We are thrilled to announce the 2022 longlist for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! The Prize honors the best debut fiction of the year, with the winner announced at our Annual Awards Benefit on 12/6. Learn more about these incredible books here:
@penguinpress
is running a giveaway for my book on
@goodreads
! You can enter for the next 14 days! 20 winners!! I love winning stuff on the internet (only happened to me once, but it was great)
cannot wait to dive into
@belinda
’s (not the Mexican pop star) debut novel — out on Tuesday. already a huge fan of her writing, I know I will love book 💛 🗺📍🧭
so it turns out my mom mis-remembered by birth time by four (!!!) hours and i've had my rising sign wrong all this time. very devastated and have lost all my sense of identity. please send thoughts and prayers.
so far during this quarantine i've virtually joined a war & peace reading group and am playing dungeons & dragons for the first time. i guess the nerd in me just needed this opportunity
i'm making a recipe with dried black beans for the first time in my adult life and i'm SHOCKED at the time commitment. like, wow, have you guys all been planning your black bean recipe 24 hrs in advance this whole time?!?!
caucusing in iowa was a shitshow and i am not surprised at all there are no results out. at my location we started almost 2 hrs late and at some point we realized the entire place's ballot count was off by 50 and we just...moved on??
I think I’ve figured out the formula. For every one really good day in quarantine you have to trade in three days where you just want to build a blanket fort and surround yourself with every pillow you’ve ever purchased.
my mood for the rest of 2022 is 'landing quads of increasing difficulty to the rising crescendo of rocket man'
please do not disrupt my mood, thank you
NATHAN CHEN 🚨 What a performance 🇺🇸
After a devastating Olympics in 2018 Chen was dialed in at
#Beijing2022
setting a WR in the short program and wrapping up GOLD with an amazing free skate ⬇️
After bad art friend I said “I’d do anything to not have my group chats subpoenaed”
After Adam Levine I am saying “I’d do anything not to have my sexts ever be seen”
Btw, the disproportionate amount of cases we’re hearing with famous people almost certainly suggests the general pop #’s are vastly underreported. And Trump keeps saying FORTY.
AT SKYLIGHT! Thursday August 11th at 7:00 PM,
@belinda
discusses her debut novel A MAP FOR THE MISSING (
@penguinpress
) with
@stephycha
! Order signed copies here -
I keep thinking, this is finally the time I'm going to write a funny story. I start out with many jokes. Then as I write, everything funny just *poof* disappears into smoke.
during the quarantine i've watched so many episodes of youtube asian chefs that i've now identified one of the most watched ones is just jacking her recipes from the other chefs...should i write an investigative piece??
For the past two years I’ve been working on poems about some old friends. One of them is in the new issue of
@rhinopoetry
. I’m very grateful to the editors for giving it a place.
"Why does the United States require people who want to purchase something as simple as a curved piece of plastic to get a prescription, preceded by a costly medical exam?" asks
@Yascha_Mounk
:
when i was 12 my whole neighborhood was jacking one person's unprotected wifi. now i cant even get rid of the 'dead spots' in my own house. someone tell me what's happening
My first book will be published in 2023, by dream dream dream press
@nightboatbooks
.
Feeling so lucky to be in this company, to be among poems, to move through this life as a poet. 🌷
i really can't help it, i love resolutions and get inspired by all of the ones people post. i'm resolving to finish a novel and to keep fighting all my negative self-talk. strength to everyone in 2019!!! <3
People who don’t “believe” in astrology need to answer for which signs are dominant in MFA programs. There were three Scorpios in my workshop alone this semester. THREE
I’m so excited for my upcoming conversation with novelist
@belinda
Huijuan Tang (A MAP FOR THE MISSING). We’re going to talk abt family stories, writing fiction, TOMORROW IN SHANGHAI, and love for Anhui province. Join us Wed. Nov 2 at 5 pm PT/ 7 pm CT. Hosted by
@BridgeIndigo
kind of annoying how you have to buy 5-7 bananas at once but they only taste their best in a 2 day window. you could never finish all your bananas in that time -- so you're never at optimal banana consumption
on today, the first day of scorpio season, i would just like to announce that, although i have made many mistakes in my love life, i have NEVER been fooled by a scorpio man