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jamestatehill.bsky.social
Memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice); Novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel); Editor of The Writer's Chronicle and Monkeybicycle; native of WV; agent: Eric Smith; still mostly living in 1986 jamestatehill.com
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Tired: The price of eggs is crazy! Wired: I lost 10% of my retirement in 2 days!

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AWP & The Writer's Chronicle are excited to bring you Wed 3/12 at 7pm ET our first-ever TWC Live! conversation w/ Ilana Masad, Maris Kreizman, Lily Meyer, & Daniel Felsenthal! Freelancing, book criticism, labor & art, live Q&A, free & open to all! www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...

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With #AWP25 just a few weeks away, it feels like a good time to say I'm sorry I didn't run into you at AWP! The conference was crazy! Maybe next year?

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🚨GOOD NEWS (for me) ALERT🚨 Oprah Daily has WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON as one of the Best New Books of Spring. www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

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Just put a big tariff on my writing time so I'll write more.

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Raisins are the pennies of fruit.

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Extending the deadline 24 hrs to 11:59p.m. March 1 in case anyone is participating in the economic boycott that prevents use of a credit card!

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Good morning, 7:31-7:59a.m. Writing Club!

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4 days left to submit to the AWP Award Series! Cash prizes & publication for CNF (judge Cheryl Strayed), poetry (judge Honorée Fanonne Jeffers), novel (judge R.O. Kwon), & short fiction (judge Kevin Wilson). Submit here: awpwriter.secure-platform.com/applications

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Jell-o is the 3 minutes you spend on the Wikipedia page for a movie you'll never watch if those minutes were food.

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me to teacher wife: If you need to, you can grade during the SAG Awards. wife, who has ADHD: What will you do while we're watching the SAG Awards? me: Watch the SAG Awards.

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Thanks to Association of Writers & Writing Programs AWP & especially EIC J.T. Hill ⚛️💜⚛️ I’ve received a lot of wonderful responses to “You Cannot Invent Me” in The Writer’s Chronicle. More on this new :: wild unplace :: I created very soon~ writerschronicle.org/TWC/TWC/2024...

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I'm quoted in this piece. The short answer is no, they are not. writerschronicle.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

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The new Writer’s Chronicle is up & I’ve shared my favorite generative exercise up there (I’ve been teaching and using it for 10 years): writerschronicle.org/TWC/TWC/2025...

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Grateful to @awpwriter.bsky.social for publishing my CNF craft essay in the latest issue of The Writer's Chronicle. It's about how to be more fluid in time in your essays, and the value of avoiding straight chronological structure in memoir, more or less writerschronicle.org/TWC/2025-feb...

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Don't miss @tmcallister.bsky.social's essay about freeing yourself from the tyranny of chronology in essays at the @awpwriter.bsky.social Writer's Chronicle! writerschronicle.org/TWC/2025-feb...

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Thanks to @jamestatehill.bsky.social and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs for asking me to write about my road to from writing to drawing to writing AND drawing a graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL @fieldmousepress.bsky.social www.writerschronicle.org/TWC/2025-feb...

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it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, you’d write less drafts with a synopsis.

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Welcome to the resistance, Mitch McConnell wasn't on my Bingo card for this lifetime.

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Coming up on the 30th anniversary of Forrest Gump winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Try to be kind to one another.

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Severance, but the other guy just finishes writing this novel for me.

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Shout out to the rhythm, still gonna get you and whatnot.

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Hearing reports that a St. Elmo's Fire sequel is in the works & wow, I hope the characters are still loathsome in middle age.

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Have written a synopsis for a completed novel & for an unfinished novel & give me the synopsis for the unfinished novel any day of the week.

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Just learned Axl Rose took his stage name from an anagram for oral sex & now my whole day is shot.

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Jacket copy: The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person...Cher herself. But the audiobook can be narrated by...somebody other than Cher.

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Game theory is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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Uh, WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON is in Men's Health?! www.menshealth.com/entertainmen...

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This administration, the role of Joe Manchin will be played by the understudy, John Fetterman.

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Hey friends. Just a quick note here, today’s my last day at my agency. It’s been a wild near-decade and I feel so lucky to have surrounded myself with great colleagues and creators I adore. There are new things on the horizon, and I’m taking a bit of time off to refill the well. ❤️

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Funny how the folks who never shut up about meritocracy always give jobs to the dumbest goddamn people.

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Just mistyped Poets & Writers as Pets & Writers and you know what, somebody make that magazine.

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What will you do with your one wild and precious remaining day of democracy as we knew it?

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Disabled writers talking all things writing/publishing in a magazine with a disabled editor-in-chief! I'm thinking this is not a coincidence. @sonyahuber.bsky.social, @keahbrown.bsky.social, Jessie Male, and M Leona Godin are in brilliant conversation. @jamestatehill.bsky.social is the new editor.

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So happy to find my audiobook preorder in my inbox this morning! You can no longer preorder, but many people are saying you can still order.

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Happy on-sale day to @erikaswyler.bsky.social & We Lived on the Horizon! Excited to find my preorder of the audiobook waiting in my inbox this morning. Erika is one of my favorite writers & favorite humans & I highly recommend getting a copy of her fantastic new novel wherever you buy books.

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Article about JCO's prolific output: Overnight Oates

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