Kim Samek
@kimsamek.bsky.social
O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
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Our Literary Thursdays series continues with Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize-winning author @kimsamek.bsky.social, who will talk about her debut short story collection "I Am the Ghost Here."
Join us on August 20 at 6PM!
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Join us on August 20 at 6PM!
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August 18, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Our Literary Thursdays series continues with Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize-winning author @kimsamek.bsky.social, who will talk about her debut short story collection "I Am the Ghost Here."
Join us on August 20 at 6PM!
queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit...
Join us on August 20 at 6PM!
queenslibrary.org/calendar/lit...
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Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers.
Learn More about our August guests: Alicia Thompson, Gabrielle Korn, Kim Samek, and Heather Frances!
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#RomanceAwarenessMonth
Learn More about our August guests: Alicia Thompson, Gabrielle Korn, Kim Samek, and Heather Frances!
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#RomanceAwarenessMonth
August 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Our virtual Literary Thursdays series brings you live conversations with amazing writers.
Learn More about our August guests: Alicia Thompson, Gabrielle Korn, Kim Samek, and Heather Frances!
www.queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
#RomanceAwarenessMonth
Learn More about our August guests: Alicia Thompson, Gabrielle Korn, Kim Samek, and Heather Frances!
www.queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
#RomanceAwarenessMonth
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We’re so excited to share that “Muscle to Muscle, Toe to Toe” by @kimsamek.bsky.social, which originally appeared in ZYZZYVA No. 129, has won a 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Kim. What a joy to revisit this strange and singular story.
April 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
We’re so excited to share that “Muscle to Muscle, Toe to Toe” by @kimsamek.bsky.social, which originally appeared in ZYZZYVA No. 129, has won a 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction! Congratulations to Kim. What a joy to revisit this strange and singular story.
It’s an extraordinary honor to be named a winner of the O. Henry Prize. Thank you to Tommy Orange, Jenny Minton Quigley, and Zyzzyva. lithub.com/announcing-t...
Announcing the Winners of the 2026 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction
Tommy Orange was awarded a much-deserved MacArthur Genius Grant this fall for breaking from the tradition of reservation-based Native American literature to write new, illuminative, and realistic N…
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April 14, 2026 at 3:48 PM
It’s an extraordinary honor to be named a winner of the O. Henry Prize. Thank you to Tommy Orange, Jenny Minton Quigley, and Zyzzyva. lithub.com/announcing-t...
Next Tuesday, March 17, I’ll be doing an event for I Am the Ghost Here with Aimee Bender at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social
March 11, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Next Tuesday, March 17, I’ll be doing an event for I Am the Ghost Here with Aimee Bender at @vromansbookstore.bsky.social
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"I think the pressure is off with a short story. It’s the purest expression of my ideas, my sense of humor."
@katiecoleman.bsky.social interviews @kimsamek.bsky.social about I am the Ghost Here (@thedialpress.bsky.social).
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@katiecoleman.bsky.social interviews @kimsamek.bsky.social about I am the Ghost Here (@thedialpress.bsky.social).
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February 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
"I think the pressure is off with a short story. It’s the purest expression of my ideas, my sense of humor."
@katiecoleman.bsky.social interviews @kimsamek.bsky.social about I am the Ghost Here (@thedialpress.bsky.social).
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@katiecoleman.bsky.social interviews @kimsamek.bsky.social about I am the Ghost Here (@thedialpress.bsky.social).
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Great interview with @kenanorhan.bsky.social for his surreal new novel “The Renovation” - published last week. I’m looking forward to diving into this one.
In Kenan Orhan's debut novel 'The Renovation,' a hole in the bathroom tears open time and space
A woman's bathroom renovation becomes a Turkish prison cell. Kenan Orhan talks with NPR's Scott Simon about his debut novel, "The Renovation."
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February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Great interview with @kenanorhan.bsky.social for his surreal new novel “The Renovation” - published last week. I’m looking forward to diving into this one.
I Am the Ghost Here has received a starred review in Booklist!
February 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I Am the Ghost Here has received a starred review in Booklist!
I Am the Ghost Here is an LA Times Most Anticipated 2026 book @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
20 books we can't wait to read in 2026
Looking for your next great read? We asked critics, authors and literary folks about town to share books they’re most excited for in 2026. Featuring new works by Tayari Jones, Claudia Rankine, Jesmyn ...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I Am the Ghost Here is an LA Times Most Anticipated 2026 book @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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Our first monthly book list is out! These are our anticipated titles with February release dates, including work by @kenanorhan.bsky.social, @legroff.bsky.social & @kimsamek.bsky.social, among others #booksky
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January 30, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Our first monthly book list is out! These are our anticipated titles with February release dates, including work by @kenanorhan.bsky.social, @legroff.bsky.social & @kimsamek.bsky.social, among others #booksky
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This was so fun!!! Listen!!! ✨
NEW EPISODE: Award-winning writers and longtime friends @vauhinivara.bsky.social and Karan Mahajan join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss Vara’s recent New Yorker essay “What If Readers Like AI-Generated Fiction?”
@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan on When AI Tries to Sound Like Us
Award-winning writers and longtime friends Vauhini Vara and Karan Mahajan join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V. V. Ganeshananthan to discuss Vara’s recent New Yorker essay “What If Readers Like AI-G…
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January 15, 2026 at 7:29 PM
This was so fun!!! Listen!!! ✨
Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for naming I Am the Ghost Here a most anticipated 2026 book lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…
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January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Thanks @lithub.com.web.brid.gy for naming I Am the Ghost Here a most anticipated 2026 book lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
Adam Vitcavage at @debutiful.bsky.social calls I Am the Ghost Here a contender for best story collection of the decade. It’s such an honor to make the Debutiful most anticipated list.
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Adam Vitcavage at @debutiful.bsky.social calls I Am the Ghost Here a contender for best story collection of the decade. It’s such an honor to make the Debutiful most anticipated list.
Thank you to @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for including I Am the Ghost Here in their 18 anticipated books of 2026. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
18 books to add to your 2026 reading list
Here are 18 books across genres to look out for in the new year.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Thank you to @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social for including I Am the Ghost Here in their 18 anticipated books of 2026. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
The Pushcart Prize L is now available! This volume includes my story “Easement.” Please support this wonderful anthology. Thank you to Bill Henderson and the Pushcart Prize editors and Michael Nye and the team at Story Magazine.
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
The Pushcart Prize L is now available! This volume includes my story “Easement.” Please support this wonderful anthology. Thank you to Bill Henderson and the Pushcart Prize editors and Michael Nye and the team at Story Magazine.
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Kim Samek debuts with a striking collection of fantastical and speculative stories about conformity, technology, and the limits of bodily autonomy. This dazzles.
I Am the Ghost Here: Stories by Kim Samek
Samek debuts with a striking collection of fantastical and speculative stories about conformity, technology, and the limits of b...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Kim Samek debuts with a striking collection of fantastical and speculative stories about conformity, technology, and the limits of bodily autonomy. This dazzles.
I have a distinguished story in the 2025 edition of Best American Short Stories. Thank you Elizabeth McKenzie for publishing it in the Chicago Quarterly Review.
October 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I have a distinguished story in the 2025 edition of Best American Short Stories. Thank you Elizabeth McKenzie for publishing it in the Chicago Quarterly Review.
Looking forward to this.
Very happy to share The Renovation's US cover! Out from @fsgbooks.bsky.social February 10th.
May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Looking forward to this.
Found the latest @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social with my story included. First time buying my work at a bookstore.
May 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Found the latest @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social with my story included. First time buying my work at a bookstore.
It is a dream to be included in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers.
May 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
It is a dream to be included in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social alongside so many wonderful writers.
San Francisco: I am reading on Wednesday with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
EVENTS
🌎 5/20, 6pm UNTOURBOOK Across Occupied Turtle Island
🥳 5/21, 6pm, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social 40th Anniversary w/ @fetaplace.bsky.social, @mpalaia.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, & @ovillalon.bsky.social
📽️ 5/24, 12pm, Barry Gifford @ The Roxie
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🌎 5/20, 6pm UNTOURBOOK Across Occupied Turtle Island
🥳 5/21, 6pm, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social 40th Anniversary w/ @fetaplace.bsky.social, @mpalaia.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, & @ovillalon.bsky.social
📽️ 5/24, 12pm, Barry Gifford @ The Roxie
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May 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
San Francisco: I am reading on Wednesday with @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social
So pleased to learn I won the Pushcart Prize. My story “Easement” originally published in Story Magazine will be reprinted in the 2026 anthology.
May 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So pleased to learn I won the Pushcart Prize. My story “Easement” originally published in Story Magazine will be reprinted in the 2026 anthology.
Thanks to STORY for the Pushcart Prize nomination! My story “Easement” will appear in Issue 20.
December 10, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Thanks to STORY for the Pushcart Prize nomination! My story “Easement” will appear in Issue 20.
So proud of my friend @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social - read her memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart.
November 25, 2024 at 11:24 PM
So proud of my friend @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social - read her memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart.
