Henrick Karoliszyn

Writer/Doctor of Social Work. Priors: @WSJ @NYDailyNews & @NOLAnews. Bylines: @NYTimes @aeonmag @Newsweek @mcsweeneys @EHFOP + MTL-NYC-NOLA 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Thanks to @USC for writing about my project which aims to address secondary trauma in the freelance journalist population. And for any freelancers who want to sign on or know more, get in touch. You're not alone. #secondarytrauma #freelancejournalism
https://t.co/uVi2fjmHXl

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Thanks to @psyche_the_mag for publishing this Canadian New Yorker's attempt to thank his adopted city of New Orleans for its dangers, magic, and sonic lessons: https://t.co/mSYpCSuON2 #jazz #NOLA #improvisation

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Extremely honored to be a finalist for the Ellis Prize and have my fiction scheduled for publication in the influential New Ohio Review. The piece explores grief and sibling relationships. Thanks as always to the readers and judges. #fiction #amwriting #moretocome

[Major 7th Magazine @Major7Mag]

Let’s get into Volume 27! First track is Innocent When You Dream • Tom Waits by @Henrick_AK. This piece takes us into the deep subconscious, and the shadows we find there—ones that haunt us with what could be. 🎪
https://t.co/ts1RBEQxdl

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Thanks to @FolioLitJournal for publishing my piece, "The Translator." It follows a daughter rendering a Polish-American boxing world into common vernacular as her father's dementia deepens. Read it here: https://t.co/gvTd0j810a #fiction #amwriting

[Major 7th Magazine @Major7Mag]

Thank you to @Henrick_AK, Chris Scott, @ca5eyj0, Jeremy Mauser, Lizzy Turner, Colin Brightwell, Kathryn Kysar, and @JoshShepard for your lovely work

Their songs are added to the master playlist, give it a follow: https://t.co/sIV6Q5IKRO

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Grateful to win the 2025 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. "Family Life" is part of my collection, "God is an Atheist on Karaoke Night," and can be read here. Thanks to luminous judge Eileen Pollack and the mighty UMASS Boston MFA program https://t.co/2nQTBoTHBZ #fiction

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

It was an honor to have my short story, "The Man who Misplaced Himself" chosen as a finalist for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize out of 652 entries. Thanks to the judges and readers #amwriting #fiction #moretocome
https://t.co/VvFRCPLwzs

[BULL @MISTERBULLBULL]

"After the blaze I kept feeling like I was missing something. Wallet, parts of my face, my entire body even as I was holding my wallet, could see my reflected face, & far as I could tell, was still fairly alive. Still I wasn’t so sure." -Henrick Karoliszyn https://t.co/dsEds8V8k3

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[National Press Foundation @NatPress]

This is needed this week (and every week). https://t.co/JyJWYVsEkI #journalismmatters #mentalhealthmatters

[Blood+Honey @Blood_Honey_Lit]

Fiction "Daytona" by Henrick Karoliszyn

“Far behind me and always close, I could feel the shape of the thing Danny wanted for us. It wasn’t a finish line or a list. It was a way to keep going.”

https://t.co/biVCsf3meV

[Richard A. Webster @RichardAWebster]

Jimmie Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish jail last week after spending 27 yrs on death row. But his journey to freedom isn't over. Prosecutors have asked the courts to reinstate his death sentence. @propublica @veritenewsnola https://t.co/3Z9otFImDA

[Expat Press @ExpatLitJ]

Inheritance by Henrick Karoliszyn
https://t.co/Uhf7rqoYdJ

[Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK]

Another major story from investigative reporter @RichardAWebster & @bmisickin in @propublica: "Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them" https://t.co/3GnKfRwwZN #Immigration #Louisiana

[Ben Kochman @benkochman]

brave piece here that all newsroom folk would be wise to check out

[McSweeney's @mcsweeneys]

"Thank you, President Trump, for being the accidental glue. Thank you for reminding us who we are: a country that might courteously nod at your pronouncements, raise an eyebrow, then calmly go back to being Canadian."
https://t.co/ih9VxRsw18

[Richard A. Webster @RichardAWebster]

In this incredible piece for @Newsweek , Henrick Karoliszyn @Henrick_AK details his own experience as a crime reporter to highlight the need for mental health care services among journalists, and freelancers in particular. Please read and share. https://t.co/CHlQDq697s

[Newsweek @Newsweek]

"Are you OK with blood and guts?" My answer would change my life. https://t.co/hzBfuA4mV2

[M.L. Nestel @mlnestel]

@Henrick_AK exposing third rail stuff in the Fourth Estate... https://t.co/2CRqy7KUPg

[Pearl Gabel @PearlGabel]

I was lucky enough to work w Henrick the reporter in those days...and unlucky enough to relate to the trauma he’s put into words here.

But instead of running from it, he studied it, named it, and is building resources to support freelancers out there without a safety net. Bravo.