Claire Hopple
@clairehopple
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Author of six books. Fiction editor at XRAY. Stories in Wigleaf, Peach Mag, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Forever Mag, HAD, etc.
Asheville, NC
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Husband snapped this because he ‘liked the wood in the background’ but did he accidentally take a professional headshot while we were on vacation y/n?
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I adore this movie but The Bell Jar is only 240 pages
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Dear Algorithm,
Please go back to ignoring me.
If you cannot fulfill this request, choose some of my pretend-clever tweets without human faces attached to them.
Or buy my books with your fancy robot income from Google.
Best,
Person
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A very kind agent just confirmed my fears by saying he loved my writing and wants to see my next one but nobody takes novels under 30,000 words.
Will the industry ever catch up to readers’ attention spans? Or am I the only one who loves short books?
Calling people who think short books are unmarketable “page-ists”
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What’s the worst lyric ever?
“The heat was hot” maybe?
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Gonna start a lit mag on the back of a CVS receipt and call it Gateway Drug
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She died from overexposure to encouraging rejections from the top literary journals of her time
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The difference between writers and non-writers is that non-writers take rejection as a sign to quit and writers take rejection as a sign to continue
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Ran into my husband at the store and he caught me buying cake for lunch
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Every publisher wants “bold” books but what about quirky, concise books made of carefully constructed sentences that try to get people to relate to each other?
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So THIS is why you write novels. You don’t care about your Submittable queue AND you get invested in these strange characters. Huh. Why did I wait so long?
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The Coen brothers called asking to do my book trailer. But I told them: Step aside, boys.
Keep your peepers open for a cover reveal later today.
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In 8th grade we went to the computer lab to practice searching on the internet
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Writers are like “[#] preorders!” or “sold out the first print run!” and I’m like 🤞 please someone other than my mom read this🤞
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Any mid-life crisis tips? I should only have one of these so I wanna make it count.
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I’ve worn this Forever 21 shirt for 16 years. Take that, fast fashion.
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SOME NEWS
hi, we have more good news! we’re so thrilled to announce the 4th book in our 2021 chapbook series will be... IT’S HARD TO SAY by
@clairehopple
. we were blown away by its inventive structure and the complete uniqueness of its voice. we can’t wait to share it with you.
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Pictured: Unsuspecting woman drives to work in funky sunglasses and returns home to find author copies!!!
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Oh hey, look! My book cover from
@dw_wannabe
is here!
Stories originally found in
@hobartpulp
@xraylitmag
@JellyfishReview
@HeavyFeatherRev
@wohelit
@LastExitLit
@five2onemag
@aptmag
@lostballoonmag
and others!
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This bumpkin has never even been to New York City before. What a way to visit. Come through 🤠
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A potion that makes me feel like I’m at the Scholastic Book Fair
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Being on the
@Wigleaf
long list for my
@vol1brooklyn
excerpt means a great deal because 1) I’m never on lists 2) haven’t published much in the past two years. Thank you!
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Be careful hiking right now. ONE strategic sting from a yellowjacket made me lose mobility in my hand this week (except fingertips). They apparently live underground and get aggressive this time of year. I didn’t even see it. And to my knowledge I’m not allergic.
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An MFA that’s just one course called Patiently Waiting for Submission Responses
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What’s that? Did you say you wanted some good news in the next 24-48 hrs?
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👋
attention! we'd like to invite
@clairehopple
to the front of the class. a soon-to-be hattrick-having xray contributor, she's come over to our side of the queue to read + edit your subs. so go, follow her, buy + read her great books, beg for her favor, your future's in her hands
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Penguin Random House implies the existence of Penguin Intentional House
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Preorders are now available from
@PressTrident
!
Stories and excerpts have appeared in
@NewWorldWriting
@havehadhavehad
@xraylitmag
@TheRuptureMag
@peachmgzn
@ExpatLitJ
@Wigleaf
@forevermagnyc
@outlooksprings
etc.
👉
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The face of someone who got the dental hygienist to admit that every 6 months is BS
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Baby’s 1st Pushcart nom!!
And for my first attempt at nonfiction. How about that. Thank you,
@Aaron__Burch
and
@WASquarterly
!
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Calling people who think short books are unmarketable “page-ists”
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If you read anything of mine, read this.
Exerpts appeared in
@SOFTCARTEL
,
@hobartpulp
,
@RealityHands
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Love hanging with friends who have toddlers because I too must eat at 5:30 and be in PJs by 8
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I’m 34 today. All I wanna do is go to a restaurant with a giant paper tablecloth so I can scribble all over it with crayons, then spill food all over the scribbles. Watch the grease splotches morph it into a new cartography. I put on real pants instead 🤷🏽♀️
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Don’t you love it when establishments just give up and post “art” of objects that belong in each room e.g. toilet painting in bathroom and this
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As of today, I’ve read every
@DorothyProject
book in existence. Ready for a commemorative t-shirt.
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Stayed up uncharacteristically late (aka past 10:30) to finish my first novel 👀
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Going to my first estate sale not to buy anything but to snoop through a stranger’s house
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Still can’t believe I was interviewed by
@formermissNJ
for
@thecreativeindp
.
I talk about my obsession with
@DorothyProject
books and one of many secret theories 👀
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This story about a sentient grocery bag is gonna be tough to place
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I wrote this story a little over a week ago but thanks to edits from
@KeersteeMack
and
@alantenhoeve
it’s ready for
@frwell_trans
prime time, bay-bee 💌
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Here’s a story about a sentient plastic bag up at the only place for such a thing:
@havehadhavehad
. Thank you,
@lexicola
, for rescuing it!
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A
@havehadhavehad
freshie for you. Thanks to
@Aaron__Burch
for putting the skull shine on it.
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This was written in the 60s and there are technical maneuvers in here I’ve never seen before or since
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Nothing makes me hate my novel more than having to describe it to someone.
Nothing makes me love it more than actually writing it.
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This vintage Fiorucci shirt was sitting in a warehouse for 40 years
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Every time debris appears on my floor I’m shocked, assuming that last sweep was for keeps
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On April 4th, in peak pandemic panic, I ordered a five-pound bag of chocolate chips.
Today, I finished strong.
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Anybody else remember a song about committing grotesque acts on your baby bumblebee, of which your mommy was supposedly proud?
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Reply unto emails even while others do not reply unto you
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Happy almost summer to everyone whose schedule looks exactly the same year round
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A rancher but it’s just a guy who’s really into ranch dressing
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It’s BOOK RELEASE DAY and all you got was this lousy tweet.
📚⬇️
⭐️⬇️
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The first time
@hobartpulp
accepted one of my stories (thanks
@saderotica
) I actually crumpled to the floor. The second time I swore to
@Bud_Smith
he could take my firstborn child.
Anyway, here’s this story/2nd chapter of novel:
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Let’s start using “exhaustion” as a medical excuse like a 1940s celebrity
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‘The things they carried’ but it’s me in the grocery store refusing to get a cart
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Gonna reincorporate “big whoop” into convos and if all goes well sprinkle in “don’t go there”
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Local aging woman insists on wearing crop top to Beach House show
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When you’ve been speaking to a neighborhood bunny for months as you walk past and it still runs away in fear
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I was in the longest rejection streak of my life and Rejection Letters ironically broke it when
@dt_robbins
accepted this puppy
"She is walking amok along the edge of our city somewhere, just like she pretended to do as a child (but without the bandana tied to the end of a stick).
The only thing left to do is follow her."
"Established:" New fiction by
@clairehopple
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Striking up a relationship with my neighborhood bookseller and, let me tell you, the dating scene never had me this flustered
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Reviewers! Message me if you want a piece of this action (aka an organic, free-range ARC)
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Writer with imposter syndrome getting that acceptance email
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Gonna start calling chapbooks EPs to increase marketability
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I take great comfort in humanity’s self-absorbed nature because nobody notices when I do something embarrassing
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How come every bookstore has a thriving Tom Robbins section
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I love when older folks lean on your arm, half for affection and half for balance. You know they’re about to pop off with some saucy wisdom.
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This is what we should be doing for each other at readings
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Me: Shrugs off incident most people go to urgent care for
Also me: Wants to call in sick for having a dream about grandfather’s spirit living inside a cartoon turtle
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This story is also an excerpt from my forthcoming
@wordwestpress
chapbook 🤠
Issue Seventeen is now live!
Featuring work from
@rosshowalter
,
@malsmart
,
@Aaron__Burch
,
@clairehopple
,
@ashleynassarine
,
@chellacouringto
,
@nadafaris
,
@rgvaughan
,
@adam_voith
,
@jackbedell
,
@C_C_Russell
,
@taralikestea
,
@NathanielJBerry
, and more:
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Ready to be cast in the remake of Clueless thanks to Ref sale
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eBay vintage strikes again 💥
Also, I got lost in Estes Park once.
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