Zachariah Claypole White
@zachariahcw.bsky.social
He/Him. Educator. Writer of poetry and weird fiction. Work appearing in @therumpus.net, @prairie-schooner.bsky.social,
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social, @southeastreview.bsky.social,
@undertow.bsky.social & others
https://www.zachariahclaypolewhite.com
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social, @southeastreview.bsky.social,
@undertow.bsky.social & others
https://www.zachariahclaypolewhite.com
So insanely honored to have my short story, "Black Hole Kitchen Blues," nominated for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize!
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Awards & Recognition - The Fifth Corner
AWARDS & RECOGNITION The Fifth Corner is proud to put forward select work from our pages for recognition by major literary awards and anthologies. Pushcart Prize Nominations 2026 LookAlan Sincic Hua H...
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September 10, 2026 at 2:02 AM
So insanely honored to have my short story, "Black Hole Kitchen Blues," nominated for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize!
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In slightly crazy news, my story, “The Children, Like Birds,” has been nominated for the O. Henry Prize!
Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for the nomination and for giving this story such an incredible home!
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Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for the nomination and for giving this story such an incredible home!
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NCLR Online Spring 2026 – North Carolina Literary Review
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August 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
In slightly crazy news, my story, “The Children, Like Birds,” has been nominated for the O. Henry Prize!
Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for the nomination and for giving this story such an incredible home!
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Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for the nomination and for giving this story such an incredible home!
nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-...
Beyond honored to be named laureate for Fifth Corners’ Dark Fiction Prize.
Thank you so much to the editors for giving this strange story about black holes and loss such an incredible home.
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Thank you so much to the editors for giving this strange story about black holes and loss such an incredible home.
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fiction prize fall 2026 - The Fifth Corner
FICTION PRIZE FALL 2026 Laureate BLACK HOLE KITCHEN BLUES by Zachariah Claypole White Zachariah Claypole White is a poet and fiction writer whose work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and...
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August 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Beyond honored to be named laureate for Fifth Corners’ Dark Fiction Prize.
Thank you so much to the editors for giving this strange story about black holes and loss such an incredible home.
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Thank you so much to the editors for giving this strange story about black holes and loss such an incredible home.
thefifthcorner.ca/fiction-priz...
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Check out my story about a cursed film (and existential dread) in the latest issue of Weird Horror!
Friends! Weird Horror #13 is out! Art by James Hutton. Featuring another stacked ToC! If you pre-ordered, copies have just been dispatched. Thank you! Give it a couple weeks. Drop by our site to grab your copy, in either print or digital.
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August 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Check out my story about a cursed film (and existential dread) in the latest issue of Weird Horror!
Thank you to @theflreview.bsky.social for including my work in their latest issue and giving it such a good home!
We are so excited to announce that Issue 49.2 (Spring 2026) of The Florida Review is out now! Link in our bio to purchase.
#theflreview
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June 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Thank you to @theflreview.bsky.social for including my work in their latest issue and giving it such a good home!
Thank you to @pencilmagazine.bsky.social for including one of my poems in the latest issue of their amazing journal!
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Pencil Magazine Issue 3
The Letter Writing Issue (Correspondence, Missives, Parcels & Post) Dear Reader, We hope you enjoy our love letter to letter writing! The magazine is 6" x 9" and features 156 (!) pages of original art...
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May 16, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Thank you to @pencilmagazine.bsky.social for including one of my poems in the latest issue of their amazing journal!
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Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌
May 12, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌
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Let this radicalize you
May 12, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Let this radicalize you
Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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North Carolina Literary Review Online Spring 2026
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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April 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Thank you to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this bonkers story as an honorable mention for the 2025 Doris Betts Fiction Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.
March 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.
Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this poem as a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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North Carolina Literary Review Online Winter 2026
A literary review published online quarterly by East Carolina University and by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
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February 24, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Thank you so much to @nclitreview.bsky.social for choosing this poem as a finalist for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize and for including it in their most recent online issue!
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It still feels weird to share good news, given the state of the world, but a huge thank you to Palette Poetry for featuring this piece on their website!
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The Angel Runs for Office - Palette Poetry
"the angel spends / his afternoons, ears pressed to the dirt, cataloging their theologies."
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February 19, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It still feels weird to share good news, given the state of the world, but a huge thank you to Palette Poetry for featuring this piece on their website!
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Thank you to the Wake Forest Review for including my oddball of a short story, about a man with mountains for teeth, in their latest issue!
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Volume 3 — The Wake Forest Review
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February 18, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Thank you to the Wake Forest Review for including my oddball of a short story, about a man with mountains for teeth, in their latest issue!
www.thewakeforestreview.org/volume-2-1
www.thewakeforestreview.org/volume-2-1
Feels weird to post any good news at the moment. But, thank you to @megapolisomancy.bsky.social for including my short story in his incredible discussion of Weird Fiction. So cool to see this in @strangehorizons.bsky.social.
@undertow.bsky.social
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The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Feels weird to post any good news at the moment. But, thank you to @megapolisomancy.bsky.social for including my short story in his incredible discussion of Weird Fiction. So cool to see this in @strangehorizons.bsky.social.
@undertow.bsky.social
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@undertow.bsky.social
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BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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Standing with the artists canceling their appearances at the Kennedy Center. This isn’t about careers or politeness — it’s about refusing to legitimize injustice. When institutions demand silence and “business as usual,” walking away is the only honest choice.
December 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Standing with the artists canceling their appearances at the Kennedy Center. This isn’t about careers or politeness — it’s about refusing to legitimize injustice. When institutions demand silence and “business as usual,” walking away is the only honest choice.
Pedestal Magazine was on of the first places to give my work a home after my MFA, and I’m so grateful to have a poem in their final issue!
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Pedestal Magazine » Zachariah Claypole White – The Angel Reflects on the Afterlife
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December 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Pedestal Magazine was on of the first places to give my work a home after my MFA, and I’m so grateful to have a poem in their final issue!
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Keep 'em coming
NEW! Our incredible legal team at @immcouncil.org just secured a victory in federal court, reinforcing a ruling blocking blocking ICE from taking unaccompanied children into ICE detention on their 18th birthday, and re-detaining previously-released teenagers. Proud to work with such awesome lawyers!
BREAKING: A federal court in D.C. has blocked ICE’s unlawful policy of automatically detaining unaccompanied immigrant teens once they turn 18 – and from re-detaining those teens for no reason.
This ruling means youth can stay in safe, supportive settings – not adult jails.
This ruling means youth can stay in safe, supportive settings – not adult jails.
December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Keep 'em coming
So excited to have a poem in the upcoming issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So excited to have a poem in the upcoming issue of @prairie-schooner.bsky.social!
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The people of Chicago won
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The people of Chicago won
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost
Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace
A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants
Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave
Never
Stop
Resisting
Thank you to Sand Hills Magazine for including my cosmic horror story, “The Waters of Hell,” in their latest issue!
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November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Thank you to Sand Hills Magazine for including my cosmic horror story, “The Waters of Hell,” in their latest issue!
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In my brain's operating system the thumbnail for Joyce Carol Oates is her nightmare feet pic so for that alone I will never "hand it to her" but I must respect an incredible burn GOOD LORD
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm)
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
In my brain's operating system the thumbnail for Joyce Carol Oates is her nightmare feet pic so for that alone I will never "hand it to her" but I must respect an incredible burn GOOD LORD