Rob Davidson
@robdavidson9.bsky.social
Author | prof @Chico State | WELCOME BACK TO THE WORLD: A NOVELLA AND STORIES, Cornerstone Press 2024 | guitar, bass, vocals | www.robdavidsonauthor.net
Welcome Back to the World has been named Winner in the Short Stories category at the 2025 annual National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA). I am over the moon!
Thanks to Cornerstone Press for all their support!
www.indieexcellence.com/19th-annual-...
Thanks to Cornerstone Press for all their support!
www.indieexcellence.com/19th-annual-...
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Welcome Back to the World has been named Winner in the Short Stories category at the 2025 annual National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA). I am over the moon!
Thanks to Cornerstone Press for all their support!
www.indieexcellence.com/19th-annual-...
Thanks to Cornerstone Press for all their support!
www.indieexcellence.com/19th-annual-...
A nice write-up published online in the Chico News and Review discussing both my teaching and the new book, Welcome Back to the World. (photo credit Linda Irene Rogers)
chico.newsreview.com/2024/12/13/p...
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A literary inspiration for students, a writer of stories for hard times, Chico’s Rob Davidson discusses his new book and why fiction matters • Chico News & Review
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December 14, 2024 at 1:10 AM
A nice write-up published online in the Chico News and Review discussing both my teaching and the new book, Welcome Back to the World. (photo credit Linda Irene Rogers)
chico.newsreview.com/2024/12/13/p...
chico.newsreview.com/2024/12/13/p...
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SECOND: I’ll discuss the new book on Writing on Air, 11/27 7:00-7:30 p.m. PST on KZFR 90.1 FM (Chico, CA). Listen worldwide at kzfr.org or stream from the KZFR archives after the show.
SECOND: I’ll discuss the new book on Writing on Air, 11/27 7:00-7:30 p.m. PST on KZFR 90.1 FM (Chico, CA). Listen worldwide at kzfr.org or stream from the KZFR archives after the show.
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November 25, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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SECOND: I’ll discuss the new book on Writing on Air, 11/27 7:00-7:30 p.m. PST on KZFR 90.1 FM (Chico, CA). Listen worldwide at kzfr.org or stream from the KZFR archives after the show.
SECOND: I’ll discuss the new book on Writing on Air, 11/27 7:00-7:30 p.m. PST on KZFR 90.1 FM (Chico, CA). Listen worldwide at kzfr.org or stream from the KZFR archives after the show.
Live radio double whammy!
FIRST: Rob returns to Nancy’s Bookshelf for a discussion of Welcome Back to the World. Listen live 27 November on KCHO 91.7 FM (Chico, CA) 10:00 a.m. PST, or listen live online. You can also catch the podcast after the broadcast. 1/2
FIRST: Rob returns to Nancy’s Bookshelf for a discussion of Welcome Back to the World. Listen live 27 November on KCHO 91.7 FM (Chico, CA) 10:00 a.m. PST, or listen live online. You can also catch the podcast after the broadcast. 1/2
November 25, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Live radio double whammy!
FIRST: Rob returns to Nancy’s Bookshelf for a discussion of Welcome Back to the World. Listen live 27 November on KCHO 91.7 FM (Chico, CA) 10:00 a.m. PST, or listen live online. You can also catch the podcast after the broadcast. 1/2
FIRST: Rob returns to Nancy’s Bookshelf for a discussion of Welcome Back to the World. Listen live 27 November on KCHO 91.7 FM (Chico, CA) 10:00 a.m. PST, or listen live online. You can also catch the podcast after the broadcast. 1/2
Reposted by Rob Davidson
We are honored to have the accomplished @robdavidson9.bsky.social as one of our readers for our Fall Salon on Thu, 11/21 at 5:30pm PST. Register to enjoy an evening filled with literary brilliance. It's free and open to all! tinyurl.com/enb98k24
#wtawpress #virtualevent #smallpressbooks
#wtawpress #virtualevent #smallpressbooks
November 12, 2024 at 5:07 PM
We are honored to have the accomplished @robdavidson9.bsky.social as one of our readers for our Fall Salon on Thu, 11/21 at 5:30pm PST. Register to enjoy an evening filled with literary brilliance. It's free and open to all! tinyurl.com/enb98k24
#wtawpress #virtualevent #smallpressbooks
#wtawpress #virtualevent #smallpressbooks
Join me and three other talented writers on 21 November for the WTAW Fall Reading Salon. I’ll be reading from my just-published collection Welcome Back to the World. Free but registration is required. Visit wtawpress.org
November 14, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Join me and three other talented writers on 21 November for the WTAW Fall Reading Salon. I’ll be reading from my just-published collection Welcome Back to the World. Free but registration is required. Visit wtawpress.org
My new book Welcome Back to the World: A Novella and Stories is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press on 1 November 2024.
These stories came to life during Trump time, a pandemic, and all that followed. The stories reflect some of that darkness, but ultimately, I trust, offer a bit of hope.
These stories came to life during Trump time, a pandemic, and all that followed. The stories reflect some of that darkness, but ultimately, I trust, offer a bit of hope.
August 24, 2024 at 2:34 PM
My new book Welcome Back to the World: A Novella and Stories is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press on 1 November 2024.
These stories came to life during Trump time, a pandemic, and all that followed. The stories reflect some of that darkness, but ultimately, I trust, offer a bit of hope.
These stories came to life during Trump time, a pandemic, and all that followed. The stories reflect some of that darkness, but ultimately, I trust, offer a bit of hope.
Faculty of the California State University are ON STRIKE 22-26 January, asking for a fair contract, including better pay for adjuncts and part timers, addressing workload issues, and improving parental leave, among other issues. Visit calfac.org for more information.
January 22, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Faculty of the California State University are ON STRIKE 22-26 January, asking for a fair contract, including better pay for adjuncts and part timers, addressing workload issues, and improving parental leave, among other issues. Visit calfac.org for more information.
“After a poetry reading, never submit to a Question-and-Answer session. Poetry gets the listeners high. A Q-and-A brings it all down to prose. Do they ask a folk singer to explain his songs? If a poem has to be explicated, it’s a failure in communication.”
—Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
—Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
January 3, 2024 at 2:52 AM
“After a poetry reading, never submit to a Question-and-Answer session. Poetry gets the listeners high. A Q-and-A brings it all down to prose. Do they ask a folk singer to explain his songs? If a poem has to be explicated, it’s a failure in communication.”
—Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
—Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
Thank goodness for indie & small press publishers. They are keeping the literary arts alive (and diverse) in this age of conglomerates and streamlining. Here’s a pretty good list and some excellent presses to support and to watch.
📸 www.ocregister.com/2023/12/07/2...
📸 www.ocregister.com/2023/12/07/2...
25 must-read books published in 2023 by independent presses
Check out the excellent books being put out by smaller publishers this year.
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December 8, 2023 at 1:01 AM
Thank goodness for indie & small press publishers. They are keeping the literary arts alive (and diverse) in this age of conglomerates and streamlining. Here’s a pretty good list and some excellent presses to support and to watch.
📸 www.ocregister.com/2023/12/07/2...
📸 www.ocregister.com/2023/12/07/2...
“When I start writing I never feel sure that I will be able to write a new work. I never plan anything in advance, I just sit down and start writing. And at a certain point, I have the feeling that the work is already written and I just have to write it down before it disappears.”
—Jon Fosse
—Jon Fosse
October 6, 2023 at 1:35 AM
“When I start writing I never feel sure that I will be able to write a new work. I never plan anything in advance, I just sit down and start writing. And at a certain point, I have the feeling that the work is already written and I just have to write it down before it disappears.”
—Jon Fosse
—Jon Fosse
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Excited to have a short story in FIVE SOUTH @fivesouth.bsky.social today. (An essayist and flash writer, I rarely publish longform fiction.) Big thanks to @courtlandavenue.bsky.social. #litworld
www.fivesouth.net/post/the-bea...
www.fivesouth.net/post/the-bea...
October 4, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Excited to have a short story in FIVE SOUTH @fivesouth.bsky.social today. (An essayist and flash writer, I rarely publish longform fiction.) Big thanks to @courtlandavenue.bsky.social. #litworld
www.fivesouth.net/post/the-bea...
www.fivesouth.net/post/the-bea...
Hear me read my flash fiction piece “The Price of the Journey” on The Writer’s Room thanks to NPR affiliate KCHO. Link via website in bio or www.mynspr.org/show/the-wri...
October 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Hear me read my flash fiction piece “The Price of the Journey” on The Writer’s Room thanks to NPR affiliate KCHO. Link via website in bio or www.mynspr.org/show/the-wri...
My new short story, “The Photograph,” has been published in the Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo). Free online!
www.arlijo.com/post/issue-186
www.arlijo.com/post/issue-186
October 1, 2023 at 5:09 PM
My new short story, “The Photograph,” has been published in the Arlington Literary Journal (ArLiJo). Free online!
www.arlijo.com/post/issue-186
www.arlijo.com/post/issue-186
“One of the cliches about California is that in California everything is equal to everything else.”
—Lucille Clifton
—Lucille Clifton
September 4, 2023 at 12:27 AM
“One of the cliches about California is that in California everything is equal to everything else.”
—Lucille Clifton
—Lucille Clifton
Jimmy Buffett went to get his cheeseburger in Paradise. I wasn’t his biggest fan, but I’ll always remember him rocking the Bridge School Benefit like a pro. He had EVERYONE on their feet.
September 2, 2023 at 8:03 PM
Jimmy Buffett went to get his cheeseburger in Paradise. I wasn’t his biggest fan, but I’ll always remember him rocking the Bridge School Benefit like a pro. He had EVERYONE on their feet.
“I wish authors would write less about the innate nobility of the indomitable human spirit and more about failure without redemption, or the murky zone in between failure and getting by, where many of us live in real life.” —Patrick DeWitt
August 20, 2023 at 9:32 PM
“I wish authors would write less about the innate nobility of the indomitable human spirit and more about failure without redemption, or the murky zone in between failure and getting by, where many of us live in real life.” —Patrick DeWitt
Missing Tony Hoagland. His poetry was brilliant but just now it’s his essays that thrill me. What a keen eye and a sharp mind.
August 17, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Missing Tony Hoagland. His poetry was brilliant but just now it’s his essays that thrill me. What a keen eye and a sharp mind.
Attendance at our campus literary readings never really bounced back after Covid. If you teach, is that true at your school?
August 17, 2023 at 6:32 PM
Attendance at our campus literary readings never really bounced back after Covid. If you teach, is that true at your school?
Ahoy! Hoping to find a vibrant literary writing, editing, and publishing community here.
August 16, 2023 at 12:09 AM
Ahoy! Hoping to find a vibrant literary writing, editing, and publishing community here.