Drawing is my passion

Now that it’s warm enough to have the windows open, you can really hear the tiny crunching sounds of the flying squirrels eating sunflower seeds on the ledge.

Do you ever feel like you're adrift in the sea and nobody's coming to save you? Then do I have the book for you. Enter the Goodreads giveaway to win a copy of Man Overboard!, out on July 7th! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Tomorrow night! Tuesday, 6/2 at 6:30 pm at Haymarket House! See you at the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social Chicago Writers Showcase!

[Dennis Hopper voice]

So happy that Man Overboard! is on the @nytimes.com’s list of Best Summer Beach Reads!

"unexpected and heartwarming" So happy to see MAN OVERBOARD! on the @nytimes.com's list of Summer's Best Beach Reads! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/b...

Our sweet hummingbird Zumita has returned to @martinseay.bsky.social’s & my feeder!

Drawing is my passion

My book has been out for almost exactly 1 year. Working with @rosemetalpress.bsky.social has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my publishing life + I still feel very proud of the writing I did here. Recently, a stranger emailed to say it was "actually better than I expected."

🚨!!! The first hummingbird of the season just visited @martinseay.bsky.social’s & my feeder !!! 🚨

I dig how she will land and eat one (1) seed and then spend five minutes quietly contemplating the mystery of glass

“A jaunty work of surrealism… It’s a hoot.” Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for this review of my fifth novel MAN OVERBOARD!, out on July 7th!

"FAFO" a typewriter poem by yours truly from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8156850...

Tomorrow, you guys! @martinseay.bsky.social & I are in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin teaching in the Write On Door County writers conference this weekend, so we'll be celebrating with Novel Bay Books. Where will you be?

FLEX THAT CHAMP RING

hi friends! I wrote a story that’s an actual eBay description for an actual item: you can read it, you can bid (for a good cause) as part of the #significantobjects2026 project: www.ebay.com/itm/26764354...

Check it out! PWYW’s very own Shane Zimmer composed two poems on demand for WGN TV on Monday, April 13th ahead of our appearance at the American Writers Museum yesterday night! wgntv.com/daytime-chic...

"The Dawn of Spring" a typewriter poem by yours truly from the American Writers Museum! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8140529...

This essay by @martinseay.bsky.social on "My Ding-A-Ling" is riveting, at least if you're the kind of person who wants to read 7,000 words about Chuck Berry (I am that kind of person)

Hey one of y'all needs to buy this clown (or at least read the story)

So many of the old British punks (from Lydon on down) ended up as Brexiteers. There’s a GenX cynicism that - paradoxically - leads a lot of us to become marks for vice signalers

Another video of Uptown's flying squirrels. 25% slow motion. Filmed March 30, 2026.

Gonna learn bad rituals to bring Satie back to life and give him a theremin.

My @marchxness.bsky.social Sadness Championship ring arrived today and I promised to take pictures! I love it so much, it fits perfectly, and I am so happy and honored to have been part of something so rad.

Awesome to see & hear @marchxness.bsky.social essays that I've been thinking about for YEARS read tonight by their authors. Have you picked up your copy of the anthology yet? If not you can get it here & you'll be glad you did: www.splitlippress.com/product-page...

Need something for your sanity/humanity? Get in, kids, we’re going to a Zoom reading about songs!

Thrilled to have my poem "Wilt" in the latest issue of the @newohioreview.bsky.social! newohioreview.org/2026/02/15/w...

Tomorrow night on Zoom! Hear my lovely spouse @martinseay.bsky.social read from the astoundingly good @marchxness.bsky.social anthology with lots of other brilliant writers!

We are very close to signing up 100 new recurring donors on our first day with an ad-free site. Your support is proving that a business model of treating readers well instead of monetizing their attention can really work. You can take part here. prospect.donorsupport.co/page/FUNPEVN...

TOMORROW: @marchxness.bsky.social Anthology launch event at 7pm CT! Featuring @danchaon.bsky.social, @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @mlfaliveno.bsky.social, @dellegeller.bsky.social, @toddkaneko.bsky.social, @elenavox.bsky.social, @mossyair.bsky.social + @martinseay.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/hitrepeat

Tucson Xness frenz take note of our upcoming in person event 4/19 (and zoom launch reading 4/7 for everyone NOT in Tucson which is most of you!)

Hey, y'all should come to this! It's on the internet! It'll be fun!

surely

"Bar Makeouts" a typewriter poem by yours truly from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame! poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8126948...

The winning bracket (by @legaultd.bsky.social) got the Championship game and result correct, 2 of the final 4, and 4 of the Elite 8 correct. Well done sir. You will receive a special prize (we'll be in touch)!

Having blundered my way into the lottery this year on my first try, I can testify that the @marchxness.bsky.social essay is a genre unto itself, and one I'm into. Ordering!

It's here! Super stoked for this anthology and to have an essay in it—the first I ever wrote for @marchxness.bsky.social, on the Creatures’ Exterminating Angel, Virginia Woolf, misogyny, and learning to trust myself as a musician. I love this tournament and community, and so glad to be part of it!

People have noted the high @marchxness.bsky.social vote count, and I don’t know how to explain all of it. My husband and friends are all incredibly supportive. Mostly, though, I think my biggest strategy was just being a high school English teacher for the past 20 years:

From last night: Another look at Uptown's flying squirrels …

Oh hey! Did you miss the first Goodreads giveaway for my novel MAN OVERBOARD!, coming out in July? Not to worry. Another one's on right now. Enter here if you like free books and tales of men adrift at sea! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The @marchxness.bsky.social anthology we've all been waiting for is finally here! So thrilled to have my essay on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" of Dirty Dancing fame included in this much-anticipated mixtape of phenomenal writing. Get yourself a copy today!!

I had a blast repping Brick all month! We didn’t get the gold but I look better in silver anyway. And for my post game snack, you better believe I’m eating one of these Brick cookies. Great game, @mfitejohnson.bsky.social! 🧱

THAT'S THE BUZZER! MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION HAS CROWNED A NEW CHAMPION! FINAL SCORE: CELINE DION, "My Heart Will Go On" and @mfitejohnson.bsky.social 784, Ben Folds Five, "Brick" and @cicilybennion.bsky.social 474. Congratulations to both our finalists for an outstanding game.

OH SHIT LET'S GOOOOOO

WOOT!

I'm prrrrrrobably Team Brick in the @marchxness.bsky.social final—but I AM considering how the clock-punching professionalism of "Heart" leaves empty space that listeners can fill w/ their own emotional stuff w/o feeling like they're trespassing or piggybacking. That ain't nothin'!

The story here is not that "Brick" is way behind; it's that "Brick" has *360 VOTES AT HALFTIME* and is STILL way behind. It's awesome to see a ton of people avidly participating in this fun weird thing!

culture people! fave examples of essays / chapters in which a subgenre or microstyle is identified, named, and theorized, on the basis of a small number (3 or so) instances? (ala the excellent "The New Black Gothic" ( 1 film, 1 music video, 1 novel) by Sheri-Marie Harrison)