Mackenzie McGee
@mackenziemcgee.bsky.social
writer, scholar, spider | '21 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize | Tin House Books Editorial Fellow | University of Arkansas MFA '22 | currently PhDing @ University of Kansas
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"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
okaydonkeymag.com
I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
okaydonkeymag.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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album covers but with muppets: thread
August 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
album covers but with muppets: thread
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The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
forms.gle
August 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...
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I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
Romance and AI Survey
Survey of romance authors' and readers' attitudes toward generative AI
oakland.az1.qualtrics.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest:
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
"You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."
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This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!
credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think
yellat.money
July 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!
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Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!
July 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Oh what a Goddamn shitty business we've taken on, being writers! Oh what shit! What shit!
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you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
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What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.
In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness
For more than fifty years, I have been studying and writing about political repression and higher education, with a special emphasis on McCarthyism, long considered by historians to be the most seriou...
www.vqronline.org
July 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.
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Support a trans couple in South Dakota who are trying to promote literature and inclusion in a very difficult cultural climate.
www.keloland.com/news/local-n...
www.keloland.com/news/local-n...
Trans couple starts fundraiser to buy local bookstore
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The current owners of Outside of a Dog Books and Games, decided to sell their bookstore and move out of state because of the current anti-trans laws in the state. A local…
www.keloland.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Support a trans couple in South Dakota who are trying to promote literature and inclusion in a very difficult cultural climate.
www.keloland.com/news/local-n...
www.keloland.com/news/local-n...
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"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?"
Does it matter?
Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:
reactormag.com/the-necessar...
Does it matter?
Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:
reactormag.com/the-necessar...
The Necessary Sex Scene: Intimacy as Craft in N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season - Reactor
What place do sex scenes have in contemporary SFF?
reactormag.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Is the sex scene relevant? Does it move the plot forward?"
Does it matter?
Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:
reactormag.com/the-necessar...
Does it matter?
Tiffany Fritz discusses two key moments N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season–and how blending intimacy and narrative builds a story more honest, emotional, and true to the themes of her work:
reactormag.com/the-necessar...
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Before we begin, some housekeeping:
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...
National Bail Fund Network — Community Justice Exchange
www.communityjusticeexchange.org
June 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Before we begin, some housekeeping:
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...
Salute to the community in LA standing on business this weekend to protect their people from state violence and abduction. If you've got it to give, please consider pitching in on a bail fund: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire...
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Pulitzer
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now
June 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pulitzer
now
now
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Hey, #academic friends: My institution, U. of Kansas, is hiring an Asst. Prof. of African American #writing. Link below. Our department is very collegial, and I'd be happy to talk to anyone with questions or direct them to a higher-up. Come work with us! (Please circulate!)
Assistant Professor in African American Writing - University of Kansas - Job Details
Job Details: The Department of English at the University of Kansas (KU) invites applications for the position of Assistant
sjobs.brassring.com
October 29, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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Tell ‘um like it is Sourdough Jack!
November 15, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Tell ‘um like it is Sourdough Jack!
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I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever
April 29, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever
This is how it feels to put "writer / educator / etc. / etc." in a bio
October 21, 2023 at 10:26 PM
This is how it feels to put "writer / educator / etc. / etc." in a bio
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Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?
The amount of work to rebuilt platforms and reach listeners, readers, writers—it is so much. What a burden. What a senseless burden.
September 5, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?