'My grief felt too close, too clingy and smothering for me even to get a good look at it. I needed to unfurl it in space and quiet. I needed the Arctic.'

Such a joy working with Maggie Shipstead on this piece about letting go but not giving up.

wsj.com/lifestyle/trav…

Thanks @cntraveler and Maggie Shipstead for including THE LAST LANGUAGE on this list of books to read this fall: cntraveler.com/gallery/women-…

In case people think it’s just writers and actors who are mad at the studios, an editor friend made this. #IASolidarity #UnionStrong

Head to our Margin Notes auction to bid on an annotated copy of @maggieshipstead's 'Seating Arrangements' and support Off Assignment's mission to promote a new kind of travel writing that forefronts diverse voices and more nuance in place-based literature: bit.ly/auction-maggie

Friends - I hope you'll consider supporting Off Assignment and their auction. I have LOVED their letters to a stranger, its dialogue with place, and you can win annotated copies of my book as well as books from other authors like Sari Botton Maggie Shipstead and Erica Berry.

Hot off the press: a raft of writers pick their page-turners for summer

feat. Maggie Shipstead Eliza Clark (mostly offline) Nina Stibbe Mark O’Connell Deric Dondarrion Nicole Flattery Rebecca Watson Guy Gunaratne Sheena Patel and many more
theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

The Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead was my favourite book that I read last year (I read the part about flying to Svalbard as I was flying to Svalbard!). This is such a great interview! 👇🏻❄️🇦🇶

Sunday morning I’ll be part of a panel with two wonderful authors, Rebecca Makkai & Maggie Shipstead to discuss what the hell makes publishing worth it.

It’s part of the GrubStreet Muse and the Marketplace Conference. All of it virtual so you can log in from anywhere.

.Maggie Shipstead spent ten days driving through Chile’s Atacama Desert, surveying its long history of habitation and abandonment. nyti.ms/42S0qw4

🎉 The 2023 recipient of the prestigious @Swanseuni Dylan Thomas Prize is ARINZE IFEAKANDU
for his brilliant debut collection of short-stories, 'God's Children Are Little Broken Things.' 🏆📚

Press Release: swan.ac/2023Winner #SUDTP23

Huge congratulations to Arinze Ifeakandu ⁦Orion Publishing⁩ ⁦W&N⁩ on winning ⁦Swansea University ⁦dylanthomprize⁩ prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’ 🎉🎉📚📚📚⁦ theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

Revolting stuff here!

Writers are asking for a 2% raise. The studios say they can’t do that. Meanwhile:

Hey peeps: Sonora Review contest deadline, judged by the best Maggies in the biz (also some of the best writers in the biz: Maggie Shipstead, Maggie Nelson, and Maggie Smith), extended to 4/24. Submit:

Happy paperback publication day to You Have a Friend in 10A, the dazzling short story collection from Maggie Shipstead 🐅

Exuding both tenderness and bite, these stories expose complicated truths with cunning, compassion, and wit.

Available now in all good bookshops 📚

A young girl didn’t want to slaughter the goat she raised for 4H. The state senator who bought the goat at auction agreed to let it live out its days eating weeds. But sheriff’s deputies drove 500 miles to kill the goat and teach a 9-year-old a lesson.
latimes.com/california/sto…

'...the kind of poetry collection that takes up residence in your psyche and becomes a part of you, echoing when you least expect it...deeply specific but also full of inclusive—even universal—resonance about the complexities of family, self, and home.' Maggie Shipstead (judge)