It's my dog's birthday today 🎂 💙

Ran another 10k. Yes, my wife bought me flowers 💐💙

“Deep.” —Stephen King, probably, if he had read or knew about Submarines by @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social. We have a few signed copies left, and these also come with three bonus zines. On sale still for $15. malarkeybooks.com/store/submar...

First eggplant picked from the garden. Time to make some baba ghanoush 🍆

I have a new story “The Yellow Door” in @burialmagazine.bsky.social! so grateful to Zack for giving it a wonderful home & any of you who read this one 🪦 🌲 🚪 💛 burialmagazine.neocities.org/theyellowdoor

I picked some peas from the garden before heading to work today and forgot I put them in my pants pocket. Now I'm sitting in the office with peas in my pocket. Pocket peas 🫛

Excited to have a new micro in @ellipsiszine.bsky.social!

Check out this little watermelon growing in my garden 🍉 💙

Happy to present a new episode of Malarkey Public Radio, with @ljabouttown.bsky.social in conversation with poet and editor @neonpajamas.bsky.social about those strange objects we call books! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

I'm running a 10k this weekend, and it's supposed to be super hot. So I assume the run is going to be like when people in Arizona cook eggs outside on the concrete.

See Spot run. Except it's me, submitting stories. So I guess: See Will submit.

Sorry if I post too many dog pictures, but Mabel is just too adorable 💙🐕

Oops, I submitted again I played with my heart Got lost in the submission guidelines Oh, baby, baby

Sometimes writing is like that old Scooby Doo gag where the gang's being chased through a bunch of random doors only to discover at the end that the monster was really the innkeeper all along.

The malarkey store has got it all: horror, historical fiction, and Hair Shirts (also, quite separately, comfy t-shirts): malarkeybooks.com/store

Wine Tasting Will🍷💙

It's my dog's birthday this month, so of course I'm looking at old birthday party pictures 💙🐕

The people who think converting a book to an ebook is as easy as the clicking of a few buttons are not evil, just very confused. But it’s true BUYING an ebook is as easy as the clicking of a few buttons. Our ebooks are $5 and DRM- and-surveillance-free. Click click click: malarkeybooks.com/ebooks

Vacation Will 🍺💙

🚨Dream journal moment!🚨Beyond excited to have a poem in the new issue of North American Review alongside some absolutely rockstar poets and writers! Here’s to poetry, a little imagination, and the bizarre interplay of loss, lineage, and memory. @northamerreview.bsky.social

Hello this book comes out on 7/21 and we’ll probably get copies in the mail a little ahead of that. We have a handful of signed copies still available and I promise you will comm-adore this book, an egregious pun you will only get if you read this book!

The David Wojo Malarkey collection!

That being said, we still paid a lot of money we didn’t have for what help we got & money was tight beforehand, so if you don’t mind the direct ask, please consider checking out the shop, in-store or online: eveninghousebooks.com You’d help us a lot + get a book in return

Mabel and some bird's-foot trefoil 🐕🌼

Still the undisputed champ of spending 45ish minutes searching for a place to submit only to end up submitting nowhere.

Today is PAPERBACK PUB DAY for The Imagined Life!! ❤️😍🎉 Huge thanks to @aaknopf.bsky.social and Vintage Books for sending me these copies and for doing such an amazing job with the design of this beautiful paperback edition! 🌴

Thrilled to have a poem in this fantastic new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social alongside so many poets & artists I admire. Many thanks to Rob MacDonald for all the work that went into making this issue so special! Please give the whole thing a read!

delighted to be back in Rejection Letters with my new story “The Funerals” — so grateful to @kevinmkearney.bsky.social for his thoughtful edits, D.T., & any of you who read it in @rejectionlit.bsky.social 🪦 ♡ rejection-letters.com/2026/07/07/t...

Over the moon to have this flash in Waxwing alongside so many writers I admire. Thank you @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and other editors. waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

Today I was trying to figure out what to write about next and all I could think of was the time I injured my shoulder trying to break the 3-point shooting record in Wii Sports.

And here's the poem in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social Collaboration issue

I have a new piece up at @bulbregion.bsky.social Many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for having me back! I'd love for you to read, "Dimensions." 💙 bulbregion.com/Dimensions-b...

From garden to jar, I made some pickles today 💙🥒

Have you met my best friend? Also, you can pre-order my book here malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl... 💙🐕

These bell peppers growing in my garden look so good that they could star in an Olive Garden commercial 🌱

Who would be into an actual Malarkey book club, where we talk online about one of our books? Can get you free ebook or deeply discounted print copy.

So we meet again, Mr. A Week Survived. 💙 🍻

Let’s go fly a kite! 🪁 Thrilled to have a new flash in the fabulous @fictivedream.bsky.social, which is celebrating 10 years of championing short and short-short stories. Laura has created such a wonderfully-curated journal, and I’m so proud to be featured. Enjoy! 💛 fictivedream.com/2026/07/03/k...

Friends, WHAT a day. I have two CNF pieces out today in The Sandy River Review. They’re both about my dear friend Jessica who passed 18 months ago. I’d love it if you gave them a read 🧡🙏🏾💔 sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/h... sandyriverreview.com/2026/07/03/s...

I am so happy to see my Marquez homage poem "What Was Found Inside the Whale" published with @swiftslitmag.bsky.social swiftslitmag.com/jared-beloff

might i be so bold: malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...

Haunt us! flash-frog.com/submit/

The @malarkeybooks.bsky.social shop's running a 25% OFF sale this weekend with code "INDIEPENDENCE". If you haven't read my short story collection BOXCUTTERS, now's a great chance to give it a go. It's an anarchic mix of genre and literary fiction. If you like it, you'll probably dig Will's

First time being used as a comp + honored it's for @willmusgrove.bsky.social. Read lit mags long enough and you get to know him because he's a flash fiction workhorse. Inventive, emotionally rich, measured but loosey goosey. Writing that's funny and fun for the brain and the gut and the heart

Don’t generally stress comps but can’t resist this one: John Chrostek and Leigh Chadwick. Don’t have anything snappy or elevator pitchy to go with it. If you know you know.

I just preordered @willmusgrove.bsky.social’s After Last Call. What are you going to get?

25% off whatever we’ve got in the malarkey store now through Sunday with code INDIEPENDENCE at checkout: Malarkeybooks.com/store

Didn't sleep well last night and now I'm at that level of tired where you're too tired to do anything productive but not tired enough to not feel guilty about not being productive. The just right Goldilocks level of feeling like I'm wasting my whole day.

Check out this mole pepper growing in my garden 🌱

Thrilled to have a poem in the newest issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social! kaleidotrope.net/summer-2026/...