Helpful shitty first draft notes for my future self to figure out.
Dave Housley
@housleydave.bsky.social
Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him.
My cute little (very little!) chapbook is officially out today! 5 flash fictions in 22 pocket-size pages. Thank you, @bullcitypress.com! Ordering info: bullcitypress.com/.../youre-a-...
In @libbycudmore.bsky.social 's FOR PETE'S SAKE, a trio of misfits band together to take on a tech bro version of Goliath. Find Libby's dystopian tale in DAYDREAM BELIEVER, coming out on Sept. 29th from @shotgunhoney.com (Co-edited by @writelarrywrite.lawrenceallanwrites.com and I.)
Remember, Seattleites, you can choose your price for this Saturday's #writingclass! A Little Weird Goes A Long Way: Finding Ideas for Speculative Fiction Sat. Sept 26 10:00 - 1:00 pm In-person at @hugohouse.bsky.social hugohouse.org/product/slid... (non-AI, by the way!)
SO excited to feature this new @nickreesgardner.bsky.social on Short Story, Long today. It's my fave story I've read in a bit. "I’ve been working twelves since I finished clinicals and was hired full time, but my shift at MedMark’s dragged on over fifteen hours when the snakebite victims come in."
“Believer” by Nick Rees Gardner
“It’s not like I’m calling this a miracle because the real miracle is not being bit.”
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We're saying congratulations on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 🙌 Contributor @lesliepwriter.bsky.social's "Hyenas" won @adroitjournal.bsky.social's 2026 Editor’s Prize in Fiction 🥳 buff.ly/nIrN0FZ
Practicing what I preach (in my litmag presentation for the Chatham MFA folks) by checking out where @writesloud.bsky.social and @aaronburch.bsky.social published stories from their weird awesome recent books, to try to find a place for a new weird clown story, first one I've written in a long time.
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Family Night the unboxing!!! Out with @masonjarpress.bsky.social who are so amazing. This is the queer, trans flash book of my dreams. I’m so fucking grateful to have it out in the world. youtube.com/shorts/RX4rj...
Unboxing Family Night by Ani King (Masón Jar Press)
YouTube video by Ani King
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Super looking forward to this new @sheilasquill.bsky.social book, FLOR/ELEGY! With a beautiful cover by Sheila herself. Pre-orders are up! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Flor/elegy
A collection of poetry that confronts grief both personal and global as the speaker faces middle age. Flor/elegy confronts midlife grief and responsibility in a world shaped by loss, violence, and env...
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You take a job somewhere called “Reuters Legal” and you just never expect to have to write this sentence
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 2w agoFBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals reut.rs/4yFCKuV
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. https://to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl
WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections
After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...
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buy @libbycudmore.bsky.social's book! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Big Rewind: A Novel
Raymond Chandler meets Nick Hornby in this clever noir romp through hipster Brooklyn as a mysterious mix tape puts a young amateur sleuth on the hunt for a killer—and for the truths hidden within her ...
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And it's a very good book, too. We recommend it. bookshop.org/a/8189/97819...
Dave Housley@housleydave.bsky.social · 4w agoRandom reminder that I wrote a book about 2 old men who, after the 2016 election, go sit outside their old factory and wait for their jobs to come back. It's called HOWARD AND CHARLES AT THE FACTORY. I hope soon it will be irrelevant but now is not that time. outpost19.square.site/product/howa...
Random reminder that I wrote a book about 2 old men who, after the 2016 election, go sit outside their old factory and wait for their jobs to come back. It's called HOWARD AND CHARLES AT THE FACTORY. I hope soon it will be irrelevant but now is not that time. outpost19.square.site/product/howa...
Howard and Charles at the Factory, a short novel, by Dave Housley | Outpost19
"A furious, darkly comic fable for this precise American moment.” — J. Robert LennonIn this darkly funny novella, two aging men arrive at their old factory to wait for their jobs to come back, bel...
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Six weeks to go til Family Night drops! I can’t wait to share the stories in here and I’m really grateful this is happening!
Ani King (they/them)@aniking.bsky.social · 5mo agoPsssst… hi… c’mere for a sec… Direct preorders are open for physical copies of Family Night now :D masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...
Thanks and congratulations to the @barrelhouse.bsky.social 2026 Best of the Net nominees @zachpowers.bsky.social, @graycious.bsky.social, @mariannelchan.bsky.social @chriscottom.bsky.social!
I'm in Japan, but still, as they say, on my bullshit
Throw Momma From the Train (1987, dir. Danny DeVito)
You probably think of this movie as a comedy, a farcical riff on Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train. And sure, there are lots of funny moments. When Danny DeVito hits Billy Crystal over the head with a ...
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How I support myself as a writer is by not supporting myself as a writer and having an entirely different job and pretending this is a fun adventure I get to go on to make friends
Really excited to see this one out in the world today, with such a great home at @doricliterary.bsky.social. Wrote the first draft of this a few years ago. Still feels like it’s one of the best stories I’ve written.
Executives
I’d never heard the phrase before—nostalgia tour—but I knew what he meant. I’d been on a few myself.
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Among the worst things about the steady stream of AI scam book emails is that if your book was on a small press, or didn't land the way you were hoping, this scammy bullshit is the most positive and probably the only thing you've heard about that book in years. This one is about Howard and Charles.
I don't believe in God, but I might try to change my perspective in these moments. Not 'I can use this' but 'I understand better.' Dolly wouldn't say it but I'm sure she thought of her work too. A real writer writes to make people feel less alone across time & space. She was the real thing.
putting a gang of profoundly ignorant and incurious mean and despotic bigoted dipshits in charge seems to not be working, yet again, hmmm what could be wrong with the formula
Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · last mo.Somehow we are in a shooting war with Iran and a trade war with Canada and we are losing both and international security and international political economy scholars are all at a loss because this is NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
Writer friends: what advice would you give MFA students about literary magazines (finding good fits, what to do and not do, benefits of engaging w this community, whatever else you've got)? I'm doing this at Chatham this week, and I have my ideas/practices, would love to hear yours. Thanks!
SQ opened for submissions today -- send us something cool and weird storyquarterly.submittable.com/submit
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When to Submit:Our submission dates for Issue 59 (publication in 2027) are: Fiction general submissions: Saturday, August 22, 2026 – Sunday, November 22, 2026No-fee submissions (fiction and nonfiction...
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Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · last mo.StoryQuarterly opens for subs this weekend, subs stay open all semester. Note the fee-free window in mid-Sept. Full details storyquarterly.submittable.com/submit
Wrote another short story today, the second this week, after maybe a year of not working on stories at all. Both written on trains, both about scary clowns. Was talking to @aaronburch.bsky.social at Writer Camp about how I missed having a weird writing project and maaaaaybe I just found it 🤡.