My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉 Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!

Many thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at being read after Skink Beat Rev (where it 1st appeared) went defunct. 🍿 Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...

Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.

i just wanna submit a chapbook without a fee attached

Another poem about driving around in cars with boys! My piece "love fool" has been published by Overgrowth Press in their Pink issue. Check out the feature! overgrowthpress.com/october-11-2... TY!

To whoever donated $5 to me after reading rowhouse song --- THANK YOU! 😘

Happy to have discovered the quiet, powerful poetry of Susan Stewart at a library book sale.

@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community. Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff. thebrokenspine.co.uk...#IndieLitMagGala #QueerPublishing

BLUE SKIES youtu.be/j8bmjDoziaQ

Wow, my poem "On the day of a school shooting" www.westtrestlereview.com/march_2025_d... has been nominated for Best of the Net.

My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉 Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!

my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com

A #poetry #chapbook about kindred spirits, 99cent gasoline, aol instant messenger, and summer night magic? I got you! irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social! #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit

Finally my shining moment as a parent has arrived. I am taking my teenage daughter to see Rocky Horror in the theater for its 50th anniversary!

one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine! stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...

For some reason I've decided to open a POD Etsy store feat. feminist, literary, suffragette, & Victorian punk goods. Just getting started. www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...

Read my poem about dialup & classic rock radio!

FALL SUB CALL & THEME REVEAL! We're open for poetry & art. Issue 7: The Urge. Details: engineidling.net Sept 1 - 22nd. Bring us something dark & complicated. #amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity

If you've gotten my book, and you like it, would you mind taking a moment to write a 5-star review? It might help others discover it! Please and thank you! amzn.to/4na39eC

We’re live. #IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations. From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work. Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene. 📍

Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/ Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!

Chuffed that my poem “night driving, ‘89” has finally been pubbed! It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class. Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review! www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...

did you ever have that One Person who set you free, who saw you wholly & unapologetically for exactly who you were in that moment? it's a kind of romance, a rare harmony. this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture. find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.

many thanks to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for taking my experimental poems!

my poem "classic rock radio" has got an acceptance today from @mosspuppymag.bsky.social! looking forward to the echoed howls issue, and many thanks! 💙

did you ever have that One Person who set you free, who saw you wholly & unapologetically for exactly who you were in that moment? it's a kind of romance, a rare harmony. this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture. find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.

my ode to suburban summers "boy crazy" is out today! moistpoetryjournal.com/2025/08/19/b... many thanks to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for picking this one up! 💙💙

did i mention "rowhouse song" actually has been reviewed?! literally my first review ever! and it came out the blue! Many thanks to Mike at 60 Odd Poets! (sixtyoddpoets.substack.com) substack.com/@dehm000/not...

👻 👻 hey, check out my microchap! it is exactly about these dog days of summer. but in the 1980s. ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

wrote my first substack thingy dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/p/81825-on-w...

32 page views for my author website. awesome!

Hey a review for my micro-chap rowhouse song! 🥹 open.substack.com/pub/sixtyodd...

an acceptance today from Healthline Zine for their Corporeal issue!

Reminder! Nominations due October 15th. Editors can nominate in any category. Readers can nominate in 3/4 categories. Writers & artists can self-nominate in 2 categories. All genres eligible. Spread the word! Repost! Tag lit mags, writers, & readers! genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/genrepunk-aw...

"our ghost-boy, he knelt there in the ribcage of his own once-home with his eager child-heart, his blue-blue heart glowing phosphorescent in his tiny hands and pledged himself for-ever and always" -- from "secrets" Check out my FREE microchap "rowhouse song"! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

an acceptance today from Fish Barrel Review for my prosey poem "mavis beacon teaches typing"! coming sept 2025!

many many thanks to Leia @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for the swiftest sub response ever, and for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at life after its original pub went defunct. 💙

"the clay is a knot of pounding flesh a tomb and story all" -- from foundations//indian clay Read my free microchap rowhouse song! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Got my own author's website! www.d-mcmahon-writes.net Working on a Substack! dmcmahonwrites.substack.com

building a website. kinda fun but also not

THE BODY ARCHIVE 🔪🩸 Now open for submissions! 🖤 Check out our website for more information.

Gonna start a substack but is it worth the time?

Also got an acceptance yesterday from Boudin/The McNeese Review for my poem "night driving, '89," a poem which actually won me an award at the satellite campus I attended in the early aughts, but has since been rejected over and over again for years til now! 😱

Got the proof for my poem "amnesia musicbox" from Waffle Fried Mag. Looking forward to release! wafflefried.com

"sister, i say i think my heart must be a cobblestone fist, a bright red apple i think my limbs are made of sycamore & sunflower stalk" -- from "katydids" Check out my microchap "rowhouse song" for the #sealeychallenge! It's a free download! ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

It’s prob been said but The Conjuring movies would be immensely better if the Annabelle doll was of the original Raggedy Ann, bloomers and all

another high drama film from the garden. "the butterfly" has about 2 full minutes of a hornet eating a swallowtail's head in slow motion, set to moonlight sonata. so deep. you're welcome. 😱

here's another imovie from my short lived film career in the summer of 2020. the goose parade! you'll def want the sound ON.