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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I’m so thrilled to share the news that my new novel PENITENT will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, with Thomas Gebremedhin editing! Thanks as always to my agent Kirby Kim for his wise advice and for finding my book its best possible home. Coming Spring 2028! I can't wait.

Author of APPLESEED and contributor to Best American Mystery Stories and Best American Fantasy Matt Bell's PENITENT, a future-set novel cast in a medieval-like world in which a dutiful subject is called to war by his queen and, after killing seven men, must undertake a grueling journey of atonement-one year of pilgrimage for each life taken-only to find his path complicated by encounters with uncertain allies, hidden enemies, and the queen herself, whose plans grow ever more at odds with his own, forcing a reckoning with faith and violence as he struggles to return to the wife and unborn child he left behind, to Thomas Gebremedhin at Doubleday, by Kirby Kim at Janklow & Nesbit (NA).

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

as far as i’m concerned there is only one song in the whole world. and it is this

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

one of the big things of my life is that I cannot figure out how to not do anything. like this week I came home for spring break and was like wooooo let's give this whole 'nothing' thing a go and all of a sudden I have a 9,000-word short story that I lost myself in for three straight days. whyyyyyyy

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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Look at us, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social. Who would’ve thought? Not me!

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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We are accepting submissions for one more month! The most recent book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt is by @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was just named a PEN/Bingham finalist! Could you be next? What do we want? Boundary-breaking prose which we interpret broadly…

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Congratulations to @asuenglish.bsky.social MFA alum @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, whose debut collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS is a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 29/01/2026

Congratulations to @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social! Here's an conversation about SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS with Maya Chari. necessaryfiction.com/interviews/u...

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Unraveling the Mask: An Interview With Hayden Casey – Necessary Fiction

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 29/01/2026

HELLO AND YES THIS IS GOOD NEWS! We're ecstatic to share that @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social's story collection SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS has been named a FINALIST for the @penamerica.bsky.social 2026 Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!

copy of the PEN announcement, shows Hayden's book along with the four other finalists for the Robert Bingham Prize

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

BURN, a new novel by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social, drops next month (2/3) from Cowboy Jamboree Press 🚬🔥

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

i've been in novel-writing mode for so long that writing a short story feels like a vacation!!!!! school's out for winter!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 01/01/2026

GOOD MORNING!!! It's a NEW YEAR, and that means it's a NEW OPPORTUNITY for you short fictioneers to find your book a home! We're now OPEN for your short story and flash fiction books. Our SS/FF editor @egreenberg.bsky.social + our fantastic SS/FF reading team are eager to read your book, so SEND IT!

blue background with the text "OPEN CALL: FLASH FICTION & SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, Reading period January 1 - March 1, Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com"

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Emily Greenberg @egreenberg.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy new year! We're now open for fiction collections. The most recently published book from this list, Show Me Where the Hurt Is b @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, was recently longlisted for the PEN/Bingham award. Could YOU be next? Dust off that manuscript, and send it to us!!!

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Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

WE HAVE BEEN ALL-CAPS SCREAMING AT SLP HQ SINCE WE FOUND OUT!!! CONGRATS, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social!!!

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 18/12/2025

We're hugging everyone we see because we're so thrilled: @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social 's book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection!!!

photo of Hayden Casey and his book, SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS, against a golden confetti-laden background!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my book is on here???? i am unable to comprehend this occurrence

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

writing a scene involving a flood and it's very difficult. there are only so many ways to say there's water everywhere

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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.

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

Covers of books and journals written or edited by ASU English faculty Lee Bebout, Hayden Casey, Gregory Castle, Larissa FastHorse, Michael John Garces, Elizabeth Horan, Nnedi Okorafor, Ayanna Thompson and Noah Zweig.

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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...

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

On the new fiction table! I ordered copies for the store!

A copy of A Harvest of Furies on the new fiction table at Island Books

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

@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!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

“the reports of my neuroses are greatly exaggerated,” I think, and then I reencounter something like this and go, ohhhhh, maybe not

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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!

me holding my book in front of the “fiction” section sign at Barnes & Noble

me holding my book up in front of the shelf at Barnes & Noble

my book for sale on a table in an independent bookstore

me holding a copy of my book at a table during a signing, with a stack of books in front of me & a box of signed copies to the left

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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!

Poster for the Desert Grit Reading Series, which takes place October 4 at 3pm at Rift Wine Bar and Taphouse

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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.

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Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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…?” ……???

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Lex T. Lindsay @lextlindsay.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

just watched a woman at the airport rip a page of her book in half to use as a bookmark ????,,,?,

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

340 days... 400 pages... 130,757 words later... I have a draft!

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Colleen Burner @colleenburner.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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 👏👏👏

A section of the Small Press Featured Titles shelves at Powell’s bookstore, with 9 books shelved face-out

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Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

#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.

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

finally... fiiiiiinally... on the last chapter of this draft. #26/26. I've spent 11 months with these people!!!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

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)!!!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

am I suffering from deep-draft delusion or is this thing I'm working on my masterpiece?

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

wrote the exact same number of words two days in a row completely by accident. (1,879 if u were wondering)

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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?

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

my first-ever galleys arrived today 🥹🥹🥹

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I had the good luck of reading this novel as @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social was writing it, and I can’t wait for you all to hold it in your hands. Get a pre-order in now. A gorgeous, ambitious book.

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

getting back into drafting after a long break is always such a slog. got through 1,000 words and it felt like i pulled each of them out of my gums

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

first in-person author event tonight!! my pituitary gland has been making me hyper-aware of this for about 24 hours. excited!!

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hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

crazi's hot chicken, just up the road from me. beautifully juicy fried chicken, delicious house sauce, great seasoning on the fries. I miss it so much, I put it in my novel acknowledgments

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