Thad DeVassie

Thanks Matthew.

Painting of a sports field with overgrown trees and shrubs surrounding it as two stadium light poles extend into the early evening sky that is bluish green and yellow

Just now diving into the latest release of work @newohioreview.bsky.social.

Grateful to have 6 moody paintings positioned alongside some stellar selections of poetry + prose.

www.newohioreview.org

ha! there's no way i can compete with that photo... and I'm terrible at text. I sayenlarge this to 8x10 or 11x14 and keep it as is. Not sure who gets the credit for the great eye, but this pulled me in with color & texture.

Sign up to read at @notatawp.bsky.social instead.
I can confirm the birds are nicer over there.

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Happy Black History Month yall!
Comment “YES PLEASE!” below and you may receive a print or poster in the mail very soon 🤓🎨

More pieces available at www.NIKKOLAS.art!

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that scoops shot tho...

Friendly reminder I got laid off recently & want the bookstore to be my main job alongside Amanda. Spent the last week brainstorming how to make it happen.

Some cool things you could do to help:
-Buy books at @eveninghouse.bsky.social, in-person or online
-buy Boxcutters or Feast
-hype either

🍻🙏🫡

Party Favors by Thad DeVassie I snuck into a party where I was not invited. The host didn’t recognize me from a long list of non-invitees and handed me a doorknob as a party favor. There was a tree in the living room, a real live…

loved this Thad DeVassie story from the get-go, but the end, especially, locked it in for me.

"I snuck into a party where I was not invited. The host didn’t recognize me from a long list of non-invitees and handed me a doorknob as a party favor."

https://www.havehashad.com/ss0j2

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Thanks so much! 🙏

ICYMI today we're featuring Atlantis! by Diego Lama and translated by @rosefacchini.bsky.social #microfiction #MicroMonday #readingcommunity. Please click on the link below and enjoy

Ignoring doctor's orders,
I'm still living for these high blood pressure events.

💀💀

This is a job I've always wanted

This first part is my experience as well. The second part has been the opposite, which just piles more grief on the first part.

Perspective: More than double 120 words, which means you're killing it with your something.

Nailed it! Now keep breaking those lines.

Staple that like a receipt to every future submission. Dang, it like hearing they didn't kill it, they lovingly hand its as they gently euthanized it. 💀

What a gift you're offering the world. Congrats to you and Evan. It's beautiful.

Magic often emerges from the mundane. Shared experiences in this realm, albeit waiting, frustration, etc. might have a lot more to reveal and present something unexpected, in part b/c it's an unexpected event or setting

// SURVEILLANCE //

Cue Rockwell or The Alan Parsons Project
whichever paranoia you prefer

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I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!

The Great Wherever: A Novel A Novel

one of my standing complaints is every february 1st a lot of you are like read Black writers! and then name the same five people to read. Some writers who could use your pre-orders:

The Great Wherever by @shanders.bsky.social: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Feb 1 / #smallpoemsunday / @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Langston Hughes on the necessity of dreams

Thankfully the long game affords and rewards long walks.

Literary Mixtape Volume 26 On acts of resistance.

Now playing: Volume 26

ten writers for you to enjoy xo
www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

Thanks Aarik!

Thanks man. Just read the Malarkey newsletter and I'm stoked to see your covers!

BOOM!
I was just granted an Individual Excellence Award in Fiction from the Ohio Arts Council... which means A BUDGET to do some fun stuff with my book "Domesticated Creatures" dropping later this year.

Readings, events, full-on embarrassments... I'm going all-in for this crazy little book!

Fantastic & congrats!

// CELESTIAL COME-DOWN //
acrylic on wood panel
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trying to restrict the palette to open up new possibilies with light and shadow