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We publish a quarterly print edition and weekly content online.
Dallas, TX
Joined December 2016
🗣️Call for book reviewers🗣️. SwR is looking for writers to review books. Things we dig: indie presses, Latin American lit in translation, weird genre lit, books about movies, books about music, comics, and other cool shit that’s left of the dial.
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Twas the last week of Noirvember when the most brutal of bangers did drop 🩸. Read MY SAVAGE YEAR by @jordan_harper 🔥
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It's that time of year again! 🎉. No theme, no special issue, just good writing. We're ready to see what you got, so spread the word! 🌎
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Those interested can email: swr@smu.edu. Please include a short bio, links to previous work, and a list of upcoming titles you think might be a good fit. All reviewers will be paid.
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V difficult, but here's the ten books SwR loved most this year 🖤. 🍻Cheers to the legends @yuri_herrera @deadmediumdan @ZAPTranslations @hallehillwrites @MonaOjedaF @sarahkbooker @andresneuman @robin_ep_myers @kevinrmaloney @carmenboullosa @samanthaschnee
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‼️Big news‼️. Novelist/horror enthusiast/Twitter hero @Gabino_Iglesias will guest edit our Halloween-themed fall issue. Submissions are open today and will close July 1. To submit: send your spookiest/scariest/goriest stories to dearabbynormal1031@gmail. Enter if you dare!.
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Crack that bottle of whisky and spark up a cig cause you're gonna need it when you see the lineup for our noir issue 🥃. Guest-edited by @wmboyle4, @claudiapineiro, & Frances Riddle 🖤. The issue is out next month, so stay tuned!
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First drop from the winter issue is live!💥. Read THE PEACEMAKER, a career-spanning look at the work of Cormac McCarthy, by @luisjorgeboone (trans. Christina MacSweeney)
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So fkn hard to narrow it down, but here's our list of the ten books SwR loved most this year 🏆. Cheers to the lords of 2022: @K_Scanlan_ @atajoslargos @Bud_Smith @MonaOjedaF @kadaui @DanielHandler @sarahkbooker @Rosenkrantz 🍻
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❄️ ❄️ Our winter issue is officially out today ❄️ ❄️ . As an added bonus we’re throwing in free gift wrapping paper—designed by comics legends Los Bros Hernandez—with every order🎁. S/o to @BetomessGilbert, @xaimeh, & @fantagraphics for helping us cook this up 🎄
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Starting off the new year the only way we know how: turning up the heat w/ this smoking hot lineup for our winter issue 🥵🔥❄️
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The cat’s outta the bag, gang!. No horror issue in 2023. The theme this year is…NOIR. Psyched to announce that our fall issue will be guest edited by the triple threat trio: @claudiapineiro, @wmboyle4, & Frances Riddle. Who’s ready for Noirvember??
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“I might move things around and fictionalize, but for the most part, in terms of the incidents in these books, in Mexico particularly, they all happened, unfortunately.” William Boyle chats with @donwinslow about his Cartel Trilogy.
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Also hi, this is Mary Miller and I'll be providing you with some very good stories this week and probably making the same mistakes your mom makes on here.
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Remember back in the spring when we told y'all this year's Halloween issue would be bloody & terrifying AND bilingual? 🌎. Well thanks to our guest editors @MonaOjedaF & @sarahkbooker, you can now seal your fate & subscribe. Introducing. the TOC for our fall print edition 😈 😱
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🚨HEAT ADVISORY: Scorching TOC alert! Readers advised to stay inside & apply SwR directly to eyes👇
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Beyond stoked to announce FRONTERA 💥. Two days of literature, music, comics & film April 12-13 in Dallas, TX brought to y'all by yours truly ☀️. FREE & open to the public. Come one & party all! 🎉. Stay tuned for deets & save the dates📍. 🎨: @willbryantplz. Big TY: @SMUENGL
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“Under the driver’s seat hid a sawed-off shotgun that I carried in my car that whole crazy savage year. We’ll talk about the shotgun later.”. 📌ICYMI, read MY SAVAGE YEAR by @jordan_harper from our noir issue
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Today is the mf DAY!!! Submissions are offish OPEN 🎉 Send us your best 💎.
It's that time of year again! 🎉. No theme, no special issue, just good writing. We're ready to see what you got, so spread the word! 🌎
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Our spring issue is here!. Features new work by Mark Haber, @julian_herbert, @Bud_Smith, @saderotica, Willy Vlautin, Guillermo Saccomanno, @Wralpheubanks, and more. 💪💪💪.
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Been sittin’ on this TOC & cover (by the incred @carneymichael) for a HOT minute & we're SO stoked to show y'all what we've been cooking up this winter 🥵❄️ Join the naughty list of subscribers & cop yours NOW!
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📢 2 WEEKS until we open submissions 📢. Get those pieces ready ppl‼️
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Reminder we are our Submittable page will open Dec 1.
La estupenda revista @SouthwestReview abrirá una convocatoria para recibir textos en español que publicará (traducidos al inglés) el próximo año. ¡A escribir! 🤓💻.
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A million thanks to Mark Haber for this kind and thoughtful profile over @lithub today. It's true, we DO love to party 🥳.
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Terrible year to be a human, great year to be a reader 📚. Here are 10 of our favorite books from 2020. @julian_herbert @lee_durkee @woodlandraised @lizzie_davis_ @ryan_ridge @wmboyle4 @K_Scanlan_ @sampinkisalive .
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"Horror breaks all the rules. it's the genre of transgression." 💥. Our pal @theandydavidson talks w/ a new master of the macabre Joe Koch (@horrorsong) about his new book of stories, CONVULSIVE, out now via @apocpartypress
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💥New from the winter issue:. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first issue of LOVE & ROCKETS, @HeerJeet interviews comics legends Los Bros Hernandez (@BetomessGilbert & @xaimeh) 🚀. Read below & grip the new L+R box set from @fantagraphics
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Submissions for our special issue open 1⃣ month from today🌎. Help us spread the word!
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☃️Our winter issue is here! ☃️. w/a fresh af cover by Kathy Ager + feat. @raviddice @trias_fernanda @biblicalmike @wmboyle @LucasESchaefer @elusiveword @Tiddlebits @K_Scanlan & many more:
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Call the exorcist because the Halloween issue is here 😱😱😱 . Cover art by @SkeletonSlime & guest edited by @theandydavidson featuring @joelansdale, @Gabino_Iglesias, @johnhornor, @sentencebender, @stephauteri, @nadiabulkin and more. Grip now or rest in pieces 😈
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Before we welcome MM back to Twitter tomorrow, we’re giving away a signed copy of her out-of-print debut collection, BIG WORLD. Follow and retweet to enter. We’ll announce a winner later today.
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🔊 Hear ye, hear ye! We are opening submissions in December for a special issue!!. 💥 Our Submittable page will open December 1 and close December 15. All writers will be paid for their work. Send us your best and spread the word!
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“A hybrid genre work that mixes humor with pathos, Bottle Rocket is a coming-of-age crime dramedy romance with a southwestern spin all its own.”. 📌ICYMI, a new essay on Wes Anderson’s film debut by @FilmIntuition
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“Southern Gothic, Latin American Gothic, and the Brontes are my canon.”. 📌ICYMI, @sarahkbooker interviewed Mariana Enriquez and @meganalimcd about OUR SHARE OF NIGHT, out now via @HogarthBooks
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Congrats to @Gabino_Iglesias whose Coyote Songs has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Read our interview from last year.
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Revenge is best served on freaking fire tbh 🔥. #Noirvember continues on full blast with HEART-SHAPED BRUISE by @nikkidolson.
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New story collection from @donwinslow out tomorrow. Here he is talking with @wmboyle4 about The Cartel Trilogy.
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🚨 Announcement 🚨. The guest editor for our 🎃👻Halloween issue 👻🎃 this year is—drum roll, please—@theandydavidson!. Submissions open May 1 and will close June 1. To submit: send your spookiest stories/poems/essays to dearabbynormal1031@gmail. Enter if you dare!.
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"Fiction should create a reality, not replicate it." . ICYMI, @Gabino_Iglesias talking with the incred Brian Evenson about his nightmarish new book THE GLASSY, BURNING FLOOR OF HELL 🔥🔥🔥.
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Attention shoppers! Support your local indie bookstores.📚 . Some of our favorites: @deepvellumbooks @interabangbooks @WildDetectives @BrazosBookstore @murderbooks @MalvernBooksTX @BookPeople @Literarity @poisonedpen.
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🚨 *Graphic Image Warning* 🚨 . Once you see you'll never unsee. Don't say we didn't warn you! 😱 . Introducing @caseyboothart's cover design for this year's Halloween issue--guest edited by NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTERS (!!!) @MonaOjedaF & @sarahkbooker 🏆
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Noirvember is upon us & what better way to kick it off than w/a new story from @blacklionking73! 🐇. Read LIKE BABIES CRYING IN THE DARK from our new issue, guest edited by @wmboyle4, @claudiapineiro, & Frances Riddle 🔥
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This book is solid gold. A series of linked novellas that reads like a tour of the tropical Americas. 10/10.
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Our Halloween issue is finally here!. A million thanks to guest editor @Gabino_Iglesias. Features horror stories by @paulGtremblay, Brian Evenson, @bookbent, @RhondaProfessor, @CoreyFarrenkopf, @BonnieJoStuffle and more. Cover art by Victor Castillo.
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🔥 From the ashes of another whackass winter rises a spring TOC that'll make you sing like the songbird you are! 🐦 . New fic by @sampinkisalive @MonaOjedaF @formermissNJ @raviddice @MeinJace. New trans. by @sarahkbooker @WillVanderhyden & a new essay from @AM_Farmer💣
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.@Gabino_Iglesias is back on the site to interview Brian Evenson, one of "the most versatile and accomplished writers of contemporary American fiction" on his newest & killer thriller-chiller😈. THE GLASSY, BURNING FLOOR OF HELL is out now @Coffee_House_
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Winner of the 2020 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction . Other Families Like Ours by Elizabeth Ellen (@hobartpulp).
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Part detective novel, part political satire, this book reads like a cross between THE LONG GOODBYE and A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. A narrator as unlikeable as he is hilarious. No chance this book gets published today.
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Today we bring you a conversation between Gary Lutz and @kkingparsons. THE COMPLETE GARY LUTZ is out now from @tyrantbooks.
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Next up we've got a story by @gariellelutz. This gem is from the forthcoming collection WORSTED, which I'm so damn excited about, published later this year by SF/LD Books @hobartpulp .
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What better way to usher you out of the loving arms of summer & into the horror we got cookin' for the fall than a new story by @blacklionking73 💀. Read NO COLDER PLACE THAN THE GRAVE from our summer issue and buckle up bbs! 🪦
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Wrapping up 2021 (better than @SpotifyUSA tbh) w/ our list of the ten books SwR loved most 🏆. Feat. @raviddice, @trias_fernanda, @annielmcd, @kendracanyou, @JonJonLindsey, @kylebeachy, @ElviraNavarro, @mkwhittemore and more 🔥
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We think the Texas Senate should pass a bill that requires public schools to prominently display our spring issue in every classroom 👩🏫
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The latest entry in our author-translator series: @hughes_sophie talks with @fffmelchor about her stunning English debut, HURRICANE SEASON.
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📌 ICYMI, we dropped a TOC feast in your feed for the new year ❄️ . Peep the feats below and order your winter issue now 🔥
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The year-end list to end all lists. Featuring @kkingparsons @MaryUMiller @jacjemc @markhaber713 @wmboyle4 and more.
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#FridayReads: HURRICANE SEASON by @fffmelchor 🇲🇽 . Think Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” but set in the slum wastelands of Hubert Selby. Fans of gritty, voice-driven fiction take heed. Coming in March from @NewDirections and translated by @hughes_sophie.
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Boy, do we have a bloody valentine for y'all today 🩸. New holiday slasher from our winter issue: I TIED YOUR HEART ON A STRING by Joe Koch (@horrorsong) ❤️🔥
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It's hot as hell outside. Time to slip into something more comfortable--like our ultra-sexy new cover!! 💅. The homie @willbryantplz dressed us up REAL nice this summer. Bring your issue home 2day:
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📢ANNOUNCEMENT📢. Winter issue coming soon! Until then, a sneak peek of the ToC. Features new fiction by @ravidice, @trias_fernanda, @biblicalmike, @wmboyle, & @LucasESchaefer. New translations by @elusiveword & @Tiddlebits & a new interview by @K_Scanlan & much more!
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Happy 75th Birthday Townes Van Zandt! Retweet and enter to win a 🆓 copy of the new record, Sky Blue.
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This cauldron of contents is boiling over with so many scares 🧙♀️ . Grab the SwR Halloween issue (guest edited by @theandydavidson) if you dare! 😈
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Clean the crib & spruce up your lit life w/ the spring edish of SwR 🧼🌻. Our drop-dead-gorge new issue just landed in the office. Feat. @mariafernandamp @MisterJGrantham @raviddice @valeriatnt @CharleeDyroff @marcelloquinta1 @bwhobson @retsoor and more! . 🎨: Joshua Horkey
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Treat yourself to some fresh fiction today by our homie @MisterJGrantham 🐈. Read FINDER from our spring issue (w/art by @rbuleri) 🔥
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Just when you thought we couldn't get any more baller, we go on and slip a damn FLEXI DISC in the middle of the new issue! A supreme one at that! 🥵. In our sprig issue you'll find "Pretty Perdita" a single written by Barry Gifford and performed by Willy Valutin & @TheDelines ✨
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Reminder that we're opening submissions for a special issue next year 🌎
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The winter cover has officially been unwrapped! 🎁 . Dive head first into this frosty boi & give a hat tip to @GaryTaxali for the wintry drip ❄️ . Order here:
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TY Oxford, MS for showin up strong af at this year’s @Ox_Conf_Book 💪 . Huge shoutout to the Triple Threat Trio (@sampinkisalive @wmboyle4 & Kendra Allen) for bringing the heat! 🥵 🔥
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🔥Today we have a long essay on Fernanda Melchor's THIS IS NOT MIAMI and her previously translated novels HURRICANE SEASON and PARADAIS. Read the review by @cydaedalus & grab the new collection (trans. Sophie Hughes) from @NewDirections
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“Schnee’s translation of Boullosa’s prose manages to feel both contemporary and convincingly Biblical.”. 📌ICYMI, @katdsolo reviews THE BOOK OF EVE by @carmenboullosa, translated by @samanthaschnee, out now via @DeepVellum
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Spotted at A Room of One’s Own in Madison, WI with a shelf talker praising the “very fluid translation” by @WillVanderhyden.👏👏
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We made it through our month-long Halloween celebration alive -😭- thanks to our guest editor @theandydavidson and a slew of spooky contributors🙏 Here's to many more! 🍻
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Most folks know Hughes for In A Lonely Place, but don’t sleep on this deep cut from @nyrbclassics. Set in AZ, #TheExpendableMan is a classic wrong-man plot, although it has as much in common with Sing, Unburied, Sing as The 39 Steps. Satisfying and subversive stuff, this one.
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This fall there's murder on the menu . 🔪. Introducing the cover for our noir issue, guest-edited by @wmboyle4 @claudiapineiro & Frances Riddle 🖤. 🎨:@katherinelamart. Order your copy today:
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A little late to this party but huge congrats to @claudiapineiro, Frances Riddle, and our pals @CharcoPress for making the Booker Int'l shortlist 👏. An Argentinian crime novel with a truly shocking ending. Don't snooze on this one, is what we're saying.
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This book by Rodrigo Fresán is. bonkers. Like a mashup of Laurence Sterne, Jack Kirby, and Lester Bangs. Can’t wait for part two of the trilogy, coming this fall from @open_letter and @WillVanderhyden.
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Another favorite of ours from 2019: THE DREAMED PART 🇦🇷 . Here’s a conversation between author Rodrigo Fresán and English translator @WillVanderhyden.
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Logging into this hellscape today to drop a fresh review in yr TL 🔥. Our homie @ConorHultman on GAG REFLEX by @saderotica: “unrelenting, aggressive, and vulnerable in the sense that an exposed nerve ending is vulnerable.”. Out now via @CLASHBooks
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Always a good day when you get to share some fresh fiction by Mary Miller 🙏. Read SPEED BUMP and do your damn dishes! 🫧. 🎨: Jess Rotter.
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Capture the mf dream this spring w/ the new SwR issue that's sprouting! 🌻. Sneak a peek of the TOC and tell us that it's not poppin’ off 😎. Feat. new fiction by @mariafernandamp @MisterJGrantham @raviddice @valeriatnt @CharleeDyroff @marcelloquinta1 @bwhobson @retsoor
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“Something is wrong with the cows. They are up to something—a bovine plot.”. 📌ICYMI, Robin McLean reviews OF CATTLE AND MEN by Ana Paula Maia, newly translated by @ZAPTranslations, out now via @CharcoPress
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Our horror fiction marathon continues with SOMEDAY YOU WILL REGRET NOT REPLYING by @nadiabulkin . Give it a read and be sure to check your inbox. you have one new message from. the grave 📞😱.
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🎃 Halloween issue 2022🎃. Announcing this year's guest editors: @MonaOjedaF & @sarahkbooker . Submissions for our annual fright fest will open April 1. Call for subs in English AND Spanish 👊. Wanna be part of this nightmare? Send us your best, we're (blood) thirsty 😈
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College playoffs kicking off today so we're helping y'all ring in the new year right 🏈. Revisit THE GURU by @elicranor & pass the rotel plz 🧀
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Before closing the book on Halloween 2020, just wanted to say we had a blast working with everyone on our fall issue. Many thanks to all the contributors. You rule! . And a million thanks to the homie, the hero, the legend @Gabino_Iglesias. 👊.
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"A triptych of books that contain one another, that sing to one another, that invent and dream and remember one another." 🌙. 📌ICYMI, a review of Rodrigo Fresán's THE PARTS TRIPTYCH by @mjnavia (trans. @WillVanderhyden)
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‼️‼️BIG NEWS ‼️‼️. Our pal and frequent SwR contributor MARY MILLER is joining us this week as guest editor. Starting tomorrow she’ll be publishing new work by some of her favorite authors and taking over our Twitter account. Gonna be a good week so stick around!
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It’s hot 🥵 as hell and it’s about to get a lot hotter with the heat in our summer issue. Featuring @K_Scanlan_ , @theandydavidson, @elicranor, @JulieKanePoet, new trans. of Rodrigo Fresán and @laura_fernandez by @WillVanderhyden, and more🔥. Grip now. Be parched. Stay thirsty.
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Sneak peek of our next issue👀 Halloween gonna be BIG this year, just sayin'👻.
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