27 Books Coming in March

The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑

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Here are my April book recommendations!

Check out the titles that impressed me here: readeratworkblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/s...

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Photo of me holding "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann

Newest addition to my bookshelf 📚 "The Beheading Game" by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social ❤️ I've been looking forward to reading this for ages!

Thanks for reading The Beheading Game—glad you enjoyed it!

The Beheading Game: A Novel A Novel

Really loved this reimagining of Anne Boleyn by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social. Fantastical, suspenseful, compassionate, & with a sapphic side quest to boot 👑

This week's authors on Bluesky: @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @barfridmantell.bsky.social @annacelenza.bsky.social

Publishers: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @harperbooks.bsky.social @grandcentralpub.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social

Now here's ep. 395B! Rebecca Lehmann shares THE BEHEADING GAME, a sharp-as-knives work of speculative historical fiction that imagines Anne Boleyn's mysterious resurrection after her execution. @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social

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And this book and fascinating and wild and cathartic as hell. Thanks @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social!

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Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes

Sending so much virtual support. Hang in there. It will get better 💜

Rebecca Lehmann: Resurrecting Anne Boleyn and Going from Poet to Novelist Eva and Amanda chat with Rebecca Lehmann, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood and bringing a poetry background to novel-writing.

"The thing about the story that I find resonant and that I think resonates with people 500 years later is that in so many ways, it seems like she's a woman being punished for her power and her success."

@rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, author of The Beheading Game:

I hope you enjoy! Thanks!

This convo was a delight! Tune in to hear me talk The Beheading Game, Anne Boleyn as a mother, and my own attempts at “pizza” parenting 🍕😂

The Beheading Game is an Indie Next Pick for April!!! Plus, tour dates! Pre-orders open now: 3/24 pub date US, 3/26 pub date UK @crownpublishing.bsky.social

27 Books Coming in March

The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann: 9798217086481 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to...

Hi All!! The Beheading Game pubs on 3/24 US @crownpublishing.bsky.social & 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). What if Anne Boleyn woke up after her execution, sewed her head back on & tried to kill Henry VIII before he could remarry? Long may she reign 🪡🗡️👑

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786110...

The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann: 9798217086481 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786110...

It was a DELIGHT to talk THE BEHEADING GAME with @chatteronbooks.bsky.social Link below to listen and also link below to pre-order TBG—out 3/24 US, 3/26 UK 🪡👑🗡️

Book covers of The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann, Love Prodigal by Traci Brimhall, Slip by Nicole Callihan, We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik, Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler, and Extinction Level by Amorak Huey.

A great little book haul from the @nolapoetry.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social's chapbook waiting for me. Can't wait to dig into poems from @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social & Patrycja Humienik.

TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I

am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann

“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

My huge thanks to Susie of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for this brilliant sounding The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social coming from @vintagebooks.bsky.social Harvill in March
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Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners Lawrence Foundation Award $2000 Skyler Melnick, "Sisterhood of Dirt," Fall 2025 Virginia Faulkner Awards $500 Morgan Christie, "Sapphire Gurl," Spring 2025 Ben Freedman, "That Summer," Fall 2025 Bernice Slote Award $500 Luca van der Heide, "Halina's Guest House," Fall 2025 Edward Stanley Award $500 Thomas Kneeland, two poems, Fall 2025

Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners Strousse Award $500 Migwi Mwangi, "Like So, Like So," Fall 2025 Ervin and Loretta Krause Freedom of Expression Award $500 Ell Peck, "A Paper Lantern Over the Light: Becoming Blanche DuBois," Fall 2025 Jane Geske Award $250 Carolina Murriel, "Driving My Tías Through Miami," Spring 2025 Hugh J. Luke Award $250 Priyam Goel, "3 White Witches," Winter 2025

Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners First Place Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award $1500 Rebecca Lehmann, seven poems, Spring 2025 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards $500 Fayssal Bensalah, ""Your Son Is with Pollen and Dust," Fall 2025 Virginia Kane, two poems, Winter 2025 Dominic Russ-Combs, "Faith," Winter 2025 George Uba, two poems, Spring 2025 Anthony Yarbrough, "Cruiser," Spring 2025

With generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award 15 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published in 2025.

Award winners include @skyskkyy.bsky.social, @thomaskneeland.bsky.social, @ellgpeck.bsky.social, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, and more.

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The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social is a brilliantly original debut novel which imagines the undead Anne Boleyn plotting vengeance on her murderers with the aid of fenlander Alice. Brilliant #Tudor history with a good sprinkle of magic - out 26th March!

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Contributor Publications Winter 2024-2025 By Staff

Sharing the latest publications from MR contributors, including David Ricchiute, Amanda Hawkins, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and more!
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