Science Friday is giving away a few copies of the book —enter at the link and get ready to start reading together on January 1st!

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Spring into creativity at The Break: Writers in Recovery Residency!

This residency includes a stipend, private accommodation, a public reading/reception at Bishop & Wilde, plenty of uninterrupted creative time in beautiful PDX, and more!

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hey goodfolks i am teaching my DISCOVERING CHARACTERS intensive again with @tinhouse.bsky.social ! Come through please on January 17; learn with me from my strange and wonderful power-points <3 tinhouse.com/product/wint...

The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social !

Foreign Fruit by Katie Goh!

Blue Opening by Chet'la Sebree!