Jonathan Danielson

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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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! 😂

The professors did a really good job keeping competition out of the workshop. They made sure we were all there to learn from each other and not pick petty fights. However, I also lived 100 miles away and commuted into the city twice a week, so that might’ve helped me keep out of the drama haha

Whoops, typo. Oscar Mancinas. Sorry!

But for a specific lens on Yaqui and Mexican lit and its role in the state, Oscar is the man for that. And a great writer and poet too! And person!

I focused more on regionalist aesthetics, principles, and approaches and looked at the landscape of lit about and around Arizona and tried to identify what did and did not fit within those parameters.

Oh, absolutely. Writer and poet Oscar Macinas is doing really interesting work in both areas right now, and has written solid scholarship on Refugio Savala and Mario Suarez’s work and influence on AZ cultural and geographic discourses.

Yep!

*without the typo, obviously 😂

I dunno, I liked my MFA. The professors I took were great, my classmates were great. Even my PhD was great, except for one class, but after that I took independent studies and spent two years by myself reading AZ lit. Which was also pretty great!

Just spit out 1000 words of what (I think?) might be an 8000 word scholarly essay called “Why Arizona Literary Regionalism Matters.”

The conclusion is going to be “because this is literally comes down to our existence.”