C. Meaks Meaker

Look, if you put dinosaurs in your content, I will engage with it. This is a threat

Williamstown Theater is also a mostly male season. WTF?

Playwrights Horizons is putting out a male season of theater next year, so that's exciting and new.

I'm just saying, my show That'swhatshesaid exploring this exact problem in theater isn't even a decade old.

With the prevalence of skinny tok, I feel more empowered than ever to finish this queer ya werewolf book with a fat main character.

A screenshot of Instagram flagging an old post of mine for removal about my students trying to understand Reza Abdoh's Law of Remains

Literally can't make sense of why this post was flagged by Instagram. It's from three years ago. My best, and most uncharitable, read is that Abdoh is Iranian, so now this post is bad?

VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid)

ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

First run in over a year in the books. Take that sciatica

I'm in that phase of singledom where I'm wondering if I'll ever have a meaningful kiss again... According to every romcom, this is when the truly meaningful banging, I mean kissing, begins

"There’s still a desire for scars, stitches, burns — that mark that lovers leave — a concrete arc from our beginning to an end."

Excerpt from C. “Meaks” Meaker’s “Palliative.” It appears in the Spring 2025 print edition.

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YouTube video by West Trade Review C. "Meaks" Meaker Reads "Pallliative"

Listen to me read my essay "palliative" for @westtradereview.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-e...

Want to feel way too much and like you're holding your breath because someone is just too hot? Icarus by K. Ancrum. Literal goosebumps on every page and absolutely gorgeous prose

Counting Crows has been stuck in my head for three days. Just living my best life thinking about Marjorie dreaming of horses

Men’s rights activists on Twitter took a screenshot of this and are now screaming that I am a witch.

My bit of defiance for the day was creating an AP Language Review based around the NEA Five and funding the arts... Hope I don't get fired

Foul is Fair Hannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Perfect for fans of Karen M. McManus and A Good Girl's...

Current obsession: Foul is Fair by Hannah Capin us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening here: The President is using the power of his office to enrich himself and his family, offering “meme coins” and other shady crypto ventures to rake in billions in exchange for political favors.

But kids shouldn’t have more than five pencils? Seriously?

Today is a four-job day! We're making that mediocre money and hoping like hell for an opportunity to sleep our way to the middle!

Or you could read ‘My Soul to Keep’ by Tananarive Due, or ‘The Pale Lady’ by Alexandre Dumas, or ‘Fledgling’ by Octavia Butler.

Did George pay y’all for this? Or are you being goofy on your own?

OR you could read these Black vampire novels:

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
This Ravenous Fate by Hayley Dennings
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson.

Just a thought.
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My music taste refuses to update from high school so I spent the morning to singing along to Ben Folds Five's album Whatever & Ever Amen. Still banging.

I am now working four jobs. That's too many jobs. It's getting in the way of doing things. But it's also how I afford novelties like eating and paying rent. I would really appreciate a patron if anyone's loaded

Joyous and fat, Meaks is delighted they are allowed at a vape shop in St. Petersburg, gleefully pointing at a window sign that says "we allow homosexuals"

I felt so seen

We went on a boat! We saw so many dolphins and sting rays and manatees and I've never felt more like a child

In gator country during a pink moon watching some dolphins and making fairy rings with a five year old. You can't say we don't have fun

All the plays he's written so far are great, but I'm a big fan of the this one. Nbd, but I was kinda Eric Marlin's best man and we conjure the dead on the reg

I'm officially outing myself: I'm writing a queer YA novel that you're really gonna wanna read. I was made to craft the right level of absurdity, horror, rage, and unstoppable crushing imaginations put to deviant uses. Cheerleaders are involved. #gocornfields

I said I was only going to buy 5 books at awp this year. I ended up buying 16. Considering I live very much hand to mouth, this was not the wisest decision. But I'm still very happy about it today

Meaks holds west trade review flipped open to their essay "palliative"

Meaks holds their issue of under the gum tree that has their essay "late"

Peterson and I found my creative nonfiction out in the wilds of #awp25 Book Fair. I'm in the new issue of @westtradereview.bsky.social (awp special release, but soon to be available to everyone plus an audio recording of me reading it) and the summer issue from 2024 under the gum tree.

Your panel was so lovely! Thank you for bringing these writers together. Horror, hauntings, and weird ways to approach nonfiction forever