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Essay Daily (back for 2025) @essaydaily.bsky.social · 26d

"the longer I write, the more interested I am in riffing and being kind of spontaneous": Matthew Morris in conversation with Hea-Ream Lee:

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The Deer Out Here: Matt Morris in Conversation with Hea-Ream Lee

* The writer Matthew Morris was sitting at my kitchen table in Tucson, Arizona. He was in town to promote his new book of essays, The Tilli...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Aug 18

TUCSON ESSAY ALERT

Essay Daily (back for 2025) @essaydaily.bsky.social · Aug 18

"I’ve left nearly every person I’ve dated. I’m not just someone who leaves, but I am someone who feels compelled to leave. I feel it deep in my body." @beatroxel.bsky.social on leaving, returning, collecting, and The Free Table in Tucson:

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Bea Troxel, Song of Return

Song of Return Bea Troxel Holding a tiny wine cup inside of a drab, gray conference room inside of a convention center in the middle of Los ...

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Essay Daily (back for 2025) @essaydaily.bsky.social · Aug 18

"I’ve left nearly every person I’ve dated. I’m not just someone who leaves, but I am someone who feels compelled to leave. I feel it deep in my body." @beatroxel.bsky.social on leaving, returning, collecting, and The Free Table in Tucson:

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Bea Troxel, Song of Return

Song of Return Bea Troxel Holding a tiny wine cup inside of a drab, gray conference room inside of a convention center in the middle of Los ...

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Jun 17

For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation

The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...

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Will Slattery @wjaslattery.bsky.social · Jun 17

new @essaydaily.bsky.social piece from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social on Kincaid’s “Girl” and the flash essay www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sarah-fawn-montgomery-though-she-be-but.html?m=1

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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · Jun 17

Read @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social on her new flash collection ABBREVIATE and on flash CNF in general: "an essay does not have to be big in order to be expansive"

Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · Jun 17

For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.

www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...

Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation

The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Jul 18

Submission opportunity for essayists (deadline 7/27): theseventhwave.org/announcement...

Our 2025 Community Anthologies are now open for submissions - Seventh Wave

Submit to one of our five 2025 Community Anthologies: On Separation, On Liminality, On Girlhood, On Collapse, and On Repetition.

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fine, @leahmensch.bsky.social: tucsonessayclub.org/product/i-to...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Jul 21

An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...

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Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Jul 21

Tucsonans consider signing up for the free or paid options with @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social to keep in touch? This is a great essay by Katherine Larson. Pick up her new book Wedding of the Foxes too now from @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Jul 21

An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...

Tucson Essay Club (@tucsonessayclub)

Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Feb 23

"We want affirmation but dislike the people we become to get it. We doubt it when it’s real and clutch it closest when it’s fake." Just read this good essay by Thomas Dai in @yalereview.bsky.social from a couple years ago: yalereview.org/article/thom.... If you like this his first book just dropped!

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Feb 24

nice

DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social · Feb 24

Ok so you don't want an I Heart DEI trucker cap but you do want a baseball cap, like maybe in camo? We got you: thediagram.com/merch/produc...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Jan 22

"there’s a typical narrative arc for a lot of grief books that I resisted and don’t believe in": @madnor.bsky.social and Matthew Morris in conversation at @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/01/this...

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Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social · Dec 22

"I mean, besides the tedium of such a futile exercise, there's the inevitability of missing something or losing count and guessing or having to go back to the beginning and start again."

Love to see @pcmadden3.bsky.social at @essaydaily.bsky.social.

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Dec 21: Patrick Madden, Enough (on tense, timing, recreation, evocation, and eternal happening)

* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...

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Essay Daily (back for 2025) @essaydaily.bsky.social · Dec 23

CATS

Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Dec 22

"Long before I met my first cat at 22, I knew I would not become a mother." Kyoko Mori in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, door 12/22: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

Dec 22: Kyoko Mori, The Voice: on Cats and Politics

* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...

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Patrick Madden @pcmadden3.bsky.social · Dec 23

My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

Dec 21: Patrick Madden, Enough (on tense, timing, recreation, evocation, and eternal happening)

* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Dec 23

"The only response you hear is a distant groaning, a giant media machine rising slowly to full height…The pile purports to know the right answers about damn near every human question."

Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social:

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Dec 23: Lydia Paar, Plurinity

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Dec 20

"On this first visit to my country my children have a tiny window into my past and it’s about to close…. How then do I bring them in?" Noam Dorr, Dec 20 @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Dec 21

"the act of reading revives the things written, happens them again." Dec 21 is the traditional date for @pcmadden3.bsky.social to join the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar, and he delivers: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · Dec 21

Every time we open the front closet it's like a beacon goes up, alerting him that the opportunity to climb the slatted doors and trap himself at the top has arrived. He can't get down by himself, yet will bite those who attempt to help him.

A black cat precariously balanced atop a white folding closet door.

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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · Dec 19

I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!

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Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia

* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...

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katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social · Dec 19

“By the time our senses reach our brains, we’re already perceiving the past. So we’re left trying to reconcile our forward moving bodies with our backwards looking minds.”

🚨🚨🚨 @jasonsepac.bsky.social on ‘00s nostalgia for @essaydaily.bsky.social advent!!!!!!!! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...