Kevin Lichty
@kclichty.bsky.social
Writing instructor, author of THE CIRCLE THAT FITS (Driftwood Press 2022)…occasional runner.
“If commerce is completely unfettered and unsupported by watchful governance and culture, it easily becomes crime…” Stewart Brand THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW. Brand et al looking at 2025 from the lens of the late-90s.
December 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“If commerce is completely unfettered and unsupported by watchful governance and culture, it easily becomes crime…” Stewart Brand THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW. Brand et al looking at 2025 from the lens of the late-90s.
Horror and thriller writers, Amazon lockers can pick up and broadcast radio signals!!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Horror and thriller writers, Amazon lockers can pick up and broadcast radio signals!!!
I have not mentioned this person, but I want to throw my support behind Olga Ravn. Go read The Employees and The Wax Child
No for real, I'm guilty of wasting too much breath on the broad myself, every time you mention Olivia Nuzzi you need to respost an actual good writer's work to support them instead.
December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I have not mentioned this person, but I want to throw my support behind Olga Ravn. Go read The Employees and The Wax Child
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Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poetry for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poetry for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions
The savagery as these two associatiative memories merge!
From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
October 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The savagery as these two associatiative memories merge!
From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
“The imagination is revolutionary or it is nothing at all.”
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“The imagination is revolutionary or it is nothing at all.”
I loved this book. Everyone should read!
EVIDENCE OF V by Sheila O'Connor is the current One Book | One Minnesota selection, which gives free access to the e-book to all Minnesotans as part of a statewide book club! Sheila is giving an author talk as part of the program and that is open to everyone. Register: thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...
One Book One Minnesota - The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
One Book | One Minnesota is a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect,
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September 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I loved this book. Everyone should read!
“The mind can only poke at a text a little bit, further poking breaks the surface tension and then the mind is just poking at the ripples…when the mind/text relation gets ripply I experience a corresponding disturbance to my instrument, my writing soul, that I have learned to treat as dangerous”
September 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“The mind can only poke at a text a little bit, further poking breaks the surface tension and then the mind is just poking at the ripples…when the mind/text relation gets ripply I experience a corresponding disturbance to my instrument, my writing soul, that I have learned to treat as dangerous”
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No one will make a lot of money in the process. But it's fair and feels less extractive than more corporate models. Authors need to abandon the linear thinking of being "promoted" to big 5--do your big books with big publishers and give their weird, less sellable stuff to smaller places.
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
No one will make a lot of money in the process. But it's fair and feels less extractive than more corporate models. Authors need to abandon the linear thinking of being "promoted" to big 5--do your big books with big publishers and give their weird, less sellable stuff to smaller places.
A massive thank you to @samsanders.bsky.social for giving me a new obsession, which is the first song (Big Mike’s) on this video of Dijon’s Absolutely album youtu.be/FEkOYs6aWIg?...
Dijon - Absolutely (Film)
YouTube video by Dijon
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August 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
A massive thank you to @samsanders.bsky.social for giving me a new obsession, which is the first song (Big Mike’s) on this video of Dijon’s Absolutely album youtu.be/FEkOYs6aWIg?...
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Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more.
Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:
Danger zone III: 113 outside. Your chest in perpetual state of near cardiac emergency. A dog runs at you from across the street and you actually pause and calculate what would be worse—to get bitten or to run—before you run.
August 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Danger zone III: 113 outside. Your chest in perpetual state of near cardiac emergency. A dog runs at you from across the street and you actually pause and calculate what would be worse—to get bitten or to run—before you run.
Danger zone II: 110 outside, you walk into shade and blurt out loud “that is fucking amazing”
July 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Danger zone II: 110 outside, you walk into shade and blurt out loud “that is fucking amazing”
You know you are in the danger zone when it’s 113 outside and a hot wind blows and your body thinks “oh, that’s a nice spring breeze!”
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
You know you are in the danger zone when it’s 113 outside and a hot wind blows and your body thinks “oh, that’s a nice spring breeze!”
This timeline just gets more and more dystopian every day: www.bbc.com/news/technol...
How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen
The case of Jaswant Singh Chail raises questions about the safety of AI-powered chatbots.
www.bbc.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This timeline just gets more and more dystopian every day: www.bbc.com/news/technol...
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It's here! An enlightened summer reading list ✨ with fiction, poetry & creative nonfiction recs from ASU English's creative luminaries, including Mitchell Jackson, @kclichty.bsky.social, @nushpowell.bsky.social, @beelzebebout.bsky.social + more.
Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities
Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities
Cool reads, hot days: Reading recs from ASU’s English department | ASU News
If you’re looking for book recommendations from folks with serious writing cred, look no further.Faculty from Arizona State University’s Department of English — with its concentration of Pulitzer, Gug...
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June 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's here! An enlightened summer reading list ✨ with fiction, poetry & creative nonfiction recs from ASU English's creative luminaries, including Mitchell Jackson, @kclichty.bsky.social, @nushpowell.bsky.social, @beelzebebout.bsky.social + more.
Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities
Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities
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Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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Our Adrift Short Story Contest is OPEN! Guest judge is Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love. Use the link in our bio to submit! #writingcontest
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our Adrift Short Story Contest is OPEN! Guest judge is Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love. Use the link in our bio to submit! #writingcontest
The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social
This benefactor’s mustache game is strong:
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This benefactor’s mustache game is strong:
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LAST CHANCE: In honor of AWP, we'd like to offer 10% off books in our shop! Use the code 'AWP2025' to get your discount + we're now offering free shipping on orders over $100. Thank you for supporting our small press! #shopsmallbusiness
March 31, 2025 at 4:03 PM
LAST CHANCE: In honor of AWP, we'd like to offer 10% off books in our shop! Use the code 'AWP2025' to get your discount + we're now offering free shipping on orders over $100. Thank you for supporting our small press! #shopsmallbusiness
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Don't sit on that novella or poetry collection — send it to Driftwood Press instead! Use the link in our bio for details. #callforsubmissions
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Don't sit on that novella or poetry collection — send it to Driftwood Press instead! Use the link in our bio for details. #callforsubmissions
I’ve often said William Gibson was my gateway to literary fiction and this ending to “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” is a great example—the quietness of the moment, technology as both connection and disconnection, the lyricism of the moment—one scarcely realizes they are a reading a dystopic future.
February 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve often said William Gibson was my gateway to literary fiction and this ending to “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” is a great example—the quietness of the moment, technology as both connection and disconnection, the lyricism of the moment—one scarcely realizes they are a reading a dystopic future.
20th Century archeology. South Phoenix, 2025
February 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
20th Century archeology. South Phoenix, 2025