Acree Graham Macam
@acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
Words in Narrative, Electric Lit, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Mass Review, LARB, and others. Stonecoast MFA grad. Authored the children's book The King of the Birds (Groundwood).
(Profile artwork by Natalie Nelson.)
(Profile artwork by Natalie Nelson.)
USA Today just reprinting “merit based” like those words are used in good faith
February 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
USA Today just reprinting “merit based” like those words are used in good faith
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ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
And the lair is in Manhattan.
February 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
And the lair is in Manhattan.
Also on my wishlist is an expose of the Scholastic Book Fair. If these articles exist please someone point me to them 🙏🏻
February 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Also on my wishlist is an expose of the Scholastic Book Fair. If these articles exist please someone point me to them 🙏🏻
I’d love an essay on the ups and downs of the NEA throughout history.
This is from a 1997 essay by Adrienne Rich about her refusal of the National Medal for the Arts
This is from a 1997 essay by Adrienne Rich about her refusal of the National Medal for the Arts
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
I’d love an essay on the ups and downs of the NEA throughout history.
This is from a 1997 essay by Adrienne Rich about her refusal of the National Medal for the Arts
This is from a 1997 essay by Adrienne Rich about her refusal of the National Medal for the Arts
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Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
February 3, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
I actually thought this was a satirical photoshop mockup, initially
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 AM
I actually thought this was a satirical photoshop mockup, initially
Love that. Let me know if I can be of any help. Fellow southerner here 🙃
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Love that. Let me know if I can be of any help. Fellow southerner here 🙃
Wow that headline is Atlantic self-parody
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Wow that headline is Atlantic self-parody
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This contest with The Forge was I think the second place I submitted it. I really love how they ran the contest. 2 weeks for submissions. 2 weeks for reading and judging. Everything was announced within about a month, I believe. $5 entry fee (!) — barely more than the average regular submission fee
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This contest with The Forge was I think the second place I submitted it. I really love how they ran the contest. 2 weeks for submissions. 2 weeks for reading and judging. Everything was announced within about a month, I believe. $5 entry fee (!) — barely more than the average regular submission fee
As a copywriter, keeping things short and concise comes somewhat naturally now. I always knew the piece hinged on its last line, and I just needed to work out what came before it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As a copywriter, keeping things short and concise comes somewhat naturally now. I always knew the piece hinged on its last line, and I just needed to work out what came before it.
I wrote it as a poem at first. In sharing it with a couple of poets, I realized how ill equipped I was to write a poem after 15+ years away from the genre. Decided to try flash instead. I’d never written flash, but had read it and had a sense for how it worked.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wrote it as a poem at first. In sharing it with a couple of poets, I realized how ill equipped I was to write a poem after 15+ years away from the genre. Decided to try flash instead. I’d never written flash, but had read it and had a sense for how it worked.
I initially jotted it down on my phone about a year ago, just trying to get out the disconnect I was feeling, what Naomi Klein calls “lives built on not seeing and not knowing”
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I initially jotted it down on my phone about a year ago, just trying to get out the disconnect I was feeling, what Naomi Klein calls “lives built on not seeing and not knowing”
I wasn’t sure anyone would want to publish this when I wrote it, and now it is in this brilliant magazine today. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social editors and readers for selecting my piece 🖤
Our story this week is The Genocide Unfolds on My Phone, the winner of our 2025 Forge Flash Nonfiction Contest! Congratulations to Acree Graham Macam! @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social
The Genocide Unfolds on My Phone - The Forge Literary Magazine
The Genocide Unfolds on My Phone by Acree Graham Macam, 2025 The Forge Flash Nonfiction Winner
forgelitmag.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I wasn’t sure anyone would want to publish this when I wrote it, and now it is in this brilliant magazine today. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social editors and readers for selecting my piece 🖤
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“...the book is kind to a woman who—mistreated by her partners and the media alike—received less than her fair share of kindness in life.”
The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social).
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The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/aZp2Dbs
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“...the book is kind to a woman who—mistreated by her partners and the media alike—received less than her fair share of kindness in life.”
The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/aZp2Dbs
The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social).
➡️ buff.ly/aZp2Dbs
I deeply enjoyed this juicy read and reflecting on it for @therumpus.net
Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social !
@atriabooks.bsky.social
Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social !
@atriabooks.bsky.social
This reviewer gets INTO what it means to attempt an artist’s life and ultimately be known for a handbag named after you… proud we @therumpus.net could publish @acreegrahammacam.Bsky.social excellent bit of #criticism therumpus.net/2025/11/20/t...
The Object of Our Attention: Marisa Meltzer’s 'It Girl' - The Rumpus
…what is it? And can it explain why Birkin’s life is the one we are currently examining, when there are so many others out there who likewise deserve to be “at the center of own narrative”?
therumpus.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I deeply enjoyed this juicy read and reflecting on it for @therumpus.net
Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social !
@atriabooks.bsky.social
Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social !
@atriabooks.bsky.social
"There is … no such thing as an 'activist,' a term that suggests political action is a special role rather than universal democratic responsibility. Instead, there are those who act in line with their cultivated political ideas, and there are those who don’t."
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"There is … no such thing as an 'activist,' a term that suggests political action is a special role rather than universal democratic responsibility. Instead, there are those who act in line with their cultivated political ideas, and there are those who don’t."
This piece from @recolston.bsky.social in @thenation.com (recommended by the always astute @studyhall.bsky.social) is such a smart meditation on the myth of objectivity and the structural problems of news media ❤️
A Reflection on “Objective” Journalism From the Global Sumud Flotilla
A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.
www.thenation.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This piece from @recolston.bsky.social in @thenation.com (recommended by the always astute @studyhall.bsky.social) is such a smart meditation on the myth of objectivity and the structural problems of news media ❤️
Sooooo delightfully surprised by this news. I got the golden ticket! Thanks to the readers & editors at @theforge.bsky.social for selecting my piece, and congrats to fellow winner Kaitlyn and all the finalists 🔥
Hearty congratulations to the winners of this year's Forge Flash Competition, Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social ! 🎉🔥
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
Their pieces will be published in November.
The full results are here: forgelitmag.com/2025/10/04/2...
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sooooo delightfully surprised by this news. I got the golden ticket! Thanks to the readers & editors at @theforge.bsky.social for selecting my piece, and congrats to fellow winner Kaitlyn and all the finalists 🔥
Has Ezra Klein always been like this
September 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Has Ezra Klein always been like this
Feeling exhuasted yet nourished by a pilgrimage with the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine this morning, and by this excellent essay by Michelle Gurule in @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...
electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...
My Uncle Doesn’t Need to Die in Prison to Learn His Lesson - Electric Literature
Despite his crimes, every last one of them, I still believe he deserves a good, happy, vibrant life
electricliterature.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Feeling exhuasted yet nourished by a pilgrimage with the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine this morning, and by this excellent essay by Michelle Gurule in @electricliterature.com
electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...
electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...
Looks like this is in collaboration with LitHub. Pitch them your reviews of books by trans/queer authors that were overlooked by the NYT under Pamela Paul
Speaking of which: Second thing we're looking for is writers who want to pitch us reviews. Paid opportunity. Details at that page I shared above ... Probably some flexibility, but that's what the publication's said so far to me.
If you want to pitch a review, please email me a paragraph or two ...
If you want to pitch a review, please email me a paragraph or two ...
August 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Looks like this is in collaboration with LitHub. Pitch them your reviews of books by trans/queer authors that were overlooked by the NYT under Pamela Paul
Been really enjoying this essay by Jessica Winter, and also reminded of this piece I wrote about my great-grandfather who became addicted to morphine as a medic in WW1 and his grandsons (one of them my dad) who never met him but both died of opioid overdoses: www.harvardreview.org/content/the-...
July 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Been really enjoying this essay by Jessica Winter, and also reminded of this piece I wrote about my great-grandfather who became addicted to morphine as a medic in WW1 and his grandsons (one of them my dad) who never met him but both died of opioid overdoses: www.harvardreview.org/content/the-...
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Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.
This is censorship and cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
This is censorship and cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release.
This is censorship and cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
This is censorship and cowardice.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...