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Kirsti MacKenzie

@keersteemack.bsky.social
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writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we have an interview with Claire Hopple @clairehopple.bsky.social ! about her new novel 'Change the Subject' Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social says: "I’d know the cadence and tone of a Hopple story even in a blind read…” read it ! xraylitmag.com/change-the-s...
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Change The Subject: an Interview with Claire Hopple by Kirsti MacKenzie
The older I get, the more I appreciate writers who leave a personal stamp on their work, so unmistakeable it couldn’t be anyone else on the page. Claire Hopple is one such author. Hopple’s absurdist, ...
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
hey i really really liked it
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🚲 “Eat the Saddle Last” by Kirsti MacKenzie / @keersteemack.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
hey this is v v nice
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
volume 28 is live, folks. happy sunday ♥️ next volume is our last, get in my inbox! major7mag@gmail.com www.major7mag.com
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Major 7th Magazine | literary mixtape
Major 7th Magazine: Your literary mixtape. Curated weekly.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I says to the guy: In my hometown there’s an alley. In the alley there’s a hot dog stand. Gourmet, they call it. Real fuck-me-up menu. Peanut butter and pickles and chocolate and bananas and bacon and cheezies and blueberries and ceviche. Every unholy thing. You want it bald? Order a Paul Shaffer.
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...
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Literary Mixtape Volume 27
On folding.
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Too Many Jobs: The Kirsti MacKenzie Story
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
friday five for ya. new volume coming end of the month! www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: April 10, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
if you're waiting for a response from me on subs you should get it this weekend! and if not you can hate me forever idc xo
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
chaque vendredi est le vendredi saint quand on est un mauvais catholique 😘
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
yes hi hello!
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Jacob Tierney + Jared Keeso are so undefeated at soundtracking b/c i have not been able to stop walking around my house shouting GIVE ME! YOUR EYES! I NEED! SUNSHINE! for like three months
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
that pan to disappointed chalamet was for me personally
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
oscars dearly beloved montage but for writers/editors/mags that have been cancelled this year
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
returned to bartending (late to shift, naturally), and half the bar burst into applause so my ego is now big as the moon
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Peeps, social media is fickle and volatile. hex is steadfast. Click here, and sign up for our email list to stay apprised of future openings. Speaking of which... Mark your calendars for March, 20th at noon. See you then 😈
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Future
Guidelines hex publishes flash literary fiction and prose poetry with speculative elements. We welcome the surreal, the weird, and the uncanny. Scare us, surprise us, take us to space. Show us how ...
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
recent favs if you even care
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
less of a plant mom and more of a plant step mom, they are hostile to my presence and wish me dead because i do not know how to care for them properly
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
just finished Rishi's episode. more stressful than Seven Fishes ep of The Bear. why do i do this to my nervous system
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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“There is no talking me out of Ella. Maybe she will marry me, maybe she won’t. But she knows …” @keersteemack.bsky.social in @bulbregion.bsky.social bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
friday mixtape for ya! five albums, five stories, one fav (snuck three in there oop) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: February 20, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In about two weeks, we open for general submissions for the first time. It will go live on March 1...and remain that day for only a single day (through midnight EST)! Save the date and spread the word. Looking forward to reading all the great work. bulbregion.com/Submissions
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
came for the exclamation pts stayed for the banging verse 😤
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
okay who on my feed is watching Industry and how far in are you
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
incredible work in the comments here
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The brilliant Kirsti MacKenzie (@keersteemack.bsky.social) has recently gotten her debut novel "Better to Beg" published by Sweet Trash Press (@sweettrashpress.bsky.social) and House of Vlad Press (@houseofvladpress.bsky.social). Make sure to buy a copy! asterismbooks.com/product/bett...
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Better to Beg | Asterism Books
The bloody Deserters—the band that belongs nowhere. To no one. With raw musical talent and wild sexual chemistry, early aughts NYC rock duo The Deserters, comprised of ambitious midwestern feminist V...
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
i'm sorry guys i have to stay on the platform x bc no one is shitposting their way through Olympic hockey over here
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
the cut to the Jian Ghomeshi poster in nirvana the band the show the movie is such a perfect joke and i'm going to be laughing about it forever
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“When I am done eating the bicycle I eat the saddle last. Chew the leather and it tastes like dessert, like victory.” Read Kirsti MacKenzie’s (@keersteemack.bsky.social) wonderful short story, “Eat the Saddle Last,” in The Bulb Region today. bulbregion.com/Eat-the-Sadd...
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Eat the Saddle Last, by Kirsti MacKenzie — The Bulb Region
Eat the Saddle Last — Kirsti MacKenzie ELLA TELLS ME I HAVE TO eat a bicycle if I...
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
he's not wrong!
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
i have a new little story over at @bulbregion.bsky.social about a guy who eats a bicycle for love. happy valentines day kids xo
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Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
good morning, folks five albums, five stories, one fav! :) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...
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Friday Five: February 13, 2026
Five stories, five albums, one fave.
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I have a tiny new micro today in @bulbregion.bsky.social. grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social & any of you who read this story! 🥭 🥃 bulbregion.com/Mangoes-and-...
Title: Mangoes and Tequila
Author: Anna Vangala Jones
Image of a large mango
Text of the story: My ex-boyfriend—who we now say is my best friend which hurts my actual best friend’s feelings though it’s not a real title accompanied by any sort of perks—helped me move into my new apartment in a faraway state today, so I tell him he can stay over for the night before his long drive back home alone. It’s only fair, I try to explain to my actual best friend over the phone but she laughs and says we’ll probably fall into bed together one last time for a wistful unhealthy goodbye. I think she’s wrong and this move is us starting fresh. Right now we’re at my neighborhood grocery store and I’m struck by that strange sense of being lost in a dream. I’m squeezing fruit like I’m touching the body of a new love while my heart is still longing for the familiarity of the one I’ve just left or lost. My ex-boyfriend / best-friend-in-name-only reaches for a mango at the same time as me so we can touch hands and pretend it is an accident of fate, but I pull away before he can prove my actual best friend right. In the liquor aisle, we hesitate but buy some tequila so as to make the temptation tonight almost too much to bear or resist. “Am I here because I come running whenever you call or because I can lift heavy furniture for you?” He’ll ask this when we’re almost asleep and I'll tell him, “you're here because you’re my best friend and I'm going to miss you.” That last part will be true.
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
double dog dare ya to make it past the first sentence open.substack.com/pub/keerstee...
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Marty vs. Mordecai
If you loved—or hated—Marty Supreme, you should be reading Duddy Kravitz.
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
forever and always the coolest to find out that people love your book
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
today I put on a record and finished a manuscript. that makes two in a year. i dunno what will come of them, but i’m super proud.
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
is it me or is The Pitt real bad this season
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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
today i had surgery! i’m all looped on painkillers but i lived, bitch
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
One hundred years from now some poli-sci major at Ottawa U or McGill will write a thesis like “New World Order: How Canada’s Quiet Quest for Hegemony Began with the Chadification of a Prime Minister” and its supporting materials will just be reams of horny Carney memes like this
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
never any less nice and exciting to see people enjoy your book 😊
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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ain't no party like a hot tub party. Pithead Chapel published my story Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night in their new issue! pitheadchapel.com/public-relat...
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Public Relations Professionals Hot Tub Night
Alex Miller Something nice about Olivia is she lives in a luxury apartment. I don’t know what she pays for it, but clearly it’s out of my price range. Actually there are many nice things about Oliv…
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Loved this one
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I am nostalgic for understimulation
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
give me! your eyes! i need! the sunshine
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
happy pub day Stephanie! grab your copy of BURN
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Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Reading Better to Beg and intensely amused by the “we maimed her Malm” line @keersteemack.bsky.social
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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Aaron’s an educator and nowhere more so than by example - he lets you know it’s ok to leave your heart on the page (whatever that looks like for you!) Happy pub to Aaron and TACOMA 😊
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I finally watched The Long Walk! i wrote a little bit about that here! I hope you will take a look and consider subscribing to my newsletter if you are interested in hearing me talk about other art! Xoxo gossip girl
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Welcome to Only Dans!
And a Few Thoughts About The Long Walk
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