Who else is on this 4 PM Southwest flight back home to Phoenix?
@jonathanin2k
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 (2026).
Who else is on this 4 PM Southwest flight back home to Phoenix?
Mr Zoellner, I really appreciate hearing that. Like, literal tears appreciate it. I grew up reading you in The Republic and RIM TO RIVER was fantastic and filled a huge gap in our stateβs literature.
Arrrrrrrrr!
Buy them, people! Buy buy buy!
Goodnight AWP. Goodnight foggy Harbor. Goodnight Baltimore convention center. Goodnight writer friends. Goodnight indie presses. Goodnight stars. Goodnight moon.
Like good old-fashioned pirates me and @beansbaker5.bsky.social have commandeered Roi Faineant Pressβs empty table and weβre slinging books. Come by and buy one! Please, I have a child! #awp26
Walking into the book fair and staying until 11 to try and hawk these books for the low low sale price of $14! They were $14 yesterday too! I canβt afford any cheaper, Lord strike me down!
Does no one else hate the idea of this freaking thing besides me???
About to head over to the #awp26 book-fair to sell some books out of my bag like a dude in a trenchcoat selling watches on an NYC subway. If you love me, please buy a book. If you donβt love me, also buy a book. If weβre friends or acquaintances or strangers never to meet againβ¦you get the point.
Wife: Howβs the conference?
Me: Great! I think Iβm starting an Arizona regionalist literary journal!
Wife: β¦
Me: No, no, no, honey, you donβt understand. This is going to cost us money.
Can I interest anyone in a 1980s word processor for $800 bucks? Some elixir pills? Some snake oil? No? Anybody? Anybody�
My first creative writing teacher, Caitlin Horrocks, who I havenβt seen in 21 years. No, youβre crying.
Iβm over with the good folks at EastOver Press signing and selling copies of THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES until 1 PM! Please stop on by and say hi! #awp26
Went an hour at the book fair today before I realized my fly was down. Still doing great!
Heading over to the book fair and signing with EastOver Press from noon to 1 PM!
As your friend, colleague, and fellow writer, I cordially ask you to please buy a copy, a second copy, steal one right in front of me (please donβt). Just donβt make me pack these books in my luggage.
2 books went into another printing on Day 1 of AWP! Congrats to Hannah Grieco for seeing First Kicking, Then Not reach an unprecedented 5th & become the best selling book in Stanchion's history! & three cheers for @FBereaud! His novel A Question of Family went to 2nd just a month after publication.
It's important to get a little sleep at AWP whenever you can. Even in the middle of your own reading @joshuatrentbrown.com
Thank you, @housleydave.bsky.social for putting aside an XXL of one of these! Love it!
New @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social water bottle swag! Arizona writers unite!
From tonightβs @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social reading!
Fron last nightβs @stanchion.bsky.social awesome reading!
Bought yours!
Iβm trying to figure out how to download Lyft so I can make my own reading.
β¦but once Iβm successful Iβll totally see you there!
Tonight, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social
and friends!
Be there!
Apparently, itβs $10 hotdog dog day at AWP! Stomach aches are free!
First official day of AWP. It would probably be useful if I zip yp my fly before I go into the book fair. Already doing great!
One of my favorite short story collections of all time. Put this one on your calendars.
Left my house for the airport at 3 AM and just got to my room. Hello, AWP. Hello, Baltimore.
Iβve been in Baltimore for five hours and I already need to sell all my books just to pay for my lunch. But the crabcakes were exceptional!
Come out tonight for @stanchion.bsky.social and listen to us read and maybe buy a copy or two!