Maria Kuznetsova
@mashawrites
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Author of OKSANA, BEHAVE! & SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE (@randomhouse). Prof @AuburnU. Fiction Editor @SouthernHReview. Mom who makes dad jokes.
Auburn, AL
Joined December 2012
Is your name Oksana? Did you have two ectopic pregnancies, have your new book not sell, get drunk, and search for your dead grandmother's old apartment in Santa Monica? If so, then my new story, "The Glow," up now @GuernicaMag, is just the thing for you! https://t.co/k5QlyGm3EU
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“It doesn’t help that I have no address to guide us, only a pin of a nearby park and a picture of me and Baba standing outside the front door of her place when I was an awkward teenager, squinting...
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Listen to familiar music in "I Believed in the Sound" by Diana Keren Lee Explore SHR 58.4: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km
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Pray the levees hold in "On Hurricane Ida and Other Disasters: A Letter to My American Son" by Gabriela Mayes Explore more of our winter issue: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km
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@BergstromBooks @OlgaLivshin @katiefar @jkolchpoetry @mashawrites @apartan @IrinaReyn1 @lucy_silbaugh @IamAlinaAdams @aliner Ok, now you can marvel at the FULL list of the participants! (sorry to all, we're clearly overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this upcoming event.)
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Submissions open this Sunday, February 15th in fiction (print and online) and nonfiction! Fiction is capped so submit early! Learn more: https://t.co/jXuKcdLTsg
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I had such a good experience with these editors when they published my story "Not Everyone Says Goodbye." Send in your best work!
Submissions open February 15 in fiction (print & online) & nonfiction! There are a limited number free subs available. We will close fiction (print) after 250 paid subs are received & close online fiction after 100 subs are received. https://t.co/jXuKcdLTsg
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Less than 2 weeks left to apply to Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding! Deadline: Feb. 15 More info at https://t.co/7Ikt1Ufesx & https://t.co/1RaC0ZUcam
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Watch gray smoke gather in "Liquid amber trees" by Jessie Wingate Read more from our latest issue: https://t.co/9uBnTOpxUO
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Assume a "Posture of Apology" by Lim Hyeon translated by Yaerim Gen Kwon Read an excerpt: https://t.co/8xbbdWASxY
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Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing is open for applications until February 15th! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding! More info at https://t.co/7Ikt1Ufesx and https://t.co/1RaC0ZUcam.
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Join us in congratulating contributors Shala Erlich, Christine Hale, Maggie Nye, and Nell Smith! Their work in SHR was selected as "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025! #WritingCommunity #litmag #nonfiction
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Wear a crust of dirt in "After the Rain" by @tinybecomings Find SHR 58.4 here: https://t.co/erbk5AMvMI
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This! "Maybe that money would have been better spent on multiple debuts, or on supporting a variety of authors at more advanced stages of their careers." https://t.co/8GIaD0Ztih
@mashawrites thanks for the recommend @SashaVasilyuk
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Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
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Feel your teeth buzz in "Someone Else's Wish" by Julie Pecoraro Read the story's beginning here: https://t.co/je4gnlA3bM
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Hi! My essay, "The Publishing Industry Gambled On Me...and Lost" is up @lithub today. And no, the humor of a novel about a postpartum mom feeling like a loser not selling was not lost on me! 😆 https://t.co/yYIuycquKK
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Eight years ago, when I sold two books to an imprint of a Big Five, I was on top of the world. I was thirty-one and eight weeks pregnant, a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. My agent s…
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Sleep, cascading, in "Reasons to Launch One Thousand Ships" by Clayton Spencer Explore SHR 58.3 here: https://t.co/9uBnTOpxUO
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Claim rage and the scent of rain in "Ensuring That My Grief Knows I Mean Business, in the Land of Swinging Bridges" by Clayton Spencer Read more poetry: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km
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Celebrating Ukraine’s Independence Day w/ Ukrainian poetry! 🇺🇦✨ Ali and I received an Honorable mention, Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize, Ukrainian Institute London for Halyna Kruk’s “a woman with a heart this heavy cannot fly” @solsticelitmag @Ukraine @lithub
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Hi! I'm thrilled that my story, "Trampoline," which is about a messy writer who returns to her childhood home to hit on her ex and jump on a haunted trampoline for eternal youth, has just been published in the amazing @Missouri_Review! Read it here: https://t.co/WBqCxjMfYg
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Excited to have this new story in @SouthernHReview. It takes place in the 1970s and features Iowa City's famous Talking Christmas Tree, which is exactly as weird as it sounds. IYKYK
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Read until you can't anymore in "The End of Ends" by Alyssa Quinn Check out our new issue: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km
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