Maria Kuznetsova

Author of OKSANA, BEHAVE! & SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE (@randomhouse). Prof @AuburnU. Fiction Editor @SouthernHReview. Mom who makes dad jokes.

[Maria Kuznetsova @mashawrites]

Is your name Oksana? Did you have two ectopic pregnancies, have your new book not sell, get drunk, and search for your dead grandmother's old apartment in Santa Monica? If so, then my new story, "The Glow," up now @GuernicaMag, is just the thing for you!

https://t.co/k5QlyGm3EU

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Our latest book review is now up on the site! Read N.S. Boone's review of Jorie Graham's KILLING SPREE, out today from @fsgbooks

https://t.co/DbVFTCUODA

#poetry #bookreview #poetrycollection #litmag #WritingCommunity

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Ready to submit your poems of witness?

The Auburn Witness Prize is open now until June 1. Submit 3 poems for judge A. Van Jordan

Winner receives $1,000 & the opportunity to read at an event presented by @TheJuleMuseum

https://t.co/rgK3XLMciT

#poetry #writingcommunity

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Check out our new online fiction feature "Sugar Pop" by Johanna Castro!

https://t.co/xqyFTSc1hU

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Listen to familiar music in "I Believed in the Sound" by Diana Keren Lee

Explore SHR 58.4: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km

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[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Pray the levees hold in "On Hurricane Ida and Other Disasters: A Letter to My American Son" by Gabriela Mayes

Explore more of our winter issue: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km

#litmag #WritingCommunity #nonfiction

[Punctured Lines @PuncturedLines]

@BergstromBooks @OlgaLivshin @katiefar @jkolchpoetry @mashawrites @apartan @IrinaReyn1 @lucy_silbaugh @IamAlinaAdams @aliner Ok, now you can marvel at the FULL list of the participants!

(sorry to all, we're clearly overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this upcoming event.)

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Submissions open this Sunday, February 15th in fiction (print and online) and nonfiction!

Fiction is capped so submit early!

Learn more: https://t.co/jXuKcdLTsg

#WritingCommunity #litmag

[Maria Kuznetsova @mashawrites]

@lesliepwriter Glad to hear it! <3

[Leslie Pietrzyk @lesliepwriter]

I had such a good experience with these editors when they published my story "Not Everyone Says Goodbye." Send in your best work!

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Less than 2 weeks left to apply to Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding!

Deadline: Feb. 15

More info at https://t.co/7Ikt1Ufesx & https://t.co/1RaC0ZUcam

#WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #litmags

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Watch gray smoke gather in "Liquid amber trees" by Jessie Wingate

Read more from our latest issue: https://t.co/9uBnTOpxUO

#litmag #WritingCommunity #poetry

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Assume a "Posture of Apology" by Lim Hyeon translated by Yaerim Gen Kwon

Read an excerpt: https://t.co/8xbbdWASxY

#litmag #WritingCommunity #fiction #translation

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Auburn's MA program in English/Creative Writing is open for applications until February 15th! Gain publishing experience with SHR and two years of full funding! More info at https://t.co/7Ikt1Ufesx and https://t.co/1RaC0ZUcam.

#WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #litmags

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Join us in congratulating contributors Shala Erlich, Christine Hale, Maggie Nye, and Nell Smith!

Their work in SHR was selected as "Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction of 2024" in The Best American Essays 2025!

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Wear a crust of dirt in "After the Rain" by @tinybecomings

Find SHR 58.4 here: https://t.co/erbk5AMvMI

#litmag #WritingCommunity #poetry

[Katya Cengel @kcengel]

This! "Maybe that money would have been better spent on multiple debuts, or on supporting a variety of authors at more advanced stages of their careers."
https://t.co/8GIaD0Ztih @mashawrites thanks for the recommend @SashaVasilyuk

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Feel your teeth buzz in "Someone Else's Wish" by Julie Pecoraro

Read the story's beginning here: https://t.co/je4gnlA3bM

#litmag #WritingCommunity #fiction

[Maria Kuznetsova @mashawrites]

Hi! My essay, "The Publishing Industry Gambled On Me...and Lost" is up @lithub today.

And no, the humor of a novel about a postpartum mom feeling like a loser not selling was not lost on me! 😆

https://t.co/yYIuycquKK

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Sleep, cascading, in "Reasons to Launch One Thousand Ships" by Clayton Spencer

Explore SHR 58.3 here: https://t.co/9uBnTOpxUO

#poetry #WritingCommunity #litmag

[SouthernHumanitiesReview @SouthernHReview]

Claim rage and the scent of rain in "Ensuring That My Grief Knows I Mean Business, in the Land of Swinging Bridges" by Clayton Spencer

Read more poetry: https://t.co/9uBnTOq5Km

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