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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

Absolutely thrilled to have a new poem, “How Hansel Gets Eaten,” up in the Threepenny Review. Check it out if you wish!

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

Sooooo… this happened. Incredibly shocked and grateful to say I’ve won @LitMagPress ’s 2023 Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction!

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

Poetry acceptance from the Threepenny Review. Completely dumbfounded.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

So insanely humbled & thrilled to have won the 2023 Iowa Review Award in Poetry! Life is crazy!!!

The Iowa Review

@IowaReview

1 year

Congratulations to winners @ElizaGilbs , Gracie Newman, and Rochelle Goldstein!

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

4 months

My poem from the latest issue of @IowaReview “And Still, There is a Goblin” :))

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

Four passages from “The Road” that changed me as a reader & writer. McCarthy was truly magic.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

4 months

So pleased to have three poems in this issue… thank you so much to everyone at @IowaReview !!!

The Iowa Review

@IowaReview

4 months

Issue 53/3 pairs perfectly with a porch and a glass of lemonade (seen here at @porchlightlit ). Featuring Janice N. Harrington, @mooncake , @GeriModell , @RobertWoodLynn , @Ifyouknewthen , John A. Nieves, @stellayywong , and more! Read selections or subscribe:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

I’ve admired Split Lip for so long… so surreal to have a piece of flash I n this incredible issue. Check it out if you wish! 💚

Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag

1 year

We're SO excited to bring you our stunning 🧡 OCTOBER ISSUE!! 🧡 WORDS by @elizagilbs @carlyalaimo @pepwriteswords & Jennifer Battisti ART by Yixuan Wu PLUS @gena_hartman1 interviews Justine Chan

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

4 months

Another poem from @IowaReview I technically wrote last year, but emotionally started writing when I was 10 & first saw Saving Private Ryan.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

So unspeakably cool/surreal to receive this in the mail today. Thank you, Threepenny 💛🪐⚡️

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

6 months

Incredibly proud/honored/shocked to have a poem in this incredible issue. Been reading the Kenyon Review since eighth grade. Absolutely blown away to be a part of it. 💚

Kenyon Review

@kenyonreview

6 months

[2/2] a folio of Literary Curiosities, which features work by Jennifer Chang, Summer Farah, @ElizaGilbs , @MayaCPopa , and more. The cover art is a detail of Chitra Ganesh’s City Inside Her, from the artist’s Architects of the Future portfolio.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

5 months

“Gretel in Darkness” — Louise Glück No one better captures the Gretel who lives in all of us.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

My poem about weird plants with weird names and our weird world from @FrontierPoetry ! Check it out :)

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

6 months

Check out my poem in the Spring issue of the Kenyon Review if ya want :) 💚💚💚

Kenyon Review

@kenyonreview

6 months

“You are a God-green veil & I am death’s middle child & the dog is long asleep beneath the chickweed.” —“From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

5 months

SO excited to have a story on this list!

The Masters Review

@MastersReview

5 months

These final fifteen stories are now in the hands of Kelly Link, who will choose this year’s three finalists. Check back next month for the results. Congratulations, shortlisters, and a sincere thank you to all of our terrific submitters! Read here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 months

Soooooo… what does one do after finishing a poetry chapbook? Asking for a friend.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

5 months

“… i.e., Put down that gun, you need a sandwich.” Stunner from @marykarrlit I stumbled upon in Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis’ brilliant anthology, “Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance.”

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

Absolutely flabbergasted to say that I made the Smokey shortlist! Speechless. A million thanks to everyone @SmokeLong

SmokeLong Slaughterly

@SmokeLong

2 years

The shortlist for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022. These 25 stories were selected from 1476 entries by a team of 17 staff. The biggest of congratulations to everyone on this list. You are all stars. Finalists announced next Wednesday.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 month

So thrilled to have this story up at the incredible @MastersReview ... thank you so much to everyone there, and to Kelly Link, for selecting my piece!

The Masters Review

@MastersReview

1 month

"When the little bell by the nurses’ station sings, we float from the group room out into the ward’s great white gullet. No better than Pavlov’s dogs, Terry #1 always mutters." —Eliza Gilbert, “Linoleum People” Read here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

6 months

A poem for my big brother, who is the coolest, but who also piloted at least three toy helicopters into my hair throughout the course of our childhood. Thanks x100 to everyone at @kenyonreview

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

My full poem selected by the incredible @_AndresCerpa for @FrontierPoetry ’s Hurt and Healing Prize. Unspeakably grateful to have this out in the world 💚🫠

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

This poem means so much to me. So insanely grateful to have won this wonderful prize. @FrontierPoetry is the best. Check it out below!

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

1 year

Please join us in celebrating Eliza Gilbert ( @ElizaGilbs ) the winner of the Hurt & Healing Prize, with the publication of her poem, selected by Andrés Cerpa! ✨ Read the full piece here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

5 months

I 💚 Split Lip.

Split Lip Magazine

@splitlipthemag

5 months

We hope you enjoyed ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY! Contributor @ElizaGilbs has a new poem in the @kenyonreview 💗 Enjoy the powerful "From the Fort Behind the Conifers" here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

Shocked and thrilled to have a story on the long list! Thank you x1000 to everyone at @SmokeLong

SmokeLong Slaughterly

@SmokeLong

2 years

Announcing the Long List for The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction 2022, chosen by a team of 17 staff from 1476 entries. Huge congratulations to these writers. Thank you to everyone who trusted us with your work.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

My full, weird, bloody poem “Aubade With Roadkill” from @pidgeonholes 💓

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

Incredibly honored/excited/shocked to have received this wonderful prize 💚 Thank you x10000 to @_AndresCerpa and everyone at @FrontierPoetry

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

1 year

congrats to Eliza Gilbert ( @ElizaGilbs ), whose poem was chosen by Andrés Cerpa as winner of the Hurt and Healing Prize! and to Geramee Hensley ( @geramee_ ) and Sara Elkamel ( @SaraFarag ) in 2nd and 3rd! finalists and long list 🎉:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

6 months

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Kenyon Review

@kenyonreview

6 months

“The father is a title card. The mother is the postscript. You are a pine cone. Welcome to my world.” “From the Fort Behind the Conifers” by Eliza Gilbert stops us in our tracks. Read it here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

Weird day to be named Eliza Gilbert.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

The poetry club at my college recently read this one by @dlseuss … quickly become an all time favorite!

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

So thrilled to have a new poem, “Aubade with Roadkill” up in @pidgeonholes today! Check it out!

Pidgeonholes

@pidgeonholes

2 years

"Take the shoulder of a turnpike and dislocate it. Trust the image unattended with a slice of yellow Scotch broom and a chain link fence latticed with spray paint." new poetry: "Aubade with Roadkill" by Eliza Gilbert @elizagilbs

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

So thankful to have my poem, “The Iron Harvest” from @adroitjournal featured! Check it out!

Verse Daily (@versedaily.bsky.social)

@versedailypoems

2 years

Our Web Weekly feature #poem is "The Iron Harvest" by Eliza Gilbert "Soft below the killing fields of Verdun, tumors..." from The Adroit Journal #poetry

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

5 months

Reading Richard Siken in the Q train & feeling like that one dragon from that one litany, always.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

So very excited to have my strange little poem “Astral Projection” up at @FrontierPoetry !! Check it out if ya want!

Frontier Poetry

@FrontierPoetry

1 year

Happy New Voices Friday! Today we’re so thrilled to publish this poem by Eliza Gilbert 💫 “To be a christener you must speak loudly and know nothing.” — @ElizaGilbs Read the full poem here:

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 month

So what I’m hearing is Trump wants to Parent Trap Putin and Zelenskyy??

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

Thrilled to have a piece in @flashfictionmag out today!! Check it out if you wish :) The Carousel

The Carousel

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

“After the funeral, my twin brother Mike and I go to Grandpa’s apartment on 12th and University to smoke a bowl and watch ‘River Monsters.’” Check out my flash piece in @forge_litmag !

River Monster - The Forge Literary Magazine

After the funeral, my twin brother Mike and I go to Grandpa’s apartment on 12th and University to smoke a bowl and watch “River Monsters.” “Like he was packing for…

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

So many thanks to @flashfictionmag and @MariaHaskins !!!

Flash Fiction Online

@flashfictionmag

2 years

We couldn’t turn away from this grandmother in “The Carousel” by @elizagilbs Thanks, @MariaHaskins ! "Grandmother pops her tongue. A wad of buttery phlegm hurtles towards us. We shriek, duck, fling ourselves to safety. She throws her head back like a sword-swallower and cackles.”

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

So honored to be a finalist for this awesome competition! So much love and thanks to @forge_litmag

The Forge Literary Magazine

@forge_litmag

2 years

Congratulations to our 2022 flash fiction competition finalists: Eliza Gilbert for “River Monster” Matt Barrett for “The Day My Mother Flew” Stewart Engesser for “Snow” Tim Frank for “Life Lessons” Longlist at the link!

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

“On the day Grandmother swallowed a piece of the sun, the carnival was in town…” Check out my flash piece, “The Carousel,” in the January edition of Flash Fiction Online! @flashfictionmag

The Carousel

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

@postcardsfrmv I’ve always admired to bravery/brashness of using “thin” twice in the second sentence.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

1 year

@kjavadizadeh Beautiful.

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

4 months

@splitlipthemag @andhow @carlyalaimo @Dango_Ramen @desertdwellera3 @krysmalcolmbelc thank you so much to the SLM fam ❤️❤️

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

Super honored to be a fiction finalist!

The Sewanee Review

@sewaneereview

2 years

This past July, the Sewanee Review held its fifth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction contest. This year we received nearly one-thousand submissions. Today we are pleased to announce the winners. 🧵

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 years

So excited to have my ode Jeremy Wade and “River Monsters” up at this awesome mag. Thank you so much to every @forge_litmag !!!

The Forge Literary Magazine

@forge_litmag

2 years

Our story of the week is River Monster by @ElizaGilbs . This piece was a finalist for the 2022 Forge Flash Fiction Competition. Selected by editor @sebroderick .

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Eliza Gilbert

@ElizaGilbs

2 months

@wjneumire Sick, I’m already one step ahead then!

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