We are accepting submissions for one more month! The most recent book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was just named a PEN/Bingham finalist! Could you be next? What do we want? Boundary-breaking prose which we interpret broadly…

Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA alum @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, whose debut collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

Congratulations to @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social! Here's an conversation about SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS with Maya Chari. necessaryfiction.com/interviews/u...

HELLO AND YES THIS IS GOOD NEWS! We're ecstatic to share that @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS has been named a FINALIST for the @penamerica.bsky.social 2026 Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

MY BOOK IS A FINALIST!!!!!!!!!!!

BURN, a new novel by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social, drops next month (2/3) from Cowboy Jamboree Press 🚬🔥

i've been in novel-writing mode for so long that writing a short story feels like a vacation!!!!! school's out for winter!

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

Happy new year! We're now open for fiction collections. The most recently published book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt Is b @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was recently longlisted for the PEN/Bingham award. Could YOU be next? Dust off that manuscript, and send it to us!!!

WE HAVE BEEN ALL-CAPS SCREAMING AT SLP HQ SINCE WE FOUND OUT!!! CONGRATS, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social!!!

We're hugging everyone we see because we're so thrilled: @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 's book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!!!

Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA grads @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social and @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, both longlisted for this year's PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my book is on here???? i am unable to comprehend this occurrence

writing a scene involving a flood and it's very difficult. there are only so many ways to say there's water everywhere

It was such a pleasure to celebrate the launch of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's debut novel A HARVEST OF FURIES last night at Changing Hands in Phoenix! A fantastic reading and a great conversation.

It's been a busy autumn 🍂 9 ASU English faculty announce 2025 work 🥳 Here are nooks & journals by @beelzebebout.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, G. Castle, L. FastHorse/M. Garcés, @elizhoran.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, A. Thompson & N. Zweig. Details: ow.ly/qhnG50XmSzi #ASUHumanities

spent 40 min this morning trying to get the ugly AI popup to disappear from Word made me think fondly of Scrivener... who would never do such a thing to me... I might have to make The Switch...

On the new fiction table! I ordered copies for the store!

@caitluce.bsky.social CAITLIN!!!!! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I used to be a frequent customer at U Book Store back in ‘14–‘17! hello a decade later!

“the reports of my neuroses are greatly exaggerated,” I think, and then I reencounter something like this and go, ohhhhh, maybe not

MY FIRST NOVEL IS OUT TODAY!!!!! & they have it at barnes & noble?!? (& lots of lovely independent bookshops as well!!) I have been trying to do this for 10 years & dreaming about it for 10 more—surreal moment!

What a joy to hear Phoenix writers read this afternoon : @mdbell79.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @shipraagarwal.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social @jonathanin2k.bsky.social !!! 👏👏👏👏

If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

I am applying to so many jobs. I am a job-applying machine. I am a sleek efficient mechanized typist of statements and filler-inner of forms. no job is safe from me. I am a consummate professional. I am vigilant for new postings. the void into which I fire off applications is becoming weary of me.

Save the date! Next Saturday will be the 1st Desert Grit Reading Series at Rift Wine Bar & Taphouse in Scottsdale! Oct 4th at 3 PM! Readings from @mdbell79.bsky.social @shipraagarwal.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social And me!

just ordered an americano with 4 shots (which is not the point / probably another discussion) at an airport café, and the person behind the counter went, “4 shots of…?” ……???

Just finished an ARC of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's A HARVEST OF FURIES, and if you like retellings of Greek tragedies and unusual story structures, it's a pretty striking take on the Oresteia. #booksky

just watched a woman at the airport rip a page of her book in half to use as a bookmark ????,,,?,

340 days... 400 pages... 130,757 words later... I have a draft!

pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏

#nowreading Hayden Casey’s Show Me Where the Hurt Is People finding themselves in predicaments, self-inflicted or not, but somehow come out okay, mostly, usually, on the other side.

finally... fiiiiiinally... on the last chapter of this draft. #26/26. I've spent 11 months with these people!!!

there comes a point in every novel draft where the end is in sight and the words are just, like, falling out. I open the draft and a new paragraph just emerges from the ether. I scroll down and there are three more pages filled. name a better drug (impossible)!!!

new interview up!!!

am I suffering from deep-draft delusion or is this thing I'm working on my masterpiece?

wrote the exact same number of words two days in a row completely by accident. (1,879 if u were wondering)

I am over 100k in this novel draft, which officially makes it the longest thing I've ever written. is that why I'm terrified?

i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draf

my first-ever galleys arrived today 🥹🥹🥹

I had the good luck of reading this novel as @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social was writing it, and I can’t wait for you all to hold it in your hands. Get a pre-order in now. A gorgeous, ambitious book.

cover reveal cover reveal!!!!

getting back into drafting after a long break is always such a slog. got through 1,000 words and it felt like i pulled each of them out of my gums

🥹 thank you Stephanie!!

first in-person author event tonight!! my pituitary gland has been making me hyper-aware of this for about 24 hours. excited!!

crazi's hot chicken, just up the road from me. beautifully juicy fried chicken, delicious house sauce, great seasoning on the fries. I miss it so much, I put it in my novel acknowledgments

review review review!!! and so kind & attentive! what a lovely thing!

Great to see so many of you at our launch event for @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's book last night (ASU represent!); also GREAT to get to share this fantastic review for SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, up now at The Masters Review: mastersreview.com/book-review-...

Drank from the Goodreads kool-aid and found this v nice review of Friendly Fire

super excited to have a piece up at Largehearted Boy about the songs that inspired my brand-new story collection! largeheartedboy.com/2025/04/22/h...

It's SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS day!!! A thousand welcomes to @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's story collection, which is officially published today, in BOTH print and ebook form (you know where you can get it: www.splitlippress.com/store ) ! Zoom launch is TONIGHT at 7pm CT (link to register in tree)!!