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Evan Williams

@pahoehoe.bsky.social

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Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 3 collections from small presses. “The Divide” forthcoming from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago. evanmorganwilliams.com

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 6h

My students and I had an acronym for this. THINK. I forget what all the letters stood for. So much for that mnemonic! Didn’t work with that one kid who was cyberbullying either.

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 9h

Because trending toward the middle (the right, actually) has worked so well for them!

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 9h

Who wants to read my 11,390 word story?

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 9h

This talk of writing surfaces is giving big feelings. I probably assign too much importance to it, but I cherish my vintage mahogany govt surplus table. I can write anywhere, but still…

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 1d

“All that time thinking about kissing, so little actual kissing…” 🥲

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations! Push that cart!

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 6d

Your work will be in good hands here:

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 6d

We can't wait to read your work!

variantlit.com/submit/

Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 18d

A few more photos from my time here at Dorland Center for the Arts. Looking for a residency? Don’t sleep on this one!

A photo showing Dorland Center for the Arts, small buildings pitched against a desert hill.

Full moon rising over San Jacinto mountains to the east of Dorland Arts. A hazy sky from a wildfire.

Golden Hour shadows over the desert ridges.

My tiny house beneath the oak trees at Dorland Center for the Arts.

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 8

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

My short story, “Baseball Game,” took third place in Oxford Magazine’s Golden Ox contest. 🐂

1960s Dodgers baseball. WW2 Japanese Internment. A father and daughter. It’s all in there. Check it out:

Baseball Game by Evan Morgan Williams – OXFORD MAGAZINE

sites.miamioh.edu

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 3

My long story, “Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale” is up today at Pangyrus Literary. Got thirty minutes to spare? It was a sublime experience to inhabit this story during its composition, and maybe it will be so for you during its reading.

Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale | Pangyrus

“Let’s read this,” said Kind Girl. She sat beside Teacher at his mahogany table and plunked down the Modern Library edition of Moby Dick. The table was scra ...

www.pangyrus.com

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jul 15

My latest pub this year, a story in So It Goes, the annual literary magazine of the Kurt Vonnegut Library. The theme was Labor.

The cover of So It Goes, a literary magazine.

The text of So It Goes, a literary magazine, featuring a story by me.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jun 29

Big-ass Doug fir trees. 6’2” offspring included for reference.

Some big-ass Douglas fir trees in Oregon

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Apr 22

Apapalypse Now

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you, Variant Lit, for taking my story!

T E Rossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · Mar 6

“I couldn’t even find the word that was my sister’s name. I wanted to run out that door into the night and keep on running. The cold and wind would hurt more than anything, but that’s what I deserved.”
Haunting tale from @pahoehoe.bsky.social :
variantlit.com/soft-and-war...

Soft and Warm Against Me

Visit the post for more.

variantlit.com

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jan 26

First publication of 2025 is a reprint, but still special. Honored to be included in Pinyon’s 30th anniversary issue for a story they first printed 20 years ago! Beautiful full color artwork throughout.

And a sticker!

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Nov 11

My favorite cinema dog of all time is known as just plain “Dog.”

Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Oct 19

Hey! Found one of my books facing outwards in a small indie bookstore! #shelfie

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Jun 11

So this photographer, K.B. Dixon, read about my Oregon Literary Fellowship and asked me to sit for a portrait for his series on the Oregon Arts Watch website. The result:

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