Dave Essinger

Slippery Elm is off to #AWP26! Come see us at T839 in the Book Fair!

It's almost #AWP26!
I'll be presenting on "A Psalm for the Wild Teacher: Building Genre Fiction Workshops That Inspire" Thurs 10:35, signing books at Main Street Rag's table 749 2:30-4 that afternoon, hanging out at @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social T839 the rest of the afternoons, and at large in B-more!

Genre and Worldbuilding in Fiction - Classes & Workshops | Literary Cleveland We will discuss emerging and established iconography of various genres, and ways writers can work within and beyond these existing languages to establish worlds

I'm looking forward to teaching this craft talk and mini-workshop on "Genre and Worldbuilding in Fiction" March 10, in Zoom for @literarycleveland.bsky.social!

6:30-8:30pm, $35 or $25 for members, spaces still open!

www.litcleveland.org/classes-work...

Robert Duvall

Someday this war is gonna end.

Last call, everybody!

That looks like it works for the hard copy, but the preorder option goes away on the Hachette page for e....

I'm interested. Is there a better preorder for the ebook than Amazon?

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Thrilled and grateful to the Ohio Arts Council for this Individual Artists support for 2026! This validation for the opening chapters of my new novel Compassion Fatigue, from people who recognize what I'm writing about, is especially meaningful.

This is true, we do great galleys!

Announcing Lawrence Coates as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! See his work at lawrencecoates.com, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.

Winners of our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest are LIVE at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle... !
Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Looking for a unique Xmas gift for someone who runs and/or reads? Can I suggest a signed copy of my novel about ultrarunning, Running Out?

dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!

Looking forward to reading from my latest novel tomorrow at BGSU's Winter Wheat! Honored to be invited to the 25th anniversary of this fantastic conference and writing festival, in assocation with @midamericanreview.bsky.social!
Here's the pre-reading interview:
casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/an-i...

Hope to see you next Tuesday Nov. 11 at the MCPA for Slippery Elm's 2025 release party!

Where to Buy This World and the Next: Print copies are on sale online directly from the publisher, or from the author, and from Jay and Mary’s Book Center in Troy and The Cozy Book Nook in Dayton.Ebook now avai…

There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton!

Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!

Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?

Yes, even if the government shuts down....

Slippery Elm's annual Multimedia Contest closes Tuesday!

Slippery Elm's 2025 Multimedia Contest closes next week!

Here's "Starry Night: a Constellation"--videopoem by Christy Sheffield Sanford, 3rd place in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/starry-night...

Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Thrilled that our panel was accepted for AWP Baltimore! @jpullen19.bsky.social @dave-essinger.bsky.social @joybaglio.bsky.social

#AWP26 #EduSky

After eighteen years and one month and one day: our daughter June has achieved escape velocity. Here are pics of moving her in to her Oberlin dorm room today.

A bald eagle circled low over me on my run again, and it feels more insistent every time it happens. And I'm like, dang Sam, I know somebody needs to save this country already, but have you seen my to-do list? Maybe, try another Chosen One, 'K, please-and-thanks? Metaphor's not really subtle though.

Wow, I slacked at PR through July, so...hey, let's let the promo prices ride through August!

My novels Running Out and This World and the Next are jailbroken in ebook and audio, cheaper than ever before on all your favorite platforms at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

Slippery Elm Submission Manager Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year!  Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories!  Surprise us with genres and media we...

Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined!

slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Yeah...I may split them up and try different methods, including paper bag.

And, huh, I wouldn't have guessed squirrels even eat pawpaws.

Disappointed to find this clutch of pawpaws I'd been eyeing cut down for for trail trimming. Yeah the branches were hanging low, but we couldn't let them ripen a couple weeks?
Any suggestions to ripen a premature pawpaw? Had meh luck setting them with the bananas before.

Fernet Branca + Coca-Cola = Fernet con cola.
Rum + Coca-Cola + lime = Cuba Libre
Fernet con cola + Cuba Libre + mint leaves = Fernet Libre?

Running Out Dave Essinger · Audiobook

You guys! After too long locked away in Audible, my audiobook of Running Out is finally available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on Spotify)!

open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ...

Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

Coming soon: same deal on my first book, Running Out, in ebook & audio.