So thrilled to see TWO @triohousepress.org titles on the April @merliterary.bsky.social Bookshelf! Daughter of Salt by Leila Farjami and My Wise Little Ghost by Emily Hyland! merliterary.com/2026/04/15/m...
Buy one get one free at our poetry month sale! triohousepress.myshopify.com/collections/...

"One of the most life-changing realizations you can have is 'I don’t have to believe my thoughts . . . they are just thoughts!'" ~ Tara Brach

#ICYMI: In our latest issue we offer advice on how to spot phishing schemes targeting writers, report on the closure of California College of the Arts, and take a closer look at the Anthropic copyright settlement and the ruling of fair use. Find out more: at.pw.org/MayJune2026

The magazine spread of the special section featuring the title, "Inspiring Contests: A Season's Worth of Winning Reasons to Write."

Writing contests can do more than offer a material prize; they can affirm the purpose of our work. The new May/June issue highlights forty inspiring contests that can galvanize your own writing—and serve as a reminder of just how much readers want and need your words. Read on: at.pw.org/MayJune2026

Please check out our blog (linktree in bio) to read more about the work of Leila Farjami and her book Daughter of Salt (Trio House Press, 2026).🌟 @triohousepress.org

There's no money in poetry, as they say, but there's no money in short stories either.
What about novels?
No. All the money's in home repairs.

you cannot be precious about your own work. i cut ~30 poems from my new poetry manuscript. i cut ~50 pages of material while working on my book of craft essays. i know for fiction writer friends it’s normal to cut many, many pages to find the right structure for a novel.

Join us on Zoom, April 13, 7:00 pm PDT, for a poetry reading about California's native plants.

Looking forward to seeing you for this reading event! delcolibraries.libcal.com/event/16690224 @triohousepress.org

9 New Books by Women Comedians That Feel Like a Catch-Up With Your Funniest Friend We created a roundup of some of the funniest new books, all by women comedians. Prepare to howl with laughter and text your friends the best parts.

Check out this reading rec list from @realsimple.com, featuring @courtneykocak.bsky.social’s Girl Gone Wild!

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The Long Road to Girl Gone Wild: From First Essay to Publication & Promotion with Antonia Crane Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcome Today’s guest is Antonia Crane, author, academic, and one of my all-time favorite memoirists. In this special episode, the tables are turned as Antonia interviews me about my debut memoir https://amzn.to/4snxAA8, and we get into what it actually takes to write a book over 15 years and finally share it with the world. We talk about the long, nonlinear road from first essay to finished memoir, including incubators with Chloe Caldwell, revising through many drafts, and why sometimes you have to write an entire version of a book just to figure out what it isn’t. We also get into structure, how trusting your gut can be more important than following industry expectations, the difference between factual accuracy and emotional truth, the challenge of fact-checking your own life, and why writing about the past often means confronting the parts you’ve tried hardest to forget. We discuss “dark teachers,” perfectionism, and the complicated process of making meaning out of tough experiences like addiction, abusive relationships, and sexual trauma. Plus, we get into sex work, feminism, the male gaze, and the cultural forces shaping https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541—from growing up in small-town Minnesota to chasing Hollywood dreams and encountering its underbelly. Subscribe to Antonia's Substack https://antoniacrane.substack.com/welcome. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/antoniacrane/ @antoniacrane, and buy your copy of her amazing memoir Spent on https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781942600862, or wherever books are sold! Get your copy of Courtney's debut memoir Girl Gone Wild from https://bookshop.org/a/85623/9781949487541 or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3M7EYR5. The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on https://www.instagram.com/courtneykocak/ and https://bsky.app/profile/courtneykocak.bsky.social. For more, check out her website https://courtneykocak.com/links. Courtney is teaching some upcoming workshops you might be interested in: - https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/the-multi-passionate-writers-life-zoom-seminar-with-courtney-kocak - https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/how-to-build-a-platform-for-writers-who-shudder-at-the-thought-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-a-newsletter-to-supercharge-your-platform-network-business-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/memoir-in-essays-incubator-nonfiction-writing-workshop-online-june-2026: https://writingworkshops.com/products/memoir-in-essays-incubator-nonfiction-writing-workshop-online-june-2026 - https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar: https://writingworkshops.com/products/land-big-bylines-by-writing-for-columns-zoom-seminar - https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak: https://writingworkshops.com/products/start-podcast-workshop-courtney-kocak

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So this happened…my new book, Material, hit #1 under New Releases in LatAm Poetry 🫶

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Poetry fails, in each poem, to be as good as poetry ought to be-or as I somehow think it somewhere is, somewhere I'm not looking. Every flesh is flawed and poems are flesh.

– Donald Hall

Stock up on @triohousepress.org titles during poetry month! Buy one get one free, including pre-orders!!
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Congratulations to @triohousepress.org author @martheaus.bsky.social, artist Broadie, and cover designer Baonhia Xiong on winning the final round of Book Jacket Bracket and earning a place on the Shelf of Immortality! 💛💜💛💜 bookjacketbracket.com/shelf/

Poem in Which I Keyword Search My Brother' Give me a map of the world & I can find my brother anywhere. At 63 Brian Avenue in Dublin or in Eden District at Brothers Lake. According to legend, Brothers Lake was named for two brothers who drowned in the water's hands on their way to church. One boy's saving tied to two boys destruction. Days later, a procession of horses at the water's edge carrying tiny coffins on their backs. Ask my brother & he'll tell you he was to die young because he, too, was legend. Proud & quiet in his suffering, a thousand empty bottles sunken into the frantic lake of his heart. & against the enfolding blue, the tragedy at Brothers Lake, was that the fate of the brothers or the fate of the water? A single hand grasping after its double. The last time I held my brother's hands, he'd been in a refrigerator for days. For once, his cold & iron hands, the hands of a king. Hands I held in December as we lowered the ash of his body into the Gulf. Floating yellow blooms the new coordinates of a thing. & though I am low on faith, if asked where my brother is, I'11 tell you now I know. Because just today, I have died there three times already.

Day —6 National Poetry Month
Poem in Which I Keyword Search
'My Brother'
Susan L. Leary -Dressing The Bear
—Give me a map of the world
& I can find my brother anywhere. ❤️

Voting ends 4/6, so get your vote in for The Grace of Black Mothers NOW! Thanks!!💛💜💛💜💛💜

In her interview with Cynthia Via, @anamariacaballero.bsky.social discusses the intersection between poetry, technology, and visual art. Read it on the @triohousepress.org Substack: open.substack.com/pub/triohous...

Here’s a Friday writing prompt from Perugia Press, drawn from the poetry collection DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS by Joan Kwon Glass. Find more prompts, poems & questions in our reading companions & check out Glass’s book & others in our bookshop (see linktree). @joankwonglass.bsky.social

We at @triohousepress.org are thrilled to announce the acquisition of Elina Katrin’s debut full-length poetry collection, Overwintered, releasing in early 2027! 💛💜💛💜

Goodreads Giveaway Alert! Enter to win a copy of War Boys by @jasonprokowiew.bsky.social before it is released in July! goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire 191: Courtney Kocak "The essays in Girl Gone Wild are episodic but very much in conversation with each other. I think of them as crêpes—individually snackable, but collectively filling."

Check out @saribotton.bsky.social’s interview with @courtneykocak.bsky.social on @memoirland.bsky.social’s Substack! 💜💛💜💛
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Material Material : Caballero, Ana María: Amazon.es: Books

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Material made Amazon’s Hot New Releases! Thx to all who’ve preordered! Link below.

#AAAS2026 come thru! I'll have early copies of Continental Drift, my debut poetry collection, and a convo on the work with my brilliant #AsianAmericanLiterature colleagues Drs. Aline Lo & Michele Janette. Thursday 4/2, 11:20am–12:20pm in Kahili I.

ALSO tomorrow morning, I'll be moderating this AMAZING crew of artist-scholars in a unique roundtable & creative workshop for #AAAS2026. breaking form: a workshop for creative praxis & asian americanist critique will be Thurs 4/2, 9:40am in Iolani V. #dreamteam

Happy Publication Day, @courtneykocak.bsky.social! Girl Gone Wild has hit the shelves! Get your copy anywhere books are sold, or order directly from @triohousepress.org: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Poetry is language behaving fearlessly in pursuit of emotional truth. Sometimes this is a matter of saying plainly what is difficult to muster.

-- Tracy K. Smith

Only one day left to enter our poetry book contests!!! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

Please vote now for The Grace of Black Mothers by @martheaus.bsky.social — one of two finalists in the Book Jacket Bracket of the year!!

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