Kris Bigalk

Ever wonder how to give your manuscript the best chance at being chosen (or at least not eliminated for consideration) when you submit it? Check out my latest post on my Substack, Letters From the Editor: krisbigalk.substack.com/p/submission...

Want some tips on how to improve your author website? Check out this week’s Letter From the Editor! open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

My latest "Letter from the Editor" has to do with planning successful events to promote a new book release: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Please join me in donating to ensure The Water~Stone Review can continue publishing beautiful magazines with the work of both established and new writers. Every dollar helps!. ❤️ www.givecampus.com/schools/Haml...

Only one day left to enter our poetry book contests!!! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

Snowed in today? email and call your national, state, and local representatives and demand an end to funding for DHS, impeachment and firing of Trump, Noem, Patel, Bondi & Bovino, an end to tolerating murder, lies, bullying,and authoritarianism. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

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Poets of Minneapolis, we lost one of our own when Renee Good was murdered. Raise your voices today in any way you can. Here, at the rally today, wherever you are…speak truth to power. Thank you, @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social for this inspiration. 💛💜💛💜

@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nbcnews.com @cnn.com Your lead story today was the weather. The largest general strike in recent memory is happening today in Minneapolis. Why are you burying this story? Because the corporations who are silent are your advertisers? Be journalists.

Whether we're talking about Trump's starring role in the Epstein Files or a DHS Agent's shooting of a Minneapolis mom, the old saying remains true: innocent people don't hide evidence.

Sharing this elegy for Renee Nicole Good, from Minneapolis poet Danez Smith: “The role of us poets is to witness the world…With attention as our tool and duty, we turn to grief, to love, to the natural world around us, to our own lives, and to our countries.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

Annual holiday family photo! Wishing you all a happy holiday season! 🎄⛄️❄️❤️

Mark your calendar for January 29 at The Loft - Poets Laureate are gathering!!

Here are some of the things we talked about... If you missed the live class (I mean, it was sort of at kid bedtime), you can still watch (or gift someone) the recording. myfivethings.com/class/rebecc...

If you love our books and authors, please consider supporting @triohousepress.org this December! 💛 Buy our books 💜 Donate in any amount by texting Trio to 53-555 💛 Eat a Trio House pizza at Pizza Loves Emily 💜 Share what you love about what we do Thank you!!

Winter Wonderland in Minneapolis this morning!

🌸🌺 MORE FLOWERS 🌸🌺 forthcoming February 2026 from Trio House Press! Enjoy this little unboxing video and pre-order at the link in the replies! Endless gratitude to so many! @triohousepress.org @krisbigalk.bsky.social @natashakane.bsky.social

Contest season is about to start! Read some cover letter tips and check out my other posts on submitting on my Substack, Letters From the Editor. open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Creating strong connections with other writers is a great way to feel supported and find new opportunities. Read our executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s tips on how to enlarge your online and in person literary circle: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Ever wonder if you need an agent to submit to small presses? Here’s a small press editor’s perspective — read and please subscribe to Letters From the Editor! open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Come to Normandale this fall and take my poetry writing class on campus M/W 12-1:20, starting August 25! I’d love to see you there!

Ever wonder how to organize and format a poetry manuscript? Check out executive editor @krisbigalk.bsky.social’s latest Letter From the Editor: open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

Hey poets -- who among us hasn't grumbled about submission fees and response times when we are submitting our manuscripts? This Letter from the Editor is for you! Please read, share, and subscribe (free option available!). open.substack.com/pub/krisbiga...

@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Trio Award for a First or Second Book of Poetry: Mai-Linh Hong (@FleursduMai.bsky.social), Continental Drift!

Send us your manuscript during our June Open Reading, 6/1-6/30! Free submissions for those who earn 50K or less; $25 fee for those who earn more. Read full guidelines here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

BIG EFFING NEWS, Y’ALL!!! 📣📚 My debut memoir GIRL GONE WILD drops in March 2026 with @triohousepress.org‬!!! 🎉 Can’t wait for y’all to read my dirty lil secrets. 😂 This book has been a labor of love for years. Working with a Minnesota press and @krisbigalk.bsky.social‬ feels fated. 🧩💫 More soon!

Win a copy of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by @debkossmann.bsky.social! Enter here before May 22: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Congratulations to Trio House Press cover designer Joel Wyant Coggins, on his cover design for Dressing the Bear by @susanlleary.bsky.social: a finalist for the 2025 da Vinci Eye Award!

Our nonfiction writing workshop with Victoria Blanco is quickly approaching! Twin City writers who are interested can find the details here: coffeehousepress.org/products/the...

Some new work by @lsevick.bsky.social, author of The Bamboo Wife! 💛❤️

@Triohousepress.bsky.social is thrilled to release the cover of the essay collection Sing Me a Circle: Love, Loss and a Home in Time by @snajmi.bsky.social! Pre-order your copy here: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

@izineh.bsky.social “…all poems are basically political, and it's a matter of legibility. The very medium we use: language. Language is political. It's often the (capital T, H, E) tool of institutional power.” Read the interview here: open.substack.com/pub/triohous...

@christiangullette.bsky.social’s audiobook edition of Coachella Elegy is now available! Only $3.95, and only on Audible! The first audiobook published by @triohousepress.bsky.social www.audible.com/pd/B0DR9BH8X...

Looking forward to diving in to @brianbaumgart.bsky.social’s chapbook!💛🥶💛

On Inauguration Day, @ajfields.bsky.social & @evalangston.bsky.social spoke w National Book Award winner Lena Khalaf Tuffaha about Palestinian writing, language, & genocide. Listen here: Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Love Is An Action open.substack.com/pub/literary...

Snowball enjoying a sunbeam.

I am so excited for you all to read this book — read this short interview I did with the author! If you or a loved one has ever struggled with letting go of possessions, cleaning out a relative’s home, or recasting family narratives, you’ll love it.