Matt Cashion
@mattcashion.bsky.social
Reader, writer, Prof. Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Last Words of the Holy Ghost, stories, Edna Ferber Prize for Our 13th Divorce, a novel. NC-born, GA-raised, OR-educated Prof. of Creative Writing @U. Wisconsin-La Crosse. mattcashion.com
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Matt Cashion
@mattcashion.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Honored to have an essay in this months Sun, the monthly out of Chapel Hill that has remained ad-free for 50 years while publishing personal & political essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, & beautiful b&w pics. If you don't subscribe, consider. Their editors are smart and kind (at least with me).
Big thanks @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for publishing "The Last Cashion."
"On the morning of December 24, 1979, a woman walking her dog near the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Boone, North Carolina, discovered my grandfather’s near-naked body lying in a ditch . . ."
Read "The Last Cashion" by @mattcashion.bsky.social -- now out in issue 22.2.
Read "The Last Cashion" by @mattcashion.bsky.social -- now out in issue 22.2.
The Last Cashion - The Cincinnati Review
1 On the morning of December 24, 1979, a woman walking her dog near the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Boone, North Carolina, discovered my grandfather’s
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November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Big thanks @cincinnatireview.bsky.social for publishing "The Last Cashion."
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
Reposted by Matt Cashion
Reposted by Matt Cashion
@salvationsouth.com is looking for 1, 2 avid readers who care deeply about the American South to volunteer to read submissions—nonfiction, journalism, fiction, and poetry. If you're interested, please send me a DM, a chat message, whatever you call those things here on Bluesky!
January 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@salvationsouth.com is looking for 1, 2 avid readers who care deeply about the American South to volunteer to read submissions—nonfiction, journalism, fiction, and poetry. If you're interested, please send me a DM, a chat message, whatever you call those things here on Bluesky!
Found a new textbook, via 1927, by someone named LC Smith & Corona.
January 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Found a new textbook, via 1927, by someone named LC Smith & Corona.
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Reposted by Matt Cashion
Reposted by Matt Cashion
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
January 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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Here are some, but hardly all, of the #100smallpress reviewers. We're all eager to shine a light on the voices our indie presses support. If you've a forthcoming book with a small press, fill out the author form on Miriam's website and help us find you!
So happy to get to Zoom with some of the #100smallpress reviewers today. Small presses & small press authors, get on our radar here: www.miriamgershow.com/100smallpress
January 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Here are some, but hardly all, of the #100smallpress reviewers. We're all eager to shine a light on the voices our indie presses support. If you've a forthcoming book with a small press, fill out the author form on Miriam's website and help us find you!
Honored to have an essay in this months Sun, the monthly out of Chapel Hill that has remained ad-free for 50 years while publishing personal & political essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, & beautiful b&w pics. If you don't subscribe, consider. Their editors are smart and kind (at least with me).
January 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Honored to have an essay in this months Sun, the monthly out of Chapel Hill that has remained ad-free for 50 years while publishing personal & political essays, fiction, poetry, interviews, & beautiful b&w pics. If you don't subscribe, consider. Their editors are smart and kind (at least with me).
Thanks South Carolina Review eds for publishing this story, to be included in my forthcoming collection What Kills You, from Cornerstone Press.
December 12, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Thanks South Carolina Review eds for publishing this story, to be included in my forthcoming collection What Kills You, from Cornerstone Press.
Current re-read.
November 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Current re-read.
Good-smelling literature unearthed from my bookshelf. 35 cents in 1943.
November 18, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Good-smelling literature unearthed from my bookshelf. 35 cents in 1943.
Recommended essays for writers and readers by Tracey Daugherty, UGA Press. And a good mantra for ex-Xers.
November 16, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Recommended essays for writers and readers by Tracey Daugherty, UGA Press. And a good mantra for ex-Xers.