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Book publisher of artful autobiographical writing. Podcast: The Lives of Writers. Online journal.
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wondering why so many literary community endeavors fold so often? it’s bc most mags, pods, & small presses are hanging on by a thread at all times and a lot of ppl who ask these endeavors to support them do not actually support these endeavors. just something I’ve noticed 👀
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ATTN: We have convinced
@Aaron__Burch
to make this A REAL BOOK! Submissions for the novel writing craft book anthology that never once mentions writing will open on June 1! Start your pieces now!
I would like to edit a “how to write a novel” craft book anthology with essays about skateboarding & houseplants & making art & 70s paranoid thrillers & going to the driving range & petting zoos & road trips & naps & tattoos &…, and it never mentions writing.
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Our submission call for the summer 2024 issue is unthemed (except that, as usual, we want to read your various forms of artful autobiographical writing).
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Subs open! Check out the guidelines for our next issue (themed) here:
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It’s no secret that
@Aaron__Burch
will be editing the previously announced novel writing craft anthology that never mentions writing, but what you DIDN’T KNOW was that we had already been planning this brief book of his collected cnf, out next year!
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HAPPENING NOW! Cover, description, & preorder link for
@Aaron__Burch
’s A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN + bundle option to preorder it w/ the HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL anthology, which now has a final contributor list! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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SURPRISE! The mag is back open! 🎉
Send us some work:
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nothing quite like a brand new anthology on a high pile rug 😍
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🚨Acquisition alert!🚨
Can’t wait for you to read this memoir. DAUGHTERHOOD traces
@adremily
’s own mother’s turbulent youth, misadventures in the American West, & falling out with the Mormon church, examining how her mother’s experiences have shaped her as a parent. Get ready!
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Just a couple more days until we close lit mag subs for the next 4-6 weeks. Get on it!
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ALERT! A COVER REVEAL! Behold the front of
@AdrienneMarie_
and
@LeighChadwick5
’s TOO MUCH TONGUE, due out a little early in a couple months, though you can always preorder it… right now!
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Here's the cover for
@Aaron__Burch
's HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF 20 CRAFT ESSAYS ABOUT WRITING, NONE OF WHICH EVER MENTION WRITING! Out in just over a month 🔥
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Today we’ve got a COVER REVEAL for
@HollyPelesky
’s beautiful forthcoming book CLEAVE! Can’t wait to get this into the world officially in just one month. Here’s the description too, in which we go a little bold at the end :)
PREORDER TODAY!!!
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In his 25th book, Shields—through the prism of self-reflexive documentary film—considers whether his own life is a failure, whether everyone’s life is in some sense a failure, & whether coming to accept death-in-life constitutes life’s only true success. We’re publishing it.
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This could very well be our tag line:
“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of a self.” - Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay
#sentenceoftheday
#amreading
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New podcast logo just dropped 🔥
New episode tomorrow too with new production. New era maybe? One in which I ask you more often to rate, review, subscribe to, etc this podcast so it can keep on keeping on?
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ATTN pls: we've got BIG changes to our mag! We're pubbing weekly into July, then switching to 3 issues/yr (Sep, Jan, May). Very excited to introduce you to our new amazing lead editor,
@kaycie_hall
!
Oh & subs are NOW OPEN for our Fall 2023 issue til 6/20!
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Guess what? Submissions for our online mag will reopen on Nov. 1. Get your artfully autobiographical prose and poetry ready to send us!
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*taps mic* gonna celebrate 1 year of the mag on Oct. 1 by opening book subs! looking for any auto-genre/form, 40 - 140 pgs. no contest, no fee. no idea what to expect. no time frame they’ll be open (will close when i have more than i can handle). *awaits questions*
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Repping the HADT today at AWP & hoping 150 people will line up at our booth (814) in less than a minute.
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We are all caught up on our recent submissions. If you submit today while we are itching to read more, we will respond very quickly... like
@havehadhavehad
quickly!
Do it! Put us back to work.
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Lotta things brewing over here in the short term, and in the long term there is also a lot to look forward to, such as this fancy new essay collection from
@andrewbertaina
, out next year 🎉
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Another 2025 book in sight:
@ferrifrigida
’s essay collection about films & their reflections back on the self & bigger ideas about truth, kindness, the female body, Hollywood, & more. Part film crit, part memoir, part fiction, it’s all worth putting on your radar.
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SURPRISE! We’ve been closed for subs lately, but today
@wheaton3000
&
@misternagel
are paying forward their collab pub in
@havehadhavehad
by doing their own HAD-style call for us! Taking subs 4 - 9 pm ET.
Any questions, let us know!
SO excited to feature this collabo from two of my fave ppl of the last year,
@wheaton3000
&
@misternagel
!! 🔥🔥💀
"Yesterday J went to Tom Thumb and bought popsicles shaped like ballistic missiles. Red, white and blue. “For emergencies *only*,” she said."
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ATTN (!!!): BOOK SUBS will reopen on July 27 at 2pm ET! And we’d like to introduce you to our newest editor on the book side, Lena Crown (
@which_is_to_say
)! Get those manuscripts ready now, because submissions are capped at 40! Sneak peek of the call ⬇️⬇️
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Just realized it’s been 1 year since I had idea to start Autofocus. In last 9 months, I’m lucky to have been able to publish 50+ works of stellar autobiographical lit. Grateful to everyone who has taken a chance to work with me here at the start. Thank you! Ain’t never stopping.
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Final contributor list for HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF 20 CRAFT ESSAYS ABOUT WRITING, NONE OF WHICH EVER MENTION WRITING 🤘
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BOOK SUBS. ARE. OPEN! Send your manuscripts in any autobiographical genre/form, 40 - 140 pgs here:
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@andrewbertaina
’s essay collection, THE BODY IS A TEMPORARY GATHERING PLACE, is now available for PREORDER! We will make you wait only 2 months. Here is his cover! Find out more at
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EP 10 of The Lives of Writers is out now!
It's a conversation with
@Aaron__Burch
in which we talk
@hobartpulp
,
@HAD
, his forthcoming novel, and life stuff!
Listen here or wherever you listen to pods. *Pairs best w/ waiting on HAD sub decision today*
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🎉SURPRISE!🎉
THE INCREDIBLE, HILARIOUS, MOVING FOLLOW-UP to
@misternagel
’s DUPLEX (our 1st book & 2022 surprise smash hit), CULDESAC, is OUT NOW!!!
No preorder — LET’S GO!
Get it now:
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We’re still announcing 2025 titles! Here’s another incredible book on our incredible list, for your anticipatory pleasure:
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Very happy book release day to
@HollyPelesky
’s CLEAVE!!! Here she is on THE LIVES OF WRITERS w/
@wheaton3000
discussing reading aloud, becoming honest,
@vastchasmmag
, editing others, direct address, making the book, revision as self-examination, personal risk in art, and more! ⬇️
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At the end of the week, we are closing mag subs for ~ a few weeks (depending how many more come in til then). If you’ve got something ready, try us!
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COVER REVEAL (and description!) for
@emilylauracosta
’s forthcoming book! Preorder today (pretty please!) at
We are so excited to share more about and from this book soon!
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I hesitate to reshare this bc at the pace subs are coming in you all might break our Submittable system this round, but we like the attention, so… have at it!
Our submission call for the summer 2024 issue is unthemed (except that, as usual, we want to read your various forms of artful autobiographical writing).
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Last call for subs to our upcoming fall issue! You have until 11:59pm ET on 6/20! Go for it:
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It’s Thursday, & we’re announcing another new 2023 book. We’re excited to get
@suburbanprairie
’s beautifully brief book of prose (yes we seem to like those) to you next year!
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Today on THE LIVES OF WRITERS, we’re very happy to help celebrate the release of
@egabbert
’s new poetry collection NORMAL DISTANCE (
@softskull
)! She talks w/
@wheaton3000
abt her life now, her
@nytimes
poetry column, finding a voice by accident, the new book, & a lot abt form ⬇️
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On today’s LoW,
@misternagel
interviews
@BrianXllen
about sobriety, Plano (TX), Edgar Allan Poe, a movie adaptation, learning a lane, BAD FOUNDATIONS (
@CLASHBooks
), grounded theory, sales, information & property, and more. Links ⬇️ ⬇️
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Nice little Friday afternoon around here. Just enjoying this REAL book!
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Time to start sharing secrets. Next year, look out for LEAVE by
@shaynester
! It’s a gripping & necessary book about postpartum experience during the limited time/space our culture allows for it. It’s a book about life. It’s a book about death. We think you should read it!
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Excited today to help celebrate the release of
@angermonsoon
’s memoir PREDATOR (
@GraywolfPress
)! On THE LIVES OF WRITERS,
@wheaton3000
talks w/ Ander abt his many literary projects, a love of machines, image/text, web-integration, masculinity, the things you love at 14, & more!
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Our 2025 lineup is 🔥!
@erinslaughter23
’s THE DEAD DAD DIARIES is a memoir interrogating the impact of grief, addiction, & romantic partner violence on a family lineage, as it tells the story of the author’s father being murdered by his wife, & the resulting ripple of effects.
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A beautiful new piece from
@AdrienneMarie_
today that flows with honestly and vulnerability. ❤️
"A day becomes what a day becomes: pills before meals before other pills, timed and planned and counted, measured and measured again."
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I had a dream. In a bookstore. A large wall. Filled with Autofocus books. The covers lit from above. It was glorious, beautiful. Let’s fucking do this.
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While we're at it, we'd like to let you know about another one of our 2022 books(!):
@emilylauracosta
's UNTIL IT FEELS RIGHT, an absorbing work of curated journals written while undergoing an accelerated CBT program for severe OCD. Yes, our 2022 lineup rn is 🔥🔥🔥🔥.
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🚨 COVER REVEAL for Kristen E. Nelson’s IN THE AWAY TIME 🚨
It’s just as good on the inside. Find out more about this book (and preorder it!) at
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Our fall 2023 issue is out today! Here’s a brief scroll-thru 🎉
Plus —a little surprise made from some of our archive at the bottom
Read it:
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🚨We’re GIVING AWAY 4 copies of DUPLEX!🚨
For next 24 hrs, if you like this post, you get 1 entry into the raffle. If you like + RT, you get 2 entries!
Book info:
Don’t miss your chance to get
@misternagel
’s “indoor classic” for $0 and v little effort!
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Frankly I think everything we pub is the best of the net, but here’s a thread of our
@SundressPub
Best of the Net noms. Eligible pieces were pubbed 7/1/20 - 6/30/21. Could nom 6 poems, 2 stories (autofiction for us), and 2 CNF works, which was particularly challenging so…
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New episode of THE LIVES OF WRITERS today:
@wheaton3000
talks w/
@ChelseaHodson
about moving to Sedona, starting
@RoseBooks_
, life while working on her 1st essay collection TONIGHT I’M SOMEONE ELSE, writing intimate work artfully, a novel in progress, & much more! ⬇️
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The Lives of Writers podcast is about to go weekly again. Hold onto your butts.
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this is just to say
we’ll be publishing
@misternagel
’s book
DUPLEX in
earlyish 2022
and which
you will really
love
to read
congratulate him
it is delicious
so funny
and so interesting
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NEWS! Been making moves & so excited to announce Sheila Mulrooney (
@SJosephine10
) has now fully taken over Lead Editor duties for our mag!
To celebrate, Sheila's doing LIGHTENING ROUND subs Sat, 2 - 5 pm. 1 poem < 2 pgs/prose < 750 words. Response in < 24 hrs! Spread the word!
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Ya’ll ain’t ready for the eventual AWP confessions 2024 collage essay, but in the meantime you can read our first installment from 2022…
Here:
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Merry Christmas to everyone from us here at Autofocus! And if you don't celebrate (like me lol), happy holidays! Thank you to our contributors and to every single lovely writer who has submitted to us! It means so much to us to have the privilege of reading your writing! :)
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On the new LoW,
@wheaton3000
interviews
@ferrifrigida
about editing at
@barrelhouse
&
@xraylitmag
, dishing out but not taking edits, cross-stitching, getting the writing & movie bugs, Star Wars, hybrid writing, JUNK FILM, bad movies as ecosystem, delusion, taste, & more ⬇️
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So you may have seen 3 new prose poems by
@AdrienneMarie_
&
@LeighChadwick5
floating around Twitter today, but we are excited to tell you we didn’t just take those 3 pieces. We took a whole damn book of them. Prepare yourself for TOO MUCH TONGUE next winter! 📖
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🚨COVER REVEAL and PREORDER LAUNCH for
@JasonMcCall4
’s essay collection RAZED BY TV SETS is HAPPENING NOW🚨
Find out more & GET ONE(!):
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Seems like a good morning to let you know another one of our 2022 books:
@HollyPelesky
’s CLEAVE, a book of curated letters to her daughter (featuring her 2 pieces previously pubbed w/ us, linked below). Excited to get moving more on this beautiful personal work in the new year!
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Just a reminder that lit mag subs will close tonight at midnight EST! And that’s when books subs will open (40-140 pg manuscripts)!
Lit mag subs should open back up in 1-2 weeks but no idea how long I’ll have the book subs will be open.
Use this info how you wish!
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“I wonder what it’s like: the absence of such basic joys.”
We’ve got fresh short prose from
@AdrienneMarie_
up on the site today. Go read it!
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Happy release day to
@JasonMcCall4
and his new essay collection, RAZED BY TV SETS, a book Kiese Laymon calls “absolutely pitch perfect.” We agree! Celebrate with us by ordering a copy at 🎉
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Last year,
@which_is_to_say
ran her first sub call for Autofocus Books AND made her first acquisition from it. Today, we’re finally announcing the title and author of that book. And over the next year, we can’t wait to tell you more about E.N. Couturier’s ORGANIC MATTER 🎉
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Episode 100 of THE LIVES OF WRITERS is here! The guest? It had to be
@Aaron__Burch
. He & host
@wheaton3000
discuss why + stuff about longhand,
@havehadhavehad
,
@WASquarterly
, Short Story Long, A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN, sounding like yourself, the HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL antho, & more ⬇️
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There are only two messages worth sharing in literature: 1) life is suffering and it may be meaningless, but you are not alone, and 2) we are having a sale this week… 30% off 3+ books!
[use code 30off3 at checkout]
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Sometimes you think you’ve finalized the number of poetry books you’re going to do for a while, and then you read one last collection so good you have no choice but to do one more. This new book by
@RussBrakefield
will be out with us late next year!
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New episode of THE LIVES OF WRITERS today! Guest host
@misternagel
talks with
@dt_robbins
about boredom, imagination, anxiety, death, BIRDS AREN’T REAL (
@MaudlinHouse
), endings, beginnings, knowing and not knowing what you’re doing, & more! LISTEN ⬇️
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“What I feel reading them is the absolute fullness of life. As a writer, I find these books instructive about how to ‘deal with’ or ‘put down’ the facts of life.”
New essay by Tyler Barton up today about Edouard Levé’s, & then Jesse Ball’s, AUTOPORTRAIT.
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This is an advertisement for us trying to get you to advertise our podcast on a (nice) t-shirt & pay (a discounted price) for it! A great way to support our press if you can:
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Happy lunar eclipse! Behold our cover art for
@suburbanprairie
's A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN, which you can PREORDER today at a discount!⬇️
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On today’s LoW,
@HollyPelesky
interviews
@lucysky
about sending out a novel for 15 years, her book SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, a lot of loss in a short time, health anxiety, caregiving, healing (or not), things you've been trying to do for 20 years being possible, & more. Links ⬇️
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Ah!!!! We have a glorious, introspective little comic strip from
@Robhollywood
today and it's so GOOD!!! The art!!! And it's about how space stuff is in us and a whole lot more!!! (plus some drops of blood!)🌌🚀☄️🩸
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“The way I became smaller and smaller, until I could fit in the palm of your hand. Until I was sweet, pocket-sized.”
Great new prose on the site today about big and little violence in a relationship, from
@ChristyTending
. Read here! ⬇️
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Ya’ll like REAL books? Well, this one by
@AdrienneMarie_
and
@LeighChadwick5
is REALLY good. You, too, can hold its physical form in less than a month. Preorder today!
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You heard Cassie, THE INDIE PRESS TO WATCH!!! We’re fine, not getting a big head or anything 😂!
Haven’t read anything outside of work in months—read this in a morning. I’m telling you watch out for
@autofocuslit
books, they’re THE indie press to watch! And of course watch
@misternagel
too! 🐽
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New episode of THE LIVES OF WRITERS today! Listen to guest host Sara Rauch talk with
@suburbanprairie
about space-out time, her work with
@splitlippress
, discovering cnf, CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (
@WVUPRESS
), form as a processing element, adolescence, and more! ⬇️
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your Autofocus Books editorial and design team hanging out at the District 4 American Advertising Awards, nbd 🤓
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Ep. 18 of THE LIVES OF WRITERS is another real one, this time w/
@dt_robbins
! We talk childhood, divorce & remarriage, starting
@rejectionlit
, releasing his 1st book, his Twitter & "poem" persona, & the relationship of professional wrestling to it all.
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In ep 117 of LoW,
@wheaton3000
interviews
@neonpajamas
about his instrumental record label, his new book CARDBOARD CLOUDS (
@xraylitmag
), boxing yourself in, a circus-like aesthetic, sound, NO FARTHER THAN THE END OF THE STREET (
@okaydonkeymag
), concept albums, & more. Links ⬇️
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glad to report that due to the events of this weekend (and the last 2 years really), I will likely need to keep doing this the rest of my life
Like with real family, I’ve borrowed from everyone’s posts to get a photographic record (lol) but WOW, so grateful for the time I got to spend with my
@autofocuslit
friends in Lawrence KS (and watch for our Very Special Podcast Episode coming soon on The Lives of Writers)!
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Great blurbs are coming in for
@HollyPelesky
’s CLEAVE! Thank you to
@JodyKeisner
for this one here. Don’t forget to preorder!
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Brand new issue featuring
@lucysky
,
@sarafetherolf
, and Livia Meneghin! Things get a little sharp and dark with this one! We'll be promoting each awesome writer individually in the next few days, but catch their pieces today here: . 🌃🔪🩸
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Happy release day to
@tatenoq
’s THAT SPELL! Find out more about this 🔥 poetry collection and inevitably order it at
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Capping off our 2025 list: Naomi Washer’s MARGINALIA, a brief book assembled from the author’s notes written in the margins of other books, essays, stories, poems, & plays throughout a life of dedicated reading, writing, inquiry, & reflection. Excited to bring this out next year!
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How about some praise for our next book, TOO MUCH TONGUE, by
@AdrienneMarie_
and
@LeighChadwick5
? Big thanks to the great
@markleidner
for this amazing take on the collaboration.
Out next month! Don’t wait. Preorder this thing now!
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New THE LIVES OF WRITERS episode alert! Check out
@wheaton3000
talking with
@wrefinnej
about life, THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. (
@splitlippress
), self-conscious narrators, subconscious theme, a novel-in-stories-in-progress, & where strangeness in a story comes from!
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Had a blast talking w/
@toddedillard
for Ep. 24 of THE LIVES OF WRITERS. We get into everyday life at home, video games, comic books, WAYS WE VANISH (
@okaydonkeymag
), writing the personal surreally, process, and more! Check it on Apple, Spotify, or here:
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Heads up: we are closing lit mag subs (only for like a week, I think) at end of day Sept. 30. Things are brewing behind the curtains! If you’ve got something you’ve been meaning to send us, send it soon!!!
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