When I decided to write my second novel in the third person, I was soon overwhelmed with the number of choices I needed to make. Then I read THE GARDEN (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social) by Clare Beams & realized—I might not have to choose. Read more: erinlmccoy.substack.com/p/writing-in....

Every character lives inside a moment in history. How does history drive character and story development without overwhelming the plot? This week I took a look at Chantel Acevedo’s gorgeous new novel, CAGES (@europaeditions.bsky.social). Read now: open.substack.com/pub/erinlmcc...

In this week’s installment of the Next Sentence, I explore what a passage from Anna Burns’s MILKMAN (@graywolfpress.bsky.social ) teaches us about building narrative tension and revealing character at the same time. open.substack.com/pub/erinlmcc...

“When you can only see so far, what more is there to hope for? No wonder, then, that in a single country we occupy a thousand different planets.” @erinlmccoy.bsky.social in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/a-short-hist...

Aquatic! Southern! Gothic! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on UNDERLAKE by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/unde...

"Every single one of us lives inside some kind of bubble. I think the point is to try, again and again, to see it." Underwater, Unbelonging, Unknowing: @sbfeldman.bsky.social interviews @erinlmccoy.bsky.social about Underlake (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/eyzOMXO

Hey, there—are you writing a novel? Me too! And starting today, I’m launching a weekly newsletter called the Next Sentence so we can write our novels together.

Book 60: Underlake by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social

It’s publication daaaaay! My debut novel has officially launched! UNDERLAKE tells the story of two women who dive deep into a lake and discover communities who have been living underwater for decades. 📖 Pick up your copy: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/underlake-... 🙏🙏 @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Underlake was featured in @bookriot.bsky.social's roundup of the best new sci-fi & fantasy books of April 2026! 🌊 Thank you so much to @libertyhardy.bsky.social for the lovely write-up. So excited to appear alongside @mikechenwriter.bsky.social and @neuvel.net. Link: bookriot.com/new-sci-fi-a...

Absolutely in awe of @erinlmccoy.bsky.social's debut novel, UNDERLAKE. Thanks to @clarebeams.bsky.social, Susanna Kwan, and Ron Rash for the kind words. Preorder UNDERLAKE wherever books are sold: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090...

UNDERLAKE by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social is full of "lush prose that deftly unpacks grief, familial love, and religious zealotry" via @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...

Join me for the official launch of my debut poetry collection, WRECKS, in Seattle this Friday!

-From Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social Out October 14th!

Happy pub day to Wrecks, the debut poetry collection by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social , available on the Noemi website! www.noemipress.org/catalog/poet...

In just 1 week, I’ll be launching my debut book, WRECKS, in Brooklyn alongside the brilliant @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social & @abipollokoff.bsky.social, my dear friend since MFA days. Preorder WRECKS from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/mcc...

What an honor! This is such an astute and thoughtful review. Thanks to Benjamin and @versecurious.bsky.social 🙏🙏

Take a look at @noemipress.bsky.social for our current & forthcoming book. Wrecks by @erinlmccoy.bsky.social is a stunning collection or “Girl Work” by @zefrrr.bsky.social is a personal fave too!

This is very exciting news — preorder Erin’s book!

Louisville artist doing great things! SO excited for you @erinlmccoy.bsky.social ! Congratulations!!!

We can definitely relate to this answer from our August featured poet @erinlmccoy.bsky.social:

I am beyond thrilled to share the cover of my debut novel, UNDERLAKE, forthcoming from Doubleday in April 2026. UNDERLAKE is available for preorder now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090... Thank you to @doubledaybooks.bsky.social and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for a gorgeous book 🙏

Read poems from my forthcoming book WRECKS ( @noemipress.bsky.social ) on A Dozen Nothing!

A man who helped save a 9-year-old during a shark attack in Florida last month is now facing deportation after being taken into custody for driving without a license.

The Trump regime definitely doesn’t want you to download this app that lets you report and track ICE sightings.

"Now the trumpet of your body. Now my mouth full of air." — @adedayoagarau.bsky.social in @narrativemag.bsky.social www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems...

Hit a big goal today: 80k words on the first draft of my new novel. 🎉

Ajanaé Dawkins 💜 from BLOOD-FLEX (New Delta Review) @moonsatdusk.bsky.social

Reached 66k words on the new novel 🪩

✨COVER REVEAL✨ I'm thrilled to share the cover of my debut poetry collection, WRECKS, forthcoming on Oct. 15, 2025. The @noemipress.bsky.social team has been a dream: @dianaarterian.bsky.social, @sargzem.bsky.social, Mariah Bosch, Auden Eagerton, & Alban Fischer—what a beautiful design!

#AWP panel organizers: keep me in mind for any talks on debut poetry books, debut novels, magical realism, the lyric, research-driven work, and environmental justice in creative work. I'll be in Baltimore next year celebrating my new books. @awpwriter.bsky.social #AWP26

Hit 40,000 words on the first draft of my new novel🤞

What is it, the heart, is it the sound of the pine trees blowing in the painting? —Ikkyū, tr. Mary Ruefle

If you're looking for a participant in your poetry or fiction panel for #AWP26, hit me up: • Debut poetry collection, "Wrecks": 2025, Noemi Press, finalist for the Noemi Book award • Debut novel, "Underlake": 2026, Doubleday #AWP

If someone said “Saeed, it’s important to be respectful” and I interpreted that message as an indictment… well, you’d be right to be concerned about me and for me.

Cover reveal! I'm beyond excited to share that CLOUDWATCHER, winner of the inaugrual Stern Prize from @ampoetryreview.bsky.social & forthcoming from Copper Canyon, has a cover and is now available to pre-order (link in the replies)! 🌩️ 🌩️ 🌩️

So many congratulations to @abipollokoff.bsky.social for this brilliant debut with @redhenpress.bsky.social. I had the honor of being in the same MFA cohort as Abi, and her work has always achieved an incredible musicality & subtlety of craft. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/pol...

This is what representation in government looks like. This should have been an entire codel. It's not about waiting until the midterms. It's about taking action NOW

I’d rather write the instruction manual for a washing machine.

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

Got a preliminary glimpse at cover ideas for my novel today ❤️‍🔥

All it wld take is 3 congresspeople & 4 senators to wake up & care more for something larger than their careers. Right now we are at the moment when the curtain is yanked & everyone sees the wizard is a just a crazy old man. Restoring the illusion is near impossible www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/b...

Lately I’ve been trying to pause the urge in myself or others I’m in conversation with to immediately look up a question we have, instead trying to ponder a bit on our own before turning to the internet. Every single time we’ve been able to figure out the right answer on our own, within minutes.

How AMAZING that I am a finalist for national awards in 2 different countries: my picture book DAS DORF DER STEIENE for the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreis in Switzerland & my translation of LETTERS IN CHARCOAL for the Carnegie Medal in Illustration in the UK. 😍😍 #kidlit #kidlituk #booksky

Petition: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

BIG CHIEF is available NOW! Yes, NOW! How lovely it would be to be in your library. I thank everyone who made this possible, and I hope to see you out there on the BIG CHIEF World Tour!

“Do to me what sunlight does to a river.” I remember being absolutely floored by this @patrycjasara.bsky.social line when I first read it. Still floored, awed, enchanted. ☀️🌸

'have your doubts about a pill write four lines pretend it’s a poem that tomorrow will be nothing of the kind.' Three in the Morning Gemma Gorga , translated from Catalan by Sharon Dolin

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.