The 2026 Climate Fiction Prize shortlist is here! 🤩 📚️

The Climate Fiction Prize, supported by Climate Spring, brings together six spectacularly wide-ranging novels for our 2026 shortlist, exploring the climate crisis, and our response to it.

Discover the shortlist: climatefictionprize.co.uk

thank you so much for reading

Amazing to see the book marked up this way! Thank you for sharing.

Sure, but only in a chat because some people may prefer the mystery!

I hadn't realized this! Thank you for sharing.

thank you for reading, Matt!

thank you for this, @lydianetzer.bsky.social. I plan to go on.

Our sinister Summer 2025 issue is out now! Guest-edited by Victor LaValle, this issue features prose by Helen Phillips, Deesha Philyaw, S. A. Cosby, Joanna Pearson, Carolyn Ferrell, and more. Grab your copy today: https://pshr.us/summer25

More Than 90 Authors to Join the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival Uniting book lovers for 25 years, the Library of Congress National Book Festival will return on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

NEWS: The full author lineup for the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival is out now! Mark your calendars for September 6th. 👇

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thank you for reading, Ben, and for these words

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So honored to hear it. And thank you for passing this along.

HUM is out in paperback today. 2 events:

DENVER, CO: Thur, 6/12, 7pm @ Lighthouse, alongside Eileen Myles, @tonytula.com, & Matthew Zapruder: lighthousewriters.org/.../visiting....

KINDERHOOK, NY: Fri, 6/27, 6pm @kinderhookbooks.bsky.social, in conversation w/ Paul Yoon: www.kinderhookbooks.com

Very honored to hear this, thank you

BOMB Magazine | The Coat A hole in the pocket of an old coat leads to unexpected discoveries in this short and metaphysical story.

New fiction in our Spring Issue by Helen Phillips.

"Clutching her belly, doubled over in pain, nauseated, I knew her well, a half-empty container of cheap deli soup in her hand, about to miscarry into someone else’s toilet."—Helen Philips

Elastic, the print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, is here. Our first issue, on the theme of dying, is available for order now—and it’s stacked, to put it mildly. Fifty contributors. 176 lush pages filled with work that bends time and space and perspective. Nab a copy at elasticmag.com.

NYC friends, a reminder that I'll be having my book launch at McNally Jackson Seaport on May 14th! With special guests @helencphillips.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, and Chloé Cooper Jones!

Please RSVP if you can come! www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/spaces...