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This convo was a delight! Tune in to hear me talk The Beheading Game, Anne Boleyn as a mother, and my own attempts at “pizza” parenting 🍕😂
The Beheading Game is an Indie Next Pick for April!!! Plus, tour dates! Pre-orders open now: 3/24 pub date US, 3/26 pub date UK @crownpublishing.bsky.social
The Beheading Game is in the New York Times!!!! Available for pre-order now—pubs 3/24 US and 3/26 UK. Long may she reign! 🗡️🪡👑
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Hi All!! The Beheading Game pubs on 3/24 US @crownpublishing.bsky.social & 3/26 UK (Harvill Books). What if Anne Boleyn woke up after her execution, sewed her head back on & tried to kill Henry VIII before he could remarry? Long may she reign 🪡🗡️👑
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It was a DELIGHT to talk THE BEHEADING GAME with @chatteronbooks.bsky.social Link below to listen and also link below to pre-order TBG—out 3/24 US, 3/26 UK 🪡👑🗡️
Book covers of The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann, Love Prodigal by Traci Brimhall, Slip by Nicole Callihan, We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik, Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler, and Extinction Level by Amorak Huey.
A great little book haul from the @nolapoetry.bsky.social & @amorak.bsky.social's chapbook waiting for me. Can't wait to dig into poems from @nicolecallihan.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @tracibrimhall.bsky.social @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social & Patrycja Humienik.
TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I
am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann
“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social
My huge thanks to Susie of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for this brilliant sounding The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social coming from @vintagebooks.bsky.social Harvill in March
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Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners Lawrence Foundation Award $2000 Skyler Melnick, "Sisterhood of Dirt," Fall 2025 Virginia Faulkner Awards $500 Morgan Christie, "Sapphire Gurl," Spring 2025 Ben Freedman, "That Summer," Fall 2025 Bernice Slote Award $500 Luca van der Heide, "Halina's Guest House," Fall 2025 Edward Stanley Award $500 Thomas Kneeland, two poems, Fall 2025
Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners Strousse Award $500 Migwi Mwangi, "Like So, Like So," Fall 2025 Ervin and Loretta Krause Freedom of Expression Award $500 Ell Peck, "A Paper Lantern Over the Light: Becoming Blanche DuBois," Fall 2025 Jane Geske Award $250 Carolina Murriel, "Driving My Tías Through Miami," Spring 2025 Hugh J. Luke Award $250 Priyam Goel, "3 White Witches," Winter 2025
Prairie Schooner Annual Award Winners First Place Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award $1500 Rebecca Lehmann, seven poems, Spring 2025 Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards $500 Fayssal Bensalah, ""Your Son Is with Pollen and Dust," Fall 2025 Virginia Kane, two poems, Winter 2025 Dominic Russ-Combs, "Faith," Winter 2025 George Uba, two poems, Spring 2025 Anthony Yarbrough, "Cruiser," Spring 2025
With generous supporters of the literary arts, Prairie Schooner was able to award 15 writing prizes totaling $8,250 for work published in 2025.
Award winners include @skyskkyy.bsky.social, @thomaskneeland.bsky.social, @ellgpeck.bsky.social, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, and more.
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The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social is a brilliantly original debut novel which imagines the undead Anne Boleyn plotting vengeance on her murderers with the aid of fenlander Alice. Brilliant #Tudor history with a good sprinkle of magic - out 26th March!
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Sharing the latest publications from MR contributors, including David Ricchiute, Amanda Hawkins, @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and more!
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Publisher’s Marketplace description of the forthcoming novel The Beheading Game, by Rebecca Lehmann, acquired by Crown.
Publisher’s Marketplace description of the forthcoming novel The Beheading Game, by Rebecca Lehmann, acquired by Crown.
I’m thrilled to announce my forthcoming novel, The Beheading Game, about my girl, Anne Boleyn 🎉🥳🍾🗡️
A photo of the Newly Published / Poetry page from the 2/16 New York Times Book Review. Encircled portion describes Rebecca Lehmann’s new collection The Sweating Sickness.
The Sweating Sickness got a mention in last weekend’s @nytbooks.bsky.social !!! @upittpress.bsky.social
A flier advertising a reading with Rebecca Lehmann and Ruben Quesada, featuring pictures of each author and details of the event.
Chicago!!! I am reading from The Sweating Sickness TONIGHT at 6:30pm at City Lit Books with @rubenq.bsky.social —come join us for an evening of poetry in the Windy City (but hopefully not too windy…).
Look I’ve thrown a lot of shade at Thomas Cromwell but the man had a pet leopard and loved to dress in black velvet so…irl I probably would have been his friend.
Valentine’s Day is a great day to order a copy of The Sweating Sickness, and dream about the spouse awaiting us all one day: death ☠️ University of Pittsburgh Press (link to order below)
@upittpress.bsky.social
The Sweating Sickness by Rebecca Lehmann propped against house plants.
Rebecca Lehmann holding The Sweating Sickness against a brick wall.
Rebecca Lehmann holding The Sweating Sickness against a brick wall.
The Sweating Sickness propped against a window.
It’s official!! The Sweating Sickness, my third book of poetry, is out today from @upittpress.bsky.social! I’m so proud of these poems, and hope you love them.
I mean, standard spelling rules are that you should double a consonant before adding “ing” so in addition to looking better it makes more sense. But ditto with towards & colour!
My tragic flaw is that I revert to British spellings when stressed because I read too many British/Canadian novels as a kid.
Chicago! Start your New Year with Poetry & Biscuits!
Carrie and I are excited to bring you readings by Natalie Eilbert, Donato Loia, Ruben Quesada, and Deborah Shapiro along with biscuits and cozy company.
Fri, Jan. 17 @ 7pm
2145 W Walton
RSVP to the biscuit maker: mailto:carrieolivia@gmail.com
INTO THE FIRMAMENT Into the firmament I stitched my farewell. The crocuses I planted while pregnant got eaten by deer. I’d be eight months in now, if I hadn’t lost the baby. What is the firmament, anyway? What is fire? I wonder when I lie in bed half awake/aware. The same student comes in with her poem about how hard it is to write a poem. I imagine placing her in the firmament too, joints pressed into stars that litter the sky. It was the morning the secretary’s son broke three ribs in a car accident, the day I got cheap carnations at work from a man in the hall I didn’t even know. I made tape into circles and stuck the circles to the backs of children’s drawings about peace, stuck the drawings to butcher paper to hang in the hall. Everyone said, “I’m so sorry about what happened to you with that student.”
They meant the one who wrote a poem about my pussy and turned it in for a homework assignment. I wore a polka dot dress. I know how to dance the polka, a little bit, having grown up in Wisconsin. Soon, I’ll move back to the Midwest, and leave bone cold New England far behind. I can imagine all the tattered houses fading from sight over the back of my son’s car seat as we drive down the tollway, the mountains receding like sad contractions, the popcorn I’ll spill on the car floor as I check the route on my phone, the car pushing to the boozy forever of winter sun and forgetful grey Lake Michigan, who will signal hello with each crested wave, who will welcome me home with a smile of mussel shells and alewives, and innumerable tan brick lighthouses, swaddled in steel railings that will make my son’s hands smell like hot pennies. Rebecca Lehmann.
“I’ll move back/to the Midwest, and leave bone cold/New England far behind. I can imagine/all the tattered houses fading from sight/over the back of my son’s car seat as we drive/down the tollway, the mountains receding like sad/contractions” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social “Into the Firmament”
Oh I would love to go to that specific pairing.
Ah yes, memories of MLA Boston coming back to me, when I ran from hotel room to hotel room, and the last interview where the person kept yawning bc it was 5pm and they’d been doing it all day. After that year I refused to go to MLA and just Skyped or didn’t interview…
It’s official: engaging with art and culture benefits health & wellbeing. In the UK, it generates £8bn/year in quality of life improvements & higher productivity. Starving the Arts won’t help Canada’s productivity gap. #cdnpse
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