Middle West Press
@middlewestpress.bsky.social
Middle West Press is an Iowa-based editor and publisher of non-fiction, fiction, journalism, and poetry books. Our projects are often inspired by the people, places, and history of the American Midwest. Also #veterans. Visit: http://www.middlewestpress.com
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From "Line of Advance" & the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards: The best new and established voices from modern wars & eras! NOW IN TWO VOLUMES !!
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Editor: Christopher Lyke
Covers: @battlefieldgd.bsky.social
Publisher: @middlewestpress.bsky.social
Series link here:
amzn.to/4oZPwPZ
Editor: Christopher Lyke
Covers: @battlefieldgd.bsky.social
Publisher: @middlewestpress.bsky.social
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MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) 2025 haul.
Since I have many many many books and zines, I try to limit myself to ones where the author is doing something interesting that I want to keep referring back to.
On that note, every year I walk away with 2-3 Bulgilhan Press books
Since I have many many many books and zines, I try to limit myself to ones where the author is doing something interesting that I want to keep referring back to.
On that note, every year I walk away with 2-3 Bulgilhan Press books
December 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) 2025 haul.
Since I have many many many books and zines, I try to limit myself to ones where the author is doing something interesting that I want to keep referring back to.
On that note, every year I walk away with 2-3 Bulgilhan Press books
Since I have many many many books and zines, I try to limit myself to ones where the author is doing something interesting that I want to keep referring back to.
On that note, every year I walk away with 2-3 Bulgilhan Press books
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My haul from PAXU — more solo and epistolary games for students, any literary game I could grab, some physical copies of games I own in PDF, my haul from the Zine Machine.
(I’m also a sucker for a Beautiful or Weird Object, for the record)
(I’m also a sucker for a Beautiful or Weird Object, for the record)
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
My haul from PAXU — more solo and epistolary games for students, any literary game I could grab, some physical copies of games I own in PDF, my haul from the Zine Machine.
(I’m also a sucker for a Beautiful or Weird Object, for the record)
(I’m also a sucker for a Beautiful or Weird Object, for the record)
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Casablanca Strikes Back
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Casablanca Strikes Back
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
The Casablanca Supremacy
The Casablanca Ultimatum
Casablanca: Endgame
Casablanca Here We go Again
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I was set to list my favorite books of 2025 a week ago, but @thelincoln.bsky.social came in under the wire with Metallic Realms. A Trekkie's book like Redshirts or Galaxy Quest: you have to love Star Trek to really enjoy how goofy and lampoonable it is. Wild on talent and fandom.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I was set to list my favorite books of 2025 a week ago, but @thelincoln.bsky.social came in under the wire with Metallic Realms. A Trekkie's book like Redshirts or Galaxy Quest: you have to love Star Trek to really enjoy how goofy and lampoonable it is. Wild on talent and fandom.
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My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."
In the Fight Against Fascism, Libraries Should Be Defended — Not Defunded
Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders must fortify at all costs, especially in this moment.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
My latest reprinted in @truthout.org. "Libraries represent the kind of infrastructure progressive leaders should fortify and defend at all costs, especially in this moment. Instead, libraries in Chicago are being hollowed out, while the police budget remains sacrosanct."
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The air temperature is -8 degrees Fahrenheit. The water surface temperature is above 32 degrees. There is a wall of sea smoke rising from Lake Superior
December 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The air temperature is -8 degrees Fahrenheit. The water surface temperature is above 32 degrees. There is a wall of sea smoke rising from Lake Superior
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About a week left to get 40% off on mini-prints on my store!
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December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
About a week left to get 40% off on mini-prints on my store!
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Bundle some award winners in your cart! 50% off any five books.
@sonyahuber.bsky.social @zeets.bsky.social
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@sonyahuber.bsky.social @zeets.bsky.social
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December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Bundle some award winners in your cart! 50% off any five books.
@sonyahuber.bsky.social @zeets.bsky.social
www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
@sonyahuber.bsky.social @zeets.bsky.social
www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
Congratulations to "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology contributor Juan Manuel Pérez and @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social, on the launch of Pérez's latest collection, "The Enigmatical Sphere of El Chupa-Ku"!
Buy it via Bookshop.org and elsewhere:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Buy it via Bookshop.org and elsewhere:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congratulations to "Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn" anthology contributor Juan Manuel Pérez and @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social, on the launch of Pérez's latest collection, "The Enigmatical Sphere of El Chupa-Ku"!
Buy it via Bookshop.org and elsewhere:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Buy it via Bookshop.org and elsewhere:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
"The playbook here is familiar," @parkermolloy.com writes for HW. "Find a trans person in a position of minor institutional authority. Manufacture or amplify a confrontation. Blast it through the conservative media ecosystem until it becomes national news. Watch as institutions capitulate."
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Well this year we CAN participate in the #GivingTuesday flood so we probably SHOULD. With your support we can do even more to protect, celebrate, & elevate the right to read.
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight…
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Well this year we CAN participate in the #GivingTuesday flood so we probably SHOULD. With your support we can do even more to protect, celebrate, & elevate the right to read.
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As always, if you’re a federal worker or someone in tech and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal with a non-work phone at Vittoria89.82
SCOOP from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: despite recent reports, DOGE isn’t dead—it’s actually everywhere. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As always, if you’re a federal worker or someone in tech and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal with a non-work phone at Vittoria89.82
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PJP is a nonprofit. That means every story we publish and every writer we train is made possible because people like you choose to support this work. We rely on our community to keep this platform free and accessible to anyone behind the walls who wants to learn, write and be heard.
Donate | Prison Journalism Project
Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
PJP is a nonprofit. That means every story we publish and every writer we train is made possible because people like you choose to support this work. We rely on our community to keep this platform free and accessible to anyone behind the walls who wants to learn, write and be heard.
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Excellent piece. “…What are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?”
How wretched that so many people acknowledge this truth, yet so few are the ways to remedy the problem.
How wretched that so many people acknowledge this truth, yet so few are the ways to remedy the problem.
“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."
www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...
www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...
Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.
We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.
www.thebulwark.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Excellent piece. “…What are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?”
How wretched that so many people acknowledge this truth, yet so few are the ways to remedy the problem.
How wretched that so many people acknowledge this truth, yet so few are the ways to remedy the problem.
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I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
Oddzilla says: “Forget Elf on Shelf. Put MOAR BOOKS on Shelf!”
"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters"
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0
"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters"
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Oddzilla says: “Forget Elf on Shelf. Put MOAR BOOKS on Shelf!”
"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters"
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0
"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters"
- Print: amzn.to/47buzvn
- Kindle: amzn.to/3ZSvQn0
As a veteran-owned business, Middle West Press is proud to administer and underwrite The Aiming Circle—an on-line community of practice that serves writers of themes and topics related to war and military service.
Members include poets and playwrights, scholars and soldiers, essayists and analysts!
Members include poets and playwrights, scholars and soldiers, essayists and analysts!
Here’s our latest salvo of RESOURCES, TIPS, and MARKETS for writers of military- and war-themed fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scholarship, and more!
Find all our November 2025 stories here (1/3):
www.aimingcircle.com/2025/11/a-ro...
#milwriters #veterans #milfamilies #militarylife
Find all our November 2025 stories here (1/3):
www.aimingcircle.com/2025/11/a-ro...
#milwriters #veterans #milfamilies #militarylife
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As a veteran-owned business, Middle West Press is proud to administer and underwrite The Aiming Circle—an on-line community of practice that serves writers of themes and topics related to war and military service.
Members include poets and playwrights, scholars and soldiers, essayists and analysts!
Members include poets and playwrights, scholars and soldiers, essayists and analysts!
RESILIENCE = RESISTANCE !!! For readers and writers of modern military life & what comes after! Great reads & gifts!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
@bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
@bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
RESILIENCE = RESISTANCE !!! For readers and writers of modern military life & what comes after! Great reads & gifts!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
@bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble,
@bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
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"ON WARS ... & AFTER-WARS!"
For readers and writers of modern military life! Great reads & gifts for those who serve, and those whose lives are touched by military service!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, @bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
For readers and writers of modern military life! Great reads & gifts for those who serve, and those whose lives are touched by military service!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, @bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"ON WARS ... & AFTER-WARS!"
For readers and writers of modern military life! Great reads & gifts for those who serve, and those whose lives are touched by military service!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, @bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
For readers and writers of modern military life! Great reads & gifts for those who serve, and those whose lives are touched by military service!
Available worldwide via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, @bookshop.org, and indie booksellers!
Round-up link: amzn.to/3MbKf9X
Meet “Charlie Sherpa” @fobhaiku.bsky.social, the GWOT mil-blogger who originated the “Sherpatudes”!
Part lessons-learned guy & unit historian, part war poet, part “brigade staff jester”! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry—you just might learn something to boot!
FIND ALL HIS BOOKS:
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Part lessons-learned guy & unit historian, part war poet, part “brigade staff jester”! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry—you just might learn something to boot!
FIND ALL HIS BOOKS:
amzn.to/3Kd6kUU
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Meet “Charlie Sherpa” @fobhaiku.bsky.social, the GWOT mil-blogger who originated the “Sherpatudes”!
Part lessons-learned guy & unit historian, part war poet, part “brigade staff jester”! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry—you just might learn something to boot!
FIND ALL HIS BOOKS:
amzn.to/3Kd6kUU
Part lessons-learned guy & unit historian, part war poet, part “brigade staff jester”! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry—you just might learn something to boot!
FIND ALL HIS BOOKS:
amzn.to/3Kd6kUU
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Looking at the physical state of the White House, I could see why this move happened.
I expect American buildings to become less safe, less efficient, less creative, and less elegant long-term as a result of the Trump administration's policies
www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
I expect American buildings to become less safe, less efficient, less creative, and less elegant long-term as a result of the Trump administration's policies
www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
Architecture no longer considered a "professional degree" in USA
Students in the USA will receive lower loans under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill as architecture will not be considered a professional degree.
www.dezeen.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Looking at the physical state of the White House, I could see why this move happened.
I expect American buildings to become less safe, less efficient, less creative, and less elegant long-term as a result of the Trump administration's policies
www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
I expect American buildings to become less safe, less efficient, less creative, and less elegant long-term as a result of the Trump administration's policies
www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...
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poetry prompt of the week: i heard recently that "the future has an ancient heart." can you tell me what your past, present, and future's heart has to say for you? listen closely and write as close to what comes up as you can.
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
poetry prompt of the week: i heard recently that "the future has an ancient heart." can you tell me what your past, present, and future's heart has to say for you? listen closely and write as close to what comes up as you can.
Military Families—we see you! @lisasticepoet.bsky.social is a poet, editor, literary activist, mother, military spouse, and the author of multiple full-length poetry collections!
FIND ALL HER BOOKS HERE:
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FIND ALL HER BOOKS HERE:
amzn.to/48gYrpu
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Military Families—we see you! @lisasticepoet.bsky.social is a poet, editor, literary activist, mother, military spouse, and the author of multiple full-length poetry collections!
FIND ALL HER BOOKS HERE:
amzn.to/48gYrpu
FIND ALL HER BOOKS HERE:
amzn.to/48gYrpu