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Vote for @TexasTech alumnus @SGJ72 in Jimmy Fallon's Summer Book Club. His latest novel, I Was a Teenage Slasher, is one of six nominees. the-tonight-show.com/fallon-book-cl… @TTUArtsSciences @TTUEnglish #amreading

Last week, Texas Tech students, faculty, & alumni participated in the @TACWTWriters conference. They shared poems, stories, essays, & presented on ekphrastic writing, poetry craft skills, translation, women's health, & Latinx horror stories. @TTUEnglish @TTUArtsSciences

Last week, Tim Z Hernandez gave 2 readings at Texas Tech--one on campus & one as keynote at the @TACWTWriters Conference! What a storyteller! So inspiring! Books: sold out! If you get a chance to meet Tim or hear him read, take it! #amreading #SomeoftheLight #AllTheyWillCallYou

Don't forget Tim Hernandez's visit to Texas Tech University. This Thursday night, 7 p.m. in Lecture Hall 001 of the English & Phil Building. It promises to be an inspiring evening! @TTUEnglish @TACWTWriters #poetry #nonfiction

August is coming to an end, but I started my new job this week as a managing editor at @IHLR. I'm so excited!!! BTWs, submissions are open for the The Long Story Prize and NaPamo. Submit. Here's a picture of me at the office: #WritingCommunity #phdlife #PhD #readingcommunity

Our submission gate for the 2024 NaPoMo prize is now open! 🥳 Send packets of up to 5 poems to our contest. Winner's prize is $1000, and we pay and publish ten finalists! Submit here: ironhorse.submittable.com

Don't forget to join @lsupress & William Wenthe on Facebook Live for the virtual #booklaunch of his latest #poetry collection, The Gentle Art: Poems. This afternoon. 2 p.m. CST! Attend and get a #discount code to purchase the book! fb.me/e/1l6jamlnS

Tim Z. Hernandez is an Associate Professor in the bilingual creative writing program at University of Texas, El Paso. For more information about the reading or to register for virtual attendance, email jill.patterson@ttu.edu. #amreading #alltheywillcallyou #someofthelight

As featured in @people, his latest collection of poetry, Some of the Light: New & Selected Poems, was released recently with @BeaconPressBks. #poetry #amreading #TimHernandez

In 2 weeks, #poet & #nonfiction writer Tim Z. Hernandez visits our campus to give a #reading & serve as keynote speaker at the annual conference of @TACWTWriters, hosted this year by @TexasTech. Thurs, Sept 21, at 7 p.m. Lecture Hall 001, English & Phil Building! @TTUEnglish

Congrats to alumna Bria Winfree for the publication of her #videoessay, "On Living Holy," in @TriQuarterlyMag. Bria wrote and produced the #essay in @lesliejillp's Spring 2023 Micro Memoir Workshop. Watch it right here for #free! triquarterly.org/issues/living-….

Join Professor #WilliamWenthe for the #virtual launch of his latest #poetry collection, The Gentle Art: Poems, which examines the life and art of the controversial painter, James McNeill Whistler. @lsupress Thursday, September 7, from 2 to 2:30 p.m. CST. fb.me/e/1l6jamlnS

Congrats to PhD alumnus Samodh Porawagamage, who won the Burnside Review Press Award for his collection of #poems, Becoming Sam, which traces a #childhood in Sri Lanka against the backdrop of the disastrous #tsunami of 2004. Jaswinder Bolina judged. Look for the launch in 2024!

Congratulations to alumnus @SarahViren on the launch of her second book. It's getting rave reviews from @nytimesbooks, @npr, @KirkusReviews. It's on all the @summerread lists! #amreading #nonfiction #memoir

Congrats to alumna Kathleen Blackburn, who received her BA @TexasTech, for placing her #memoir, The Pilot's Daughter, with @UTexasPress. It will be released in 2024! We look forward to reading it! #amreading #redraiders #cancer #evangelical @TTUEnglish @TTUArtsSciences

Texas Tech is accepting applications for our MA Program in Creative Writing--virtual & F2F slots available. Entrance date: Aug 2023. Interested students apply here: ttugradschool.my.site.com/admissions/App… Spread the word! Get your applications in! @TTUEnglish #amwriting #graduateschool