Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Sitting in a rocker and drinking a beer and reading a book and listening to a dog bark and some crickets chirp and a whole lot of nothing else 030
Reposted by Adam ShawChristopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New Podcast! I interview the amazing @ambersparks.bsky.social about her debut novel, childhood and adulthood, magic, and Halloween. Donna Arrendell interviews the participants of the short horror films workshop. Best podcast ever! dcplpodcast.simplecast.com/episodes/com...dcplpodcast.simplecast.comComing Into Spooky Season | DC Public Library PodcastIn this episode, we’re coming into spooky season. In Get Lit Chris Stevenson interviews Amber Sparks about her debut novel “Happy People Don’t Live Here” which is now in paperback. After that we’ll br... 1116
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Stoked to share the trailer for COZY, my new collection coming out next month w/ @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social. ebook preorders available now. 🤘 www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/cozy.html 022
Reposted by Adam ShawCowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Tomorrow night y'all. Send us a message for the link and password. Don't be a 🔳. @thedrevlow.bsky.social @jdclappwrites.bsky.social @vanwinkle.bsky.social 1128
Reposted by Adam ShawChris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Dads On Phones At The Playground 161
Reposted by Adam ShawTom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I have a story in the new issue of New Delta Review, a story about a man who has invented a futuristic toilet, which was prompted by a dream in which a friend kept bragging about how he'd invented "the toilet of the future." I think it's pretty good. ndrmag.org/wastendrmag.orgWaste 02010
Reposted by Adam ShawAaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Really excited to see this one out in the world today, with such a great home at @doricliterary.bsky.social. Wrote the first draft of this a few years ago. Still feels like it’s one of the best stories I’ve written.doric-literary.comExecutivesI’d never heard the phrase before—nostalgia tour—but I knew what he meant. I’d been on a few myself. 1327
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Woke up to a message from someone saying they read and loved a book of mine, which is to say I now feel unconquerable, which is to say it’s a really nice thing to tell people when you loved a book of theirs 010
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally? 030
Reposted by Adam ShawJoey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Hey, you should order the Beltway anthology from @nightginkgopress.bsky.social!! It’s chock full of stories, essays, and poems by DC area writers, including myself! So grateful to exist on these pages! nightginkgo.com/product/belt...nightginkgo.comBeltway: An Anthology of Writers from the Washington, D.C. Metro AreaThis anthology is a collection of stories, poems, and essays, that showcases the immense literary talent in the Washington, DC area. 086
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Spent eight or so hours in the car yesterday, and man oh man can I belt out the lyrics to the first half or so of a bunch of early 2000s bangers only to mumble my way to the end 020
Reposted by Adam ShawCowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 09/08/2026GRIT BEFORE GRACE, a new novel from @jdclappwrites.bsky.social, drops on August 25th from Cowboy Jamboree. Preorder the ebook now. Paperback and ebook available on the 25th. Good grit (before grace): a.co/d/07wAyRJs 0135
Reposted by Adam ShawCowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 08/08/2026THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN DRINKING, a new novel from @thedrevlow.bsky.social will be out August 18th from CJ Press. Preorder the ebook now. Paperback and ebook available on the day. Dig it: a.co/d/04NbbwGB 01710
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Wrote about my old house & gallery walls & millennial grey & building a headboard & the weird sorts of ways places can make you feel things, up now over at @poolpartymag.com, which I’m so stoked for because they rock.poolpartymag.comHow to Find and Lose a Home"Buy a house, not in a trendy neighborhood but a trendy-adjacent one where prices are better and that trends could turn toward. Haul in an apartment's worth of furniture and chase each other from room... 042
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Pretty sure my kid only loves a food until I buy a 136 pack of it at Costco 020
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Getting *wild* while my wife and kid are out of town for the weekend (patching asphalt in my driveway then seeing The Odyssey) 040
Reposted by Adam ShawAaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026friendfiction: the hottest, most fun genre goin'! loved this piece. not only because “I” pop in for a kind of cameo, tho that certainly helps 041
Reposted by Adam ShawAdam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I have a new story in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social that I collabed with Anthony Verdi on that's kinda/maybe/totally a sort of friendfiction set at the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social AWP offsite. Featuring a jukebox! And Neil Diamond!icebreakerslit.comA Kind of Panic — Icebreakers LitFiction & Visual art by Anthony Verdi & adam shaw 042
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I have a new story in @icebreakerslit.bsky.social that I collabed with Anthony Verdi on that's kinda/maybe/totally a sort of friendfiction set at the @publishedbyjake.bsky.social AWP offsite. Featuring a jukebox! And Neil Diamond!icebreakerslit.comA Kind of Panic — Icebreakers LitFiction & Visual art by Anthony Verdi & adam shaw 042
Reposted by Adam ShawWeird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I hate to do this but I must do this. Please share. Details on the website. Thank you. gofund.me/936db73cagofund.meDonate to Help Getting Bill and Lynn-Cee Back Home After Disaster, organized by Lynn-Cee FaulkWe are a family in hardship. A tree fell on our home and we are… Lynn-Cee Faulk needs your support for Help Getting Bill and Lynn-Cee Back Home After Disaster 0613
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My brother challenged me on vacation to see which of us could stay on this inflatable flamingo the longest and man, it’s over for y’all if I learn to concentrate this hard on my writing 031
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Hell yeah, one of my favorite reads so far this year! 021
Reposted by Adam ShawJeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026When will my husband return from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey 201931338
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Need a word for when you get home from the store and open your fridge and remember the one thing you were trying to remember at the store 030
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Oh man, so stoked for this! Super thankful to @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social. 1122
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 10/07/2026read this on my lunch today, and man, what a treat! absolutely love love loved this one. 031
Reposted by Adam ShawJustin Carter @juscarts.com · 08/07/2026NEW BOOK PREORDERS my new collection Laterals is now open for preorders I like to describe these poems as “sports adjacent” — there is sports in every poem but they’re about understanding the self through sports 406press.com/product/late...406press.comLaterals - .406 PressPre-order available now. Publishing on September 9. 164
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Getting some mixed messages from the university’s emergency alert system this week. 240
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Today my kid came home from a week at her grandparents’ and ran across the yard and jumped and gave me the biggest hug and it was the best thing ever 030
Reposted by Adam ShawTom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Cape Verde keeper is in his 40s, so there's a chance he's on bluesky 03611
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Drinking a Budweiser in my garage and watching Switzerland-Algeria, might possibly be living my best life, not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing 040
Reposted by Adam ShawDaniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Really stoked to see that the Dodo Eraser reading I took part in is now uploaded to Youtube, along with 7 more readings from the series! Was thrilled to read alongside such great writers here!!! If interested, my pieces start at 1:17:00, and I was clearly not paying attention to how I was framedyoutube.comDodo Eraser #7 (4/28/26): Bethany Cutkomp, Jameson Draper, Daniel Miller, Travis Shosa + 3 moreYouTube video by Dodo Eraser 1127
Reposted by Adam ShawCaleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Fever Clowns, a collection of stories where the painted faces are just as scared of you as you are of them. Out 9/15/26 through Anxiety Press. 022
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Your kid waking you up early to cuddle is lowkey one of the best feelings in the world 010
Reposted by Adam ShawFlight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Flight 5 lands today! We have work from @djvorreyer.bsky.social @willmusgrove.bsky.social @selizabeth.bsky.social and @mattjakubowski.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-5/flight-literary.ghost.ioFlight 5 0115
Reposted by Adam ShawAaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Just read a PDF of this and was really wowed by it! Can’t wait to try to urge you all to preorder it and read it and love it too! 172
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Wrote this in Aaron’s Jackass workshop a few years ago that I might think about way too often because of how fun it was 010
Reposted by Adam ShawVic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026the solstice is almost upon us! You know what that means! a new @identitytheory.bsky.social micro issue is coming!!! 0277
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 14/06/202610/10 vacay day reading Terrestrial by @suzyeynon.bsky.social 1102
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I have a book coming out! COZY will drop later this year from the awesome folks at @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Centered around the deaths of my parents, it’s an exploration of how grief and discomfort intertwine and push us forward. More soon. 🖤 0133
Reposted by Adam ShawJohn Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I’ve got new li’l chap of poems available to order share.google/OD7Yw1iZdRkZ...share.googleExtended Play, by John Waddy BullionPoetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Less a collection of poems than an accumulation of riffs, John Waddy Bullion’s Extended Play mines the history of popular music for odd scraps of t... 061
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Taking my kid on a Disney cruise next week to get to the bottom of this 250
Reposted by Adam ShawDave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Tonight! Pittsburgh friends, hope to see you at Stay Gold Books where me and @aaronburch.bsky.social will be reading from our new books and talking indie publishing and lots of other stuff with Jake Maynard. Let's get weird! 0176
