"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥

cover! synopsis! preorder! out in feb!! "Blending autofiction with fantasy, meta with magic, and earnestness with absurdity, 𝘛𝘢𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘢 presents a recognizable but also magical world where we ask, if nothing is real, then why not have as much fun as possible?" autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma

"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥

Was really stoked to write the introduction for this new @maudlinhouse.bsky.social edition of WINESBURG, OHIO w/ AMAZING illustrations by Dmitry Samarov 🔥🔥🔥

Hey Portland!!! If you’re going to the @literary-arts.org Portland Book Festival this weekend, I’ll be doing a pop-up reading at the Portland Art Museum Sat 11/8 @ 2pm in front of The Little Harpist. Hope to see you there!!! #PDFBookFest #portlandbookfestival

Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥

Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥

This @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social story is 11 (!!) years old now, and I still remember immediately loving it, accepting it, and hyping it probably almost every Halloween since... www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with." This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals." In wonderful company: www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...

"The big religions feel like Costco and McDonalds, and the little indigenous religions and spiritual stuff feels like mom-and-pop stores. I stan a mom-and-pop store, and that’s what I want to be affiliated with." This interview between cousins @jaimefountaine.bsky.social and Soso Capaldi is 🔥🔥🔥

They settled on 2,500 words b/c we read @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's story "Ghost" and they decided that was a length they liked--"kinda long, but without feeling long," so someone copy/pasted the text into Word to get an exact count, then rounded up. Editing!

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Is this ANTIFA?

War Report #3: the Horrors of Powell’s Books #ThePortlandWars2025

MORE LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!

LIVE FOOTAGE FROM WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND!!!

UPDATE: my wife is going to an art event where they make puppets and perform a puppet skit for families. Will let you know if a war breaks out or if anything ends up ravaged. #Portland #ThePortlandWars2025

Drinking a margarita at a food cart pod, surrounded by parents and young children in war ravaged Portland. Highly recommend the lamb shawarma. Haven’t found the war or anything ravaged yet, but I’ll keep looking.

Is contemporary literary criticism a thing? If so, who is doing it well? As in… is there a book I can buy that was written in the last ten years that is an important work of literary criticism? Not trying to make a point… genuinely curious and looking for suggestions.

Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥

Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥

📚📚 WHY POOL PARTY BOOKS??? 📚📚 • Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art • Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts

Going to see the Flaming Lips tonight. Last time I saw them play live was... *checks notes*... 32 years ago 😳

📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚 Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥

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Hey all! Pool Party #3 is TOMORROW! We still have a few tickets left!! Weather looks good! If you already have tickets, invite a friend. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, get on it now! www.eventbrite.com/e/pool-party...

Damn this book is so good. Highly recommend 🔥

Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

"Even their lingerie looks limp after a call with you and, well, in our world, limp is bad for business." My wife @femmeintheory.bsky.social is so insanely talented. Check out her new piece "DEAR CALLER" about men who are bad at phone sex. Up today at @rejectionlit.bsky.social

Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥

One of my fav things about Pool Party is how it pairs the 🔥 writing happening in indie lit w/ interviews & reviews about incredible work happening in other disciplines. Today, we're publishing @femmeintheory.bsky.social's interview w/ performance artist Autumn Knight, where Autumn turns...

One of my fav things about Pool Party is how it pairs the 🔥 writing happening in indie lit w/ interviews & reviews about incredible work happening in other disciplines. Today, we're publishing @femmeintheory.bsky.social's interview w/ performance artist Autumn Knight, where Autumn turns...

Um... so this is happening 👀

Um... so this is happening 👀

HEY PORTLAND. If you've been thinkin... Pool Party's cool, but like, when are u going to host a reading at an actual swimming pool? Well... the answer is Sep 7 4pm! ⛱📷🏊‍♀️ Secret location in the West Hills. $12 or $20 w hot dog & bev. Tix gonna go fast. (link in comments)

Looks like my story “Pergola” is going to appear in a Russian lit journal, translated by the Russian translator for David Foster Wallace and Harry Crews 👀

I feel like I need to speak up about a toxic experience my wife @femmeintheory.bsky.social had in a writing workshop recently: @charleneelsby.bsky.social's PSYCHODEMONICS, hosted by Burnt Tongue, a platform run by @emilottoman.bsky.social. Since R-A and I are big fans of Charlene’s work, when R-A..

I feel like I need to speak up about a toxic experience my wife @femmeintheory.bsky.social had in a writing workshop recently: @charleneelsby.bsky.social's PSYCHODEMONICS, hosted by Burnt Tongue, a platform run by @emilottoman.bsky.social. Since R-A and I are big fans of Charlene’s work, when R-A..

Of all possible dystopias, ours has to be the stupidest: handing over our democracy, voluntarily, to a narcissistic reality TV show host, while people spend 8+ hours a day staring at handheld computers, watching an endless stream of 10 second fake videos generated by robots.

just remembered last night of WriterCamp, when Bart lights off fireworks, and @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social going, “you know how in Work, Fuckhead says he feels like he wandered into one of Wayne’s dreams? this all feels like I’ve wandered into a Burch dream” and, great, now I gotta reread "Work" again

Everything @bradlisti.bsky.social does is amazing and 1000% worth your time. I was stoked to get to participate in his new project DeepDive: How to Write a Novel. Follow his page and check it out. This is the real deal 🔥

Absolutely loved HORSE GIRL FEVER by @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social one of the best books of the year by far. A tight read packed with emotion and sentences that will blow your mind away! @clashbooks.bsky.social losangelesreview.org/horse-girl-f...

This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!

This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!

Vlad Mag #6 (Part One): “Summer Bummer,” edited by Brian Alan Ellis, is OUT NOW, featuring work by @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social, who co-edits @poolpartymag.com and wrote Horse Girl Fever (@clashbooks.bsky.social, 2025) and The Red-Headed Pilgrim (@twodollarradio.bsky.social, 2023)🦩

HORSE GIRL FEVER, by @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social HORSE GIRL FEVER is: Hannahs that aren’t Hannah; a life-long obsession with your elementary school crush (the titular horse girl); a crooked pergola in front of a doorless house; punching yourself in the face so hard you break your own nose—

"We love without demand and bitch with a tender eye like the pull of Hockney’s pool paintings" Check out @hubbsd.bsky.social's Hockney/pool themed poem THE BLUE TERRACE. We're all HUBBS all week. Come back tomorrow for more 🔥 poolpartymag.com/the-price-of...

Sometimes a poetry submission is so good you just hand them the keys to your lit journal and say, "This week it's all you." ✨

1/2 the time, I don’t think about a reader at all; 1/2 the time, I think about @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social & @dtrobbins.bsky.social & wanting to make them laugh and/or go, “fuck yeah, nailed it.”