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queer writer/bookseller. debut novel: the disappointment ( @CatapultStory , forthcoming). work in @GuernicaMag , @NERweb , @FenceBooks , etc. rep’d by @kentdwolf

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Scott Broker

5 months

over the moon to share that my debut novel, THE DISAPPOINTMENT, will be published by the wonderful @CatapultStory . a lifelong dream made real by @alicia_kroell and @kentdwolf . I can’t wait to take you all on this queer and absurd trip to the oregon coast 🤍

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2 years

imagine having chris kraus as your landlord

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1 month

here are my picks for top ten books of the 21st century. could have remade the list many times over (we live in a golden age of literature!), but these stand out to me for their beauty and brilliance, and for the power of their influence—literary, cultural, etc

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emily dickinson driving a lexus in los angeles

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5 months

my newest display at the store

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10 months

from anne carson’s forthcoming book, wrong norma, which is all you’d want and more

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3 years

behold my crowning achievement, a queer book display featuring many visionaries (and missing many more)

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8 months

six favorite books in translation I read this year

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2 months

apparently there is a porn vid out there that starts with a quote from maggie nelson

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1 year

newest bookstore display: small books with big impact

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2 years

poetry isn’t often featured at our store, so I wanted to do a display dedicated to it. I love these books, and I love seeing them all together

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2 years

being on twitter now feels like when you say bye to someone then start walking in the same direction

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1 year

my latest display, a spotlight on indie publishers

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8 months

highlighting six favorite titles in four different categories again this year, starting with novels

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2 years

these pieces by anne carson (left) and @dlseuss (right) have a nice kinship between them

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1 year

some books I love on the inside and the outside

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3 years

it’s national poetry month and I spent an hour rearranging books so I could make space for my own little display

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5 months

small but mighty display for indie press month

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2 months

celebrating anne carson’s bday by having it also be my bday. 31 today 🎂

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4 years

Yesterday I defended my MFA thesis, a strange, sad, and (I think) funny novel titled My Republic. Here I am holding it like my child, which it is. Special thanks to advisor extraordinaire @nickwhite1985 , and second reader, @LeeMartinAuthor .

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8 months

my story, “threshold,” is up now at @GuernicaMag . it’s about bathhouses, friendships, and feeling stuck between worlds. a dream pub with dream editors to boot. special thanks to @adalva and @autumn_watts for their work on this one

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He felt endangered by the solitude, even at risk of vanishing.

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2 years

the end! first draft! new novel! the longest thing I’ve ever written, and (I think/hope) the best. it’s about grief, art, care, ambition/failure, and, indeed, disappointment. a meeting of garth greenwell and shirley jackson. I loved writing (almost) every word 🥺

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Scott Broker

3 years

so happy to say I am now represented by @soumeya_b of @HGLiterary . feeling very lucky to have such a smart and kind reader standing behind my novel. special thanks to @jaxxonhoward for building the initial bridge. here’s to more queerness, more absurdism, and more books ahead!

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2 years

from @VChangPoet ’s forthcoming collection, the trees witness everything

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2 years

please enjoy my shrine to rachel cusk

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2 years

had a lot of fun with this matchmaking display, though there were about a dozen other pairings I wanted to include

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2 years

you ever read over your own writing and think “damn..I’m a freak”

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3 years

my coworkers, on seeing me leave the store yesterday with this stack: is he...you know?

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7 years

my moms made laminated ornaments of some of my favorite books this year (including @carmenmmachado , @gabehabash , @GarthGreenwell , @olivialanguage , @NifMuhammad , @melissafebos , etc) and I’ve never felt more festive

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1 year

very excited to share that I am now represented by @kentdwolf at neon literary, joining one of the weirdest, queerest, and most exciting rosters of writers I could’ve imagined. a happy pride indeed.

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4 months

my hardy stack of recommendations for this year’s @latimesfob , all available at the vroman’s tent

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2 years

here are six books in four categories that I loved reading this year. starting with general nonfiction ⬇️

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9 months

my latest display, featuring books on the trials and triumphs of motherhood

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2 years

today is my birthday! here’s me at 29

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2 years

love seeing this @DorothyProject display put up in the bookstore today. I will be (im)politely shepherding everyone toward it

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2 years

me seeing the list of writers in a new @astra_mag issue is how I imagine many people feel seeing the lineup for coachella

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Astra Magazine

2 years

Unfit for human consumption: our FILTH issue arrives October 11th. Featuring Elif Batuman, Brontez Purnell, Samuel R. Delany, Wayne Koestenbaum, Raven Leilani, Mariana Enríquez, Clarice Lispector, aracelis girmay, Maggie Millner and so many more.

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today I turn thirty, the age I’ve felt all my life

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3 years

book ornaments for my family are back! my favorite holiday tradition

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3 years

today I turned 28 and decided to be the 70s porn star I wished to see in the world. happy pride, happy cancer season, happy birthday, happy etc

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2 years

I loved this book, which approaches HIV, COVID, and other viruses both literal and figurative with such nuanced scientific and cultural insight. smart, stylish, and beautifully written from start to finish. out from @wwnorton in june!

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small sampling of the readings in my upcoming queer visions workshop, starting march 18, which has just one spot left. more info here:

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2 years

very nice surprise to discover that my story, “marco polo,” originally published in @IdahoReview , is distinguished in this year’s best american short stories

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1 year

a good time to say that I am indeed querying a joy williams-meets-garth greenwell novel about a failed playwright, a grieving photographer, & the uncanny spiral they go down on a trip to the oregon coast. lmk if it sounds like something you or someone you know might be into?

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1 year

my novel query got blocked from someone’s email server as “lewd spam.” if that doesn’t make you want to read the opening pages, I don’t know what would

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1 year

my grandparents were two of my favorite people. here’s a letter from them that recently resurfaced. I miss them both (a lot), and wonder at and about them more every day

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3 years

done very very right by @GraywolfPress

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is it even a first date if I don’t 1) talk about my parents’ divorce 2) give an oral history of my sexual orientation or 3) drink 2-3 gin and tonics ??

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Scott Broker

3 years

still not over this honor. so grateful to @Tin_House for having me as a 2021 scholar. and what brilliant company!

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Tin House

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🎉Thrilled to share the names of our 2021 Summer Workshop Scholars!!🎉This brilliant bunch of writers absolutely blew us away with their talent & it was an honor to spend time with them & their work. We can't wait to read their books in the future! Full bios on our website. #THSW

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3 years

the strangest mix of grief and gratitude to be holding @fakemaddoxjolie ’s story collection. can’t wait to handsell this book like a queer evangelist once it’s released

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Scott Broker

5 years

amazed and honored to be listed here with so many talented writers. thanks, @LambdaLiterary ✨

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Lambda Literary

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5 years

We are beyond excited to announce the 2019 Lambda Literary Fellows! Congratulations to all of our incoming students. Read about these talented up-and-coming writers here:

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5 years

to my tiny twitter family: I’m very honored and excited to say I will be a @LambdaLiterary fiction fellow this summer :’)

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3 years

so grateful to have been part of such a smart and talented group, and to have been led by the great @mhbertino no less. big thanks to #THSW for all they do

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Marie-Helene Bertino

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Class Photo @Tin_House : Novel as Endurance Activity. No animals were harmed on our pages this week! An honor to learn alongside fiction’s next Greats. Thank you @Tin_House & @Lance_Cleland & @India_DLG & faculty for a week of genius thought #thsw (+ @JoshuaMax_ not pictured)

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3 years

what we talk about when we talk about (galley) love

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2 years

the vacation stack tanning by the pool

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Scott Broker

4 years

I'm thrilled to have an essay in the new issue of @PassagesNorth . special thanks to @krysmalcolmbelc for the edits, and to @elissawashuta for helping bring the piece into the world in the first place. the issue is available at , or I can send a PDF <3

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3 years

I’m thrilled to have one of my dearest stories in the new @IdahoReview , among truly stellar company. dm me for a pdf of the piece, and buy the full issue here!

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4 years

my story, “the father scale,” is up at @JoylandMagazine today! I worked on this piece for a long (long) time, so having it out in the world is a happy day for me indeed. special thanks to @hanjoseph for his sharp edits. read here:

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2 years

very excited to receive fernanda melchor’s latest from @NewDirections

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3 years

couldn’t be more thrilled to be attending the @Tin_House workshop this summer, AND to be working with @mhbertino , who wrote one of my favorite novels of 2020

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2 years

alas I have covid, which is good for nothing beyond giving me time to read. logging my quarantine books here, beginning with kate zambreno’s heroines, a characteristically astute and rigorous look at the “wives of modernism” and the various abuses they suffered

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Scott Broker

3 years

this book was insanely good. I think I liked it even more than “in the distance,” which says a lot, given that that novel is also brilliant. out may 3rd from @riverheadbooks !

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Scott Broker

4 years

I'm honored to have a story in the new issue of @adroitjournal . it's called "the many brothers and me" and can be read here: . special thanks to @tweeterlabird and the whole editorial team for all they do!

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Issue Thirty-Three: Scott Broker

Scott Broker is a queer writer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Ohio State University's MFA Program and a Lambda Fellow, he has been a finalist for the Iowa Review Fiction Prize, an Honorable...

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3 years

grateful to @lithub for letting me publicly swoon over anne carson in their “art of the hand-sell” series. read my rec, and those of fellow booksellers, here:

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10 months

three october releases I have recommendations for at the store, each wonderfully fresh in its own right

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2 years

few galleys as exciting to receive as @DorothyProject galleys

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9 months

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3 years

not usually a thread person, year-end or otherwise, but life is short and joy is fleeting. plus, this year had some exciting writing moments!

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1 year

my novel query got blocked from someone’s email server as “lewd spam.” if that doesn’t make you want to read the opening pages, I don’t know what would

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1 year

the store recommendations of mine that will be going to @latimesfob

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4 years

the pub news continues! today I have a poem up at @CincinnReview . gratitude to @KathyFaganPoet for feedback, and to editor @topazandmaddy , who wrote an amazing intro to the piece. read or listen here, and if you’re on mobile, flip that phone horizontally.

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miCRo: "Cruising" by Scott Broker

Cruising becomes regal in proper light, / or lightlessness. If only they could see us / here: knighted by kinder swords

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3 years

new author photo compliments of @martesema

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8 months

followed by poetry

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5 years

in an eval from my first semester of teaching, the student wrote, "7/10...clear he was trying his hardest." it has taken me over a year to recover.

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1 year

I have a story about grieving, partying, friends, and being very lost (in grief, while at parties, with friends) in the new issue of @FenceBooks . thanks to all involved, and especially to @HarrisLahti for the edits. here’s the issue and the story’s first page ⬇️ (dm for full)

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1 year

there are two kinds of people in this world…those who are sheila heti’s target audience, and those who are not

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3 years

a month ago I went on a first date where all three of these things happened, and said date sent me a screenshot of this tweet the next day saying “hmmm” and nothing else :/

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Scott Broker

3 years

is it even a first date if I don’t 1) talk about my parents’ divorce 2) give an oral history of my sexual orientation or 3) drink 2-3 gin and tonics ??

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3 years

I read two @DorothyProject titles last week—one old and one forthcoming—and was reminded, yet again, of why they’re one of my favorite publishers. a true bounty of original, stylish, poised, and fearless writing

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2 years

straight women vs gay men on the apps when I tell them I’m bi

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2 years

from joy williams’ ninety-nine stories of god

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the chill I felt when a customer said “isn’t he the most handsome man?” while buying two (2) copies of this book

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1 year

joy williams in conversation with hans ulrich obrist

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3 years

the perfect novel for me to read while editing my own. like joy williams, @corinfiction ’s work contains an inimitable and unplaceable strangeness, one that completely refashions what you can do on the page. unsettling, smart, and so so fresh.

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4 years

“is this @phoebe_bridgers song about a dad or an ex” is the new version of “is this sufjan stevens song gay or about god”

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3 months

happy pub day to the wondrous weirdo miranda july, whose new novel is her best book yet. nice to have this little blurb from me in our store, compliments of @riverheadbooks

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1 year

vacation books: an a+ new read (ives) and an a+ reread (gaitskill)

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Scott Broker

2 years

gifts to myself to make up for the fact that I can’t go home for the holidays (with 50% influence from @egabbert )

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1 year

lined up on our employee picks wall, the horse on @K_Scanlan_ ’s book becomes more of a centaur

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Scott Broker

2 years

talking about writing with @NERweb ’s andrew kane was such a pleasure. for your vday enjoyment, some thoughts on tone, nature, character building, and (ofc) loneliness 💕

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New England Review

2 years

"The essential challenge faced by most of my characters is loneliness. Part of what makes loneliness compelling to me is how ubiquitous it is," Scott Broker ( @scottjbroker ) told NER in our latest Behind the Byline interview. Read the full interview here:

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Scott Broker

4 years

hi friends ~ I am moving to LA and am in need of a job! if you have a lead (or multiple) I would be very grateful. I have experience in teaching, editing, writing, publishing, and service, and open to most everything ✨

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1 year

recent galley goods

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2 years

after finishing solmaz sharif’s forthcoming collection, I turned back to the beginning and read the whole thing again. a truly astonishing book. out march 1 from @GraywolfPress

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and, last but not least, nonfiction

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6 years

in my final workshop of the year, @elissawashuta described my essay as a chamber of melancholy, so I am officially retiring from writing, my mission accomplished

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3 years

dreamt I got first AND second place in the same writing contest, woke up to an email from turbotax

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2 years

poetry people! I’ve been asked to read a poem at a wedding and am crowdsourcing love poems of the everyday/small moment/sweet-but-not-cloying variety. any suggestions—even obvious ones!—welcome

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I took five galleys on my trip to greece and was lucky enough to love them all. thanks to @GarthGreenwell , @egabbert , jesse ball, olivia laing, and ariane koch for being such ideal travel companions

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3 years

to the man on scruff who said he liked the “delicate melancholy emanating from [my] pics” I say: yes I am depressed, thank you

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2 years

important to encourage yourself while editing

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2 years

love talking books with my boys on scruff

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4 years

beyond honored to have my poem, "Cruising," nominated by @CincinnReview for @SundressPub 's Best of the Net, especially among such amazing other work. special thanks to @topazandmaddy , who took the poem in the first place. read or listen here:

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Scott Broker

5 years

honored and grateful to @ALitReview for nominating my story among so much great work!

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American Literary Review

5 years

We’re excited to announce our 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations! Congrats and good luck to all our nominees! @jessie_c_roy @scottjbroker @KendraEClark

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