Janice Obuchowski

THE WOODS | Winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award | Rep'd by Kiele Raymond.

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Friends, I have exciting news! THE WOODS, my debut story collection, has won the Iowa Short Fiction award and will be out this fall. I'm grateful to @UIowaPress and @anthonyfmarra, this year's judge, and just so glad my book gets to be a book out in the world.

[U of Iowa Press @UIowaPress]

We're so excited to announce this year's winners of the Iowa Short Fiction & John Simmons Short Fiction Awards! Congratulations @AmandaJBermudez amd @Obuchowski13 !!

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Today in the grocery store parking lot, and I've decided it's a good omen. I imagine the owner driving this car around only Election Day the last forty years, signaling longstanding political hope. Well, here's hoping!

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Cats! Dogs! Geese! Laura Loomer! Look, now he’s attacking Taylor!

Like the last season before a show gets canceled for getting over-the-top and, at the same time, boring.

This election is about jobs, wages, climate, health care, abortion. Not his show. Your life.

[Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson]

These are text messages, exactly as they were written and sent, between a mother and her two daughters during yesterday’s shooting at Apalachee High School.

The family shared the texts with The Washington Post. Both daughters were unharmed and now safe.

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

@JennyBoylan Hi! I've followed you. Thanks for sending along next steps.

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

@biancastone I looked him up. He's published a book of poetry and I'm guessing what he wrote to the paper is sour grapes that people aren't reading his work. He's jealous of you.

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state

[Alice Munro Daily @MunroQuotes]

And no list could hold what I wanted, for what I wanted was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together – radiant, everlasting.
- Lives of Girls and Women

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A cartoon by Meredith Southard. #NewYorkerCartoons

See more cartoons from this week’s issue: https://t.co/enCF48piN9

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

So happy to have a story in the latest issue of Switchyard! Thrilling to see the beautiful design and have my fiction alongside all this great work. The writing here is from the novel I’m working on: seeing it in print is such a lift.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Every. Damn. Charge. #TrumpGuilty

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

@DeVonciFig Wonderful, Devon, congratulations!

[Lori Ostlund @LoriOstlund]

Hey, it's May 1st, which means you have one more month to submit your story collections to the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction!

@UGAPress #shortstory
https://t.co/o1mUz9arFJ

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Count me among the can't-sleep-we're-so-excited crowd. Ghosts! I've joined the @_conjunctions team and can't wait to read your spooky best.

[Conjunctions @_conjunctions]

Already can't-sleep-we're-so-excited excited about the fall ghost issue. What can we read in the meantime? What are your favorite ghost stories/poems/essays? 👻

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Yesssss. (I say this as a fiction writer and a singer with basically a two-octave range....)

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

Writers, I need you to know that when you write “his voice went up several octaves in surprise” you are describing a shift from normal speech to a barely-audible, Mariah Carey-esque shriek

[Lori Ostlund @LoriOstlund]

The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is open for submissions! By May 31, send us your collections of 40,000 to 75,000 wds. @CSK515 @JennyShank @guszeineddine @arugulaada @UGAPress

#shortstories #submit

https://t.co/o1mUz9arFJ

[Marcel Proust @Daily_Proust]

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Short-story writers, the Flannery O'Connor Award opens for submissions April 1! The wonderful @LoriOstlund, series editor, asked past judges: What did you learn from reading so many collections in such a short period? (Below is my reply!)

[Lori Ostlund @LoriOstlund]

@Obuchowski13: The writing that engaged me and immediately held my attention had what I think of as a beautiful specificity. The world, the characters, the setting: all was fully imagined. ... I want my fiction to have a similar charge, a density of feeling and precision.

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

@DeVonciFig Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Nabokov's Lolita, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones. (And more! So many exciting books...)

[Janice Obuchowski @Obuchowski13]

Next Tuesday evening, at Still North Books, I get to chat about books with Peter Orner. I'm so looking forward to our conversation! If you're in Hanover, NH, I'd love to see you.

[Miciah Bay Gault @miciahbay]

Hey dear readers and writers! Vermont Book Award nominations are open to everyone for the next week or so. Please nominate your favorite book by a Vermont author published in 2023. Message me with questions! Happy to answer. Or here's the nomination form: https://t.co/VBLSAM4RuZ