Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
Substack (under construction): https://dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
Substack (under construction): https://dmcmahonwrites.substack.com/
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Danielle McMahon
@dehm000.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Absolutely ecstatic to share my microchap with the world!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Many thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at being read after Skink Beat Rev (where it 1st appeared) went defunct.
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Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
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Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
November 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Many thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for giving my poem "popcorn bowl" another chance at being read after Skink Beat Rev (where it 1st appeared) went defunct.
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Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
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Read it here: www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-2-2025...
Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Finishing Line Press has a fee free November submission period for full page manuscripts. On Submittable.
i just wanna submit a chapbook without a fee attached
October 29, 2025 at 5:44 PM
i just wanna submit a chapbook without a fee attached
Another poem about driving around in cars with boys! My piece "love fool" has been published by Overgrowth Press in their Pink issue. Check out the feature! overgrowthpress.com/october-11-2...
TY!
TY!
OCTOBER 11, 2025 – Overgrowth
overgrowthpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Another poem about driving around in cars with boys! My piece "love fool" has been published by Overgrowth Press in their Pink issue. Check out the feature! overgrowthpress.com/october-11-2...
TY!
TY!
To whoever donated $5 to me after reading rowhouse song --- THANK YOU! 😘
Absolutely ecstatic to share my microchap with the world!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
rowhouse song about the skeletons in our closets, the wildness of girlhood, and the unthinkable.
Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social! 👻
ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...
Perhaps consider it for #sealeychallenge?!
October 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
To whoever donated $5 to me after reading rowhouse song --- THANK YOU! 😘
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Happy to have discovered the quiet, powerful poetry of Susan Stewart at a library book sale.
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Happy to have discovered the quiet, powerful poetry of Susan Stewart at a library book sale.
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
#IndieLitMagGala 2025 Spotlight: new words {press} - The Broken Spine
In a lit world still groaning under the weight of gatekeepers, binary boxes, and pay-to-play submission models, new words {press} is a thunderclap of clarity.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@newwordspress.bsky.social is the kind of lit press we need—trans-centred, unapologetically experimental, and building real community.
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
Thanks to @dehm000.bsky.social for nominating them for #IndieLitMagGala 2025. This spotlight is all love, no fluff.
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#QueerPublishing
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home
YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT
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October 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wow, my poem "On the day of a school shooting" www.westtrestlereview.com/march_2025_d... has been nominated for Best of the Net.
On the day of a school shooting by Danielle McMahon
Elsewhere on a sidewalk
a commuter trips over his own
polished shoes and curses, sightless,
the shards of sunlight so stark and so white,
there is nothing to be seen.
All the words want to be weig...
www.westtrestlereview.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Wow, my poem "On the day of a school shooting" www.westtrestlereview.com/march_2025_d... has been nominated for Best of the Net.
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
September 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My etsy store called The McThrifty (www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...) sells literary, feminist, boho & victorian punk POD items. This $ goes to me. 😉
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
Some of these items will also be in the e(i store (engineidling.net/store) as part of a fundraising effort. This $ goes to contribs & a 🤞future contest!
my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com
Prosetrics
The Literary Magazine
prosetricsthemagazine.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
my poem "The Closing Shift" in in the latest Prosetrics Mag! prosetricsthemagazine.com
A #poetry #chapbook about kindred spirits, 99cent gasoline, aol instant messenger, and summer night magic?
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
September 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A #poetry #chapbook about kindred spirits, 99cent gasoline, aol instant messenger, and summer night magic?
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
I got you!
irl comes out next year from @stanchion.bsky.social!
#poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #indielit
Finally my shining moment as a parent has arrived. I am taking my teenage daughter to see Rocky Horror in the theater for its 50th anniversary!
September 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Finally my shining moment as a parent has arrived. I am taking my teenage daughter to see Rocky Horror in the theater for its 50th anniversary!
one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine!
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
Danielle McMahon
only it is winter . ToC
stinkeyemagazine.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
one of my taunty, little shithead poems are up at Stink Eye Magazine!
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
stinkeyemagazine.com/danielle-mcm...
For some reason I've decided to open a POD Etsy store feat. feminist, literary, suffragette, & Victorian punk goods. Just getting started.
www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...
www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...
September 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
For some reason I've decided to open a POD Etsy store feat. feminist, literary, suffragette, & Victorian punk goods. Just getting started.
www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...
www.etsy.com/shop/TheMcTh...
Read my poem about dialup & classic rock radio!
Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
[ISSUE 10]
September, 2025 Editor’s Note POETRY Joshua ZeitlerQueer as a Three-Dollar Bill Rahaf S. A.Dove Post Fadwa Al QasemLife as a thin membrane Justin KarcherThe Ones We’ve Lost Julie Novak-McSwee…
fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Read my poem about dialup & classic rock radio!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
FALL SUB CALL & THEME REVEAL!
We're open for poetry & art.
Issue 7: The Urge.
Details: engineidling.net
Sept 1 - 22nd.
Bring us something dark & complicated.
#amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity
We're open for poetry & art.
Issue 7: The Urge.
Details: engineidling.net
Sept 1 - 22nd.
Bring us something dark & complicated.
#amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
FALL SUB CALL & THEME REVEAL!
We're open for poetry & art.
Issue 7: The Urge.
Details: engineidling.net
Sept 1 - 22nd.
Bring us something dark & complicated.
#amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity
We're open for poetry & art.
Issue 7: The Urge.
Details: engineidling.net
Sept 1 - 22nd.
Bring us something dark & complicated.
#amwriting #writingprompts #indiemag #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #artistcommunity
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
If you've gotten my book, and you like it, would you mind taking a moment to write a 5-star review? It might help others discover it! Please and thank you!
amzn.to/4na39eC
amzn.to/4na39eC
September 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you've gotten my book, and you like it, would you mind taking a moment to write a 5-star review? It might help others discover it! Please and thank you!
amzn.to/4na39eC
amzn.to/4na39eC
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
We’re live.
#IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations.
From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work.
Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene.
📍
#IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations.
From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work.
Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene.
📍
The Return of #IndieLitMagGala: Celebrating the Presses That Keep Poetry Alive - The Broken Spine
At The Broken Spine, we’ve always believed that poetry is not a solo sport.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We’re live.
#IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations.
From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work.
Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene.
📍
#IndieLitMagGala2025 is now open for nominations.
From now until Sept 15th, help us spotlight the indie presses and lit mags doing the real work.
Thank you for every name you send our way—it helps us lift another corner of the scene.
📍
Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
[ISSUE 10]
September, 2025 Editor’s Note POETRY Joshua ZeitlerQueer as a Three-Dollar Bill Rahaf S. A.Dove Post Fadwa Al QasemLife as a thin membrane Justin KarcherThe Ones We’ve Lost Julie Novak-McSwee…
fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Fish Barrel Review 10 is live & so's my poem "mavis beacon teaches typing" : fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/issue-10/
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
Many thanks to Editors Dylan & Meg!
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
Chuffed that my poem “night driving, ‘89” has finally been pubbed!
It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class.
Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review!
www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...
It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class.
Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review!
www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...
night driving, ’89 – The McNeese Review
www.mcneese.edu
August 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Chuffed that my poem “night driving, ‘89” has finally been pubbed!
It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class.
Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review!
www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...
It’s been more than 20 yrs since I first put it down in a poetry class.
Thanks Boudin/The McNeese Review!
www.mcneese.edu/thereview/ni...
Reposted by Danielle McMahon
did you ever have that One Person who set you free, who saw you wholly & unapologetically for exactly who you were in that moment? it's a kind of romance, a rare harmony.
this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture.
find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.
this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture.
find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.
August 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
did you ever have that One Person who set you free, who saw you wholly & unapologetically for exactly who you were in that moment? it's a kind of romance, a rare harmony.
this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture.
find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.
this is what my forthcoming chapbook "irl" attempts to capture.
find it next yr in @stanchion.bsky.social's 2026 lineup.