Friends! I'll be up near Westchester this Friday night, in Connecticut Saturday night, and the East Village Sunday afternoon. Please come? 🙏❤️

Staff pick at Powell's what?!?!

The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏

5 years in the making, 2 weeks away. Stanchion 20 is a celebration. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Went through my massive TBR and selected Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III. Started it tonight and daaaamn the work Dubus puts into setting a scene. Loving this.

Aaaaah my book Street Cats and Where to Find Them made it into the @bookshop.org gift guide!! 😻😻😻

5 years in the making, 2 weeks away. Stanchion 20 is a celebration. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Stack of 2025 Stanchion releases to reread ahead of Pushcart Prize nominating. Toffee is supervising.

My latest story is up on Saturday Evening Post! Check it out!! 💛

My AWP BOOKFAIR plan is to have all March and April releases published and for sale as AWP early exclusives. This means a VERY busy next couple of months!

What does a supervillain do when he discovers his home city has been taken over by a productive, efficient mayor who has eliminated almost all the socioeconomic problems? How the hell do you recruit henchmen when crime *really* doesn't pay? How do you COPE? You fight back, of course.

I co-authored a fun story about a reformed supervillain with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social for An Honour And a Privilege - an ambitious craft anthology of stories & essays in which Lindz has teamed up with other authors, working collaboratively and then writing reflections on the process. Out next month!

Aaaaah my book Street Cats and Where to Find Them made it into the @bookshop.org gift guide!! 😻😻😻

Who runs a pretty rad lit mag and book press, recently had his cat book published by a big 5 publisher, and is filing his SECOND piece for BBC Travel this month? this guy.

28 pieces of writing spanning the first 5 years of Stanchion and including 5 new pieces from the likes of @toddedillard.bsky.social @jmgatford.bsky.social & @fbereaud.bsky.social. Cover art & photograph by me. Help celebrate reputable indie lit & keep this good thing going for 5 more years. 🖤🤍❤️

🙋‍♀️ I’m one of the eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers 😆😄 pre-orders open now 👏 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

28 pieces of writing spanning the first 5 years of Stanchion and including 5 new pieces from the likes of @toddedillard.bsky.social @jmgatford.bsky.social & @fbereaud.bsky.social. Cover art & photograph by me. Help celebrate reputable indie lit & keep this good thing going for 5 more years. 🖤🤍❤️

Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!

I spent over a year of my life writing this collaborative craft book with eleven other (fantastic! talented! good-looking!) writers. "Sometimes a story emerges fully formed in your mind, and sometimes it’s an onion, requiring several ‘peels’ to get to the real, eye-watering heart of the matter."

Here's the front + back of Issue 20, which is at the printer now + will be published on Nov 25th. Running a independent print lit mag that doesn't rely on donations, grants, or fees is getting so much harder. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. Just a tenner. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Here's the front + back of Issue 20, which is at the printer now + will be published on Nov 25th. Running a independent print lit mag that doesn't rely on donations, grants, or fees is getting so much harder. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. Just a tenner. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Not only did a Stanchion piece win a 2025 Best Small Fictions nod, but Jacqueline Goyette's stunning "Finding the Water to Cry" has now been chosen as a Spotlight Selection in the anthology! It'll be at the beginning of the book & discussed in the introduction ☺️ thecoilmag.com/announcement...

🌹SURPRISE🌹 The 20th Issue of Stanchion arrives in 3 weeks. Here's a look at the cover. Pre-order now for just $10 & get a special 5th anniversary bookmark. Read all about this marvelous 90-page Best Of issue w/ select new works by some old favorites. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

🌹SURPRISE🌹 The 20th Issue of Stanchion arrives in 3 weeks. Here's a look at the cover. Pre-order now for just $10 & get a special 5th anniversary bookmark. Read all about this marvelous 90-page Best Of issue w/ select new works by some old favorites. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

It's absolutely wild to me that a book I wrote for the love of my life (@pegasusunder.bsky.social, if you didn't already know) woven through the language of flowers and two Jane Austen characters who frankly NEEDED their sapphic freedom, already has over 800 ratings on Goodreads. My heart 😭

This past weekend 3 people called me the "Rick Steves for cat lovers," 1 kind reader labeled me the "cat traveling Anthony Bourdain," and 1 young boy who likes taking pictures of and drawing cats, with a camera around his neck, wanted his photo taken with me after his mom bought my book for him 🥹😻

If you're looking to 1) support an indie business, 2) receive 12 books in 2026, 3) get 4 exclusive gifts & 4) be invited to private zoom chats with authors, the 2026 Stanchion Book Club might be for you! Makes a great gift, too. Receive a welcome letter + bonus book immediately!

It was truly an honor and a privilege to work with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social on a fiction and non-fiction piece for this book and I can't wait to read the other chapters by incredible writers! @stanchion.bsky.social

Everyone cheer I sold 75 books at the Virginia Cat Festival this weekend! Meow!!

I am in this awesome #Writing #Craft book! Check it out:

An Honour & A Privilege with @lindzmcleod.bsky.social is at the printer! Pre-order now from Stanchion to get a H&P free bookmark delivered with the most innovative craft writing book you've ever experienced. Discounted UK shipping is available! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative craft writing book An Honour & A Privilege "offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it." This is a craft book like no other. It will amaze you and inspire your writing. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Oozing impatience so I circled it in blue. Out with @stanchion.bsky.social in August 2026.

Oh hello, I am in this 🫣

Also, the pre-order is on sale atm! Get it while it's hot!

If you have a writer in your life and you'd like them to know that you care about their ambitions, may I suggest ordering a copy of my collaborative craft anthology, An Honour And A Privilege, as a Christmas present? (trust me, you'll get the MOST brownie points)

ICYMI and don't forget the full chapbook is 50% off over at @stanchion.bsky.social!!! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social's collaborative craft writing book An Honour & A Privilege "offers us both a testimony as to what can be done together and a guide on how to do it." This is a craft book like no other. It will amaze you and inspire your writing. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Early Christmas shopping for the cat lovers I know! The photography is spectacular! By Jeff Bogle @stanchion.bsky.social 😻

I've done nothing today but read (2 books) in bed with my cats nearby. It was wonderful. Now I'm gonna watch my favorite actress in a movie I've never seen. Also in bed. Also with cats.

Sold and signed 32 copies of my book today in Wilmington, DE!

This is probably one of my favorite pieces. Hope you give it a listen, and don't forget right now the complete chapbook is half off at @stanchion.bsky.social. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Writer friends! My novel from the amazing @stanchion.bsky.social is out in Feb. I’d love to plan some events. If you have friendly book stores, dive bars, breweries, festivals, or street corner gatherings in your area that might welcome a visiting author, send them my way! 💙

First two Christmas gifts I've bought this year have been books. Doing it right!

What word do you overuse in your writing? Do you use it a lot when speaking, too?

Need a gift for a cat lover? Consider my book—the world's first travel guide for the cat obsessed! Photos & stories & travel intel from Japan to Turkey, Peru to Iceland, Morocco to Croatia, lots of cat cafes, & so much more! It's BOGO 50% off right now! amzn.to/49dWAnt

Some people find it so weird that my book Street Cats and Where to Find Them is, in part, dedicated to my ex-wife. But she's a huge part of my life, then and now, and the very reason I'm a dad, of kids and cats. It'd be weird if I didn't dedicate this to her.

A new era of monochrome chapbooks are coming soon from Thirty West & we're ready to read. Submit your best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction chapbooks from Halloween (10/31) until New Year's Eve (12/31). Together, we shall stop at nothing to escape the mundane in 2026. thirtywestph.com/submit

It's all returns & canceled magazine subscriptions currently. So, to remind you of the works of art I make & publish, in case you need a new read made by a press that never asks for donations, doesn't charge fees, pays writers, prices books fairly & fulfills orders immediately...

I just filed my first commissioned piece for BBC Travel 😬🫣