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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 55m

A few more photos from my time here at Dorland Center for the Arts. Looking for a residency? Don’t sleep on this one!

A photo showing Dorland Center for the Arts, small buildings pitched against a desert hill.

Full moon rising over San Jacinto mountains to the east of Dorland Arts. A hazy sky from a wildfire.

Golden Hour shadows over the desert ridges.

My tiny house beneath the oak trees at Dorland Center for the Arts.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 20h

What a beautiful photo (and artwork!)

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 23h

Wait, why are you collecting this data? I'd prefer that certain visitors stand out as much as possible.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 2d

As I hiked above Dorland Mountain Arts Center to settle my heart, this rattler blocked my descent. I should be grateful: the fright knocked my heart into a healthy sinus rhythm.

A rattlesnake, coiled in a defensive stance.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 2d

Cannon Beach Library don’t play around. It’s a month, not just a week:

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 3d

For the next seven days, you can find me at Dorland Mountain Arts Center, doing the work, but I will gladly break for you if you bring pie or beer.

✍️

My abode:

A tiny house at Dorland Mountain Arts Center.

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Zine Machine @zinemachine.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, NOT YET ☠️

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 9d

Maybe I shouldn't have sent that special story to The Sun during last winter's darkest days.

Sent on December 16. Haven't heard a peep since.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · Sep 6

"...the way he ran, even in the cold, he ran, even in the smoke of the coal they burned for heat in those miserable tarpaper shacks, he ran the bases like a champ, and Erica learned it and loved it all."

My lord, this award-winning story is perfection by @pahoehoe.bsky.social 💙💙💙

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

My short story, “Baseball Game,” took third place in Oxford Magazine’s Golden Ox contest. 🐂

1960s Dodgers baseball. WW2 Japanese Internment. A father and daughter. It’s all in there. Check it out:

Baseball Game by Evan Morgan Williams – OXFORD MAGAZINE

sites.miamioh.edu

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

My short story, “Baseball Game,” took third place in Oxford Magazine’s Golden Ox contest. 🐂

1960s Dodgers baseball. WW2 Japanese Internment. A father and daughter. It’s all in there. Check it out:

Baseball Game by Evan Morgan Williams – OXFORD MAGAZINE

sites.miamioh.edu

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 3

My long story, “Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale” is up today at Pangyrus Literary. Got thirty minutes to spare? It was a sublime experience to inhabit this story during its composition, and maybe it will be so for you during its reading.

Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale | Pangyrus

“Let’s read this,” said Kind Girl. She sat beside Teacher at his mahogany table and plunked down the Modern Library edition of Moby Dick. The table was scra ...

www.pangyrus.com

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jul 15

My latest pub this year, a story in So It Goes, the annual literary magazine of the Kurt Vonnegut Library. The theme was Labor.

The cover of So It Goes, a literary magazine.

The text of So It Goes, a literary magazine, featuring a story by me.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jun 29

Big-ass Doug fir trees. 6’2” offspring included for reference.

Some big-ass Douglas fir trees in Oregon

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Apr 22

Apapalypse Now

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you, Variant Lit, for taking my story!

T E Rossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · Mar 6

“I couldn’t even find the word that was my sister’s name. I wanted to run out that door into the night and keep on running. The cold and wind would hurt more than anything, but that’s what I deserved.”
Haunting tale from @pahoehoe.bsky.social :
variantlit.com/soft-and-war...

Soft and Warm Against Me

Visit the post for more.

variantlit.com

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jan 26

First publication of 2025 is a reprint, but still special. Honored to be included in Pinyon’s 30th anniversary issue for a story they first printed 20 years ago! Beautiful full color artwork throughout.

And a sticker!

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Nov 11

My favorite cinema dog of all time is known as just plain “Dog.”

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Oct 19

Hey! Found one of my books facing outwards in a small indie bookstore! #shelfie

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jun 11

So this photographer, K.B. Dixon, read about my Oregon Literary Fellowship and asked me to sit for a portrait for his series on the Oregon Arts Watch website. The result:

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