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hayden casey
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writer and musicker //
SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS out now from @splitlippress.com //
A HARVEST OF FURIES coming oct '25 from @lfpbooks.bsky.social //
music everywhere //
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It was such a pleasure to celebrate the launch of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's debut novel A HARVEST OF FURIES last night at Changing Hands in Phoenix! A fantastic reading and a great conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It's been a busy autumn 🍂 9 ASU English faculty announce 2025 work 🥳 Here are nooks & journals by @beelzebebout.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, G. Castle, L. FastHorse/M. Garcés, @elizhoran.bsky.social, @nnedi.bsky.social, A. Thompson & N. Zweig.

Details: ow.ly/qhnG50XmSzi #ASUHumanities
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
spent 40 min this morning trying to get the ugly AI popup to disappear from Word

made me think fondly of Scrivener... who would never do such a thing to me... I might have to make The Switch...
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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On the new fiction table! I ordered copies for the store!
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
@caitluce.bsky.social CAITLIN!!!!! I’m not sure if you remember me, but I used to be a frequent customer at U Book Store back in ‘14–‘17! hello a decade later!
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“the reports of my neuroses are greatly exaggerated,” I think, and then I reencounter something like this and go, ohhhhh, maybe not
Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA alum @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, whose debut novel A HARVEST OF FURIES is out today! (True story: in his last MFA semester, Hayden told me he was going to draft this novel in three chunks, delivering me 22,000 words per thesis meeting... and then did!)
MY FIRST NOVEL IS OUT TODAY!!!!! & they have it at barnes & noble?!? (& lots of lovely independent bookshops as well!!)

I have been trying to do this for 10 years & dreaming about it for 10 more—surreal moment!
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
MY FIRST NOVEL IS OUT TODAY!!!!! & they have it at barnes & noble?!? (& lots of lovely independent bookshops as well!!)

I have been trying to do this for 10 years & dreaming about it for 10 more—surreal moment!
October 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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October 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!
October 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I am applying to so many jobs. I am a job-applying machine. I am a sleek efficient mechanized typist of statements and filler-inner of forms. no job is safe from me. I am a consummate professional. I am vigilant for new postings. the void into which I fire off applications is becoming weary of me.
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Save the date! Next Saturday will be the 1st Desert Grit Reading Series at Rift Wine Bar & Taphouse in Scottsdale! Oct 4th at 3 PM!

Readings from

@mdbell79.bsky.social

@shipraagarwal.bsky.social

@sabrinahicks.bsky.social

@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social

@stephanieaustin.bsky.social

And me!
September 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
just ordered an americano with 4 shots (which is not the point / probably another discussion) at an airport café, and the person behind the counter went, “4 shots of…?”

……???
July 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Just finished an ARC of @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's A HARVEST OF FURIES, and if you like retellings of Greek tragedies and unusual story structures, it's a pretty striking take on the Oresteia. #booksky
July 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
just watched a woman at the airport rip a page of her book in half to use as a bookmark

????,,,?,
June 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
340 days... 400 pages... 130,757 words later... I have a draft!
June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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pals spotted on the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s—Film Elegy by @laura-n-paul.bsky.social, Leafskin by @mirandarschmidt.bsky.social, & Show Me Where the Hurt Is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 👏👏👏
June 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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#nowreading
Hayden Casey’s Show Me Where the Hurt Is

People finding themselves in predicaments, self-inflicted or not, but somehow come out okay, mostly, usually, on the other side.
June 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
finally... fiiiiiinally... on the last chapter of this draft. #26/26. I've spent 11 months with these people!!!
June 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
there comes a point in every novel draft where the end is in sight and the words are just, like, falling out. I open the draft and a new paragraph just emerges from the ether. I scroll down and there are three more pages filled. name a better drug (impossible)!!!
June 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
new interview up!!!
@haydenmcasey13.bsky.social‬ talks about his debut story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS (@splitlippress.com‬) with Maya Chari necessaryfiction.com/interviews/u...
June 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
am I suffering from deep-draft delusion or is this thing I'm working on my masterpiece?
June 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
wrote the exact same number of words two days in a row completely by accident. (1,879 if u were wondering)
June 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I am over 100k in this novel draft, which officially makes it the longest thing I've ever written. is that why I'm terrified?
June 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draft this month, dammit. i am finishing this draf
June 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
my first-ever galleys arrived today 🥹🥹🥹
May 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM