Will Slattery

The Essay Daily Advent Calendar * Every year, Essay Daily publishes an Advent Calendar, which brings you a new essay each day during Advent. Some years these essays are th...

With Will's great 12/25 essay on Pentiment the 2025 Advent Calendar concludes. We will continue to publish essays on visual media (games, TV, film, art) into 2026, so pitch us if you want to write one: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

26.12.2025 04:24 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

"dive into the pages of Pentiment, a remarkable game with unparalleled poly-vocal poly-textual poly-textural poly-typographic depictions of the relationship between religion and daily human life." @wjaslattery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social:

www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

26.12.2025 00:28 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!

18.10.2025 22:33 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Welcome to Tucson Essay Club Welcome to Tucson Essay Club. It’s July 17th, 2025, and this is a new venture I’m starting up this fall with some likeminded writers.

Hey there, so I'm starting up a new project, Tucson Essay Club / @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social. We have a substack (our primary mode of publication). If you're connected to or curious about Tucson & literary nonfiction or just like clubs, come and join us: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

17.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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

17.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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...

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...

17.06.2025 13:44 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

To Make Our Little Worlds Fall Apart: a Conversation between Emilio Carrero & Thomas Dai To Make Our Little Worlds Fall Apart A Conversation between Emilio Carrero & Thomas Dai * As longtime friends, we were delighted to see tha...

"the South…is the site in this book where these questions of race and belonging are clearest to me" —a lovely conversation over at @essaydaily.bsky.social between Emilio Carrero and Thomas Dai, who both have new CNF books out: www.essaydaily.org/2025/02/to-m...

25.02.2025 18:26 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"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...

22.01.2025 13:30 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

The Essay Daily Advent Calendar The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...

Grateful at the end of this year for the return of the annual @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar and for all of our excellent contributors & their excellent contributions www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

31.12.2024 22:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0