Jonathan Danielson

One of my favorite short story collections of all time. Put this one on your calendars.

Left my house for the airport at 3 AM and just got to my room. Hello, AWP. Hello, Baltimore.

I’ve been in Baltimore for five hours and I already need to sell all my books just to pay for my lunch. But the crabcakes were exceptional!

Come out tonight for @stanchion.bsky.social and listen to us read and maybe buy a copy or two!

Cover art reveal! Out April 7!

Thank you, Adam @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

By some Christmas miracle, a box of books featuring my new cover arrived before I left for my 5 AM flight to Baltimore.

Happy publication day to @barbarabyar.bsky.social for her debut novel, IN THE DESERT.

I had the chance to blurb this book and here’s what I said. I hope you’ll check it out!

Who else is on this 5 AM Phoenix to Baltimore flight tomorrow?

Raw, Radical, Real AWP Offsite Wednesday March 4 OLD MAJOR located at 900 S Carey St, 7 pm

Lilith Reading at AWP, Thursday March 5, Chesapeake Shakespeare Co (The Studio Upstairs) 206 East Redwood St, Baltimore at 5 pm

Cowboy Jamboree Reading Thursday, 7 pm at Golden West Cafe, 1105 W 36th St, Baltimore, 21211

804 Lit Salon at 5 pm on Saturday 3/7 Picket Brewing Co, 1130 South Paca St.

I have four readings lined up at #awp26 and reading with a bunch of very cool people in very cool venues. Come say hi!

Happy pub day! Looking forward to this one!

In the Desert OUT NOW!

Today. Is. The. Day. IN THE DESERT by @barbarabyar.bsky.social has arrived from Cowboy Jamboree. Get yours 🔥🔥🔥: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/in-the-deser...

It's really a favor to yourself. Grab @stephanieaustin.bsky.social’s BURN from Cowboy Jamboree: a.co/d/02wT2wgI

Hopefully, I can make eight friends and form a group of nine and we can go on an adventure together or something. Although I need to call it something catcher…a fellowship maybe?

❤️🌵

Me, sitting in the back of all your AWP readings this week (because I don’t know anybody)

A lit mag promoting a former contributor getting published in a different lit mag?

How freaking cool is this?

So we maybe kinda sorta took in that stray cat that came into our house on Christmas. We feed her and she sleeps inside but otherwise shes comes and goes as she pleases.

As a thank you, she killed a rabbit and left its dead carcass outside our bedroom door…

I won't be at AWP next weekend, but I will be reading at The Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Philly next Saturday at 2:00.

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but they’ll also be available next week at AWP in Baltimore, right? At the book fair? Where you’ll be signing Thursday, March 5, from 3-4:30 p.m. at @mooncitypress.bsky.social’s Booth #775. Right?

My point is it worked out, but it doesn’t always. Mine was a gambled risk and I’m happy I did it.

Also, I paid for my MFA. But I knew I was always going to teach English, whether high school or higher, & a masters helps w/ opportunities & higher salaries. In my case, it got me a job teaching comp at a university, and that got me a free PhD, and that increased my salary, & that paid off my loan

Congrats!

Congrats!

You should get a big—I mean, comically big—trench coat, and dangle all the issues in the inside pockets, then walk around the book fair and sell them like an old timey cartoon gangster selling stolen watches

@joelhans.com will be signing his new @mooncitypress.bsky.social book, The Bedtime Emptying of Our World, at the @awpwriter.org Book Fair in Thursday, March 5, 3-4:30 p.m. at Booth #775!

Just wait until you read the stories inside 😉

I had the privilege of blurbing this book for fellow AZ writer @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, and I can’t emphasize enough how much I loved it. Here’s what I had to say. I sincerely hope you’ll check it out.

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For Kindle readers, pre-order of Coyote Girl is available! 🤠

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I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 15. I hope you’ll stop by and chat!

There was 1 MFA prof who everyone loved, but I couldn’t stand. I don’t think anyone saw he was Professor Slughorn from Harry Potter, collecting students he thought had merit. Even then, I’m grateful for him, bc he told me “stop writing about AZ, nobody gives a shit about AZ” & I wrote out of spite

And even the one “bad” class during my PhD wasn’t bad. It was a good class! There were just some less than desirable personalities. But to be fair, I know they thought my personality was less than desirable too! 😂