Beyond thrilled to share that my collection manuscript, Practice for Becoming a Ghost: Stories, was selected as the winner of this year’s @northeastMLA creative writing book award! Very grateful to NeMLA & the award committee for the honor! Up next: finding a home for the ms! ☺️

In this week's #SundressReads, Natalie Gardner reads and reviews Patrick Thomas Henry's short story collection Practice for Becoming a Ghost, available now from Susquehanna University Press! https://t.co/hLTBNPfPYZ

🚨 THE 2025 STORY PRIZE LONGLIST IS HERE 🚨 Details here: https://t.co/pboFmP8nOn

Watching Gen Z men veer right hits different for Millennials. We lived through Columbine, 9/11, the Iraq War, 2008 crash, 2016 election, covid, abortion bans, & now this. We watched institutions repeatedly fail us while older generations selfishly protected the status quo. 🧵1/

Project 2025 is, among other things, going to be very bad for the freedom to read the books we want to read.

A little easy thing you can do to help a small-press book get out in the world: consider requesting that your local library order a copy of a small-press book (mine if you are so inclined! But also just any.)

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Join our team! @BloomsburyPub / @BloomsburyAcad are seeking a Senior Acquisitions Editor for Politics (with a focus on US Politics). #PublishingJobs #AcademicJobs #BookJobs #NowHiring You’ll find more info about the role here: https://t.co/sZ3ACaFlxO.

One of the absolute highlights of my month: seeing my book PRACTICE FOR BECOMING A GHOST (@SusquPress) included in @ElectricLit’s list of 15 small press books to read this fall! Thanks to @WendyJeanFox for including my book, and for promoting the work of small presses! ☺️

Don't miss "Practice for Becoming a Ghost" by @Patrick_T_Henry, recently out from @SusquPress 👻

I did not have running and operating three different Instagram accounts on my career bingo card, but time makes fools of us all.

Well, it's been almost a year (!!!) since I did one of these, so I've put together a webinar full of my favorite things that I chatted about at conferences in 2024. Come join me for a talk about query letters, first pages, and what often works the best. https://t.co/FaKophgidq

Happy October! Submissions opened yesterday, and the first 300 are free. As of right now, 117 remain, so hop on over!

Good morning, mid-atlantic writers: we are a few weeks away from our affordable, fun, practical, and energizing conference at Temple U in Philly. Full info + registration below, and please brace yourself for some conference highlights🧵

WHAT HAPPENED WAS by Katharine Haake (@1111Press). Reviewed by @Patrick_T_Henry.

And I’d love it if you ordered a copy of Practice for Becoming a Ghost! It’s available now, only from the SU Press. Order here:

Yesterday’s mail was a hefty box from @SusquPress. Wonder what it could be…! (Author copies of Practice for Becoming a Ghost, maybe?)

When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.