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Adam al-Sirgany

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-Den Mother to lunatics. -Literary cat. -Overall Enthusiast. -Arab-Am blood, Driftless tendencies. -ED @ 1WC -Developmental Editor @ SFWP -Author of MORE HELL @whiskeytit.com Manager: Hera the Dog Agent: Ellie, cat More @ adamalsirgany.com

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks to the SIUE Bookstore, Valerie Vogrin, and everyone who came out yesterday to hear me read from MORE HELL and talk literary citizenship.

And to Sarah Kunch for the photo and Megan Hudgins for the art, which isn’t pictured here but will feature prominently on my desk 🤭

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 23h

Portrait of the Artist in His 30s Revisiting the Places his Mind and Liver Went Skewy in the Past

Come hang at the SIUE Bookstore 3PM

We’ll be raising MORE HELL

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Whiskey Tit Press @whiskeytit.com · 1d

Coming soon, again. whiskeytit.com/product/the-...

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 1d

MORE HELL in bad company at @mazebooks.bsky.social 👀👀👀

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 3d

Heading back to my favorite old stomping grounds to read from MORE HELL at SIUE, piddle in STL, and hang with the one in only wonder that is Valerie Vogrin ❤️❤️❤️

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 3d

Updated calendar of MORE HELL events…

In the words of the late, great Robert Hunter, “What a long, strange trip it’s been…”

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 4d

I’m just beginning to dig in, and it’s already showing me what I was sure was true: there’s incredible things happening in this place.

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 4d

The best part of moving back to Rockford has been Screw City’s literary community.

Super excited to get my copy of The Rockford Anthology, edited by the spectacular Rachel León and published by one of my new favorite indie presses @beltpublishing.bsky.social.

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Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 7d

I got to this poem late this week, but I am obsessed with Zeina Hashem Beck's mirror sonnet!

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Standup Sonnet

Imported, my given name barely sounds

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 6d

Art is in the otherwise unexplored: read what you aren’t supposed to.

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15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Banned Books Week!

Also, not for nothing, this is my yearly soapbox to any and all that most books aren’t banned by the Florida Moral Panic Club but tacitly by publishers, editors, writers, and readers who presume the weird and untested is unmarketable, unremarkable, unimportant, unreadable.

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

electricliterature.com

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 6d

Had an amazing time reading at @republicofletters.bsky.social and discussing publishing with Christina Kubasta of Shake Rag Alley. Rad to see all the cool artistic endeavors blossoming in the Driftless, including these I picked up on the journey.

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 9d

Get your aspect to Mineral Point. Delving into circles of MORE HELL at Republic of Letters then chatting publishing with our friends from Shake Rag Alley! 5PM!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 12d

Professor Hoyt, there’s no need to raise your voice. We’re simply having a dialogue about dialects in this discussion.

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 12d

Standing O 👏🐻👏

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Fat Bear Week has crowned a new champion. And of course his name is Chunk.

He’s massive, he’s resilient, he’s Mr. 2025 Fat Bear Week.

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 12d

As someone said to me at a recent reading, “If there really is an eternity, there must always be MORE HELL…”

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 13d

Super, super stoked to be back in Mineral Point to read from MORE HELL and chat about what small/indie presses are all about!

Thanks to @republicofletters.bsky.social and Shake Rag Alley!

Come hang!

@whiskeytit.com

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 16d

Rolling into MILTON!!! with a bushels of MORE HELL, SFWP, and Whiskey Tits! Come get weird with us!

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 16d

For those still counting, it took exactly two bananas to establish MORE HELL plays in Peoria 🍌🍌

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17d

Sunday - Goodrich Square Books & Brew Fair in MILTON!, WI where I’ll be hanging with the amazing @mazebooks.bsky.social, @inkcapbooks.bsky.social, @inkwellbooks.bsky.social , and Elmside Goods; repping @sfwp.bsky.social and @whiskeytit.com, and getting to know some local authors! 10AM-4PM

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17d

Saturday - Readers & Writers Rendezvous at the Peoria Civic Center, 10AM-5PM

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17d

After a brief hiatus to breathe and focus on editing some crazy-good books by Jerry Wayne Longmire and @stepheneoannou.bsky.social, I’m returning to the road to raise MORE HELL.

Come get weird with me this weekend:

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Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17d

Everyone who’s bought, reviewed, and otherwise shown some love for my weird little stories about small town strangeness.

Adam al-Sirgany @adamalsirgany.bsky.social · 17d

Jerry Wayne Longmire for spending so much time on the book during The Reckon Yard Podcast Ep. 62 “Less Hell”

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