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Amy Stuber

@amystuber.com

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Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · May 9

Shocked & grateful (thank you Stillhouse Press for giving my book a chance ❤️)

PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations, @amystuber.com!

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 1d

My younger kid, Ben Patterson, has a flash piece up @januaryhouselit.bsky.social! If you like weird little college towns, generalized eccentricity, and birds, I hope you'll read it: januaryhouselit.com/2025/10/13/n...

Notes From the Frontier

by Benjamin Patterson The year was coming to a close, but it hadn’t closed, right at that moment when the scales shift and autumn begins to tip into winter (think grayscale images, shavings of fros…

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 2d

Thank you, Ly! So nice

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Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social · 6d

Free shipping today at @bookshop.org which means that yes now is a perfect time to pick up MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US!

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Magic Can't Save Us: Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

Eighteen Tales of Likely Failure

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 8d

Excited to be on this Ingram Spark "Short Story Standouts" list (via @bookshop.org), alongside the amazing @writesloud.bsky.social & Stillhouse press-mate @kristinaten.bsky.social

screenshot of Bookshop site with purple background, multiple bright-covered book covers listed here https://bookshop.org/lists/short-story-standouts?page=1

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 10d

100% agree. I keep seeing misleading blanket statements about what works and doesn’t.

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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com · 11d

dragging people (some children) out of their homes in the middle of the night - ICE is uniformly despicable, but this feels like the next level of horror
www.wbez.org/immigration/...

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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