Robin Becker

writer. professor. bad guitar player. director of the good thunder reading series

[Robin Becker @becker5]

😍😍

[Hugh @turnandwork]

Last wk I became a @becker5 fan. 3 of hers in the shorts post today, @forge_litmag & @NecessaryFic

Plus stuff by Carmen Maria Machado in @lithub & @kplumhoff (always) in @MISTERBULLBULL, plus @_AndreaBishop in @MastersReview & Josh Rank in @MaudlinHouse

https://t.co/QfXFCEdixl

[Robin Becker @becker5]

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[Robin Becker @becker5]

I'm not on here much these days because there's a lot of anger. But I have two recent stories available:
https://t.co/t6Z7u6NE2P

[Robin Becker @becker5]

@jstaricka strap it to your roof, RFK-style!

[The Forge Literary Magazine @forge_litmag]

Our story of the week is the winner of our 2024 Flash NonFiction Competition: Standing in a TJ Maxx Selecting a Suitcase For My Dad's Ashes by Amy Strong.

Congratulations, Amy!

https://t.co/G3Rkldyc0S

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Congrats to the winners! I'm honored to have been longlisted for this prize.

[Granum Foundation @granum_fdt]

The Granum Foundation is delighted to announce the results of this year’s competition! Find the full announcement at https://t.co/McZQd2jCV9.

Congrats to the winners and finalists, and thank you to everyone who applied! It was a joy to spend time with so many amazing projects.

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Anybody got the hook-up for the substance in The Substance? Feel like my younger self would do a better job than Sue

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Word! From @GTReadingSeries alum

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

History = a series of endless cataclysms
Poetry = in the middle of all this a human voice is trying to sing

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

good morning

[The Forge Literary Magazine @forge_litmag]

Our nonfiction story of the week is Tori and Me by Megan Hanlon @sugarpigblog
https://t.co/c9ZO4j2ZCh

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Check out @GTReadingSeries alum Paisley Rekdal’s new book!

[The Forge Literary Magazine @forge_litmag]

Our story of the week is Captive Monsters by Michelle R. Brady.

https://t.co/qOyhJ7BFYr

[The Forge Literary Magazine @forge_litmag]

Our nonfiction story of the week is I Am Bruce Lee by Michael Copperman.

https://t.co/s2xjWNuv0D

[Robin Becker @becker5]

@GTReadingSeries alum Juan Felipe Herrera!

[Robin Becker @becker5]

How have I just now, decades later, realized the Dead Milkmen took their name from Song of Solomon? What else have I missed? My life is wasted

[The Forge Literary Magazine @forge_litmag]

Our nonfiction story of the week is Alaska Marine Highway by Sofia Fall

https://t.co/nYuCFPA4pG

(Selected by senior editor Valerie O'Riordan)

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Truly the best things in life are unplanned

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Staying at the Hyatt Regency in Mpls and unbeknownst to me there is a furry convention here for the weekend and I am filled with childlike glee. So stinking cute

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Considering ending my next query with “I look forward to not hearing from you.” #amquerying

[Robin Becker @becker5]

Hooray!!

[Good Thunder Reading @GTReadingSeries]

Good Thunder is proud to announce that we’ve received an Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council! Grants like these go a long way to help keep the program and we appreciate the recognition of our hard work 😊