hayden casey
@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social
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writer and musicker // SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS out now from @splitlippress.com // A HARVEST OF FURIES coming oct '25 from @lfpbooks.bsky.social // music everywhere // linktr.ee/haydencasey //
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ahhhhh thank you so much!!! what a joy!
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On the new fiction table! I ordered copies for the store!
A copy of A Harvest of Furies on the new fiction table at Island Books
thank you!! I miss Seattle every day! (and I see on the site that y'all have copies of the book in the store—thank you folks so much!!)
@caitluce.bsky.social CAITLIN!!!!! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I used to be a frequent customer at U Book Store back in ‘14–‘17! hello a decade later!
“the reports of my neuroses are greatly exaggerated,” I think, and then I reencounter something like this and go, ohhhhh, maybe not
Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA alum @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, whose debut novel A HARVEST OF FURIES is out today! (True story: in his last MFA semester, Hayden told me he was going to draft this novel in three chunks, delivering me 22,000 words per thesis meeting... and then did!)
MY FIRST NOVEL IS OUT TODAY!!!!! & they have it at barnes & noble?!? (& lots of lovely independent bookshops as well!!)

I have been trying to do this for 10 years & dreaming about it for 10 more—surreal moment!
MY FIRST NOVEL IS OUT TODAY!!!!! & they have it at barnes & noble?!? (& lots of lovely independent bookshops as well!!)

I have been trying to do this for 10 years & dreaming about it for 10 more—surreal moment!
me holding my book in front of the “fiction” section sign at Barnes & Noble me holding my book up in front of the shelf at Barnes & Noble my book for sale on a table in an independent bookstore me holding a copy of my book at a table during a signing, with a stack of books in front of me & a box of signed copies to the left
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If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!
Poster for the Desert Grit Reading Series, which takes place October 4 at 3pm at Rift Wine Bar and Taphouse
I am applying to so many jobs. I am a job-applying machine. I am a sleek efficient mechanized typist of statements and filler-inner of forms. no job is safe from me. I am a consummate professional. I am vigilant for new postings. the void into which I fire off applications is becoming weary of me.
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Save the date! Next Saturday will be the 1st Desert Grit Reading Series at Rift Wine Bar & Taphouse in Scottsdale! Oct 4th at 3 PM!

Readings from

@mdbell79.bsky.social

@shipraagarwal.bsky.social

@sabrinahicks.bsky.social

@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social

@stephanieaustin.bsky.social

And me!
just ordered an americano with 4 shots (which is not the point / probably another discussion) at an airport café, and the person behind the counter went, “4 shots of…?”

……???
thank you so much for reading!!
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Just finished an ARC of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's A HARVEST OF FURIES, and if you like retellings of Greek tragedies and unusual story structures, it's a pretty striking take on the Oresteia. #booksky
just watched a woman at the airport rip a page of her book in half to use as a bookmark

????,,,?,
coolest thing ever!! 😄
340 days... 400 pages... 130,757 words later... I have a draft!
so so cool!!! thanks for snapping a pic 😻
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pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
A section of the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s bookstore, with 9 books shelved face-out
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#nowreading
Hayden Casey’s Show Me Where the Hurt Is

People finding themselves in predicaments, self-inflicted or not, but somehow come out okay, mostly, usually, on the other side.
oh my gosh, thank you so much!! this made my day!
finally... fiiiiiinally... on the last chapter of this draft. #26/26. I've spent 11 months with these people!!!
there comes a point in every novel draft where the end is in sight and the words are just, like, falling out. I open the draft and a new paragraph just emerges from the ether. I scroll down and there are three more pages filled. name a better drug (impossible)!!!
new interview up!!!
@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social‬ talks about his debut story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS (@splitlippress.com‬) with Maya Chari necessaryfiction.com/interviews/u...