Amorak Huey
@amorak.bsky.social
Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Proud union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games & ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
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and you should, it's really good! :D
Anyway, you can buy my latest SF novel from Waterstones if you are so inclined. www.waterstones.com/book/the-hei...
The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson | Waterstones
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November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
and you should, it's really good! :D
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Like a person might have a background figure with indistinct arms by choice. But a human arm that merges with a tree branch of the exact same width and visual trajectory is a very specific detail.
AI slop does that because it prioritizes line continuity without understanding what the lines ARE.
AI slop does that because it prioritizes line continuity without understanding what the lines ARE.
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Like a person might have a background figure with indistinct arms by choice. But a human arm that merges with a tree branch of the exact same width and visual trajectory is a very specific detail.
AI slop does that because it prioritizes line continuity without understanding what the lines ARE.
AI slop does that because it prioritizes line continuity without understanding what the lines ARE.
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ICYMI
I wrote a tiny story abt the dangers of letting your kid read your high school yearbook 📚
gooseberry-pie.com/subway-was-r...
I wrote a tiny story abt the dangers of letting your kid read your high school yearbook 📚
gooseberry-pie.com/subway-was-r...
Subway Was Real When You Worked There - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Photo by Taylor Flowe on Unsplash by Lisa Thornton reads my son aloud from my senior yearbook and I’m not sure yet who the inscription is from but then he says no one has fallen out of my car lately a...
gooseberry-pie.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ICYMI
I wrote a tiny story abt the dangers of letting your kid read your high school yearbook 📚
gooseberry-pie.com/subway-was-r...
I wrote a tiny story abt the dangers of letting your kid read your high school yearbook 📚
gooseberry-pie.com/subway-was-r...
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It’s a poetry taster on a winter’s evening 📚💙❄️ Hope to see you there!
@amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry
@amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It’s a poetry taster on a winter’s evening 📚💙❄️ Hope to see you there!
@amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry
@amorak.bsky.social @pittella.bsky.social @esylviapoet.bsky.social @martin65.bsky.social #poetry
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Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
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Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
I’ll say this much: This reads exactly like what it is: people who discovered romance five years ago and decided they had all kinds of amazing new ideas to “fix” it. Connections between books? That feel kind of cozy to the reader? How did no one ever think of that?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/b...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Also sounds like people who don’t understand books. “I want to set my books up so nobody needs to talk about them online or writes fanfic” is such a wild thing for someone to say if they want to make money.
“… Amorak Huey's Mouth is an exploration …”
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November 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“… Amorak Huey's Mouth is an exploration …”
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“I must break the language to tell it myself…” Donna Vorreyer
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Never recovering from this page
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Never recovering from this page
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I genuinely love when you’re in a liminal space, like an airport, and then you have to pass through a liminal space in the liminal space, like a weird hallway under construction - that’s the feeling I’m always looking for in my writing
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I genuinely love when you’re in a liminal space, like an airport, and then you have to pass through a liminal space in the liminal space, like a weird hallway under construction - that’s the feeling I’m always looking for in my writing
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When you suddenly realise you've been saying hello to all the villagers without changing back into human form.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
When you suddenly realise you've been saying hello to all the villagers without changing back into human form.
“When I am inside having sex while it snows I want to be thinking about the birds too, and I want my love to love thinking about the birds as much as I do, for it is snowing…” — Mary Ruefle, “Snow” (www.versedaily.org/2008/snow.sh...)
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
“When I am inside having sex while it snows I want to be thinking about the birds too, and I want my love to love thinking about the birds as much as I do, for it is snowing…” — Mary Ruefle, “Snow” (www.versedaily.org/2008/snow.sh...)
Look what arrived in the mail!
ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —
ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Look what arrived in the mail!
ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —
ARCs of Mouth, my fifth full-length poetry collection, due out in January from Cornerstone Press. Preorder link coming soon —
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We love to see our authors send such beautifully intelligent and good work into the world on behalf of others—fills our cup up 💙💙💙
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We love to see our authors send such beautifully intelligent and good work into the world on behalf of others—fills our cup up 💙💙💙
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Read @jasutherland.bsky.social’s new review of Erin C. Murphy’s Human Resources (Grayson Books, 2025) in Plume: plumepoetry.com/jennifer-a-s... #poetry #booksky
Out the right side of the car …
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Out the right side of the car …
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using the extra hour to yearn
November 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
using the extra hour to yearn
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So grateful to @christinalinsin.bsky.social and @soflopojo.bsky.social for their attention to reviewing new poetry collections from small presses! It means the world 🎉🎉🎉
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So grateful to @christinalinsin.bsky.social and @soflopojo.bsky.social for their attention to reviewing new poetry collections from small presses! It means the world 🎉🎉🎉
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“Rich and sensuous, Dallis’s debut, Encounters For the Living and the Dead: poems, weaves together ekphrasis, clear poetic imagery, and the eternal sounding of the sea to create a portal through which reader becomes witness, and prosaic contains holy.”
@christinalinsin.bsky.social 💙📚🎉
@christinalinsin.bsky.social 💙📚🎉
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November 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Rich and sensuous, Dallis’s debut, Encounters For the Living and the Dead: poems, weaves together ekphrasis, clear poetic imagery, and the eternal sounding of the sea to create a portal through which reader becomes witness, and prosaic contains holy.”
@christinalinsin.bsky.social 💙📚🎉
@christinalinsin.bsky.social 💙📚🎉
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Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off!
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off!
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help aren’t obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help aren’t obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.