Marguerite Sheffer

BlueSky now: MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from @UIowaPress)
Cofounder @thirdlanternlit

[Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer]

https://t.co/PvKP01j8j3

[Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer]

@GavinWoltjer @jdclappwrites @CowboyJamboree @DarkMoonBooks @andrewbertaina @barrelhouse @ElfordAlley @UIowaPress @sclly21 @EmergeJournal Thank you! Glad to be among such great reads

[Literary Hub @lithub]

“The fog is unreasonable—thick and too chilly for summer—on my morning bike ride to Bertha’s Breakfast Buffet, where I’m lead server and manager.“ Read from @mlensheffer’s new story collection, The Man in the Banana Trees.
https://t.co/cpllxkagHe

[Write or Die Magazine @WriteorDieMag]

.@CECordasco interviewed @mlensheffer on Rejection, Experimentation, the Power of Short Stories, and Her Debut Collection, “The Man in the Banana Trees” 🌴
Read here ↓
https://t.co/ox4rCho6Nu

[chillsatwillpodcast @chillsatwillpo1]

Pete is thrilled to share these episodes with the stellar @mlensheffer, @carvellwallace, @lydiakiesling, @KeithOB, @daxdev, @DanGutmanBooks, and David Ebenbach!

All episodes: https://t.co/BquYoD4A37

Listen to this wk's episode, w/ Fernanda Trías: https://t.co/L4eiQXvb3Y

[Rachel Ranie Taube @RachelTaube]

I loved talking to Vanessa about her weird, smart, funny, feminist climate novel. Go read The Flat Woman.

[Electric Literature @ElectricLit]

Short story collections are too often overlooked, so we’re highlighting some of our favorite debut collections of the year! https://t.co/rQKYPjxwWU

[Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer]

@chillsatwillpo1 @JamilJanKochai Thank you for the rad conversation!

[chillsatwillpodcast @chillsatwillpo1]

When @JamilJanKochai talks, Pete is listening!

Re: @mlensheffer The Man in the Banana Trees, Jamil wrote: “[It] kicks ass. Every story is a surprise.”

What a dynamite collection-the skill, varied storylines, and endings left Pete reeling & still reflecting.

Episode up Dec 3!

[Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit]

Due to things getting all Nazi-lite on this site, we have gone ahead and moved somewhere, where the skies are bluer :)

[Third Lantern Lit @thirdlanternlit]

But while we are here...

Our next event is this Friday 11/22 at Sports Drink!

We will be there from 12 PM to 2 PM, getting some words on the page and socializing with peers.

We hope to see you there :)

[Apex Magazine @apexmag]

"That’s the question Damon (Earth-X) and Marissa (Earth-Y) were tasked with answering, but they were busy eye-fucking each other."

New short fiction today by @DeeCherryWriter : "What Happens What Happens When a Planet Falls From the Sky?"

☄️https://t.co/2j05ZPO1av

[DEBUTIFUL @debutiful]

Here are The Best Debut Books of 2024 (So Far) according to @vitcavage.

Ft. @christinajcooke, @andymintan, @vanjchan, @alex___tanner, @borywrites, @pulomeow, @frumpenberg, @JessieRenM, @laurachowfun, @melmogollon, @temim, and more!

https://t.co/OdkOFkon3r

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

For her @lithub column, NBCC Co-Vice President/Events @janeciab talked craft with @mlensheffer, whose "The Man in the Banana Trees" won the Iowa Short Fiction Award: https://t.co/sYFthbuOrt

[Chelsea Sutton ONLY ANIMALS Chapbook Out Now🐙👻 @wthcoffeespoons]

Book two coming Feb 2026. Novella debut. First Publishers Marketplace announcement.

Dumbfounded. Thank you @splitlippress 📹👻🐙🧜‍♀️🧛🧟

[Southern Review of Books @SouthRevBooks]

Add a November new release to your TBR list!

https://t.co/lQBHxN6OYU

[Randolph College MFA @randolphmfa]

Today the @randolphmfa is thrilled to welcome poet and artist Shira Erlichman as a guest faculty member for the coming winter residency and spring term. Welcome to Randolph MFA, @sheer_awe !!!

[Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer]

@janeciab @lithub Thank you! @janeciab

[jane ciabattari @janeciab]

.@mlensheffer 's #IowaShortFiction award winner is a continuous speculative surprise with ghosts, a love triangle among scientific researchers, Unicorn tapestries, an artists’ colony in the Gulf South, a tiger, and a yellow ball python. https://t.co/2aXg4RAwUN via @lithub

[Literary Hub @lithub]

.@mlensheffer talks to @janeciab about symbolism, writing across time, and crafting the short story.
https://t.co/vqFAr1hsoH