Kevin Lichty
kclichty.bsky.social
Kevin Lichty
@kclichty.bsky.social
Writing instructor, author of THE CIRCLE THAT FITS (Driftwood Press 2022)…occasional runner.
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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
The savagery as these two associatiative memories merge!

From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
October 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“The imagination is revolutionary or it is nothing at all.”
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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
“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
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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
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
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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:
August 20, 2025 at 1:18 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.
August 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Danger zone II: 110 outside, you walk into shade and blurt out loud “that is fucking amazing”
July 27, 2025 at 11:24 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!”
July 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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
This benefactor’s mustache game is strong:
April 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Desert spring
April 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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
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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
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
20th Century archeology. South Phoenix, 2025
February 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Year four of only buying books from small and independent publishers and using the libraries for the rest of my reading. Here is my list for 2024:

AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF @taraisonwriter.bsky.social IG Publishing

Abracadabra, Sunshine Dexter L Booth Red Hen Press
December 30, 2024 at 2:38 AM
In Phoenix, every day of October has set a new record for heat so far…
October 13, 2024 at 7:07 PM
When I heard Percival Everett wrote a retelling of Huck Finn I knew I had to read it; and it’s every bit as good as I thought it could be and more. Just a masterful reexamination of the source material.
September 15, 2024 at 5:01 PM