Kirsti MacKenzie
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writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
just finished Rishi's episode. more stressful than Seven Fishes ep of The Bear. why do i do this to my nervous system
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Pat Foran
11 days ago
“There is no talking me out of Ella. Maybe she will marry me, maybe she won’t. But she knows …”
@keersteemack.bsky.social
in
@bulbregion.bsky.social
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
https://bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Saddle-Last-by-Kirsti-MacKenzie
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Major 7th Magazine
12 days ago
friday mixtape for ya! five albums, five stories, one fav (snuck three in there oop)
www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: February 20, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/friday-five-february-20-2026
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The Bulb Region
13 days ago
In about two weeks, we open for general submissions for the first time. It will go live on March 1...and remain that day for only a single day (through midnight EST)! Save the date and spread the word. Looking forward to reading all the great work.
bulbregion.com/Submissions
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came for the exclamation pts stayed for the banging verse 😤
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15 days ago
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okay who on my feed is watching Industry and how far in are you
15 days ago
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incredible work in the comments here
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The Bulb Region
16 days ago
The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (
@keersteemack.bsky.social
) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (
@sweettrashpress.bsky.social
) and House of Vlad Press (
@houseofvladpress.bsky.social
). Make sure to buy a copy!
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Better to Beg | Asterism Books
The bloody Deserters—the band that belongs nowhere. To no one. With raw musical talent and wild sexual chemistry, early aughts NYC rock duo The Deserters, comprised of ambitious midwestern feminist V...
https://asterismbooks.com/product/better-to-beg-a-novel-kirsti-mackenzie
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i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here
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the cut to the Jian Ghomeshi poster in nirvana the band the show the movie is such a perfect joke and i'm going to be laughing about it forever
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The Bulb Region
18 days ago
“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.” Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (
@keersteemack.bsky.social
) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
https://bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Saddle-Last-by-Kirsti-MacKenzie
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he's not wrong!
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17 days ago
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i have a new little story over at
@bulbregion.bsky.social
about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo
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17 days ago
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Major 7th Magazine
19 days ago
good morning, folks five albums, five stories, one fav! :)
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Friday Five: February 13, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
https://www.major7mag.com/post/friday-five-february-13-2026
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Anna Vangala Jones
22 days ago
I have a tiny new micro today in
@bulbregion.bsky.social
. grateful to
@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
& any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃
bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
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double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence
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Marty vs. Mordecai
If you loved—or hated—Marty Supreme, you should be reading Duddy Kravitz.
https://open.substack.com/pub/keersteemack/p/marty-vs-mordecai?r=1khpnb&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book
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23 days ago
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today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.
24 days ago
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is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season
25 days ago
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Christopher Stevenson
26 days ago
I have been invited to read at the
@cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
/
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
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today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch
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One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this
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never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊
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27 days ago
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Fun Book Person
about 1 month ago
Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue!
pitheadchapel.com/public-relat...
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Loved this one
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27 days ago
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Todd Dillard
28 days ago
I am nostalgic for understimulation
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give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine
28 days ago
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happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN
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29 days ago
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Jessica Dawn
29 days ago
Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line
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Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!) Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
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29 days ago
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Daniel Miller
about 1 month ago
I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl
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Welcome to Only Dans!
And a Few Thoughts About The Long Walk
https://into-the-void.beehiiv.com/p/welcome-to-only-dans
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Major 7th Magazine
about 1 month ago
Hi folks - quick note We received a higher than average volume of submissions last call window If you are waiting on a response for a submission from last window, they're still in queue and being considered for next issue Thanks for your patience xo
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John Chrostek
about 1 month ago
Don’t blame anybody for not being able to do it. We can’t really afford to be doing it either, but we are. It’s not the superior choice, just a choice. If you don’t mind the ask, we’d love for people to check out the site and consider an online order tonight or this weekend
Eveninghousebooks.com
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Evening House Books
Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.
https://Eveninghousebooks.com
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Malarkey
about 1 month ago
Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau,
@paulwrites7.bsky.social
and
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
.
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5 Poetry EPs — Malarkey
Sometime last year I was feeling regretful that we weren’t going to publish any poetry collections in 2026 or 2027 and I got to thinking about what we could to get some more poems in our lineup. A few...
https://malarkeybooks.com/news/2026/1/31/5-poetry-eps
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
about 1 month ago
Leading a generative writing workshop next month on humor. Hoping it will provide some much-needed lightness.
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would love for you all to give this a read today sometimes it feels like there's nothing to say that hasn't already been said. i gave it a shot, anyway.
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about 1 month ago
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HAD
about 1 month ago
open now to 45 of you who've never submitted to HAD before!
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nice lil review of my novel. thanks Bryan for spending time with it, amidst, you know. the horrors
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about 1 month ago
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dk man things! are bad! but if you need somewhere to hide for 44min may I recommend Fredagain.. & Brian Eno's album
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about 1 month ago
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Jack lore!
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about 1 month ago
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Todd Dillard
about 1 month ago
feels like poem used to be like "inside of me there are two wolves / they keep my population of dears down / which is to say my dear / I love only you / and tacos" and nowadays poems are like "THE SKY IS A GUN / ITS HOLSTER OUR THROATS / LET'S GET LOADED / AND SHOOT THE / EVERYTHING" i wonder why
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Andrew Bertaina
about 1 month ago
804 at AWP will be in Baltimore this year at Picket Brewing.
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John Chrostek
about 1 month ago
Gonna repost this intermittently through the month. Physical sales are great + appreciated, but any sales I get through Gumroad until the end of February are going to ICE-targeted areas and their mutual aid networks
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This is so, so good
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about 1 month ago
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pronouncing “substack” like Sean Connery would
about 1 month ago
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cheeky self in the weird spotty mirror
about 1 month ago
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they sent me the sommelier and Leonard Cohen
about 1 month ago
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did a Nordic cycle, might be a viking now
about 1 month ago
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“Maybe finding yourself alone while surrounded by strangers and losing control felt like the closest thing to dying.” Every day I’m mad I can’t write like
@johnwaddy.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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had a hammam treatment, might be pregnant now
about 1 month ago
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