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The US State Department has canceled the grants that provide much of the support for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. 90% of those funds are spent in the US, & the program is top-notch, hosting 3 future Nobel laureates. @uiiwp.bsky.social now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/03...

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Now through March 14, our pandemic releases are discounted! Details below. #booksky #sale #amreading

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If you’re not a long way from Tipperary in April . . . clonmeltheatreguild.com/spring-play-...

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Sunk in shame for this un-American administration and its cowardly enablers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Congratulations @cbeditions.bsky.social !

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“40 Questions About a Political Play” coming in July from @calquepress.bsky.social 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre...

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Every poet should be so lucky: Thank you to Nathaniel Parker for reading another from ‘Survivor’s Notebook’ @acrebooks.bsky.social & ‘Flying on Easter’ @poetrylondon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.instagram.com/reel/DGdXmBg...

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Couldn’t be happier to be returning to Middlebury College April 17 to read with a writer I’ve long admired, who also happens to be a friend I made at Middlebury way back in . . . (you do the math) @textplusimage.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social www.middlebury.edu/events/event...

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Rehearsals are progressing very well in Clonmel.

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Thank you to the great Nathaniel Parker for sharing this short poem of mine from both ‘Survivor’s Notebook’ @acrebooks.bsky.social & ‘Flying on Easter’ @poetrylondon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.instagram.com/reel/DGNhg5v...

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Cover reveal! COMMON DISASTER, #poet physician #M.CynthiaCheung's powerful debut navigating grief, resilience, and the weight of memory -- confronting COVID-19, war, erasure, and extinction. Coming November 2025.

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Somehow this book is four years old today. Much gratitude to @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏻 “Part memoir, part philosophy, part pragmatic advice for writers, [these essays] read like a master class in surviving through art.” – Los Angeles Times www.cbeditions.com/obrien4.html

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This is fascism.

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In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

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Looking forward to writing a play (overnight) for @24hourplays.bsky.social — in support of LA wildfire relief playbill.com/article/mary...

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Happy Valentine's Day from The Cincinnati Review! To celebrate the day, we've assembled a roundup of our miCRos about love, romance, and sex, including work by @amorak.bsky.social, @dango-ramen.bsky.social, @dinahcox.bsky.social, @davidwrites1.bsky.social, and others. Link in first comment.

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It's a novel, memoir, notebook stuff, and now a play, and I am hugely grateful. Whichever. The book: www.cbeditions.com/boyle2.html

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5am (LA) start for rehearsal in the UK (and producer in NYC, and stage manager in Florida) — ‘The Other Jack’ adapted from the book by @cbeditions.bsky.social and available online soon as a reading via The Alcove @lorteltheatre.bsky.social 🙏🏻

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Poets. Always.

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dear London theatre pals, fab cast lined up for my play KORA K @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social on February 21 at 1 PM. Hara Yannas, Khai Shaw, Rebecca Hayes, David Sturzaker. directed by Ben Purkiss.

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@christiangullette.bsky.social’s audiobook edition of Coachella Elegy is now available! Only $3.95, and only on Audible! The first audiobook published by @triohousepress.bsky.social www.audible.com/pd/B0DR9BH8X...

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Now in print: my play POWER OF SAIL. Available for licensing from Broadway Play Publishing.

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We can't wait! 🎭 Get ready for The Other Jack to hit the (digital) stage soon—directed by the brilliant James Dacre and brought to life by @csvich.bsky.social. Stay tuned🌟

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Enjoying the latest from Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social immensely. Look for my stage adaptation of his The Other Jack, coming soon as a digital reading from the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social, directed by James Dacre and produced by @csvich.bsky.social www.cbeditions.com/boyle4.html

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#THEATRE #REVIEW The Voyage of the Carcass and Bobby & Amy, Brighton Little Theatre "Charming, thought provoking and darkly humorous."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ www.thereviewshub.com/double-bill-... #Brighton

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An excellent literary magazine, edited by @richardnskinner.bsky.social -- please support if you can gofund.me/e4873cfd

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Some great reviews for ‘The Voyage of the Carcass’ in Brighton ❄️⛏️🤡 www.thereviewshub.com/double-bill-... fringereview.co.uk/review/brigh...

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"Kennedy had mangled a malign belief and told it to me as if it were irrefutably proven. It was not only dangerously wrong—it was perhaps the cruelest thing anyone had ever said to me." www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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Delighted that one of the first plays I wrote — about an amateur theatre in Cork producing (and arguing comedically about) “an Irish play” that happens to be written by an American — will be produced in April by an amateur theatre in Clonmel in Tipperary 🇮🇪 clonmeltheatreguild.com

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Attention poets! Time is running out on our January submissions window. For details about how to send your work for consideration, visit www.acre-books.com. 📚🖊️✉️

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Here’s a Bo’sun Smythe from one of the play’s first productions

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Every summer since cancer I write an essay about playwriting. Last year I wrote my eighth : ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’; I’m thrilled that it will be published as a pamphlet by @calquepress.bsky.social in Cambridge this spring. Many thanks to James Womack & @maudmarianw.bsky.social

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Unspeakably excited to put this play on next week!

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I’m directing the first of these one-act plays at the next Brighton Little Theatre double bill, opening next Tuesday! I have never laughed so much in rehearsal in my life. Absolute absurdist joy. Come and see! https://www.brightonlittletheatre.com/votcba

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Some wonderful tributes here www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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In the new issue of Esquire you will find a stunning piece from poet, playwright, and memoirist Dan O’Brien (@bydanobrien.bsky.social) Dear Family” continues to excavate O’Brien’s family history with the empathy and grace that he displays in all of his work.

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Friends near Brighton, UK: The Voyage of the Carcass, my old comedy of ambition & failure, cannibalistic clowns & doomed polar expeditions, begins performances Jan. 28th: www.brightonlittletheatre.com

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