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The official literary journal of Texas State University’s MFA program in Creative Writing @txstenglish | Learn more @txstmfa | Submissions: open!

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Calling all artists! Porter House Review is now open for submissions as of October 1st! Offer us your most creative, original work. We can't wait to see it! Use link to submit!
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Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN! Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th. All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
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Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your breathtaking poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all! Get a MOOOve on!
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We are ✨STILL OPEN for SUBMISSIONS✨! Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction! We want to see your work! Keep it coming! ✍️
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Porter House Review will be open for submissions for all categories tomorrow, September 15th! We can't wait to read your work. Get ready to send us your fiction, nonfiction or poetry.
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The *free submission week* for PHR's Editor's Prize contest begins tomorrow and runs through December 11th! (🧵)
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Porter House Review is now open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Offer us your affecting, inventive, conversation starting work - we can't wait to read it.
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Attention creators! As we enter our final week of open submissions, Porter House Review is offering a free period for you to send us your work. Submissions for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are open now until November 15th, so act fast!
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In case you missed it: Porter House Review is currently open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Offer us your affecting, inventive, conversation starting work - we can't wait to read it.
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Calling all creators! On Sunday, October 1st, Porter House Review will be open for submissions in all categories. We look forward to reading your fiction, poetry, and nonfiction work.
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LAST DAY for submissions this season is TOMORROW!!
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Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN! Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th. All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
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Submissions are open for our 2022 – 2023 Editor’s Prizes in Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry, judged this year by Edgar Gomez, Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, and Shayla Lawson. Submission window 11/15/22-12/31/22. @otroedgargomez
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Just another reminder that we're open for submissions for our 2022-2023 Editor's Prize, and that during the week of December 4th through December 11th, submission fees will be waived. Find out more about this year's judges and how to submit here:
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Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all! P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
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Porter House Review is now open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Send, send, send us your work. We want to read it! P.S. We pay up to $200 depending on genre and length.
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Porter House Review is open for FICTION submissions until further notice! We welcome traditional short stories, flash fiction, and other hybrid forms up to 6,000 words. And ICYDK, we are dedicated to paying all of our featured writers :-)
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"I always say Mother Nature is the greatest poet—I’m just trying to take notes." —Aimee Nezhukumatathil @aimeenez in her interview w/ Melissa Huckabay @melpsoul
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Our 2020 Pushcart Prize nominees: "Coronation" by @vanjchan "Re: Frankie" by @mackenziepmcgee "On the 4th of July, we confuse gunshots with fireworks" by @kiYAWNna "By Yes" by Claire Scott "Strange Rains" by @quinn_jill "Muhammads in Gaza" by @LKTuffaha
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A Halloween treat: We'll be holding a free submission period for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from tomorrow, 11/1 through Sunday, 11/7!
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Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all! P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
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Yiyun Li has selected "World Without End" by @pmpatters as this year's PHR Editor's Prize Winner in Fiction! She also chose "Kun" by @stars_su and "Get Ready" by Astha Gupta as Finalists. Li wrote that she enjoyed all three stories tremendously.
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We're opening for submissions next week—and our reading period begins with a week of waived fees! Since we can't have summer out in the real world, let's have it in our Submittable queues.🍦
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Here it is, the best time of the year! And no, we don't mean Christmas. We mean @SundressPub 's the Best of the Net! Congratulations to our nominees! @phil_eep @horenchun @kiYAWNna @KillerEmm @Scrimmie @vanjchan @maija_makinen @LKTuffaha
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LAST DAY to submit for all three genres is TODAY!
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Porter House Review's ✨FREE SUBMISSION✨ period is OPEN! Submission costs will be waived for Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction from Nov. 1st - Nov. 8th. All our submissions will close for the season November 8th, so be sure to get your work into us!!
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🎄 CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY 🎄: We're giving away three FREE broadsides signed by @carmenmmachado ! Retweet this post to put your name in the running (and follow our account so we can DM you if you win). We'll use a random generator to select winners at 5 p.m. on December 26.
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Let's hear it for the winners of the Porter House Review Editor's Prize! Fiction, judged by @carmenmmachado : Lady Sings by @mantbares Poetry, judged by @adalimon : Cricket Noon by @onlytenyousee Nonfiction, judged by @lsjamison : To Be Loved by @parapluie_vert_
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Porter House Review submissions are open for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction!
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We just want to thank EVERYONE who submitted to us this past season. It means a lot that you trust us with reading your work. Our submissions have officially closed for the season, but don't worry, we've still got some special tricks up our sleeves! STAY TUNED!
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Our FREE submission period is almost over! (Ends Sunday 11/7). Send us your work—we want to read it.
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GIVEAWAY: broadsides signed by Morgan Parker ( @morganapple ) & Tommy Pico. We're sending these out as sets—it would be wrong to separate Morgan and Tommy. For a chance to win, just make sure you're following us and retweet this tweet by September 4.
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Noms noms noms: Part 1 😋 Congratulations to our 2021 @PushcartPrize nominees! Patricia Patterson ( @pmpatterson ), Kabi Hartman, Lena Crown ( @which_is_to_say ), Dev Jannerson ( @DPJannerson ), Elizabeth Bolton ( @DrBoltonWriting ), and Dorsía Smith Silva
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@PorterHouseLit
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Now accepting submissions of your best poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction (up to 5,500 words) at http://t.co/fqmEXKkDVk.
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Happy pub day, indeed! 🤩 Check out @mackenziepmcgee ’s story, “Re: Frankie,” selected for the 2021 Dau Prize and first published in PHR!
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Happy pub day to all of the amazing debut authors collected in BEST DEBUT SHORT STORIES 2021, and a huge thank you to our judges @NK_Adjei , @KaliMaFaja and Beth Piatote, series editors @sarahlynwrites and @yignarski , and of course @PENamerica !
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We're so, so honored to announce that we've won @CLMPorg 's 2020 Firecracker Award in Magazines (Best Debut)! Thank you to everyone who made this possible, especially our hardworking staff and our talented contributors. We're excited for the year ahead!
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The winner of the 2020 Firecracker Award in Magazines (Best Debut) is @PorterHouseLit !
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The results of our 2019 Editor's Prize are in, and looking at this list, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for the community of artists who have trusted is with their work. Please help us celebrate our winners and finalists.
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Congratulations to the winners of PHR's 2021 Poetry Contest judged by @aimeenez ! 1ST: "Still Life with Bouquet, Golden Spade" by @literari_ana 2ND: "February 23, 2020" by @Aswagaawy 3RD: "Ni hao" by @mspicone All three poems will be published in PHR in the coming months!
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We are still open, y'all!
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Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your breathtaking poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all! Get a MOOOve on!
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Like many journals, we charge submission fees in order to pay the annual cost of Submittable and compensate our contributors. However, we don't want to exclude anyone who can't afford the fee—which is why we'll now be open for free subs at the beginning of every reading period.
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Congratulations Mackenzie McGee ( @mackenziepmcgee ) whose debut short story "Re: Frankie" has won @PENamerica 's PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, judged by Nana Kwame Adjel-Brenyah ( @NK_Adjei ), Beth Piatote, & Kali-Fajardo Anstine Read the story here:
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Our beloved managing editor emeritus @taykir ’s essay “The Scopophiliac’s Gift Shop” (pub’d by @creamcityreview ) was listed as a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2021! Congratulations, Taylor!
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We're open for general poetry and nonfiction subs for ONE WEEK ONLY! Free submissions are available until we meet our cap:
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ICYMI: we're open for nonfiction, poetry, and fiction submissions (though fiction will close again next week)! We pay all of our writers up to $200 depending on length, and we'd love to see your name—yes, you—in the queue.
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Noms noms noms: Part 2 😋 Congratulations to our 2021 @SundressPub Best of the Net nominees! @mackenziepmcgee , @mayallegedly , @failedcaptcha , @_eolhc_eolhc_ , @CarolynROliver , @JoseHernandezDz , and @JohnSibleyWill1
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@PorterHouseLit
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WE ARE LIVE! Our inaugural issue features Lauren K. Alleyne, Cindy Bradley ( @cindysea429 ), Fernando A. Flores, Jeremy Griffin, Tyehimba Jess ( @TyehimbaJess ), Mũthoni Kiarie ( @AfroSparrow ), Nida Sophasarun, Lisa Russ Spaar, Jillian Weise, and more!
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Hello hello hello, did you know we have opened up for our fall submissions? Fiction will be open until October 21, and poetry will be open until November 15. Additionally, don't forget about our contest! The juicy details are available below.
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Porter House Review is excited to announce our 2019 Editor’s Prize is now open for submissions! Our amazing genre judges are Carmen Maria Machado ( @carmenmmachado ), Leslie Jamison ( @lsjamison ), Ada Limón ( @adalimon ), & Meg Lionel Murphy ( @cloudcarvings ).
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Congratulations to all the @txstmfa students graduating today!! 🎓✨
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Yes, we're Porter House, but let us also be your piece's home. This is a small reminder that our fiction, creative nonfiction, and flash submissions will be closing on July 31st. We are looking forward to reading your work!
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Happy birthday to Pulitzer prize and National Book Award winner Katherine Anne Porter—our namesake. Best known for her novel SHIP OF FOOLS, and short story collections like FLOWERING JUDAS and PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, Porter was born in Indian Creek, TX on May 15, 1890.
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We noticed a lot of deadlines were stacking up at the end of April, so we wanted to give you all a few more weeks to submit work. Our deadline has been EXTENDED until May 15. @submittable
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Summertime, and the submittin's easy. 🍦 Starting July 1st, you can submit your fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry to us for FREE until July 7th! As always, we pay competitive rates for these categories. We look forward to reading your work.
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"They danced on my molars and hid in my gums. They echoed my thoughts as I had them, especially the soft ones, forming like cotton between the teeth, and the violent ones, burning at those I hated." ⁠—from @kaitayates "Bite" (her debut short story! 👏)
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In addition to launching our nonfiction contest, we opened submissions for poetry and fiction today! Submit to these two categories with no fee until end of day tomorrow.
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Submissions close in two days!
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Today's the day: submissions for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction are CLOSING! Get your work in by the end of the day - we can't wait to read it!
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Happy Halloween! Your treat: we're giving away $2,450 in prizes for our contest. Judges: FICTION | Carmen Maria Machado ( @carmenmmachado ) POETRY | Ada Limón ( @adalimon ) NONFICTION | Leslie Jamison ( @lsjamison ) ART | Meg Lionel Murphy ( @cloudcarvings )
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It's spooky season, and we made a list of our favorite haunted tales to round out the month of October. 🎃 Selections include @JoyceCarolOates , @marykarrlit , @loki_writes , @Lvandenberg , & more—
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Now accepting submissions for interviews and reviews until February 28! This is our first time having a public call for interviews, and we want it all—interviews with brand new writers, with small magazine editors, with visual artists, and more.
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It's getting awfully cold outside, so why not snuggle up inside with us and listen to some talented writers? We will be featuring readers from both PHR and Texas State's MFA program. Make sure you pencil down December 5th, 7:00-8:30 pm (CST as usual). @RAICESTEXAS
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: PHR's 2020 creative nonfiction contest is accepting submissions until December 15, and we're thrilled to announce Hanif Abdurraqib will judge our finalists. To celebrate, submit TODAY for the reduced fee of $7:
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In her essay, "Thirteen Ways of Looking," Lena Crown, @which_is_to_say , writes a love letter to St. Louis—and says goodbye to a person she loved there. Don't miss this innovative work from a finalist in our 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest! 🙌🏻
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The ❤️ continues this Friday! Join us for a special poetry/poetic fiction reading at 7:00 p.m. CST on Zoom. Meeting ID: 934 6524 1711 Passcode: 010556
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Congratulations to Porter House Review fiction contributor @vanjchan ! We’re looking forward to reading her short story collection and debut novel! In the meantime, peep her short story “Coronation” which we loved immediately and published in March 2020:
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Vanessa Chan
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A few weeks ago, on the first day of the lunar new year - the Year of the Tiger, MY YEAR, while I was home in Malaysia with my family - my dreams came true 😭🐯⚡️
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"From @PaperDarts to @pidgeonholes to @WaxwingMag , these are the pieces that guide our editorial sightlines—the writing that drives us to cultivate a unified publication" See our latest Porter House Reads: Selections from Recent Literary Magazines here—
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Conjuring the dead, but make it poetry... Read @beyyoncaa 's review of @ellomelissa 's DREAMING OF YOU, a novel in verse about a young poet's decision to bring Tejano popstar, Selena Quintanilla-Perez, back from the dead. Out today from @astrahousebooks
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Our very own PHR Assistant Managing Editor @taykir nominated for a @PushcartPrize by @PitheadChapel , a journal we also admire! Congrats to this year’s nominees!
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All set up & ready to go for the #AWP22 Bookfair tomorrow!
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"Dancyger doesn’t shy away...she has nothing to hide. [NEGATIVE SPACE is] a dialogue between family members across time and death—old friends catching up." —from Alain-Jules Hirwa's review of @lillydancyger 's memoir NEGATIVE SPACE Out from @SFWP 5/1/21
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We started a podcast! Introducing Porter House Pod, a podcast that allows us to connect with our audience in a conversational way as we talk craft, discuss literary topics, and read works we've published in the journal. Available on Spotify & on Anchor:
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✨This Week on Porter House Review✨ Fiction: "Sillage" by Tanya Žilinskas ( @TanyaZilinskas ) Poetry: "Totem" by Kryston Lopez ( @kalamityKryston ) Nonfiction: "Is the Narrator Nothing or Everything?" by Véronique Darwin ( @veroniquedarwin )
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"Askaripour excels in his debut, balancing identity, an adrenaline-pumped plot, and societal critique..." —From Rooting for Buck: Mateo Askaripour’s Adventure into Race, Capitalism, and Family in America, a review by Chris Kubik @HMHbooks
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"In the woods behind our first house, that picketless patch of silence where we buried a precious yipper named Pinka, seven years of christmas trees laid to RIP in the grip of kudzu" —From "Akhmatova's Gun," a poem by Alina Stefanescu ( @aliner )
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That's a wrap! Our free submission cap has been reached. Paid contest submissions will continue through December 31st!
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NONFICTION SUBMISSIONS will be closing for the rest of the year this Friday, 11/26! Submit, submit, submit!
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Submissions are OPEN. Send your riveting fiction, your surprising poetry, your brutally honest personal essays. We want it all! P.S. Our genre editors will each be closing submissions individually in the next few weeks/months as they reach their limits.
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Calling all boundary-pushing artists! Did you know Porter House Review accepts submissions for original art? Check back on February 1st for more information regarding how you can submit your original art for publication!
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Join us 6/18 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM CST in celebration of five featured fiction writers who were published in Porter House Review this past year! Featuring: @mackenziepmcgee , Claire Robbins, @anqiekanq , @mayallegedly , & Caroline Kim Find Zoom info here:
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"The Cartography of Sleep is a visionary, cerebral chapbook. . . . Villareal is a master of making the strange seem beautiful with rich language and a hypnotic style." @JoseHernandezDz reviews Laura Villareal's ( @earthandstars ) chapbook here:
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Join us on March 29 at Blackfish Gallery for readings by @PoetLKA , @M_Dithyrambic , Cheston Knapp, Tomás Q. Morín, @LuisaMuradyan , and Karen Russell. Cecily will emcee, and we'll be giving away books and broadsides signed by our contributors and advisory board members. #AWP2019
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We’re SO lucky and excited to publish TWO spooky flashes from Kevin Brockmeier’s upcoming collection of one hundred ghost stories, THE GHOST VARIATIONS (out from @PantheonBooks in 2021). Stay tuned. They'll be "appearing" next week...
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“The novel sizzles and cracks like a campfire tale, leaving its listeners breathless . . .” - From Bryce Jeter’s review of THE SMOKE IS ME, BURNING by C.A. Blintzios ( @CABlintzios ), available now from KERNPUNKT Press ( @KERNPUNKTPress )
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✨This Week on Porter House Review✨ Poetry: "Letting" by Nancy White @nancywhitepoet Non-Fiction: "pink balloon" by Raina K. Puels @rainakpuels Fiction: "Calf" by Matthew Goldberg @mattmgoldberg
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Join us TOMORROW NIGHT for a Black History Month Reading at The Growling in San Marcos! See below for more details & our featured readers!
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Congratulations to Chisom Ogoke, one of our Events Coordinators! Well-deserved! 🙌
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Texas State MFA
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Again, our own recent graduate Chisom Ogoke recently won a @FulbrightPrgrm Award for Barbados where she will research materials for her novel, MFA thesis! Congratulations Chisom! ✨✨✨
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"Cardona writes about 'words too hard to pull from your throat,' yet she pulls the words out over and over again in this astounding collection of poems." —From @sg_poetry 's review of Claudia Delfina Cardona's WHAT REMAINS, published by @hostpublication
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Submit to PHR's 2021 Editor's Prize in Fiction! Finalists will be judged by Yiyun Li, and the winner will receive a $1,000 prize. The first 30 people to submit can do so for the reduced early bird submission fee of $5:
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ZOOM READING: Friday, 9/24, 6:00 pm CST @pmpatters , @stars_su , & Astha Gupta will be reading from their stories that were recognized by our 2021 Editor's Prize in Fiction judge Yiyun Li! This event will support the San Marcos River Foundation More info:
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3 years
Yiyun Li has selected "World Without End" by @pmpatters as this year's PHR Editor's Prize Winner in Fiction! She also chose "Kun" by @stars_su and "Get Ready" by Astha Gupta as Finalists. Li wrote that she enjoyed all three stories tremendously.
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Porter House Review
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“Every corner of the home comforted her with little implicit messages; you are tasteful. You are smart. You are depressed, but it’s glamorous.” —From “When She Got Happy” by Carly Rae Zent ( @_seeray ), a finalist for the our 2019 Editor’s Prize!
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Check out our interview with Mackenzie McGee ( @mackenziepmcgee ), winner of @PENamerica 's PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, on her winning story "Re: Frankie," entertainment, absurdity, and enjoying a punch in the gut.
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"One night, he killed a tiger. After, he wore the dead tiger’s claw around his neck in a golden chain. Before he died, he willed it to me. A week later, the tiger girl appeared." —From "We Are the Only Animals in the House" flash fiction by @theinnerzone
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Porter House Review
6 years
We're excited to announce that our inaugural Editor's Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Visual Art are now open for submissions! @txstmfa #txst #contests #writing #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art
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Porter House Review
4 years
Today is the FINAL DAY to submit to our 2020 Creative Nonfiction Prize. Finalists will be judged by @NifMuhammad , and while all entrants will receive our abiding adoration, the winner will additionally receive $500. All entries considered for regular (& paid!) publication.
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Porter House Review
5 years
In the name of productivity during social distancing, we've reprinted Matt Bell’s ( @mdbell79 ) first exercise from his Writing Exercise Newsletter, which is based on a sentence from Carmen Maria Machado’s ( @carmenmmachado ) story, “The Husband Stitch.”
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Porter House Review
2 years
"For centuries, a select group of 'Sea Women' were plucked from their families to become deep sea divers of octopus, conch, and abalone." —from "The Omari and the Pango" by @carolinewriting from our archives
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5 years
Announcing our beloved 2019-20 editorial staff! Executive Editor: @dougdorst Executive Editor: Tom Grimes Asst. Executive Editor: Stanislav Rivkin Asst. Executive Editor: @alizscott Managing Editor: @braydbay Asst. Managing Editor: @taykir Content Editor: @williampellett (1/2)
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5 years
With gratitude to our talented contributors, we're excited to announce our @SundressPub 2019 Best of the Net nominations: Leigh Anne Couch, @suitable_corey , @PoetLKA , Van Anderson, @JohnSibleyWill1 , Kiani Yiu, Michael Horton, and @MissConstance21 .
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Porter House Review
2 years
🌟THIS WEEK🌟- Porter House Review Poetry: "Woman, Life, Liberty" by Siavash Saadlou Non Fiction: "Black Hard Palate" by Esinam Bediako Fiction: "Twenty Dollar Bill" by Sarah Damoff
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Porter House Review
2 years
This week we're highlighting our Editor's Prize Winners. Check out what judge Sterling Holywhitemountain says about our Fiction winner Jordan Hagedon's piece Mold. Read the full piece: @jeimask
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Porter House Review
4 years
Live now: PHR's 2021 Poetry Contest $750 Prize Submit by May 15 Judged by @aimeenez , the first 30 people to submit can do so for the reduced early bird fee of $5. After that cap is reached, submissions will be $8. We can't wait to spend time with your poems!
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Porter House Review
3 years
“Holding this book in my hands, I can feel it pulsating like a beating heart. . .” – from @tiramisruu ’s review of MY GRIEF, THE SUN by Sanna Wani ( @sannareya ), up now on @PorterHouseLit in both English and Spanish.
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