Looking forward to reading from my latest novel tomorrow at BGSU's Winter Wheat! Honored to be invited to the 25th anniversary of this fantastic conference and writing festival, in assocation with @midamericanreview.bsky.social! Here's the pre-reading interview: casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/an-i...

Hope to see you next Tuesday Nov. 11 at the MCPA for Slippery Elm's 2025 release party!

There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton! Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd! Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?

Yes, even if the government shuts down....

Slippery Elm's annual Multimedia Contest closes Tuesday!

Slippery Elm's 2025 Multimedia Contest closes next week!

Here's "Starry Night: a Constellation"--videopoem by Christy Sheffield Sanford, 3rd place in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/starry-night... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Thrilled that our panel was accepted for AWP Baltimore! @jpullen19.bsky.social @dave-essinger.bsky.social @joybaglio.bsky.social #AWP26 #EduSky

After eighteen years and one month and one day: our daughter June has achieved escape velocity. Here are pics of moving her in to her Oberlin dorm room today.

A bald eagle circled low over me on my run again, and it feels more insistent every time it happens. And I'm like, dang Sam, I know somebody needs to save this country already, but have you seen my to-do list? Maybe, try another Chosen One, 'K, please-and-thanks? Metaphor's not really subtle though.

Wow, I slacked at PR through July, so...hey, let's let the promo prices ride through August! My novels Running Out and This World and the Next are jailbroken in ebook and audio, cheaper than ever before on all your favorite platforms at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Disappointed to find this clutch of pawpaws I'd been eyeing cut down for for trail trimming. Yeah the branches were hanging low, but we couldn't let them ripen a couple weeks? Any suggestions to ripen a premature pawpaw? Had meh luck setting them with the bananas before.

Fernet Branca + Coca-Cola = Fernet con cola. Rum + Coca-Cola + lime = Cuba Libre Fernet con cola + Cuba Libre + mint leaves = Fernet Libre?

You guys! After too long locked away in Audible, my audiobook of Running Out is finally available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on Spotify)! open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ... Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

Hi everyone, my book This World and the Next is available now for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social! books2read.com/b/boznX1 Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

Well, our representation in Columbus were betting on the collective apathy & ignorance of Ohio voters, and this time, they were right: Ohio SB 1, the Bill No One Wanted, did not get enough petition signatures to go to referendum, so it will take effect now without Ohioans ever voting for it.

Hi everyone, my books Running Out & This World and the Next will be promoted on @smashwords.bsky.social in July! Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion. books2read.com/b/boznX1 💙📚 🪐📚 #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

Two big conspiracy theories are that the government has been hiding alien technology and that the government doesn't have the technology to go to the moon and those two groups should hate each other more.

Thanks everyone who atteended the #nokings protests yesterday and signed the Stop SB1 petition! We're now reaching the final week of petition signings. If you haven't signed yet, and don't know where to go, DM this account and we can help.

What is Ohio SB1 & what can I do about it? SB1 is a bill passed by the Republican Ohio state legislature. The stated goal of the bill is to remove "DEI initiatives" from higher education. This includes removing trainings and services that help keep Women, LGBT people and veterans at school.

Didn’t realize this was a prophecy.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

gentleman, gentleman, please, there's no need for this! you are both in the epstein files.

Cats wearing bras on their heads with the soundtrack of the “habemus papam” announcement is a TikTok trend. The internet will not be defeated.

We have a winner in our 2025 Prose Contest! Congratulations to Victor McConnell, for his story "Before It Gets Cold," chosen by this year's judge @laralillibridge.bsky.social! Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!

Looking forward to reading at the Bluffton Public Library's Spring Tea in May! Tickets are on sale now.

I'll be signing books at #AWP25 at the Main Street Rag Publishing Company table 845 1-2pm, otherwise at the @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social table this afternoon, come say hi!

Proof I'm here at AWP25 LA: Love this pic by Hank Cherry!

We're at AWP! Table 711, come say hello!

Woohoo, it's AWP in LA! Looking forward to reading from the new book tomorrow (Thursday) night at MemoryLook Cafe, 6pm PDT: www.facebook.com/events/98151...

Lookin' forward the Breakin' the Rules in LA! Come hear several short very subversive excerpts at our AWP off-site, 6pm Thursday at the MemoryLook cafe! www.facebook.com/events/98151... 📚💙

It's a weird time to be reading Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, with characters who are actually enthusiastic and empowered fascists. 📚💙 📚🪐

We're still working on our 2025 print issue, but check out these newly live Honorable Mentions from our Multimedia Contest, from @colmscully.bsky.social, @margost.bsky.social, Tracy Harris, Casey Killingsworth, Todd Loughran, and @melissafitz.bsky.social! slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...

Can we puh-lease just build a new party and run Jon Stewart ASAP?

The US Department of Education has established a hotline to report schools that subject our precious children to the horrors of wokeness and DEI. I encourage all concerned parents to do as I did to keep them busy. Glory! enddei.ed.gov

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

I’m running for president and this is my platform

Now that English is the official language of the United States, I look forward to everyone understanding the difference between “your” and “you’re,” “their” and “they’re,” and “to,” “two” and “too.”

I kind of wish the dystopias would stop being so predictive, but sure, this--

#FrogApproved 🖖🏾🐸🇨🇱 #SlavaUkraini

We have sticker sheets and individual stickers available! Get out there and let people know whose fault these high prices are. The work starts now! www.etsy.com/shop/FedUpStudio

Doing my part....

Apart from showing how evil he is yesterday, Trump showed how he’s actually a bad—moronic—dealmaker. I mean, you’ve got some guy coming in to give you his country’s minerals. Wouldn’t you want to get him to sign first before berating him on global television?

UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT: tomorrow, February 28th, is the Economic Blackout. I ain’t buying shit. Plan ahead, but if you must buy essentials, use cash and support local businesses only. No corporate chains!

My interview by Vick Mickunas for Book Nook on WYSO is up on podcast! www.wyso.org/podcast/book... Great conversation about my novel This World and the Next, and Vick says: "Some fiction feels so real it is astonishing. This book is like that...." Thanks Vick & WYSO!

I enjoyed this "correction" from Vick Mickunas in today's Book Nook column in the Dayton Daily News: www.daytondailynews.com/.../VTG32A3P...

Great review of This World and the Next in the Dayton Daily News! It was awesome talking to Vick Mickunas for the Book Nook interview too--will post that podcast link as soon as that drops! www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/b...

You guys, haha, here's the Trump sticker we need, almost before we asked for it: @fedupstudio.bsky.social