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Huge thanks to Monday's phenomenal Franklin Park Reading Series stars, Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, and Kevin Sampsell, and lots of ❤️ to our amazing audience! 📆Next event is June 8!

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TONIGHT, 8PM: The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts acclaimed authors Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social, and Kevin Sampsell for a night of fresh fiction and poetry! www.facebook.com/share/18KcUw... #Free #crownheights

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I can't wait to be on & moderate the panel How to Organize a Short Collection w/ Teri Ellen Cross Davis, @hiramlarew.bsky.social & @zachpowers.bsky.social at The Washington Writers Conference tomorrow! See you there? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...

⭐Monday, May 11, 8pm⭐:Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series to hear fresh fiction & poetry from Xochitl Gonzalez, @emilynemens.bsky.social, Monika Ostrowska, @zachpowers.bsky.social, @kimsamek.bsky.social and Kevin Sampsell! #Free www.facebook.com/share/1Ajm3H... 618 St. Johns Pl #crownheights

Folks - Last call to sign up for the best writing conference in the DMV! Pitch three agents your fiction manuscript or nonfiction proposal, learn from publishing pros, & chat up some of your favorite local authors. @dcwriterscon.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...

Got to celebrate a wonderful book from wonderful @zachpowers.bsky.social last night! Read this book, friends! And give my bud all his 🌸🌺🌼!

For about a year now I've been fantasizing about an entirely new kind of literary event: exciting, theatrical, and a little bit combative. Yesterday at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social and I pulled it off.

Tomorrow @writesloud.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social, and @poeticmoni.bsky.social and I are trying something new at this conference: a "panel" entirely driven by audience questions, on-stage arguments, props, and a scoreboard. It's going to get rowdy. You want to be there.

We're 4 days out from the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on Saturday and we still have some spots left if you'd like to join us for a fun day talking craft & publishing & literary community. We're all in this together. Hope to see all you good weirdos there! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

It’s launch week for THE MIGRAINE DIARIES! Here’s where I’ll be in the near future >>>

I interviewed @writesloud.bsky.social about her session at the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on April 18 (still spots left!) with @samuelashworth.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social, WRITERS WRESTLING LIVE! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/sowhat-...

Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

Jonquils are pushing up thru the leaves, the weather is warming (between snowstorms & tornadoes), & birds are singing--so it must be time for @wirobooks.bsky.social's spring preview! We've got large, small, & university presses on our list. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/sne...

Already missing AWP? Register for the @dcwriterscon.bsky.social in May (hosted by @wirobooks.bsky.social). I look forward to being on a panel with Teri Ellen Cross Davis, @hiramlarew.bsky.social and @zachpowers.bsky.social!

Surreal moments week four: getting blurbs from my favorite authors for my debut novel, Somewhere in Nowhere. Huge thanks to @zachpowers.bsky.social! His book First Cosmic Velocity was a favorite of mine. #booksky #books #blurbs

Cover reveal time! My novel THE MIGRAINE DIARIES comes out in 3 months! zachpowers.com/the-migraine...

For my DC friends, the new SpotLIT is up! I got to interview @zachpowers.bsky.social about his fancy new role at @thewriterscenter.bsky.social! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7679...

How many craft books went into writing my own, THE UNRULY WRITER? At least this many. And now my book is in the process of finding a home, so stay tuned! Bonus: tiny cat head.

I got some coffee to "only have a little" and actually managed to not drink the whole thing. Today I am an adult.

He was, and will forever be, our Huckleberry.

With just 4 DAYS until the release of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY by @samuelashworth.bsky.social, there's still to preorder a copy if you haven't already done so! buff.ly/4bm81sr @zachpowers.bsky.social

Why is this chair so uncomfortable today, he asks of the six shirts draped one on top of the other over the back.

It was my immense pleasure to talk with @zachpowers.bsky.social at the Writer's Center about writing, dead bodies, and why "what's your process?" is the most futile question in the world!

Gonna write a character so rad all his dialogue tags are gonna be “he said radly.”

New perspective just dropped: Turd-person point of view - from the perspective of a pile of shit.

Sad to cut this story's best part: The Fiero used to be the grand prize on Name That Tune. In the 80s, of course. Before the 80s the car didn’t exist. After the 80s the show didn’t exist. There must have been another prize on older seasons. There must have been other ways to win cars in the 90s.

It’s a literary novel with elements of suspense. It’s a legal drama. It’s a family drama. It’s revenge. But let me tell you what it is not—the same ole story. Here’s another amazing blurb from @xochitltheg. So so grateful to her because this woman is BUSY doing the work!

A toast to Jimmy! One of my favorite Savannah landmarks is this plaque in the bar at Pinkie Masters where Jimmy Carter once stood to deliver a toast. I was luckily there last week.

It's official! I have a chap book of short stories coming out in 2025 with Stanchion! A tiny collection, under 100 pages, all weird and itchy and me. Excited to work with an amazing editor on my first book!

'Strange and Wondrous Immortal Turtles' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1850 (single panel detail). #WyrdWednesday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

Oh hey I’m teaching a short Zoom workshop this Thursday based on some of the essays in the craft book I’ve been writing for the last 3 years! writer.org/event/40-pop...

High on dramamine after a flight and I always do the Nic Cage “I’d like to take his face off” gesture.

Lighting design by BlackCat. Tiny cat hat by Kirby.

Doing the Lord's work here.

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

How’re y’all traveling without your own soap, smellin like whatever the hotel wants you to smell like?

Oh hi this is 90% a cat account

TODAY at 2pm EDT, @kesemmel.bsky.social will be reading from and discussing his debut novel THE BOOK OF LOSMAN, with Art Taylor at The Writer's Center, hosted by Wonderland Books! Register here: https://buff.ly/4gxJp27 Get THE BOOK OF LOSMAN here: https://buff.ly/3ZBrZf4

I like that when a banjo is out of tune it sounds like it’s supposed to be out of tune.

if you haven't been carrying around thoughts of revenge against a company that no longer exists, what are you even DOING with your life qwantz.com/index.php?co...

I spend a lot of my mental energy worrying about squirrels as they cross roads.

that's the problem with so many artists: the things they paint simply are not neato enough qwantz.com/index.php?co...

If you love #speculativefiction, then you'll want to treat yourself to @taracampbell.bsky.social's upcoming novel, CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES! There are only 5 DAYS until the release of CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES, so preorder a copy here! https://buff.ly/4cws8TS

Moby-Dick; or, The Great American Kaiju

Two old women sitting next to me at the coffee shop talking about what makes oatmeal good, and this is the only discourse I choose to care about today.

Over ten years ago, I had a crazy idea for a novel. Today, that novel is finally available for pre-order from Amazon (Bookshop and others to come). It's about fame, food, and forensics, and I promise you it will ease your fear of death. Preorder here: a.co/d/0aALCl3g