Michael Welch
@mbwwelch.bsky.social
EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more.
As if there wasn't already enough shittiness in the world right now!
September 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As if there wasn't already enough shittiness in the world right now!
Printers Row Fest is my favorite time to binge on cool Chicago & Midwest books.
Will I get more tomorrow? Most likely
Will I get more tomorrow? Most likely
September 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Printers Row Fest is my favorite time to binge on cool Chicago & Midwest books.
Will I get more tomorrow? Most likely
Will I get more tomorrow? Most likely
Just got this ARC in the mail & it reminded me how much we need to revive the Nelson Algren Award
July 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Just got this ARC in the mail & it reminded me how much we need to revive the Nelson Algren Award
Preorders are open for "On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes," coming your way from @beltpublishing.bsky.social on March 10, 2026!
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
beltpublishing.com/products/on-...
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
beltpublishing.com/products/on-...
June 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Preorders are open for "On an Inland Sea: Writing the Great Lakes," coming your way from @beltpublishing.bsky.social on March 10, 2026!
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
beltpublishing.com/products/on-...
Featuring everything from shipwrecks & ice caves to zebra mussels & manoomin, & 32 writers on why the lakes loom so large.
beltpublishing.com/products/on-...
I’ve finally grown my collection large enough to warrant a dedicated moving box of Chicago books
May 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’ve finally grown my collection large enough to warrant a dedicated moving box of Chicago books
My face when I opened my email to see that I was accepted to the @tinhouse.bsky.social Summer Workshop!
I’m so thrilled for the chance to work with Omar El Akkad & all the incredible workshop attendees!
I’m so thrilled for the chance to work with Omar El Akkad & all the incredible workshop attendees!
April 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
My face when I opened my email to see that I was accepted to the @tinhouse.bsky.social Summer Workshop!
I’m so thrilled for the chance to work with Omar El Akkad & all the incredible workshop attendees!
I’m so thrilled for the chance to work with Omar El Akkad & all the incredible workshop attendees!
My joy was boundless when I won. Now it’s deeper than that. Bittersweet, painful, & so grateful. He made it onto the printed the page at a time when I can only feel the weight of his absence.
This story’s weird as fuck, & I think it’s because our time together in his garden felt so otherworldly.
This story’s weird as fuck, & I think it’s because our time together in his garden felt so otherworldly.
March 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My joy was boundless when I won. Now it’s deeper than that. Bittersweet, painful, & so grateful. He made it onto the printed the page at a time when I can only feel the weight of his absence.
This story’s weird as fuck, & I think it’s because our time together in his garden felt so otherworldly.
This story’s weird as fuck, & I think it’s because our time together in his garden felt so otherworldly.
The story didn’t work for so many drafts, not until I found the grandfather character & brought my own fears to the story.
I was so excited to tell him when I won & that it was largely about us. Now the book has arrived, and he is gone.
I was so excited to tell him when I won & that it was largely about us. Now the book has arrived, and he is gone.
March 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The story didn’t work for so many drafts, not until I found the grandfather character & brought my own fears to the story.
I was so excited to tell him when I won & that it was largely about us. Now the book has arrived, and he is gone.
I was so excited to tell him when I won & that it was largely about us. Now the book has arrived, and he is gone.
Thank you @salamandermag.bsky.social & Kevin Wilson for believing in my work ❤️
This story is about a squirrel invasion, a mysterious plant plague, but mostly about the love between a young man and his grandfather.
This story is about a squirrel invasion, a mysterious plant plague, but mostly about the love between a young man and his grandfather.
March 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Thank you @salamandermag.bsky.social & Kevin Wilson for believing in my work ❤️
This story is about a squirrel invasion, a mysterious plant plague, but mostly about the love between a young man and his grandfather.
This story is about a squirrel invasion, a mysterious plant plague, but mostly about the love between a young man and his grandfather.
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
February 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Unsuccessfully trying to convince my wife to join Kenny and me in the matching hoodie game
January 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Unsuccessfully trying to convince my wife to join Kenny and me in the matching hoodie game
Continuing the tradition of starting my reading year with “Coast of Chicago” to remind myself why I love to write
January 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Continuing the tradition of starting my reading year with “Coast of Chicago” to remind myself why I love to write
This Field Museum exhibit looked oddly familiar…
(My cat’s lion ancestors would be so embarrassed)
(My cat’s lion ancestors would be so embarrassed)
December 22, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This Field Museum exhibit looked oddly familiar…
(My cat’s lion ancestors would be so embarrassed)
(My cat’s lion ancestors would be so embarrassed)
These @tinhouse.bsky.social covers are always so gorgeous!
December 17, 2024 at 11:27 PM
These @tinhouse.bsky.social covers are always so gorgeous!
When you make it out of West Texas but unfortunately end up in Chicago in the winter
December 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM
When you make it out of West Texas but unfortunately end up in Chicago in the winter