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Equal parts Klaus Baudelaire, Lily Briscoe & Jordan Baker | writer | associate editor at Scribner 📚 | hot-takes reserved for the group chat | she/her

Brooklyn, NY
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Emily Polson 👻
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So thrilled to be working with @ink176 on her new novel for @ScribnerBooks ! If you've ever taken the leftover cheese from the charcuterie board at the work function to eat for dinner later, this one's for you
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Literary It Girls™ get ready
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11 months
ok but if I acquire your book just know I send 15-page single-spaced editorial letters and will put you through the wringer of 3-6 drafts
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
Today's email to Brian Murray and the HarperCollins People team... if you don't want to negotiate in good faith, just say that instead of spreading misinformation about industry salaries! @HarperCareers @hcpunion
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Literary It Girls™ get ready
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1 year
Can't believe I get to publish a book by the editor-in-chief of the most prestigious literary magazine of all time at the most prestigious literary imprint in America :') Online mags are the future of the culture and don't you forget it!!!
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M.M. Carrigan
1 year
IT'S HAPPENING. I'm writing a dream book on a dream subject with a dream publisher, working with the brilliant @emilycpolson at @ScribnerBooks ! This is SURREAL. Keep going. Keep writing. Put yourself out there. Invent your own qualifications. There are no rules. Live más.
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
🚨 POETS! 🚨 Scribner is holding an open call for full poetry manuscripts--details linked below. The form will open August 1st at 3pm Eastern and will close August 31st or when we hit 300 submissions. I'd love to read your work!!
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Emily Polson 👻
4 years
@caraweinberger I love this because it's funny, but also because I found all of this within two miles of my apartment the other day while pretendeding I was backpacking a new city just to feel something
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Emily Polson 👻
11 months
look mom, I'm in the society pages!!
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Emily Polson 👻
3 months
once I write my autofiction debut about a young editor who almost exclusively receives contemporary novels about aspiring writers it's over for you hoes
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Just got rejected from a job I applied to in November so I suppose now is as good a time as any to announce I have actually been an editorial assistant at Scribner since March and we are very happy together!!
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
I am SO THRILLED to be working with Sarah on this brilliant novel, my first acquisition for Scribner!!
@sarahroseetter
sarah rose etter
2 years
🎉🎉🎉 SOME BIG NEWS TODAY 🎉🎉🎉 i am so happy & so excited to share my second novel with you soon — thank you @kentdwolf @emilycpolson @ScribnerBooks & @unitedtalent !
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Emily Polson 👻
10 months
I'm just an editor... staring at submissions from agents... begging them to send prose manuscripts as word docs not PDFs so I can read them on my kindle and not a backlit screen
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Emily Polson 👻
7 years
@papertimelady "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see."
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
4 years
Tbh the best thing to happen to me in 2020 was being rejected by @perhappened --their kind note with recs for other places to send my piece led me to keep submitting, & now I have work in/forthcoming from @quiet433 , @winecellarpress , @EpochPress , @feedlitmag , & @CapsuleStories ! 💛
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
TBQ had no idea what was in store when they said "I look forward to continuing to see your name and work out there" after rejecting me, and bless @bullshitlit for finding a home for my Taco Bell short story 😈😈
@TBQuarterly
Taco Bell Quarterly
1 year
Also for the history books, I rejected my own future editor, the brilliant @emilycpolson for TBQ5. I was thankfully unaware of this during one of the most agonizing waits of my life in which I even prayed for divine intervention, but truly, there is no God in creative writing
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Emily Polson 👻
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“I’m going to stop apologizing for everything I love. I’m just going to love it.”  Love this interview with @johngreen by @iSmashFizzle !
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
How it started... How it's going!!! 😭😭😭
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Emily Polson 👻
4 months
@tombreihan "it’s frankly difficult to imagine Swift conjuring flowery language to describe any experiences that she might be having with [Travis]." Cackling.
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
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I literally became an editor because of this 2011 Vlogbrothers video where @johngreen explains "the Truth about Book Editors" and talks about getting an editorial letter from @jsgabel for the fault in our stars
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
1 year
So thrilled to be introducing the brilliant Jan Carson to North American audiences with this collection of stories that are at turns humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, surreal and incredibly satisfying. My jaw-dropped on the train reading these!
@JanCarson7280
Jan Carson
1 year
sharing the best news today. I have an American publisher for my next two books @ScribnerBooks who publish some of my all time favourite writers. I’ll be working with the brilliant Emily Polson. So grateful for all @spinningkates hard work finding me an American publishing home
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Emily Polson 👻
4 years
Context for those not in the industry: this means that Macmillan--which used to have the lowest starting salary of all the Big Five publishers at 35k--now pays the HIGHEST.
@PublishersLunch
PublishersLunch
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Macmillan Will Raise Starting Salaries to $42K
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
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can't tweet anything these days without getting accused of being the mastermind of a corporate marketing scheme that has the sinister purpose of getting people to buy books they might actually like
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
8 months
I read 183 books this year. About a quarter for work, the rest for fun. Here are 16 I loved (that I did not edit😊).
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
4 months
but also if you own a literary hub tote bag you are legally obligated to buy this book
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4 months
is this anything
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
"helen, i see you. hatched from an egg, paddling ever since. born in a land that doubts your claim to it." Meet Helen of Troy like she's never been written before in @MariaZoccola 's sharp and brilliant debut collection--my first poetry acquisition for Scribner!
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Emily Polson 👻
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"Grazer could not be immediately reached for comment, as she is a wild animal living in a remote national park in Alaska."
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Emily Polson 👻
9 months
hiding tiny babies around the simon & schuster offices 🍼👶😈📚🦃
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Emily Polson 👻
10 months
This Barbie is the highest-grossing female director of all time 🎬💖✨
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
that's right she's a NATIONAL BESTSELLER BABY!!
@sarahroseetter
sarah rose etter
1 year
RIPE cracked the @USATODAYBooks bestseller list in the first week & i'm losing it & so grateful to everyone who supported this book in the last week
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
Happy Friday to the striking workers of @hcpunion !!
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Emily Polson 👻
5 months
true story! slop is the future of literature.
@TBQuarterly
Taco Bell Quarterly
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My prestigious editor at Scribner, the most Literary imprint of them all found me because I rejected her from the biggest slop pile of them all, the Taco Bell Quarterly! I swear to God there's no Literary World lol, do *whatever* you want
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Emily Polson 👻
11 months
if there's one thing poets love almost as much as the moon it's the garamond font
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
3 years
@hankgreen Only on Audible/subscription model platforms! Longer audiobooks are priced MUCH higher by the publisher, and Audible eats the difference because what they are selling is a subscription.
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I can't believe my first piece of published fiction (post college lit journal) is going to be a short story about a Taco Bell Cantina that may or may not exist, in @bullshitlit 's summer anthology. Blessed. 🙏🌮
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
When did we all get too cool to use quotation marks in dialogue? Who is responsible
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2 years
If Joan Didion were alive today I'm pretty sure she'd be publishing in @TBQuarterly
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
💛 this profile of Sarah Rose Etter! A singular talent & a dream to edit, she's also had boundless enthusiasm for every part of the publication process, which often manifests as deep appreciation for every person working behind the scenes, too. It's been a pleasure & a privilege.
@latimesbooks
L.A. Times Books
1 year
How Silicon Valley, Sylvia Plath and a killer work ethic inspired a novel like no other
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Emily Polson 👻
6 years
@tayari The universal is found in the specific, so skip the generalities and tell the story only you can. (From intro to creative writing with the inimitable @Thing_Finder )
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
Happy happy pub day to @sarahroseetter and her wonderful (devastating, vivid, sharp, visceral, immersive, brilliant...) novel RIPE!! Look at how far we've come--and what a journey it's been!!
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
In the past week my bosses gave me flowers and pears and a PROMOTION to assistant editor, so here's to the first six months at Scribner and the incredible books I've worked on so far, with many more to come!!
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
In a shocking turn of events, I am now a Pushcart-nominated POET! 😭 Thank you to editor Christopher Fields!!
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#PUSHCART NOMS 2022: @emilypolson - It is a truth universally acknowledged
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Emily Polson 👻
5 months
Love this & love @sarahroseetter on getting edits: "Do you want to hear it from [your agent and editor] or do you want to hear it from the fucking New York Times? It's them or it's the Washington Post, so who do you want to tell you that this part sucks?"
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Wise words
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9 months
mordant and comical and savage and psychologically acute and unflinching!!
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Alexandra Tanner
9 months
★ A Publishers Weekly star for WORRY!!!!!! ★
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Emily Polson 👻
5 years
Gonna start a fashion line called Pocket, where every article of clothing has at least one pocket. This is not just about pocket justice for dresses and women's pants. We're talking sock pockets. Bra pockets. Secret pockets in your shoes to store a spare key, etc.
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Another 2021 accomplishment I'm proud of: I had 9 pieces published in lit mags, submitted my work 85 times, and had 6 new acceptances. (All linked here: )
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
2 years
some days I am not a book editor. I am simply a professional wrangler of photos poorly explaining what dpi is to people whose specialty is words.
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
One of my boss's authors called me an "organizational wizard" in his acknowledgements so I've decided to start a "blurb" section on my resume
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Emily Polson 👻
4 years
*psst* Hank Green is quoting yours truly in this TikTok before he smashes the camera with his excellent new book that pubs tomorrow thank you and goodnight!!
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Hank Green
4 years
This is the only kind of TikTok I make anymore.
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feel free to save and use this one in your own future hour of need
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5 months
I love my silly little job ok!!
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
New flash essay in Salt Hill 47! 💛📚 iykyk
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2 years
Took myself to the Azores and wow-oh-wow!!
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2 years
Do we think it worked? (Washington Square Park)
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So much of contemporary life is just SCHEDULING!!! what if we just ran into each other in the town square as needed
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
I dedicate this piece to all humanities grads who now feel personally victimized by the fig tree metaphor from The Bell Jar 🗡️📘 Thank you to @havehadhavehad for understanding 💀💀
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Emily Polson 👻
4 months
Today a VIP (very important poet) asked me what I was reading and I had to admit the answer was Dune 😭
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
love when my silly little saturday morning submission spree is interrupted with an acceptance from @salthilljournal !!
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
My glamorous publishing life: frantically rifling through the books on my shelf muttering to myself, "Where does the dedication page go again?? Do I include 'acknowledgements' in the table of contents?? How and when to half title page????"
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Emily Polson 👻
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@hankgreen Hank I hate to break it to you but if that change made it onto the final book I'm pretty sure a design assistant had to compare the copy you sent and the actual high-res print-quality editable file to find that change so they could apply it
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2 years
Not my father messaging me on LinkedIn to wish me a happy birthday
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
#TheSealeyChallenge day one--Side Notes from the Archivist by Anastacia-Reneé. Thanks to the Franklin Park Reading Series for introducing me to this poet last month!
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3 years
Googled myself for ~reasons~ and found out I'm a cited source on John Green's Wikipedia page (ngl, this is on brand) 😅😅
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8 years
@rubyetc here he is getting blow-dryed 🐶
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Ahhh Capsule Stories has nominated my flash essay "First Date Sonata" for a Pushcart Prize! 😭😭😭
@CapsuleStories
Capsule Stories
3 years
🎉 Pushcart Prize nominations are here! Capsule Stories nominated pieces by the following writers: K-Ming Chang @emilycpolson @karaknick Mallory Pearson Teya Hollier @BooyTweets Read more about the pieces and authors we nominated here: #PushcartPrize
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2 years
I read 92(ish) books in 2022. Some for work, most for fun. Here are 12 I loved (excluding the ones I edited!!)
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9 months
not a tweet from the official Israel account showing up in my feed as A LITERAL AD !! the layers of propaganda used to distract from their genocide of Palestinians knows no bounds !!
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Emily Polson 👻
7 months
She's a stunner!!!
@sarahroseetter
sarah rose etter
7 months
CELEBRATING BC MY PAPERBACKS ARE HERE & YES IT SAYS NATIONAL BESTSELLER & YES IT IS A MATTE FINISH DANG thanks @ScribnerBooks & @emilycpolson 🥂🥂🥂
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
I emailed Karamo Brown exactly once years ago, and it used to be that every time I started typing my boss's name (Kara) I came dangerously close to emailing Queer Eye's Culture Expert instead. Now Outlook has moved on to suggesting that I'm probably trying to email our CEO (Karp)
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Emily Polson 👻
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At a restaurant with QR code menus, I asked the server if they had paper menus because we didn't have phones with us, but they didn't so she just...handed us her phone??
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Dropped off a dozen books in various little free libraries today, didn't bring any new ones home, please clap
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Emily Polson 👻
9 months
An absolute treat to meet the brilliant Jan Carson in person today--so excited to be publishing her marvelous North American debut Quickly, While They Still Have Horses in July 2024!
@JanCarson7280
Jan Carson
9 months
Finally got to meet this Wonder Woman, @emilycpolson my new US editor. So grateful and excited to be publishing books with the team @ScribnerBooks
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3 years
Went to my little sister's wedding 1,200 miles from where I live, and someone tried to set me up with a local mechanic. Anyway I am thriving as the last unmarried sibling and loving my car free lifestyle✨
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Emily Polson 👻
5 months
tickled to have a tiny poem in this issue of tiny wren lit!!
@tinywrenlit
tiny wren lit
5 months
Issue 6: Blue is now live, with printable zines soon to follow.
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10 months
Half the fun of reading for me is waiting for the side character named Emily to show up
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4 months
just got a google alert for my own tweet
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
I love New York but in the last few days I've had some of the best meals of my life (three courses, with wine and coffee) for the cost of a hamburger in Brooklyn that doesn't even come with fries
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
Get ready for Jules and Poppy and three-legged Amy Klobuchar and some Mormon mommy bloggers to move into your brain where they will live rent free!! This deliciously funny and zeitgeisty and poignant read coming your way in 2024 from @ScribnerBooks 😎
@alex___tanner
Alexandra Tanner
2 years
i wrote a novel called WORRY!!!! it’s about being worried
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Emily Polson 👻
5 years
The Great LA Bookstore Crawl of 2020 feat. @genericpoptart and I at @lastbookstorela , @skylightbooks , and @BookSoup 📚💛
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2 years
Today a customer service rep named "Lilith" helped me get back into my Neopets account for the first time in about decade. Would you believe GIGGLE_IGGLE and Ballet_Baby are "dying"
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Emily Polson 👻
2 months
she is the moment!!! MEET HELEN!!
@MariaZoccola
Maria Zoccola
2 months
⭐️⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️⭐️ I'm beyond thrilled to share the cover for my debut poetry collection, Helen of Troy, 1993, coming January 14th 2025 from @ScribnerBooks ! 🎉🎉🎉 Preorder links below. I'm in love with this cover, and I can't wait to share Helen's voice with y'all in January.
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Emily Polson 👻
4 years
Today I got some BAD NEWS but also a LIT MAG sent me MONEY for a POEM I wrote and ANOTHER lit mag sent me an ACCEPTANCE for a piece of FLASH so while I am NOT okay I am FOCUSING on the POSITIVE
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Emily Polson 👻
5 years
"Understand I need these fragments. To tell it once is not enough." -Emily Skaja, "Dear Katie" "She had trained herself to look for answers at eye level, / but they were lower, they were changing all the time." -Jenny Xie, "Ongoing" Wonderful reading at @HousingWorksBks !
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4 months
Sometimes I feel the urge to subtweet.... but that is why God invented the group chat
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
Ever get a little tired of second place? Thanks to @CobraMag for including my creative nonfiction piece "Running Up" in Issue 03!
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Emily Polson 👻
2 years
So honored and excited to be working with Erika, who has such a singular voice on the page and an incredible vision for telling this complex and moving mother-daughter story, exploring the ways what we've learned from those who've left us guide us into the future 💛💛
@Plain_Janie
Erika J. Simpson
2 years
Time froze in 2013 and only writing for Her made it move. But I wasn’t done grieving. The novel grew with me for almost a decade of growing without Mama. It’s a celebration now!! Of life, hard work & LOVE! I GOT A BOOK DEAL! This is my mama. I can’t wait to share her with you🖤
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3 years
Waiting for Godot (2021)
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5 years
@svroundtree The January Children by Safia Elhillo Eye Level by Jenny Xie The Carrying by Ada Limón Lima : Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico Oceanic by Aimee Nezhukumatathil If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey Life on Mars by Tracy K Smith 💛💛💛
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6 months
Sometimes you spend 45 minutes doomscrolling but then find out there's a case of immaculate conception going on with a pregnant stingray in North Carolina and it was all worth it
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Emily Polson 👻
1 year
boyfriend sees me reading a book: "Ah yes, the TikTok of the trees"
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Emily Polson 👻
4 months
Last night at bar trivia there was a poetry-themed round "in honor of the upcoming Tortured Poets Department album release" and not because of National Poetry Month 😭
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
I read 103 books in 2021 (some for work, most for fun). Here are 16 that I loved.
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Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Hi I have an essay in this issue and am so excited to add space wizard to my resume!! 👩‍🚀🪄🌌
@wzrdsinspacemag
Wizards in Space Magazine
3 years
✨BIG UPDATE TIME ✨ It's finally time for us to introduce our Issue 07 contributors! 25 incredible writers & artists, 27 pieces, 1 amazing issue 🎉🎉
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@emilycpolson
Emily Polson 👻
3 years
Delighted to have a piece of flash creative nonfiction in @CapsuleStories ' beautiful summer issue, "Starry Nights"! ✨🌌☺️
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