Erin Dorney

Thanks for the share! That's definitely where this project came from - 2 writers in 1 house = lots of gift notebooks!

Notebooked — FEAR NO LIT

We've supplied classrooms, arts centers, and hundreds of passersby with these essential tools for keeping our collected thoughts off the internet and away from advertisers.

www.fearnolit.com/notebooked

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Send us that stash of unused notebooks, journals, and diaries, and we’ll connect them with youth and writers-to-be at pop-ups, book fairs, and other community gatherings. With each notebook, we include a writing utensil and a copy of the bestselling "How to Use Your Notebook" mini-zine.

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Fear No Lit is baaaaack 🫣

Writers! Are you often gifted notebooks that you NEVER use? Does buying a new notebook feel really good, even though letting it collect dust sucks? (Don’t lie—like a notebook, this is a safe space.)

Fear No Lit is here to help you unburden.

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3/5, 1st Round: (4) Lisa Loeb vs (13) Lee Ann Womack — March Sadness 90s Edition

"I’m past the geography of those boys..."

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"However, there are peripheral gifts in the photo album."

🙏🙏🙏 Seeing all of these iterations of Amy Barnes pleases me to no end.

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

3/5, 1st Round: (5) Lauryn Hill vs (12) Belle and Sebastian — March Sadness 90s Edition

"I suspect that much of this has to do with how B&S as a group, and Murdoch as a lyricist, understood just how delicious melancholy was, and how the place of sadness was always better as a place you built in your mind."

- Andrew Schumacher Bethke on Belle & Sebastian (w/ a timely bio)

3/5, 1st Round: (5) Lauryn Hill vs (12) Belle and Sebastian — March Sadness 90s Edition

"Joining the queer community in midlife, I discovered that the heteropessimism of Miseducation's love songs has more than one possible solution."

So much love for Jendi Reiter on Lauryn Hill ❤️‍🔥

3/5, 1st Round: (3) Goo Goo Dolls vs (14) Des’ree — March Sadness 90s Edition

"All I know is that during her hiatus, Des’ree enrolled in art and pottery classes in London. I wish I could tell you more but let us honor the mystery of Des’ree."

Love this resistance to seeking out more info about a celebrity, this resistance to the creep of parasocial from Emily Podwoiski.

Maybe a 🍪🍪🍪 thing?

I restarted my laptop and they're back!

A bunch of my @marchxness.bsky.social posts seem to be... gone?

3/5, 1st Round: (3) Goo Goo Dolls vs (14) Des’ree — March Sadness 90s Edition

I've been eagerly awaiting Moira McAvoy's GGD essay, and it does not disappoint!

"All I knew was that I was Different, and thereby I was Wrong, hyper-visible yet totally unseen, and thereby I could not want, let alone be wanted." 💔

Just such a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but I am sad because the Swedish candy I bought online to help me make it through royalties week has still not arrived 😩😑🍬

ZINE MOTEL #2: Anonymous was a zine. 6 zines Erin Dorney found crumpled on the seat cushion in the hotel lobby.

My second batch of zine reviews is up at Zona Motel! Lots of freebies are linked in case you want to trade zines at #AWP26. Your hotel probably has a printer, just saying...

The end of this month will be 7 years sober for me, and my best advice for anyone starting down this path is sobriety won't fix what's broken or off with you, and it won't make you perfect. It will allow you to truly know yourself, all the good and hard parts and ask you to confront them to survive

classic!

3/4, 1st Round: (1) Red Hot Chili Peppers vs (16) Mineral — March Sadness 90s Edition

"A parking lot is liminal, and in that fragile state, it makes it a breeding ground for moments of vulnerability."

As an emo kid, had to hand my vote to Brittney Uecker on Mineral. Extra points for the Modern Baseball/Joyce Manor references 🖤🖤🖤

marchxness.com/1stround-rhc...

3/4, 1st Round: (2) No Doubt vs (15) Gillian Welch — March Sadness 90s Edition

"Instead, it hit a beautiful nostalgia; a category unto itself—a song I used to love."

Screamed at Geocities but when I read this ^ I knew. No Doubt was to Oilu what Goo Goo Dolls were to me. Embarrassing fandom recognizes embarrassing fandom. Bravo, @brianoliu.bsky.social

You know, it was a little bit daunting at first thinking about reading all of these essays in quick succession, but they've honestly been the best part of my week. Thanks for all that you do, @marchxness.bsky.social

3/4, 1st Round: (7) Hootie & the Blowfish vs (10) Morphine — March Sadness 90s Edition

"We all get to look for our own answers to the problem of pain and one of mine is music."

👏 👏 👏 @htownjenny.bsky.social on "Cure for Pain" by Morphine, a band I'd never heard of before whose lead singer apparently died on stage?! What! Also loled about the internet saving democracy 🫠

3/4, 1st Round: (7) Hootie & the Blowfish vs (10) Morphine — March Sadness 90s Edition

"But addiction never belongs to someone else. It remakes reality. It swallows the world."

Hootie is safe in @kjmoulton.bsky.social's hands. 🙏

3/4, 1st Round: (3) Counting Crows vs (14) Savage Garden — March Sadness 90s Edition

"The girl he sang about was somehow both me and the girl I loved, but I knew that there was no ticket for a world where we belong, because there was no we."

@emelkrishnan.bsky.social on Savage Garden, a CD I remember listening to for hours in my friend Kerrie's bedroom filled with bumblebees 🐝

3/4, 1st Round: (3) Counting Crows vs (14) Savage Garden — March Sadness 90s Edition

I just moved back to my rural hometown, where I used to drive around to this same album, so @mlfaliveno.bsky.social on Counting Crows for @marchxness.bsky.social is truly Doing It for me 💔 There's so much I love I can't even pick what to quote. Duritz has been the saddest for me for a long time.

Liiiiiink please

I have been looking for one at the thrifts! Nice.

WHEW! Congrats to all the players, readers, writers, voters, musicians, folks sobbing sadly at their screens 😭 Cowboys lives to see another day!

Thank you, Melissa! I loved yours as well 🥰

ephemera for the win 👯

3/3, 1st Round: (4) Paula Cole vs (13) Magnetic Fields — March Sadness 90s Edition

Last call to vote for my essay on Paula Cole's "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" 🐴 Voting on this round wraps up shortly (and opens for a bunch more of my sad 90s faves!)

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