"I opened my week’s ration of AmericaPlus and swallowed the last tab of blotter paper." A stunner @martinezfjulian.bsky.social in @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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New short short story out in @xraylitmag.bsky.social today! Shoutout to my friend Tex Gresham for shooting the shit about Forrest Gump with me and telling me to write about it xraylitmag.com/forrest-gump...

we have a terrific 80 word micro by Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social !! i love short pieces that give u a peek into a weirder world -- read this pronto xraylitmag.com/forrest-gump...

I scrolled past this tweet too fast and thought that book in Discipline all the way on the right was BACKSWING by @aaronburch.bsky.social

Julián stays Juliáning, thee 1 percenter atop the pile as far as HAD skull riches go! Julián Martinez “Am I not really me?” I squeezed her with all my might. “No! You’re… the realest you’ll ever be!” https://www.havehashad.com/j0pf1

I enter a fugue state when I MC an event so I loved reading @martinezfjulian.bsky.social’s dispatch from Taylor’s book launch! A wonderful essay in its own right too—the ending made me smile. open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

For Zona Motel, I wrote about my fridge’s meltdown, rough times blending with the good times and trying to stay present for your friends. Plus Chicago’s Logan Square lit scene! This started by covering Taylor’s excellent book launch and became real intimate quick open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

"Ben is a mad scientist, reading brief surreal magic tricks every time he’s on stage. They’re gut-busters, too. Another champion of the work of others, not infrequently handing out books for friends to borrow." @martinezfjulian.bsky.social for Zona Motel ❤️ zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a...

@martinezfjulian.bsky.social wrote about the reading in Chicago for Agathe, 6:30pm to 7:27 where me, @neonpajamas.bsky.social, Tori Rego and Taylor Thornburg all read, and he made it so much more, capturing a slice of life in all its chaos and tumult zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a...

Zona Motel ✅ @martinezfjulian.bsky.social ✅ @whistlerchicago.bsky.social ✅ This writing community ✅ Dispatch of our Chicago reading: zonamotel.substack.com/p/dispatch-a... feat. Taylor Thornburg, Tori Rego, @ljabouttown.bsky.social, & @zacharykocanda.bsky.social (who should have been in this pic)

Yooooo! Next call: this Tuesday! July 22. 9pm ET (8pm JMT (Julián Martinez Time). Open for 150 subs. "Tell @martinezfjulian.bsky.social a Bedtime Story" sub call language in alt text and replies.

the legend @martinezfjulian.bsky.social giving me a taste of my own medicine with this erasure bio 😍

this Julián Martinez poem is a little different, yet just as amazing, than I've come to expect from him "See, our lips bend: we are always moving warmthward through and beyond what we forgot we would say: I’m so about being buried together." https://www.havehashad.com/rx442

To celebrate our upcoming wedding, I’m self-publishing a chapbook of love poems for my fiancée, out now, called Another Day of Insane Thinking. She drew the beautiful artwork. $25, shipping included! DM me or reach out to [email protected] to buy a copy! Venmo below ⬇️

Feeling mighty proud to see Patrick Zhou on the top 50 and @sudhab.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, and @ezhang77.bsky.social on the longlist. Running @hexliterary.bsky.social with two best friends is a dream 🥰

We read some poems on a fog-shrouded Lake Michigan. @neonpajamas.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

Dreaming of Greece and the Beatles with Julián Martinez’s dream story, “Be at Leso”. 🎶 🏝️ Only on Afterimages. open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

New story in @thirtywestph.com today! Big week for dad rock. Yesterday, Springsteen. Now, the ghost of Paul McCartney open.substack.com/pub/thirtywe...

just wait til you see their tunnel of love

got that new-new Julián Martinez with piece inspired by Letters to Wendy's & Springsteen, special just for all you sickos! https://www.havehashad.com/otz6d

New piece in @havehashad.com today— inspired by Letters to Wendy’s and Bruce Springsteen. It’s amusement park season, baby! Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for picking this weirdo up and to @prissybippus.bsky.social for brainstorming Springsteen rides with me www.havehashad.com/hadposts/let...

@martinezfjulian.bsky.social @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @prissybippus.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social Some of my faves, pulled from a small bag of several hundred faves

locked myself out of my Twitter account somehow. So, blue sky is my best friend now

Only 3 more (actually, 2? think there’s one forthcoming?) @havehashad.com pubs and you get one of these, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social!

*goes to homepage to post today's piece* *apparently embeddedDJ Khaled voice yells out at me, "ANOTHER ONE!"* Julián Martinez at it again!! "Two dozen evil goons tried to unionize earlier this year, now there are two dozen less evil goons." https://www.havehashad.com/nzz5r

Enjoyed hearing Julián read this last month. Enjoyed reading it myself this morning! Enjoy it yourself, today?

Banger of a flash piece!

New piece in @havehashad.com today! True story! My first lucha. Certainly not my last, but the funnest for sure. Thanks to Crow for picking up this shortie www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

your & all our new fave Julián Martinez back w/, *DJ Khaled voice*, ANOTHER ONE! "We were just taking a break. A commercial break, I said without thinking, but that just made her burst into tears. I realized we’d never watched the cartoons together..." https://www.havehashad.com/p6ki6

new piece in @havehashad.com today!!! I think it’s my favorite piece I’ve written in the last, like, year Honored to have it be in my favorite lit mag, skull Number 10 baby!!! 💀 www.havehashad.com/hadposts/car...

I was hanging out with @martinezfjulian.bsky.social when he submitted this. Read it and immediately knew it was a winner.

I wish I could write with the kind of joy and abandon @martinezfjulian.bsky.social has. So good! @hexliterary.bsky.social hexliterary.com?p=2608

Yo, afternoon gang-- This story was 12k words before Lish got his dirty paws on it, and now @martinezfjulian.bsky.social gets his revenge! This one is so fun! 🍗

“I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint… Carver gave me the face he makes on the back of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: an eyebrow-raised smirk that said, ‘give me your best shot.’” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social is back on hex with a wild tale about the student surpassing the teachers! ✍️😤

"I held Raymond Carver at gunpoint." No April Fools at @hexliterary.bsky.social, just a tense, hilarious standoff by @martinezfjulian.bsky.social! As always, Julián delivers something fresh and fun, and you won't want to miss "Gordon Lish," up now!!

New story in @bruisermag.com today— it’s about big red buttons and pressin ‘em 🔴 👀🫣 www.bruisermag.com/martinez_noi...

My mother dumped his ashtray onto the conveyor belt he had invented for trash. NO INVENTES by Julián Martinez www.bruisermag.com/martinez_noi...

Today is apparently a day of good reading!!! @martinezfjulian.bsky.social in @bruisermag.com !

next week, on the first day of spring, we couldn’t be more excited to have this reading with the brilliant stylings of @sophieklahr.bsky.social, Corey Zeller, @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, & @theoriginalison.bsky.social! see below to sign up, it’s going to be terrific :)

This is next week! Hope to see you there! @henryhoke.bsky.social @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @ctsalazar.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social

love us basically any and all Springsteen inspired prose! which pairs perfectly with loving us basically and and all Julián Martinez prose!! https://www.havehashad.com/6eem7

Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social @havehashad.com

TONIGHT! TONIGHT!

Attention AWP attendees! 🗣️ This offsite reading is coming in HOT! See you on March 27th. I can't WAIT to hear these readers. @henryhoke.bsky.social / @josehernandezdz.bsky.social / @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social / @ctsalazar.bsky.social / @vikshirley.bsky.social / @martinezfjulian.bsky.social

In light of Biff Wiff's passing, it seems fitting to share this @martinezfjulian.bsky.social piece again: jakethemag.com/santa/

March's Neon Night Mic lineup is HERE! Join us at Chicago's The Whistler on March 5 for some poetry, prose, and erasure bios @anandalima.bsky.social @meeklingpress.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social @coffeehousepress.bsky.social @whistlerchicago.bsky.social

was at a Bulls game tonight— felt pissed at the group next to me cheering hard as hell for the Heat ‘til I remembered this Barry Hannah line

when billy woods said “walked out of Denny’s like it was Ruth’s Chris” I felt that, except I’ve never been to a Ruth’s Chris, and I’ve never actually walked out of this Denny’s. I‘ve always been here

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress