Kirsti MacKenzie
@keersteemack.bsky.social
writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
incredible work in the comments here
i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here
February 16, 2026 at 10:17 PM
incredible work in the comments here
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The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (@keersteemack.bsky.social) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (@sweettrashpress.bsky.social) and House of Vlad Press (@houseofvladpress.bsky.social). Make sure to buy a copy!
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Better to Beg | Asterism Books
The bloody Deserters—the band that belongs nowhere. To no one.
With raw musical talent and wild sexual chemistry, early aughts NYC rock duo The Deserters, comprised of ambitious midwestern feminist V...
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February 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (@keersteemack.bsky.social) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (@sweettrashpress.bsky.social) and House of Vlad Press (@houseofvladpress.bsky.social). Make sure to buy a copy!
asterismbooks.com/product/bett...
asterismbooks.com/product/bett...
i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here
February 16, 2026 at 1:28 AM
i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here
the cut to the Jian Ghomeshi poster in nirvana the band the show the movie is such a perfect joke and i'm going to be laughing about it forever
February 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM
the cut to the Jian Ghomeshi poster in nirvana the band the show the movie is such a perfect joke and i'm going to be laughing about it forever
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“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.”
Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
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Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
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February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.”
Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
he's not wrong!
Ad campaign for @keersteemack.bsky.social’s Better to Beg
February 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
he's not wrong!
i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo
“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.”
Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today.
bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
bulbregion.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 PM
i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo
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Friday Five: February 13, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence open.substack.com/pub/keerstee...
Marty vs. Mordecai
If you loved—or hated—Marty Supreme, you should be reading Duddy Kravitz.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:10 PM
double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence open.substack.com/pub/keerstee...
forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book
I finished Better to Beg by @keersteemack.bsky.social today and what a fucking delightful read. As someone who was in a band in LA in 2003 playing shitty bars and scrambling for a record deal, it hit me right in my guts. Way to nail that very specific time and experience. Absolutely loved it.
February 9, 2026 at 12:52 AM
forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book
today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.
is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season
February 7, 2026 at 2:21 AM
is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season
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I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
February 6, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch
February 6, 2026 at 6:46 PM
today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch
One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this
February 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this
never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊
A horny, loving, drug-fueled, raging variation on "if this tour doesn't kill us then I will" fondly skewering the early-00s indie sleaze scene, each line from @keersteemack.bsky.social tuned to hit the feels. Young love and loud guitars and shitty bars.
February 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊
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Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue!
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February 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue!
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Loved this one
“Emergency Landings” by Sam Berman is a fragmented, darkly comic story on chance and disaster that will surely reserve its unique place in the Berman-verse. Read it in The Bulb Region today.
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Emergency Landings, by Sam Berman — The Bulb Region
Emergency Landings — Sam Berman 1. On March 20th, 2006, in a sky committed to its...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Loved this one
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I am nostalgic for understimulation
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I am nostalgic for understimulation
give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine
February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine
happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN
BURN by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social is out today from CJ Press! Grab an ebook or paperback and take the ride--it's a novel you won't soon forget: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html
BURN
BURN Stephanie Austin Order Here (ebook & paperback available) “ BURN is filled with beautiful losers covered in scars of their own making. And yet it also finds hope in the dark places, both...
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February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN
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Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line @keersteemack.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line @keersteemack.bsky.social
Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!)
Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
really loved getting to have this chat with @keersteemack.bsky.social for @xraylitmag.bsky.social. and she's incredibly kind in the intro!
"Tacoma has all the hallmarks of a Burch book—nostalgia, magic, fun, optimism, friendship, and more heart than almost any other writer doing it today."
"Tacoma has all the hallmarks of a Burch book—nostalgia, magic, fun, optimism, friendship, and more heart than almost any other writer doing it today."
IT'S KINDA PUNK ROCK TO WRITE ABOUT JOY: AN INTERVIEW WITH AARON BURCH by Kirsti MacKenzie
Part of the fun of being a writer, and learning from other writers, is seeing what others leave of themselves on the page. To follow their work and discover their signature—the intangible that makes s...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!)
Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
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I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl
Welcome to Only Dans!
And a Few Thoughts About The Long Walk
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January 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl