A. Peterson
@adampeterson.net
Writer of fiction, film, and this bio.
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A. Peterson
@adampeterson.net
· Oct 6
Congrats to the 2025 Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction winner, Adam Peterson! His manuscript GOSPELS will be published by Mad Creek Books, a division of The Ohio State University Press. Thank you to this year’s judge, Kevin Wilson.
Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction
www.awpwriter.org
Thrilled to have GOSPELS coming out soon and very much grateful to everyone at AWP, Mad Creek, and of course Kevin.
Like if the United Lounge were a person.
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Like if the United Lounge were a person.
No one:
The movie Blue Moon: I bet you want to see a young George Roy Hill, don’t you perverts? Discover what inspired him? Lil winky wink to ol’ GRH to boost that box office?
The movie Blue Moon: I bet you want to see a young George Roy Hill, don’t you perverts? Discover what inspired him? Lil winky wink to ol’ GRH to boost that box office?
December 4, 2025 at 6:00 AM
No one:
The movie Blue Moon: I bet you want to see a young George Roy Hill, don’t you perverts? Discover what inspired him? Lil winky wink to ol’ GRH to boost that box office?
The movie Blue Moon: I bet you want to see a young George Roy Hill, don’t you perverts? Discover what inspired him? Lil winky wink to ol’ GRH to boost that box office?
Feel like if we got the whole neighborhood together, we could get the mailman a Dodge Charger for the holidays.
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Feel like if we got the whole neighborhood together, we could get the mailman a Dodge Charger for the holidays.
Me: Really loved revisiting that David Berman album.
Spotify: So you also love The Clientele!
Me: Well, I think they're kinda...
Spotify: Jonathan Richman it is!
Me: Play Butlerian Jihad.
Spotify: So you also love The Clientele!
Me: Well, I think they're kinda...
Spotify: Jonathan Richman it is!
Me: Play Butlerian Jihad.
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Me: Really loved revisiting that David Berman album.
Spotify: So you also love The Clientele!
Me: Well, I think they're kinda...
Spotify: Jonathan Richman it is!
Me: Play Butlerian Jihad.
Spotify: So you also love The Clientele!
Me: Well, I think they're kinda...
Spotify: Jonathan Richman it is!
Me: Play Butlerian Jihad.
Well it’s here. The Saturdayist Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Well it’s here. The Saturdayist Friday.
Haven't heard from Sears today. Starting to think they aren't thankful that I purchased a hand blender in 2014.
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Haven't heard from Sears today. Starting to think they aren't thankful that I purchased a hand blender in 2014.
I don't want to be mayor, but it'd be nice to be asked.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I don't want to be mayor, but it'd be nice to be asked.
Every language program should start by teaching you how to say, "Look, I'm trying really hard but it's not working."
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Every language program should start by teaching you how to say, "Look, I'm trying really hard but it's not working."
"AI now has PhD level intelligence."
Cool, man, I've got a PhD and last night my brain told me I owned an old Ford truck and Martin Scorsese needed me to fix it so I could drive him to Walgreens. Good luck making it solve physics or whatever.
Cool, man, I've got a PhD and last night my brain told me I owned an old Ford truck and Martin Scorsese needed me to fix it so I could drive him to Walgreens. Good luck making it solve physics or whatever.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"AI now has PhD level intelligence."
Cool, man, I've got a PhD and last night my brain told me I owned an old Ford truck and Martin Scorsese needed me to fix it so I could drive him to Walgreens. Good luck making it solve physics or whatever.
Cool, man, I've got a PhD and last night my brain told me I owned an old Ford truck and Martin Scorsese needed me to fix it so I could drive him to Walgreens. Good luck making it solve physics or whatever.
Message from my old mechanic just to let me know that sometimes they still think about me.
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Message from my old mechanic just to let me know that sometimes they still think about me.
Magician: Pick a card.
Me: Fleer '87 Bobby Bonilla rookie.
Me: Fleer '87 Bobby Bonilla rookie.
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Magician: Pick a card.
Me: Fleer '87 Bobby Bonilla rookie.
Me: Fleer '87 Bobby Bonilla rookie.
*A young Predator returns from its first hunt with a copy of American Football's self-titled debut*
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
*A young Predator returns from its first hunt with a copy of American Football's self-titled debut*
Once again I forgot to dress as Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet for Halloween and instead dressed that way today.
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Once again I forgot to dress as Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet for Halloween and instead dressed that way today.
Emailing my doctor’s office to ask where I can pick up my blood when they’re done with it.
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Emailing my doctor’s office to ask where I can pick up my blood when they’re done with it.
Can Inanimate Objects Be Ornery: A Dissertation
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Can Inanimate Objects Be Ornery: A Dissertation
I know, sidewalk. I know.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I know, sidewalk. I know.
Uncles around the country growing increasingly anxious, still uncertain over what this year's Thanksgiving rant will be about without Joe Brandon.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Uncles around the country growing increasingly anxious, still uncertain over what this year's Thanksgiving rant will be about without Joe Brandon.
Not saying we shouldn't go back now, but I think fighting the Revolution over the word "chuffed" was the right decision for America at the time.
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Not saying we shouldn't go back now, but I think fighting the Revolution over the word "chuffed" was the right decision for America at the time.
Literature needs to take a cue from music and add more "alt"-genres. Alt-Crime. Alt-Romance. Alt-Historical. Alt-Middle Grade.
I don't know what this means either, but we should find out.
I don't know what this means either, but we should find out.
November 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Literature needs to take a cue from music and add more "alt"-genres. Alt-Crime. Alt-Romance. Alt-Historical. Alt-Middle Grade.
I don't know what this means either, but we should find out.
I don't know what this means either, but we should find out.
Me: Should my car be doing that?
Mechanic: “Should” your car be doing that is the wrong question as it is intention not form that defines art.
Me: Here’s $3500.
Mechanic: “Should” your car be doing that is the wrong question as it is intention not form that defines art.
Me: Here’s $3500.
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Me: Should my car be doing that?
Mechanic: “Should” your car be doing that is the wrong question as it is intention not form that defines art.
Me: Here’s $3500.
Mechanic: “Should” your car be doing that is the wrong question as it is intention not form that defines art.
Me: Here’s $3500.
November 1st, back to only me asking who I’m supposed to be.
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
November 1st, back to only me asking who I’m supposed to be.
*my first day as an offensive coordinator*
“Okay, boys, this is gonna be hard because you can’t see what I’m drawing on my hand but.”
“Okay, boys, this is gonna be hard because you can’t see what I’m drawing on my hand but.”
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 AM
*my first day as an offensive coordinator*
“Okay, boys, this is gonna be hard because you can’t see what I’m drawing on my hand but.”
“Okay, boys, this is gonna be hard because you can’t see what I’m drawing on my hand but.”
Thanks, but I already know how to lose a Time War.
October 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Thanks, but I already know how to lose a Time War.
Clayton Kershaw coming into this game is like taking a nutcracker off a Christmas tree and telling it to fight in a real war.
October 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Clayton Kershaw coming into this game is like taking a nutcracker off a Christmas tree and telling it to fight in a real war.