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A. Peterson

@adampeterson.net

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Writer of fiction, film, and this bio.

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A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 2d

Thrilled to have GOSPELS coming out soon and very much grateful to everyone at AWP, Mad Creek, and of course Kevin.

awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats to the 2025 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction winner, Adam Peterson! His manuscript GOSPELS will be published by Mad Creek Books, a division of The Ohio State University Press. Thank you to this year’s judge, Kevin Wilson.

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

www.awpwriter.org

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A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 23h

Selling classified ads in the back of my manuscript.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 2d

Thrilled to have GOSPELS coming out soon and very much grateful to everyone at AWP, Mad Creek, and of course Kevin.

awpwriter.bsky.social @awpwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction

www.awpwriter.org

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A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 2d

Really pushing the limits.

Of what counts as a paragraph.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 3d

Threw an ice cube in the trash ama.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 5d

Beginning to suspect that my mail carrier’s attachment style is avoidant.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 5d

Update: people at next table still mad at Sean.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 6d

Ali Smith: good at books.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 8d

Dog's full of macroplastics.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 9d

Normalizing revision outside of writing by constantly changing shirts.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 10d

How to tell my Screen Time notification that it's not even close.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 12d

*Googles 'umpire costume not halloween'*

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 13d

Building trust in our relationship by telling you my Delta login code even though they begged me never to share it.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 14d

*deep breath*

Okay, Adam, you got this.

Very simple instructions for opening a tray.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 17d

State and Main the exception that proves the rule here. Where somehow, against all odds, Pidgeon kinda works and SJP seems to be having a lot of fun.

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A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 18d

Maybe the first time in my life I genuinely cackled.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 18d

The word ‘eighth’ is spelled wrong.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 19d

“Hot Blooded” seems like a great karaoke song, but then you’ve got to sing, “Are you old enough?” after, well, it seems like that should have been an earlier query.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 20d

Adding a small line to the back of a birthday card that I'm updating my privacy policy.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 20d

Hard to say what I'm even doing owning a saw.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 22d

Ending every Zoom saying, “good hustle.”

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 23d

Inventing time travel just to go back and participate in Materialists discourse.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 27d

Dog not appropriately dissuaded by my horrifying tales of life beyond the front door.

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · 27d

*Reading Alan Furst*
Interesting take on the normalization of partisan violence in Bulgaria fueling radicalization and societal collapse.

*Reading the news*
Wirecutter’s favorite linen sheets are what?!?!

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · Sep 8

The villagers in every RPG I've ever played: Pray why do you continue to make stew and not slay the cursed Demonhead?

Me: *makes more stew*

A. Peterson @adampeterson.net · Sep 8

Putting a photo of myself in every poem like Hitchcock would have wanted.