Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26) https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
It's the final stretch! We've been posting the types of work we'd like to see for slips slips #3 ("Distractions") - but, if it's not clear, we're open to whatever you have in mind. The deadline is the end of the month: August 31. Visit slipsslips.net for full info. What will you distract us with???
My book baby’s publication date is today! So proud of these stories featuring former sitcom stars, haunted widowers, & heroic stepdads. Available anywhere you purchase books. I do hope you’ll consider picking up a copy. (Link to order from the fabulous @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social below!)
If anyone wants some books or magazines, that'd be great. Everything is Buy 2 get 1, no coupon code needed. Just put 3 things in your cart. Will ship today. Please & thank you.
I've entered the 'look around the apartment for things to sell' point of late stage capitalism.
I have a sale up now; it's 40% off, $30/year. Please consider becoming a subscriber so I can keep scribbling and feed the kitties. www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe
📢 I made it to the ballot. My poem is #10. Please vote before August 30th. VOTE for your favorite poem! August 2026 poetry contest Polls are open from NOW til Sunday, August 30th midnight ET. @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @biteycat.bsky.social awomansperspective.substack.com/p/vote-for-y...
VOTE for your favorite poem - August 2026 poetry contest - Polls are OPEN
Polls are open from NOW until Sunday, August 30th midnight ET.
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Thrilled to see my @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social book baby out in the world. And in such stellar company!
Book mail! I’ll be taking these two beauties on vacation this week. Congrats to @tcboudreau.bsky.social and @kiklodge.bsky.social for getting these out into the world.
Thirty West Best of 10 Years Volume 01 ft. @anniejowrites.bsky.social @adamg.bsky.social @theoriginalison.bsky.social @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social @keslentz.bsky.social @joshdale.co Olivia Zarzycki & Nicole Rivas. $13.33 & comes with a trail pack. Handmade. Escape the mundane w/ fiction & poetry.
So all Stanchion books & magazine issues are buy 2 get 1 free, forever. No code needed. Just put 3 things in your cart & 1 will be free. I'm still as committed as ever to making indie lit more affordable for everyone, while still paying authors & not charging fees. The way it should be. And is, here
Also pretty sure the Ghost Mom from my chapbook, GHOST MOM, will totally haunt you if you don't. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Ghost Mom | Stanchion
Ghost Mom is a short novel told through a cohesive collection of flash fiction, it is a story about a mom who isn't exactly alive and a young adult who isn't exactly living, a story about grieving whi...
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post more about your books or I'll kick you in the ankles
It’s my birthday today, and I’d love for you to check out my illustrated horror collection, FREE on Amazon! Mad Days: Stories and Curses has vanishing towns, werewolves, cosmic horror, vengeful spirits, witches, and rabies! shorturl.at/qvlmp
Of course you can buy a copy of my collection IRL from Stanchion www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... but I've also got signed copies available in the e(i store: www.engineidling.net/store/irl
irl | Stanchion
irlby Danielle McMahon irl is a chapbook cast in amber, a series of poems with a nostalgic bent, framed by clips of AOL Instant Messenger conversations. It is a love story and it is also not. It’s ab...
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NEW! Buy any two Stanchion things (books, magazine issues, PDFs) get any one additional thing for free. NO CODE NEEDED. Discount is now automatic. I'd really love some sales & to find good homes for all the great lit I've published and will be publishing through year end.
Did we mention that we're open for submissions? ... We're open for submissions for Glass: A Journal of Poetry. We never charge a fee and there's no caps. Hope to get the chance to read your work! www.glass-poetry.com/journal/subm...
Submission Guidelines | Glass: A Journal of Poetry
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85 more days 'til October 31st! 🎃 👻 “Messengers of the Macabre: Hallowe’en Poems” 🎃 🖤 will get you in the mood. Book Trailer 👇 youtu.be/dQJA4_d_EsU
Book Trailer: "Messengers of the Macabre: Hallowe'en Poems" by LindaAnn LoSchiavo & David Davies
YouTube video by LindaAnn Literary
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I have three new pieces in Whiskey Tit Journal. Check out "take these flowers and shove them," "Picks Me Up, Puts Me Down," and "My Coworker Got Cast on The Great American Baking Show" here: whiskeytit.com/article/thre...
Three by Carrigan
take these flowers and shove them please find these lilacs enclosed with my message.i don’t care what you do with them.put them in a vase or toss them in the fireplace.just don’t think that they’re…
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Just reposted several submissions opportunities so may as well remind you that we are open too! As usual the poets and fiction writers are dominating the queue but we’re happy to see some early CNF and visual art subs in the mix. Keep them allllll coming!
Issue 9 Submissions are now open! Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/ Submission form: forms.gle/tycBEc2GhxuY...
Delighted to have this poem appear in issue 7 of @pictura.bsky.social picturajournal.com/issue-seven/...
Samuel Day Wharton - Pictura Journal
after 3 years my in-laws still walk around this townlike tourists black glasses & backpacks with bagsof water (where do they go? down the river & up it)taking in the salmon runs & the po...
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Stanchion's 2nd novel arrives next month but it's here at HQ now and man o' man it's a beaut. Order your copy of @spencerfleury.bsky.social's The Shitbird now, on sale for just $16! www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
I pushed the button. I'm officially open for queries.
So. work announcement: I have been closed to submissions since last fall, almost a year now, while trying to get caught up on the existing stack. I am almost there, finally. Which means: I am reopening to queries on Monday, August 3rd. I'll post more soon about details there. But: 8/3, i'm open
I'm gonna do the thing so wish me luck. I'll be at Half Price Books in Monroeville, PA on Aug 15th from 2-4pm. I love this little book SO MUCH that I'm ready to stew in my social anxiety and (hopefully) find some new readers!
I ordered these vanilla scented pine tree car air fresheners for my chapbook irl and ended up with some misprints. Anyone want one? 😉
Philly Chapbook Review is calling for #submissions of original #poetry and #fiction from August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2026 issue and beyond. Detailed guidelines and submission form can be found at this link. #writingcommunity #callforsubmissions phillychapbookreview.org/call-for-fal...
Call for Fall Poetry & Fiction Submissions
PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry and fiction from August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details!
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Do you write stories? Short ones? With words? As in, 500 of them or less? Submit to our upcoming issue of slips slips. Theme is Distractions. Deadline is Aug 31. Send us something? Full details on slipsslips.net. And tell your fellow storytellers that we want to hear the stories they have to tell.