Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
Substack (under construction): https://dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
Substack (under construction): https://dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Absolutely ecstatic to share my microchap with the world!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
❄ THE GAMES ROOM IS OPEN ❄
Tiny window, themed call, short and bold pieces.
Theme: below 0 °c
Rules: meet the theme but don't use the word winter and stick to the other guidelines!
Full guidelines can be found here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
Have fun x
Tiny window, themed call, short and bold pieces.
Theme: below 0 °c
Rules: meet the theme but don't use the word winter and stick to the other guidelines!
Full guidelines can be found here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
Have fun x
November 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
❄ THE GAMES ROOM IS OPEN ❄
Tiny window, themed call, short and bold pieces.
Theme: below 0 °c
Rules: meet the theme but don't use the word winter and stick to the other guidelines!
Full guidelines can be found here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
Have fun x
Tiny window, themed call, short and bold pieces.
Theme: below 0 °c
Rules: meet the theme but don't use the word winter and stick to the other guidelines!
Full guidelines can be found here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/the-games-ro...
Have fun x
My poem “classic rock radio” is on page 145!
Issue 9 is here! Echoed Howls is now live and ready for you to dive into.
Read online: mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Print copies: www.lulu.com/shop/moss-pu...
Thank you for your patience while this issue came to life. We hope you love it 🖤
Read online: mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Print copies: www.lulu.com/shop/moss-pu...
Thank you for your patience while this issue came to life. We hope you love it 🖤
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My poem “classic rock radio” is on page 145!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
At last issue no. 7 is on its way soon. Keep an eye out. Please support new words {press} and these amazing poets. Great idea for a holiday gift or just a surprise! Only $10. So basically free. 💞
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
At last issue no. 7 is on its way soon. Keep an eye out. Please support new words {press} and these amazing poets. Great idea for a holiday gift or just a surprise! Only $10. So basically free. 💞
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!
Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hey hi what might you be doing on Saturday Dec 13 3pm EST/8pm BST? Want to launch a NiF with me? Hosted by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social and featuring @kathrynreese.bsky.social (and yes also me). It’ll be fun!
Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Preorder phx (US only) and ebook: jakethemag.com/books/
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
It’s a John Carpenter Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It’s a John Carpenter Thanksgiving
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
I recognize the price may put it out of reach for some, but the 2026 will deliver a whopping 12 books (including Stanchion's 1st two novels), 4 exclusive gifts, advance PDFs & more.
I'd love to have you as a member. Here's a sneak peek at 4 Spring books!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
I'd love to have you as a member. Here's a sneak peek at 4 Spring books!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I recognize the price may put it out of reach for some, but the 2026 will deliver a whopping 12 books (including Stanchion's 1st two novels), 4 exclusive gifts, advance PDFs & more.
I'd love to have you as a member. Here's a sneak peek at 4 Spring books!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
I'd love to have you as a member. Here's a sneak peek at 4 Spring books!
www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
wait--is Finishing Line Press a borderline vanity press?
Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
wait--is Finishing Line Press a borderline vanity press?
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
We're looking for submissions of literary reflections, which are longer-form nonfiction essays on creativity, literacy, and motherhood! For more information, visit the page below!
Submission Guidelines: Literary Reflections
Literary Reflections Editors: Deborah Richardson & Blair Lipsitz
Please submit your work using this form.
We seek essays focused on motherhood and the creative process. We're looking for first-pers...
literarymama.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We're looking for submissions of literary reflections, which are longer-form nonfiction essays on creativity, literacy, and motherhood! For more information, visit the page below!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Many thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at being read after Skink Beat Rev (where it 1st appeared) went defunct.
🍿
Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
🍿
Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Many thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at being read after Skink Beat Rev (where it 1st appeared) went defunct.
🍿
Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
🍿
Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.
i just wanna submit a chapbook without a fee attached
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
i just wanna submit a chapbook without a fee attached
Another poem about driving around in cars with boys! My piece "love fool" has been published by Overgrowth Press in their Pink issue. Check out the feature! overgrowthpress.com/october-11-2...
TY!
TY!
OCTOBER 11, 2025 – Overgrowth
overgrowthpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Another poem about driving around in cars with boys! My piece "love fool" has been published by Overgrowth Press in their Pink issue. Check out the feature! overgrowthpress.com/october-11-2...
TY!
TY!
To whoever donated $5 to me after reading rowhouse song --- THANK YOU! 😘
Absolutely ecstatic to share my microchap with the world!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
October 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
To whoever donated $5 to me after reading rowhouse song --- THANK YOU! 😘
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Happy to have discovered the quiet, powerful poetry of Susan Stewart at a library book sale.
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy to have discovered the quiet, powerful poetry of Susan Stewart at a library book sale.
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: new words {press} - The Broken Spine
In a lit world still groaning under the weight of gatekeepers, binary boxes, and pay-to-play submission models, new words {press} is a thunderclap of clarity.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
youtu.be
October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wow, my poem "On the day of a school shooting" www.westtrestlereview.com/march_2025_d... has been nominated for Best of the Net.
On the day of a school shooting by Danielle McMahon
Elsewhere on a sidewalk
a commuter trips over his own
polished shoes and curses, sightless,
the shards of sunlight so stark and so white,
there is nothing to be seen.
All the words want to be weig...
www.westtrestlereview.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wow, my poem "On the day of a school shooting" www.westtrestlereview.com/march_2025_d... has been nominated for Best of the Net.
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com
Prosetrics
The Literary Magazine
prosetricsthemagazine.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com
A #poetry #chapbook about kindred spirits, 99cent gasoline, aol instant messenger, and summer night magic?
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A #poetry #chapbook about kindred spirits, 99cent gasoline, aol instant messenger, and summer night magic?
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
Finally my shining moment as a parent has arrived. I am taking my teenage daughter to see Rocky Horror in the theater for its 50th anniversary!
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Finally my shining moment as a parent has arrived. I am taking my teenage daughter to see Rocky Horror in the theater for its 50th anniversary!
one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine!
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
Danielle McMahon
only it is winter . ToC
stinkeyemagazine.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine!
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...