Officially announcing the end of Stanchion Magazine, providing context as to why, answering some questions, and saying thank you. 🖤🤍 www.stanchionzine.com/post/the-end...
Jonathan Danielson
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
College edumakator. Regular idiot. THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES (Cowboy Jamboree, 2025). Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction. Southwest Books of the Year.
Interesting, but I'm skeptical. In my experience, Arizonans do speak a little more slowly than coastal folks, but there's no discernable twang, etc. The Arizona accent is "mildly stoned Midwesterner."
Jonathan Danielson@jonathanin2k.bsky.social · yesterdayI’m no linguist, but I’d push back that AZ doesn’t have its own dialect. While people have come and gone over the last 100 years, plenty stayed, and maybe the “Arizona mumble” is the product of 100 years of specific dialect leveling and koineizatipn, like Australian and New Zealand English.
How to squish metaphors together until they make the point you've been trying to make your whole life. open.substack.com/pub/nikwalk/...
Slow Growth and Lightning
How ideas develop in writing
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I had the chance to speak with Jennifer Jenkins, Director of the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, about THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES and Arizona Literary Regionalism for the Journal of the Southwest Radio Hour. I hope you’ll check it out!
Jonathan Danielson – Arizona Literary Regionalism – Journal of the Southwest
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I’m no linguist, but I’d push back that AZ doesn’t have its own dialect. While people have come and gone over the last 100 years, plenty stayed, and maybe the “Arizona mumble” is the product of 100 years of specific dialect leveling and koineizatipn, like Australian and New Zealand English.
Apparently, we mumble. Is the Arizona accent real?
The Southern or Boston accent is easy to spot. But what about the Arizona accent? Valley 101 finds out more about the "Arizona mumble."
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I picked up @spencerfleury.bsky.social's collection at AWP and started it yesterday. DUDE. It's really good. malarkeybooks.com/store/iblame...
I Blame Myself But Also You — Malarkey
July 2024 A woman seeks out the meaning of an inscrutable note given to her by a man who used her car as an instrument of his own suicide. Two teenage boys discover that the devil has opened a recor...
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The "retype the novel from scratch" second draft step from REFUSE TO BE DONE done changed my life, people! Let it change yours too!
Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 2d agoSome writers love the "retype the novel from scratch" second draft step from REFUSE TO BE DONE. Some hate it. Almost no one is doing it to a 311,000-word first draft, an absolutely ridiculous situation I'm prepping to embark on. (This isn't the novel coming out in 2028! This one will be... later.)
The Auraist was kind enough to interview me about my debut collection, “Coyote Girl,” which they chose as Best Book of the Month. If you want to read about how much I hate AI or some of my stylistic choices, then read below! open.substack.com/pub/auraist/...
'Maybe don’t become a writer if you need to rely on AI.'
Sabrina Hicks answers our questions on prose style and AI writing
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Took the kiddos to check out the telescope that discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory. A proper Arizona upbringing. Pluto is still a planet!
Northern Arizona, friends! THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES, is back in stock at Bookmans Flagstaff!
This is incredible. I can’t believe I ever wanted to save the old Pac 12. This is where ASU and U of A has always belonged. We are one with the truck stops.
Winslow!
Department of English at Arizona State University@asuenglish.bsky.social · 5d ago🦪 Fiction Friday: "Who gets to choose the sound that follows the sound they make? Who gets to know if they’re the call or the echo?" From "Animal Gets Inside an Oyster Shell" by ASU English alum Winslow Schmelling. Read the story in Waxwing: https://ow.ly/zfU950Zqglu #ASUHumanities
In an essay, poet John Haines, who went off grid to homestead in the Alaskan wilderness and wrote poems about it, inverted the phrase "sense of place" to "place of sense" for those places that flood the senses and live in us. Reading these gems, I am reminded of that and of my own place of sense.
Just bought a car from a vending machine the future is now
Every time I've bought a new car, I've always done the right and responsible thing as soon as I get it: I buy an Arizona flag front license plate.
Goodbye, sweet Prius. We would’ve driven you forever had that driver not failed to yield. For 16 years, you kept us safe and had great gas mileage and made me feel morally superior to everyone else on the road. Godspeed, little car. Godspeed.
the Full Buck Moon on the rise Tuesday night over Apache Junction🌕🦌🌵☁️
Taking a couple days off from the novel so I can finally jot down this story about Geronimo and the Apache wars that came to me in the shower
Car shopping right now (our beloved 20 year-old Prius was totaled) and really doing everything I possibly can to try and avoid this…
Matt Goldich@mattgoldich.bsky.social · last wk.Man, people really do love the Odyssey
That was undoubtedly the worst uniform in Dbacks history, and maybe the history of the league. …I might need to get an RJ one haha
MLB@mlbbot.bsky.social · last wk.Randy Johnson had one of the most devastating fastballs of all-time But OTD in 2008, he accidentally threw an eephus pitch after a boat in McCovey Cove sounded its horn 😂
Back in Arizona, and oh how I’ve missed that sweet sweet burn of aridity
The St. Louis airport was mostly terrible (why do all the quick restaurants close before eight???) but this was pretty cool
For I have found heaven on earth, and it is called Orange Beach, Alabama
Heading home in the morning! Time to check the old weather repor— Oh God. Oh no, no no no no no no n—
Collection for the ages @sabrinahicks.bsky.social from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social. The prose and stories hit every sense. Straight 🔥, get your copy.
Me: The lead singer of Turnpike Troubadours is such an amazing lyricist. I love the way he extends the word “family” into three syllables. My wife: …family is three syllables… Me: what? No it’s not. My wife: say family Me: fam-lee My wife: (snorts) …say it again.