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Will Slattery
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Grateful at the end of this year for the return of the annual @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar and for all of our excellent contributors & their excellent contributions www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
The Essay Daily Advent Calendar
The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...
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over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Hey there, so I'm starting up a new project, Tucson Essay Club / @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social. We have a substack (our primary mode of publication). If you're connected to or curious about Tucson & literary nonfiction or just like clubs, come and join us: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
Welcome to Tucson Essay Club
Welcome to Tucson Essay Club. It’s July 17th, 2025, and this is a new venture I’m starting up this fall with some likeminded writers.
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July 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.

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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation
The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"the South…is the site in this book where these questions of race and belonging are clearest to me" —a lovely conversation over at @essaydaily.bsky.social between Emilio Carrero and Thomas Dai, who both have new CNF books out: www.essaydaily.org/2025/02/to-m...
To Make Our Little Worlds Fall Apart: a Conversation between Emilio Carrero & Thomas Dai
To Make Our Little Worlds Fall Apart A Conversation between Emilio Carrero & Thomas Dai * As longtime friends, we were delighted to see tha...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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"there’s a typical narrative arc for a lot of grief books that I resisted and don’t believe in": @madnor.bsky.social and Matthew Morris in conversation at @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/01/this...
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Grateful at the end of this year for the return of the annual @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar and for all of our excellent contributors & their excellent contributions www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
The Essay Daily Advent Calendar
The 2024 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is back after a year away from the keyboard! Each year, we publish an Advent Calendar, a new essay each...
www.essaydaily.org
December 31, 2024 at 10:50 PM