Reposted by Keegan LawlerAutumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 14/08/2026We'd like to congratulate the 2026 Nonfiction Prize runners-up, finalists, and semi-finalists. Thank you to everyone who entrusted us with their work and made this year's competition such a rewarding one to read! The full list can be found here: www.autumnhouse.org/winner-of-th... 131
Reposted by Keegan LawlerD. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025ICE agents are intentionally breaking the law, shooting protestors who are citizens and lying in court. 312232
Reposted by Keegan LawlerTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 03/10/2025We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans 1330053
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Congrats to Starr! This sounds like such an amazing book, I can’t wait to read it soon! 031
Reposted by Keegan LawlerAutumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 31/07/2025Congrats to the runner-up and the finalists! Runner-up: She Was Wild Grass by Katie Bennett Finalists: Disfigure Studies by Asha Dore @ashadore.bsky.social What Kind of Hawk by Sarah Giragosian Dispatches from the Ridge by L.I. Henley* Fairyboy by Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social 121
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/07/2025The era of institutionalization was rife with horror, and deinstitutionalization + the rise of community care has allowed millions to live more independently with dignity over decades I hate these eugenicist fascists with every drop of blood in me 222319595
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 03/07/2025you know you don’t have to call HR 1 the “big beautiful bill” right? you know that by doing so you’re carrying water for fascists, right, even though you’re trying to be ironic or w/e you’re doing the fascists a real solid? Just checking. 171217191
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2025ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people 155197584643
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Today's the day, my chapbook is now out! So thankful to the folks at Red Bird Chapbooks for putting all their time and energy into this. 100 beautiful hand-bound copies each with a hand-drawn cardinal inside. You can buy a copy here: www.redbirdchapbooks.com/catalog/p/my...redbirdchapbooks.comMy Own Private Idaho by Keegan Lawler — Red Bird ChapbooksSet among the pines and firs of "flyover country," Keegan Lawler's My Own Private Idaho explores the emotions and experiences of growing up queer in small-town Idaho. In four memoir-essays, Lawl... 010
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/05/2025a couple of years ago through Sami Zayn I learned about the work of the Zakat Foundation which is how I donate. They do good work and I urge you to look into them. www.zakat.org/gaza-emergencyzakat.orgGaza Emergency 2025 3438311
Reposted by Keegan LawlerSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/03/2025“For those of us who live at the shoreline / standing upon the constant edges of decision / crucial and alone / for those of us who cannot indulge / the passing dreams of choice / who love in doorways coming and going / in the hours between dawns…” — Audre Lordepoetryfoundation.orgA Litany for SurvivalFor those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and... 745189
Reposted by Keegan LawlerMorgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores. 438188784271
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Grateful to the editors at @bendinggenres.bsky.social for selecting my short story, “Fidalgo Bay Inn,” for inclusion in Issue #43. This story is partially about my town and its weird little idiosyncrasies, but mostly it’s about how we survive winter. bendinggenres.com/fidalgo-bay-...bendinggenres.comFidalgo Bay Inn 000
Reposted by Keegan LawlerExposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Read #ExpoContributor @keeganlawler.bsky.social’s story in @necessaryfiction.com! Then read his #nonfiction in our “Lines” issue: expositionreview.com/issues/vol-v....expositionreview.comGlass - Exposition Reviewby Keegan Lawler Nonfiction Dad and I walked to the edge of the community dock, fishing poles in hand. We took our usual position, me at the edge of the diving board, Dad behind me, his line danglin... 021
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Happy pub day to the story inspired by seeing Dorothy Allison’s collection “Trash” next to Bryan Washington’s “Lot” and going “huh, that’s a good short story title.” Special thanks to Steve @necessaryfiction.com for editorial guidance! 031
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Some of my favorite books I read this year: Blackouts- Justin Torres Family Meal- Bryan Washington Deaf Republic- Ilya Kaminsky Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts- Nick Rees Gardner Critical Hits- Ed. J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado Mouth- Paloma Ghosh 100
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 26/12/2024feeling brave? masochistic? anhedonia not hitting hard like it used to — you need to feel harmed, targeted, mocked by fate? friend, search “Christian version of Hallelujah” on YouTube and kiss your good vibes goodbye 4651441
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Re-reading a book is such a treat. The moments that stick out on a second or third reading are never the same ones as on the first. 100
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Three poems into reading “American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin” and I can already tell this is the kind of book I need to live in for a bit. 120
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Ok so I knew the book “Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games” would be good, but Keith S. Wilson’s essay on FF6 and mules and a dozen other things, “Mule Milk,” has me rethinking EVERYTHING about my gaming history 010
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Wow, such an honor to see this piece, which borrows its name from a @themountaingoats.bsky.social song, gain some love from folks. Thanks for including my work! 010
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social · 14/11/2024I’m just a boy, starting another social media account, trying to find other writers/book enjoyers to talk about how I don’t feel like Puloma Ghosh’s book “Mouth” is getting all the praise it deserves. Y’all I had to make sure my toddler wasn’t a wolf child after finishing “Leaving Things” 😭 020
Reposted by Keegan Lawlerthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12/11/2024It was when I put up the slide of this at the meeting that the suits begin passing notes to one another 2534223