Adam Shaw
@adamshaw502.bsky.social
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writer, dad, wannabe hockey player | assistant cnf editor for identity theory www.theshawspot.com
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Brian Merchant
1 day ago
Counterpoint: No I will not
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
https://www.wired.com/story/even-if-you-hate-ai-you-will-use-google-ai-search/
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I’m nowhere near Connecticut but this lineup is great
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about 17 hours ago
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My barber who I didn't think was that much younger than me was telling me about Pop Culture Jeopardy and said "I think someone your age would still get it," so excuse me while I wither away now
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John Waddy Bullion
5 days ago
My book This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers came into the world six months ago today. If you've bought the book, read it, reviewed it, thought about buying it, or even just liked, shared, or laughed at/cheered for a post about it, you have my eternal and undying gratitude.
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Clerks Mallrats Chasing Amy Dogma Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Jersey Girl (idk lol)
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8 days ago
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Trent Brown
8 days ago
“This being Brown’s first novel it’s difficult to predict how much of an effect he’s going to have on the canon, but he’s off to a fairly good start.” New review of The Walls (in the mag that published my second story!):
www.godscrueljokelit.com/h-blanton-ru...
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Hugh Blanton - Running From Walls — God's Cruel Joke
https://www.godscrueljokelit.com/h-blanton-running-from-walls
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Cowboy Jamboree
8 days ago
In case you missed it earlier this week, CJ's released the newest novel from one of our heroes, one of our founders, Sheldon Lee Compton. Get yours:
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-old-invi...
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Maudlin House
9 days ago
Rolling Head by Adam Shaw
maudlinhouse.net/rolling-head/
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Rolling Head
Dr. Walker calls and says it isn't what we hoped for, that I have weeks, months at best. He tells me to take a breath, maybe go on a walk, but I hang up and collapse onto the stoop, hug my legs to my ...
https://maudlinhouse.net/rolling-head/
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Vic Nogay
9 days ago
This oneee 😮💨😮💨😮💨
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Very very stoked to be in Maudlin House with a little story about a head rolling around town.
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9 days ago
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪
10 days ago
"William Faulkner says kill your darlings. I say drag your dead darlings around with you everywhere you go and try to prop them up in everything you write and see how they do as ghosts." - Sabrina Orah Mark
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Dan Crawley
10 days ago
"Everything rushed forward like a kiss to the forehead, arms wrapping around my shoulders and pulling me close." I dig this piece of writing by
@adamshaw502.bsky.social
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I've got a new essay in Farewell Transmission today! It's about Sum-41 & McDonald's meatloaf & the mall in my hometown & my dad and brother & really how I just miss the early 2000s.
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MCDONALD'S DINER - Farewell Transmission
By Adam Shaw The day the McDonald’s Diner opened in my hometown, Dad came home from his shift at the factory with his head shimmering and the pits of his shirt soaked and sagging. Isaac and I looked u...
https://farewelltransmission.net/2026/05/mcdonalds-diner/
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Aaron Burch
11 days ago
listening to The National and crying counts as writing
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
11 days ago
me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this
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I read this one by
@joeyhedger.bsky.social
in bits and pieces as the semester wound down, and man, what a clever and charming novel. Just wonderfully small town midwestern in all the best ways.
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HAD
12 days ago
today from Vic Nogay!
https://www.havehashad.com/g6rgg
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Stumbled across some doodles my kid left in my notebook while writing today.
15 days ago
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David M. Perry
15 days ago
Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good
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The Bulb Region
16 days ago
"I squeeze blood oranges gently to let them know / that I know what it’s like: the plucking and parsing [...]" 🥚 We have none other than the brilliant Aubri Kaufman (
@aubrirose.bsky.social
) in The Bulb Region today with three fresh poems, including a contrapuntal.
bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-...
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Three Poems, by Aubri Kaufman — The Bulb Region
Three Poems — Aubri Kaufman Sunday’s Desire Path “I’ve come to understand...
https://bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-by-Aubri-Kaufman
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Trying to fix myself by getting really into sourdough
16 days ago
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Bird people always tell me blue jays are assholes, but man, I just don’t want to believe it.
17 days ago
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Taco Bell Quarterly
18 days ago
Fuck AI. You do it yourself over and over until it feels real. That's the whole point
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Cowboy Jamboree
18 days ago
Sheldon lee Compton's new novel, THE OLD INVISIBLE, comes out a week from today. It's been with a heavy heart that this one goes to the final stages, but it is our honor to publish it in his memory.
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My 7 y/o daughter asked me on the way to Girl Scouts what daddy issues are, AMA
19 days ago
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Flight: A Literary Sampler
19 days ago
Our quick response window is up and running! Send us CNF or Brewer's Choice submissions, and you'll hear back within 7 days.
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Woke up to book mail from
@stanchion.bsky.social
, a 10/10 start to the weekend.
21 days ago
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Adam Van Winkle
22 days ago
Cowboy Jamboree has been punching above its weight for a while now. The last year or so of getting noticed for big awards, having CJ music reviews shared w/ the big dogs, blurbs from big authors like Ron Rash & Donald Ray Pollock, & noted reviews like this are so rewarding.
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Rob L. White (‘Cuddle’ Short Film OUT NOW!!)
23 days ago
IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES
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had one of those moments while writing today where I was like, oh shit, *that's* what this story's about, and I might be riding that high all weekend
22 days ago
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LJ Pemberton
24 days ago
may i direct you to
malarkeybooks.com/store/returns
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I’m a rich man
23 days ago
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My beer league hockey championship is on Mother’s Day, a real punch to the gut for us dudes who skate around in hopes of winning a *checks notes* rusted beer keg with a mixing bowl welded to its top.
24 days ago
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Cowboy Jamboree
24 days ago
Willie Nelson turns 93 today. Give yourself the gift of Cowboy Jamboree's RED HEADED WRITING, incited by all things Willie:
a.co/d/05YltWWg
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My brother asked me over the weekend what I've been writing lately, and I told him A Goofy Movie, and he asked what that entailed and I admitted that I've watched this YouTube video like, 200 times this month, and I don't know if he took me seriously before but he surely does now.
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A Goofy Movie: The Perfect Cast
YouTube video by Vinylmation Necklaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxzF7MwaU8
25 days ago
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Love the hell out of M7. Sad to see it go but stoked for these last few volumes.
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26 days ago
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Mallory Smart
28 days ago
Every few years, everything shifts. Whether you want it to or not. Kirsti MacKenzie on writing, community, and the Three-Year Cycle. Season 5 of Textual Healing starts now.
open.spotify.com/episode/331Z...
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Solving all my problems by buying tickets to see random jam bands in the middle of the week
about 1 month ago
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Finished a puzzle. 😎
about 1 month ago
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Joey Hedger
about 1 month ago
My guy “Jeff” is up. Come meet him. Much thanks to
@completesentence.bsky.social
for being the best and pubbing this one!!
www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
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Jeff
By Joey Hedger
https://www.completesentencelit.com/post/_jeff
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The Jack Parsons Project
about 1 month ago
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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It’s kinda great to see your kid get the *exact* Happy Meal toy they wanted.
about 1 month ago
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Megan @ Sugar Pig
about 1 month ago
"Lesson learned: rid yourself of what is no longer working for you, even if it was beautiful."
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First mow of the season: ✔️
about 1 month ago
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I have another poem (?!?!) out, this one over at
@somewordslit.bsky.social
about my daughter losing it over a missing Spidey and His Amazing Friends plush and how it made my brain feel like a shaken up can of soda
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Adam Shaw | Some Words
MY TODDLER WANTS SPIDEY AND I CAN’T EVEN It’s not that I don’t want Spidey, just that I want other things, too. I want the steam of a fresh cup of coffee to w
https://somewords.boards.net/thread/115/adam-shaw
about 1 month ago
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I have another poem (?!?!) out, this one over at
@somewordslit.bsky.social
about my daughter losing it over a missing Spidey and His Amazing Friends plush and how it made my brain feel like a shaken up can of soda
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Adam Shaw | Some Words
MY TODDLER WANTS SPIDEY AND I CAN’T EVEN It’s not that I don’t want Spidey, just that I want other things, too. I want the steam of a fresh cup of coffee to w
https://somewords.boards.net/thread/115/adam-shaw
about 1 month ago
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Man. I learned a lot from Sheldon. He helped me with some of my earliest work, gave a few pieces of mine their homes, and was such an encouraging and curious and all-out great guy. This is a punch to the gut.
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about 1 month ago
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I wrote a poem (?!) about going to a punk fest and skipping a bunch of bands to watch wrestling and drink Malört and eat corn dogs.
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about 1 month ago
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One Fall Review
about 1 month ago
@adamshaw502.bsky.social
comes off the top rope this week with "Submission." "And there was something about the swell of it all that felt like just what I'd come for"
onefallreview.com/2026/04/13/s...
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