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A beautiful day to read THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME!

“D.T.: I don’t want to throw the interview off or anything, but is this the part where we kiss?”

The Greatest Interview of All Time: Aaron Burch in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and D.T. Robbins (w/ Special Guest Amber Frank) In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?”

Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

Happy first day of #AWP26 !!! Need something to read on your flight? How about THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME featuring @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & me (and special guest)!!! 🔥🔥🔥

The Greatest Interview of All Time: Aaron Burch in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and D.T. Robbins (w/ Special Guest Amber Frank) In the summer of 2024, I was going through a divorce and living with my mother… which feels like the first line of one of my short stories, but my life tends to repeat itself and sometimes my stories ...

“Can you talk more about how you owe all of your recent creative and personal successes entirely to Kevin and me?”

Pool Party is extremely excited to present THE GREATEST INTERVIEW OF ALL TIME feat. @aaronburch.bsky.social, @dtrobbins.bsky.social, & @kevinmaloney.net (and special guest) 🔥🔥🔥

Cheerleading & Euphoria in one flash piece?!?! This one is pure 🔥 ...take a minute and give it a read.

I Didn’t Know Aphrodite Until We Sat Next To Each Other In History Class Sophomore Year Aphrodite comes over to my house every day after school. Aphrodite likes Euphoria. Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater onl...

"Aphrodite puts glitter under her eyes and imagines she’s with Nathan. Aphrodite bought Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater online. Aphrodite wants to be Sydney Sweeney."

New 🔥 story by @pamavoledo.bsky.social up today at Pool Party!!!

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Three Poems by RJ Equality Ingram Roger Rabbit carries his belongings in a bindle like a fool / He left the door to his wife’s apartment open as he walked through to Toon Town but turned towards his favorite juice joint for a celery &...

"Even the storm clouds that hover above grayscale despots & dumpster divers have cheery little smiles drawn around their gritty cherubic faces"

New poetry from RJ Equality Ingram 🔥🔥🔥

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HEY LOOK WE'RE ON TV!!! @femmeintheory.bsky.social & I went on @koin6.bsky.social AM EXTRA to discuss Pool Party Publishing, our book deal with @mattknuts.bsky.social, and our upcoming PDX reading on Feb 10 / 6pm at @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social🔥🔥🔥

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LOOK MA, WE MADE IT ON TV!!! Watch our little segment on AM EXTRA where we talk all things POOL PARTY, including our upcoming reading on Feb 10 / 6pm @ Grand Gesture Books feat:

Chelsea Bieker
Jon Raymond
Luke Goebel
Camille McDaniel
Adam Deutsch
& Lauren Lavín

HEY LOOK WE'RE ON TV!!! @femmeintheory.bsky.social & I went on @koin6.bsky.social AM EXTRA to discuss Pool Party Publishing, our book deal with @mattknuts.bsky.social, and our upcoming PDX reading on Feb 10 / 6pm at @grandgesturebooks.bsky.social🔥🔥🔥

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Come see Luke Goebel read at our upcoming Pool Party event. Feb 10 at 6pm at Grand Gesture Books 🔥🔥🔥

When we first read “Cotton Candy,” we thought it was a story about a father sharing a nostalgic ritual of youth with his son. But there was something more, something in the child’s disdain for what he was told was a treat, but which actually was more of a bitter mess…

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This is a first for Pool Party!!! A new story "Cotton Candy" from acclaimed Hungarian author, Miklós Vámos, translated by Portland's own @agiborimottern.bsky.social 🍭🍭🍭

Hits all our fav notes of nostalgia and childhood while also hinting at a deeper message. Hope you enjoy!!!

...which was part of everyday life back then in socialist Hungary.”

We hope you find some time to read this short piece of flash fiction by acclaimed Hungarian author, Miklós Vámos, translated into English by @agiborimottern.bsky.social, and we hope it sticks with you like it did us. 🍭🍭🍭

Like @agiborimottern.bsky.social writes in her translator’s note, “… Just like socialism, thought the budding prose writer back in the seventies, hoping that contemporary readers would get the message. They did. Readers had grown accustomed to writers using figures of speech to avoid censorship...

When we first read “Cotton Candy,” we thought it was a story about a father sharing a nostalgic ritual of youth with his son. But there was something more, something in the child’s disdain for what he was told was a treat, but which actually was more of a bitter mess…

poolpartymag.com/cotton-candy/

Booby Traps, by Ryan-Ashley Anderson — The Bulb Region Booby Traps — Ryan-Ashley Anderson THE FIRST TIME I KISS A GIRL, I’m nine years...

“We spend the evening watching VH1 Pop-Up Videos and reading bible verses before turning on Ghost…”

Our managing editor @femmeintheory.bsky.social has an amazing piece up at @bulbregion.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

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New Publisher Listing: Pool Party Books New publisher listing for: Pool Party Books @poolpartymag.com (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays). #WritingCommunity

New publisher listing for: Pool Party Books @poolpartymag.com (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays). #WritingCommunity

Three Poems by Adam Deutsch The sun has an extra weight,a hammer that falls like hurricane when we make the sky quakeat least once per year. But now

I have three poems over at @poolpartymag.com, all of which are in a manuscript currently going out. If you happen to run a press, really love them, and want to see the whole thing, hit me up! Then come to PDX for a reading in February! poolpartymag.com/three-poems/

Three new bangin' poems from @adamdeutsch.com over at Pool Party!!! 🔥 He also happens to be one of my fav people in the lit scene. Check out his new work, then come see him live on Feb 10 at our next reading in PDX! 🎤✨

Private property, accumulation, the death drive. Have you thought about them lately? You will want to read @adamdeutsch.com new poems over and over. Take a look at his poems then mark your calendar for Tues., Feb.10 for our next reading: Adam will be there!

poolpartymag.com/three-poems/

Private property, accumulation, the death drive. Have you thought about them lately? You will want to read @adamdeutsch.com new poems over and over. Take a look at his poems then mark your calendar for Tues., Feb.10 for our next reading: Adam will be there!

poolpartymag.com/three-poems/

This story collection is SOOOOO FUCKIN GOOD. Like Denis Johnson level writing. Best book I read last year period. I can't believe we're lucky enough to publish it via Pool Party Books. I can't wait for you all to read this one. It's gonna blow your minds. 🤯📚✨

We're soooooo excited to announce that the first book we'll be publishing via our new Pool Party Books division is @mattknuts.bsky.social's extremely well-crafted story collection SO FAR BEHIND I THOUGHT I WAS FIRST, to be released WINTER of 26/27. We're thrilled!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Cryptid Summer by Emily Costa The Mystic Pigman is barely special. No clear eyewitness accounts, no police record. The story is he killed one woman while wearing a pig’s head and then escaped capture. We weren’t even sure if pig’s...

FAVORITE STORIES OF 2025

Cryptid Summer by @emilylauracosta.bsky.social in @poolpartymag.com
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Thank you to @poolpartymag.com and @brianstephenellis.bsky.social for including my book on their Top 15 Books of 2025 list. 💙

THANK YOU @poolpartymag.com for picking Y2K as a top book of 2025!!!

Find out what my top five reads of the year were, along with Managing Editor @femmeintheory.bsky.social and Poetry Editor @brianstephenellis.bsky.social!!! 📚✨

Pool Party Top 15 Books of 2025 Pool Party editors share their top five "best-of books" from 2025 as well as a few reco's for 2026!

It's that time of year!!! Our editors each picked our five top reads of the year! Titles from @gigilittle.bsky.social, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social, @coletteshade.bsky.social, @lailalalami.com, @clairedederer.bsky.social, and more! 📚✨

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The Hideaway by Sarp Sozdinler When my parents got divorced, my dad moved into a house three blocks away and left the shed in our backyard to rot. The kind of shed with cheap plywood walls, a warped door, and windows smudged with s...

love this @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social short on @poolpartymag.com!

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