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🌭✨ Pool Party… a reading series, lit mag, and indie book publisher. https://poolpartymag.com Founders | @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social + @femmeintheory.bsky.social
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"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"At twenty-four, I fucked wherever I could while my boyfriend did the same, an impossible competition." Love this new essay by Alicia Gee, "I MAY LEAVE," up today at Pool Party. 🔥
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
I May Leave by Alicia Gee
Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity."
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
Check out Alicia Gee's amazing essay "I May Leave," a meditation on family, fidelity, and desire, up now at POOL PARTY 🦋🔥
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Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Metal albums? Childhood nostalgia? Christian/Satanic cult vibes? Guy Cramer's "The Pool Pit" checks ALL the boxes 🔥
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer
I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋
"Some creatures themselves are like large apartment buildings for the smaller ones to live in."
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI
As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi an...
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October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Some creatures themselves are like large apartment buildings for the smaller ones to live in."
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
Check out @jaimefountaine.bsky.social's amazing interview with artist Soso Capaldi where they discuss religious experience, their shared family, and David Lynch. 🎨✨
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This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱
October 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱
"...mysterious
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
Two Poems by Ewan Glass
He’s all about that darknessand what we still don’t know,mysterious
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September 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"...mysterious
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
like someone on an app
inviting you to meet
to drown
in their self-regard."
Check out this amazing poem "He’s as deep as The Mariana Trench (when it writes poetry)" from @ewenglass.bsky.social & come back tomorrow for another banger 🔥🔥🔥
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Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
"Maybe when kids like Jessie & John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this inexplicable notion you’d be dead."
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Conjuring a Life by Casey Jo Graham Welmers
Maybe when kids like Jessie and John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this...
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September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sometimes you read a first line and you're like... oh fuck this is going to be good. Casey Jo Graham Welmers' essay "Conjuring a Life" delivers and then some. Sooooooooo good. Up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥
"Maybe when kids like Jessie & John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this inexplicable notion you’d be dead."
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Conjuring a Life by Casey Jo Graham Welmers
Maybe when kids like Jessie and John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this...
poolpartymag.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"Maybe when kids like Jessie & John grew up they wanted to be firefighters or teachers or someone that excavates dinosaurs, but you never really knew what you wanted to be because you always had this inexplicable notion you’d be dead."
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
Check out Casey Jo Graham Welmers's 🔥 essay "Conjuring a Life"
📚📚 WHY POOL PARTY BOOKS??? 📚📚
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
September 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📚📚 WHY POOL PARTY BOOKS??? 📚📚
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
• Ryan-Ashley’s 15 yrs as a creative director w/ publicity experience = thoughtful & marketable promo materials, a strong promo plan & gorgeous art
• Kevin’s experience as an author w/ 3 book pubs means you’re working w/ someone who understands the process soup-to-nuts
📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party - Book Submissions
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📚📚 ANNOUNCING: POOL PARTY BOOKS!!! 📚📚
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
Pool Party is open for book submissions!!! We will have two reading periods and publish two books/year. The first reading period runs from now until December 15th, 2025. Visit our website for details 🔥
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this story by @aubrirose.bsky.social is every bit as good as people are saying h/t to @dmartincampbell.bsky.social for sharing it and to @poolpartymag.com for publishing
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Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman
I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
this story by @aubrirose.bsky.social is every bit as good as people are saying h/t to @dmartincampbell.bsky.social for sharing it and to @poolpartymag.com for publishing
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Hey all! Pool Party #3 is TOMORROW! We still have a few tickets left!! Weather looks good! If you already have tickets, invite a friend. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, get on it now!
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Pool Party Presents! Luxury Time, a Reading (at a pool!!)
Let’s go swimming! Join Brian Stephen Ellis, Laura Gibson, Lydia-Mae, & Justin Taylor for a poolside reading with hot dogs and dranks!
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September 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey all! Pool Party #3 is TOMORROW! We still have a few tickets left!! Weather looks good! If you already have tickets, invite a friend. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, get on it now!
www.eventbrite.com/e/pool-party...
www.eventbrite.com/e/pool-party...
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Honestly, I kind of get it.
"When I told people about this fear, they’d laugh and I’d laugh and I’d say, “I know, I know” and I’d do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and we’d move on."
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman
I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...
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August 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Honestly, I kind of get it.
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Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥
"Her breath caught in her chest and wouldn’t release. She hadn’t taken an edible, but this felt like a terrible trip."
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
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We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
Plateaued by M.M. Kaufman
Cooper and CeCe were sitting in the backyard watching their respective daughters, Lily and Anya, play at the bottom of the sloping hill. They sat in Adirondack chairs while their Aperol spritzes colle...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Um. Everybody... stop what you're doing and check out @mmkaufman.bsky.social's new banger "PLATEAUED"... up today at @poolpartymag.com 🔥🔥🔥
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New @mmkaufman.bsky.social!!
"Her breath caught in her chest and wouldn’t release. She hadn’t taken an edible, but this felt like a terrible trip."
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
Plateaued by M.M. Kaufman
Cooper and CeCe were sitting in the backyard watching their respective daughters, Lily and Anya, play at the bottom of the sloping hill. They sat in Adirondack chairs while their Aperol spritzes colle...
poolpartymag.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New @mmkaufman.bsky.social!!
"Her breath caught in her chest and wouldn’t release. She hadn’t taken an edible, but this felt like a terrible trip."
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
Plateaued by M.M. Kaufman
Cooper and CeCe were sitting in the backyard watching their respective daughters, Lily and Anya, play at the bottom of the sloping hill. They sat in Adirondack chairs while their Aperol spritzes colle...
poolpartymag.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"Her breath caught in her chest and wouldn’t release. She hadn’t taken an edible, but this felt like a terrible trip."
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
We're soooooo excited to publish the story "Plateaued" by one of our favorite writers in the world, the carwash queen
@mm_kaufman 🔥
poolpartymag.com/plateaued/
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One of my fav things about Pool Party is how it pairs the 🔥 writing happening in indie lit w/ interviews & reviews about incredible work happening in other disciplines. Today, we're publishing @femmeintheory.bsky.social's interview w/ performance artist Autumn Knight, where Autumn turns...
"My favorite thing about performance is its liveness. Its ephemerality."
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
Group dynamics, intimacy between strangers, and rehearsing for loss: A review and conversation between Autumn Joi Knight and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
A note: I began working on this interview and writeup in the fall of 2024. By the new year, I had gathered all the information and data I needed to move forward. Unfortunately, my momentum was thwarte...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
One of my fav things about Pool Party is how it pairs the 🔥 writing happening in indie lit w/ interviews & reviews about incredible work happening in other disciplines. Today, we're publishing @femmeintheory.bsky.social's interview w/ performance artist Autumn Knight, where Autumn turns...
"My favorite thing about performance is its liveness. Its ephemerality."
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
Group dynamics, intimacy between strangers, and rehearsing for loss: A review and conversation between Autumn Joi Knight and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney
A note: I began working on this interview and writeup in the fall of 2024. By the new year, I had gathered all the information and data I needed to move forward. Unfortunately, my momentum was thwarte...
poolpartymag.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"My favorite thing about performance is its liveness. Its ephemerality."
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
Check out this 🔥 interview between @femmeintheory.bsky.social and multidisciplinary artist Autumn Knight where they discuss group dynamics, being present, & the intimacy of being fed. 🍒👄
poolpartymag.com/group-dynami...
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Um... so this is happening 👀
HEY PORTLAND. If you've been thinkin... Pool Party's cool, but like, when are u going to host a reading at an actual swimming pool? Well... the answer is Sep 7 4pm! ⛱🏊♀️🥂 Secret location in the West Hills. $12 or $20 w hot dog & bev. Tix gonna go fast. (link in comments)
August 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Um... so this is happening 👀
HEY PORTLAND. If you've been thinkin... Pool Party's cool, but like, when are u going to host a reading at an actual swimming pool? Well... the answer is Sep 7 4pm! ⛱🏊♀️🥂 Secret location in the West Hills. $12 or $20 w hot dog & bev. Tix gonna go fast. (link in comments)
August 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
HEY PORTLAND. If you've been thinkin... Pool Party's cool, but like, when are u going to host a reading at an actual swimming pool? Well... the answer is Sep 7 4pm! ⛱🏊♀️🥂 Secret location in the West Hills. $12 or $20 w hot dog & bev. Tix gonna go fast. (link in comments)
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You’re gonna want to read this one!
"When I told people about this fear, they’d laugh and I’d laugh and I’d say, “I know, I know” and I’d do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and we’d move on."
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman
I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...
poolpartymag.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
You’re gonna want to read this one!
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This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!
"When I told people about this fear, they’d laugh and I’d laugh and I’d say, “I know, I know” and I’d do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and we’d move on."
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
We're FUCKING THRILLED to publish "Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something" by the wildly talented @aubrirose.bsky.social 🗿🌊😱
poolpartymag.com/megalohydrot...
Megalohydrothalassophobia, or Something by Aubri Kaufman
I can’t pinpoint the onset of my giant underwater statue phobia, but I suspect it crystallized ten years ago, around the first time I saw a photo of a massive Jesus submerged somewhere in Key Largo. C...
poolpartymag.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is one of my favorite things we've published yet on Pool Party. Stop whatever you're doing and read it. @aubrirose.bsky.social is 🔥. Soooooooo good!!!