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Danielle McMahon

@dehm000.bsky.social

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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)

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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?!

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 1d

@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.

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#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.

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 1d

Wow SO happy @newwordspress.bsky.social gets the spotlight! Love this litmag and their mission! Well done, brooklyn! 😘👌

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 5d

BLUE SKIES

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 9d

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...

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 15d

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!

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 15d

my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com

Prosetrics

The Literary Magazine

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 19d

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

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 22d

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!

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 24d

one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine!

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only it is winter . ToC

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · 25d

For some reason I've decided to open a POD Etsy store feat. feminist, literary, suffragette, & Victorian punk goods. Just getting started.

www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Sep 2

Read my poem about dialup & classic rock radio!

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/

Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!

[ISSUE 10]

September, 2025 Editor’s Note POETRY Joshua ZeitlerQueer as a Three-Dollar Bill Rahaf S. A.Dove Post Fadwa Al QasemLife as a thin membrane Justin KarcherThe Ones We’ve Lost Julie Novak-McSwee…

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Sep 1

FALL SUB CALL & THEME REVEAL!

We're open for poetry & art.

Issue 7: The Urge.

Details: engineidling.net

Sept 1 - 22nd.

Bring us something dark & complicated.

#amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you've gotten my book, and you like it, would you mind taking a moment to write a 5-star review? It might help others discover it! Please and thank you!

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · Sep 1

We’re live.
#IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations.
From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work.
Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene.
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The Return of #IndieLitMagGala: Celebrating the Presses That Keep Poetry Alive - The Broken Spine

At The Broken Spine, we’ve always believed that poetry is not a solo sport.

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Sep 1

Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/

Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!

[ISSUE 10]

September, 2025 Editor’s Note POETRY Joshua ZeitlerQueer as a Three-Dollar Bill Rahaf S. A.Dove Post Fadwa Al QasemLife as a thin membrane Justin KarcherThe Ones We’ve Lost Julie Novak-McSwee…

fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yes! I will repeat lines in my dream so that I remember but always lose most of it upon waking up.

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 28

Aw shucks thanks so much for reading!!🩵🩵

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 26

Chuffed that my poem “night driving, ‘89” has finally been pubbed!

It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class.

Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review!

www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...

night driving, ’89 – The McNeese Review

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 22

did you ever have that One Person who set you free, who saw you wholly & unapologetically for exactly who you were in that moment? it's a kind of romance, a rare harmony.

this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture.

find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 26

many thanks to @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for taking my experimental poems!

Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Two Poems" by Danielle McMahon

“Within moon-white houses, / The people sat like the dead, ill-lit by television light, still, undrawn against the night, / touching expressionless faces )but never really touching them…”

www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/mcmah...

two poems — Blood+Honey

by Danielle McMahon “Within moon-white houses, / The people sat like the dead, ill-lit by television light, still, undrawn against the night, / touching expressionless faces  )but never really...

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 24

my poem "classic rock radio" has got an acceptance today from @mosspuppymag.bsky.social! looking forward to the echoed howls issue, and many thanks! 💙

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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hands down my favorite season to write about

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 22

Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thank you so much!

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