Craig
craigholt.bsky.social
Craig
@craigholt.bsky.social
Writer and reader. I love nature and I am very uncomfortable with clowns.
Where I am in the writing process:
One book out on submission and another that is (hopefully) also close to going out. Meanwhile, I’m here every day. Wherever I am with the business side of writing, this is where the joy is for me - at the desk, imagining my way into stories. #writerslife
May 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I have gotten into the habit of talking to goats about my writing woes. They are very attentive listeners.
#goats #writerslife
May 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Finished revising my novel for my agent yesterday afternoon. This morning I burned off my “I hope she likes it” nerves by going on a sunrise scramble up Mount Si. Good medicine for the anxious author.
April 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Looking for a great read? Pick up ELITA by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum. A beautifully written look at identity and indepence that revolves around a dark mystery.
#books
April 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Fancy writing desk I cobbled together on the road to #AWP25. Not super comfortable, but I got the work done. #writingcommunity
March 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’m working on a novelette about failure and raccoons - because I heard publishers are jonesing for that kind of thing.
March 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Late February, 5:30pm. The Chicken Man reflects on his choices.
February 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Here, leaning against the wall and staring at your phone is prohibited.
Neither are you allowed to sit on the steps while suffering an existential crisis.
#rules
February 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In these troubling times, there was joy in meeting the swimming pigs of Rose Island.
February 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
An important reminder in these turbulent times.
January 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I sent a draft of my lurid picaresque novel to a couple of trusted beta readers today.
This is the tiniest of small victories, but I will celebrate it all the same.
January 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Apparently I type too hard. Or maybe just too much. #writerslife
December 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM
#flashbackfriday
This was one of my favorite holiday cards I made at Atlas. I always loved bringing my whack-ass ideas to the brilliant @ajpower_studio and seeing how he’d bring them to life.
#holidays
December 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM
My essay came out in MicroLit Almanac in October, but seemed like it’s worth reposting today.

www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-alm...
For My Sons, Who are Convinced We’re All Screwed by Craig Holt — BIRCH BARK EDITING
Guys, I love you but I have bad news: we are all fucked by Time as surely as we are by our wireless internet providers. And during the flicker and fade of our brief lives we will burn too much time so...
www.birchbarkediting.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Like most people, when friends told me I should be on this platform I thought, "I should buy a cow so I'll have something to talk about on here besides writing."
No cow yet, but I dare to dream.
December 19, 2024 at 8:31 PM