Kate Carmody
@katecarmody8.bsky.social
Words: Electric Lit, Potomac Review, Porter House, LA Review, No Contact, Essay Daily, Broadkill Review, The Rumpus; Band: Dadafacer w/ husband & dog; City: Denver https://www.katecarmodywriter.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iWXk5aVFEPUC6UiVek77m?s
I’m teaching another writer-centered 8-week creative nonfiction writing workshop through Hugo House. Would love for you or anyone you know to join our supportive community! Should be fun & productive! hugohouse.org/product/crea...
Creative Nonfiction Workshop | Writing Workshop
Got writing to share? Get feedback on your work in this creative writing workshop that centers your goals and questions so you can take the next right step.
hugohouse.org
I’m teaching another writer-centered 8-week creative nonfiction writing workshop through Hugo House. Would love for you or anyone you know to join our supportive community! Should be fun & productive! hugohouse.org/product/crea...
Creative Nonfiction Workshop | Writing Workshop
Got writing to share? Get feedback on your work in this creative writing workshop that centers your goals and questions so you can take the next right step.
hugohouse.org
Try to remember this every day until we oust that man and his minions.
Marje, herself@minn-finn.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States. Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay. Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.
Aahhh!! The final! Got too busy & fell behind on March Sadness! but I’m back to say that both are great essays, so I’m going with the song for my final vote. Ben Folds holds a special place in my heart for being a good song storyteller & Brick has always gutted me.
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 5mo agoTHE March Sadness National Championship: (6) Ben Folds Five's "Brick" & @cicilybennion.bsky.social against (1) Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" & @mfitejohnson.bsky.social! Listen to the songs! Read the essays! Which is the saddest? YOU DECIDE (by 9am AZ time 3/31): marchxness.com#/sadnesscham...
Go Counting Crows & Go Billikens!!
Melissa Faliveno@mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 6mo agoDad, what were you like in the 90s? Read my essay on Round Here by @countingcrows.bsky.social to find out! It’s up today in the Sweet Sixteen of @marchxness.bsky.social, 90s Sadness edition (aka my entire personality) and we need your help! Read the essays and vote! marchxness.com#/sweet16-cro...
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION SWEET 16 DAY 3 HALFTIME SCORES: Via Chicago 111, Round Here 93 November Rain 97, Go Rest High on That Mountain 85 Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/20 at marchxness.com
I’d like to take a break from @marchxness.bsky.social to appreciate my alma mater Miami University crushing it tonight and making it to the other March Madness tourney!!
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION SWEET 16 DAY 1 SCORES, 110’ to play: Hootie 88, Kate Bush 83 Celine Dion 140, Kristin Hersh 99 Rock the vote by 9am 3/19 at marchxness.com or be DISENFRANCHISED
Guys, this is gonna be epic. The first time in @marchxness.bsky.social history that two writers who grew up in the single-stoplight town of Mount Horeb, WI go head to head. Whatever happens, the Trollway wins. See you out there tomorrow, sad 90s kids!
Christopher L. Keller@chrislkeller.com · 6mo agoThursday's @marchxness.bsky.social Sweet 16 matchup... Two essays recounting aspects of the same Midwest town by writers who may have burned through — combined — a thousand gallons of gas and Mountain Dew while traversing the backroads & fumbling around to change the CD in the Discman.
As a gal from St. Louis, I’m contractually obligated to vote for @kjmoulton.bsky.social’s Hootie essay but it also happens to be a damn good essay.
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoMARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION SWEET 16 DAY 1 HALFTIME SCORES: Kate Bush 72, Hootie 63 Celine Dion 126, Kristin Hersh 81 You have 12 hours to read, listen, vote at marchxness.com
Poured one out for @awolfson.bsky.social & Neutral Milk Hotel. Congrats @erinkeane.bsky.social! What a game! On to the next ones!
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoHell of a battle between great essays and games by @awolfson.bsky.social and @erinkeane.bsky.social. Really too bad only one could advance. Well played to both of you. GnR looks hard to beat.
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION ROUND 2 DAY 4 FINAL SCORES WILCO 116, Soul Asylum 95 BLINK-182 88, Grandpaboy 76 ANI DIFRANCO 106, Mariah Carey 54 GNR 173, Neutral Milk Hotel 172 Congrats to the winners! Condolences to the defeated. We salute you.
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION ROUND 2 DAY 4 HALFTIME SCORE UPDATE Via Chicago 91, Runaway Train 76 Adam’s Song 77, Lush and Green 62 You Had Time 85, Without You 41 King of Carrot Flowers 117, November Rain 114 You’ve got until 9am AZ time 3/17 to read, listen, and vote at marchxness.com
Stayed up too late reading @erinkeane.bsky.social's & @awolfson.bsky.social's essays but worth it!
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoROUND 2! Have Guns N' Roses and Neutral Milk Hotel ever gone head to head like this in any other context? Probably not! 🌧️🥕 Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/2ndround-gn...
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 HALFTIME(ISH) SCORES Belle & Sebastian 51, Lauryn Hill 50 Des’ree 99, Goo Goo Dolls 79 Ben Folds Five 77, Skid Row 29 Lisa Loeb 65, Lee Ann Womack 27 Vote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
“When I was young, I swam in the deep end of sadness. I luxuriated in those murky waters, and whatever might dwell in their depths. I let my body go limp, liked the weight of the water as I sank.” I feel this from @mlfaliveno.bsky.social
March Xmas 2026@marchxness.bsky.social · 6mo agoRound 1, day 4! Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/1stround-co...
Gonna read the @marchxness.bsky.social essays after my Hugo House class tonight & I can’t think of a better way to wind down. marchxness.com
March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 3 FINAL SCORES: REM 139, Liz Phair 116 VINCE GILL 101, Foo Fighters 79 COLLECTIVE SOUL 157, Michael McDonald 24 PAULA COLE 114, Magnetic Fields 72 Congrats to the winners & condolences to the defeated. Today’s games are live at marchxness.com, so go vote!
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION HALFTIME SCORES Bonnie Raitt 80, Portishead 38 Sade 101, Third Eye Blind 41 Tom Waits 103, Backstreet Boys 58 Billie Myers 84, Bob Dylan 72 Read, listen, vote by 9am 3/3 at marchxness.com
Sharing because I'm hiking around Patagonia for a month and I need to remember which books to put on library e-reader--
NPR@npr.org · 10mo agoBooks We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Asking for a thing: what are your favorite hermit-crab stories? (Can be "that you've written" or "by somebody else")
Same and I think it’s because it’s not only incredibly misogynistic and mean, it’s also so deeply embarrassing and horrifying that the person who is the president of the United States is a cruel child
Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 10mo agoI don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
Need a dose of humor to kick off the week? Contributor @ambersparks.bsky.social published an article in @writersdigest.bsky.social on her love of dark humor! buff.ly/N4yiQuO
I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.
Protect Our Neighbors: The Journey of a Sign
When word went out that border patrol agents had been sent to the Coast Guard island off Alameda near Oakland on the eve of October 23, Bay Area residents sprang into action. Before dawn the next morn...
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One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP
There’s still time to sign up for my Art of the Personal Essay 6-week @hugohouse.bsky.social class! We start May 5! Hope to see you there! hugohouse.org/product/the-...
It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....
