John Englehardt
@johnenglehardt1
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Author of BLOOMLAND (@dzancbooks)
New York, USA
Joined April 2016
I'm so honored that Bloomland has won the 2020 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award! This book was my attempt to understand our country's obsession with using punishment and violence to access justice, and I'm so glad it resonated with the judges.
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The author's debut novel tells the aftermath story of a shooting at a fictional southern university.
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RT @wawog_now: 🚨HAPPENING NOW: In the largest known boycott of "Israeli" cultural institutions, a coalition of writers, publishers, literar….
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RT @GarthGreenwell: Very happy to have contributed the introduction for this reissue of Andrew Holleran’s masterpiece, coming in December a….
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RT @mbsycamore: 🌟🌟COVER REVEAL!!!!!🌟🌟Yes, look at the stunning cover for TOUCHING THE ART, out on November 7 from @SoftSkull—watch out, wor….
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RT @BarotRick: It's a huge thrill to have a poem in the new issue of the "New Yorker." With much gratitude to the poetry editors, Kevin You….
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“There is no logic in what we keep.”
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RT @QuentonBaker: my book is available for pre-order (that's a wild thing to be able to say). ballast is coming out in april from @haymarke….
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RT @MayaCPopa: Please read this powerful poem by @victoriaadukwei from her superb collection QUIET:
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RT @mbsycamore: My op-ed for @truthout! "Every article about monkeypox should state that the U.S. government is a cause of this crisis, ins….
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The U.S. government is a cause of this crisis, but the narrative has been shifted to blame individuals.
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RT @egabbert: I'm so sorry to hear we've lost Matt Henriksen. "Jesus, why must it be so late, so bright and so early?" .
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RT @adamclaypoet: Young Family Needs Help After Sudden Loss
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Our beloved friend Matthew Henriksen passed away on March 17th, 2022. We are devas… Adam Clay needs your support for Young Family Needs Help After Sudden Loss
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Deciding what poems my intro creative writing students need to hear. Looking for immediacy and energy. What am I missing?
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RT @VChangPoet: Tomorrow at @ElliottBayBooks with @BarotRick Friday, 10/15 at 6pm PT, virtual reading & convo. Register here: https://t.co/….
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RT @theferocity: Excellent example of how historic firsts are almost always an indictment of the entire system.
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RT @suz_poet: “It’s hard to imagine anything more damaging to literature than literature” - @mbsycamore #thsw 🔥 🔥 🔥.
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Congrats to @RavenLeilani for winning the VCU first novelist award for LUSTER! This book is blazingly restless and contemporary and communicates meaning at the speed of light. It was an honor to serve as a judge on the panel.
🤩 ANNOUNCING ~THE WINNER OF THE 2021 VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD 🤩. and the winner is. "LUSTER" by @RavenLeilani. Congrats! to the author & @fsgbooks on a beautiful, stellar, wild ride of a book. We couldn't put it down!. @VCUEnglish @VCUCHS @VCULibraries @vcucns
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RT @FirstNovelVCU: CHECK IT OUT! Michelle Goshen, 3rd year dual-genre student in VCU's MFA program, published a review of the 2020 Cabell A….
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RT @FirstNovelVCU: ANNOUNCING THE 2021 VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD's 'TOP-3' FINALISTS:. ~How Much of These Hills is Gold by @cpamzhang….
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I'm so glad to see this review of Bloomland in the new issue of @VCUBlackbird. Grateful for this close attention to language, this appreciation of all the shifting, contradictory forces in the book.
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“Bloomland by John Englehardt, begins aptly in the midst of an F-5 tornado. The destruction it wreaks and the trauma it causes, in many ways provides . . .
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My Modern Allegorical Fiction class at @HugoHouse starts next week and there are 5 spots left! We’ll talk about strong, weak, figurative, mimetic, and embedded allegories. Here are some stories I’m excited to talk about. Register here:
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