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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 26/09/2026

Friday fish fry, Northfield, Wis. Great stuff. #thesearemyoeople

Basket of deep-fried cod, crinkle-cut French fries, Cole slaw, and pre-buttered bread.

Fish fry special menu on wall of central Wisconsin bar: beer-battered cod. 2 piece, $14.45; 3 piece $16.45

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 24/09/2026

Schnitzel pizza from local pizzeria. These are my people.

One-half of schnitzel pizza remains in its take-away box alongside spring salad in broad white bowl with silver fork.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 12/09/2026

Quick reminder that my second book of short fiction, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE, a finalist for the Edna Ferber Book Award, is out. Ask for it from your favorite bookseller or bookshop dot org.

Cover image of These Are My People, finalist for the Edna Ferber Book Award

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/09/2026

Novel research, The Ultimate Preppy Handbook

Cover image of The Ultimate Preppy Handbook

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

She made my whole career possible, and was my mom’s greatest hero. I once got bashed on that other platform for saying that Gloria freed my mom from having to be a good cook, but it’s true and I stand by it, rest in power to an icon

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/09/2026

Just picked this up a few weeks ago!

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/09/2026

Foucault. Discipline & Punish… It’s for a novel.

Cover shot of Foucault’s Discipline & Punish, the Birth of the Prison

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NPR @npr.org · 02/08/2026

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

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ADHD looks different in women and poses unique health risks

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 22/08/2026

oh man we are dangerously closed to pumpkin-spiced everything season

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 18/08/2026

Current writing exercise: read short story by Fitzgerald read short story by Hemmingway repeat

Cover image of Bernice Bobs Her Hair and In Our Time, short-story collections by F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hamingway, respectively

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 15/08/2026

The Book of Trolls. In which the author clarifies they not all trolls live under bridges.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 08/08/2026

So I guess I will be writing Chapters for the Left Hand for a while now. This novel ain’t gonna write itself, after all.

Photo of author with right arm in sling typing with one hand at computer following surgery on the other.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/08/2026

Northwoods read: The Glassblower’s Children. Maria Gripe. Only five pagesto go… Careful what you wish for.

Photo of The Glassblower’s Children by Maria Gripe on author’s knee. Northern Wisconsin lake grows still beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/08/2026

Northwoods, Wisconsin fish fry Friday.

Plate of French fries, deep-fried walleye, coleslaw. Seltzer water with lemon wedge beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 17/07/2026

The air be thick in Northern Wis is thick today. AQI. Pretty sure we were oblivious to such a thing ten years ago.

Screenshot of air quality index (500) in Spooner, Wisconsin.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/07/2026

Morning read. Sabrina y Corina, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Visceral and wonderful.

Photo of book cover, Sabrina y Corina, a collection of short stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. Northern Wisconsin lake lurks beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 15/06/2026

I have a flash-fiction contest submission in my Submittable submissions heap from August 2021. Status icon should switch to "In-Progress" any day now.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 05/06/2026

Essay collection Tomboyland by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social now on my desk.

Cover image of essay collection Tomboyland by Melissa Faliveno

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/05/2026

Pretty stoked about this sticker I got for my little book, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. Stories about small-town weirdos. Thanks, @artlitlab.bsky.social and Cornerstone Press.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/05/2026

Oh, and while you're at it, remember to re-check your Submittable submissions page. #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #FariyTales #SpeculativeLit

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 11/04/2026

Adding quotation marks to dialogue. Painful. ~Before~ This Sunday? the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. Why, that’s coming right up. ~After~ “This Sunday?” the woman says, looking at the tree and not Fr. Bob. “Why, that’s coming right up.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

. @ziibiing.com created the Stand With Minnesota page that literally kept thousands of people in their homes during Occupation Metro Surge in Minnesota. It’s the kind of thing that should be rewarded, so help spread the word.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/03/2026

Chilling stories by writers from a chilly place: #wisconsin. Available now in paperback from WWA Press wherever you buy books.

Wisconsin Writers Association mug alongside A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror, an anthology of short stories by Wisconsin writers. Cover features a camping trailer cast in a paranormal light with blood-stained fingerprint overlay.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/02/2026

people out here just advertising they lack the most basic possible cooking skills

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/02/2026

Movie in current release at Falls Theater located in River Falls, Wisconsin, a short drive from ground zero of the mpls ICE agent action. They’ve been active here, too.

Movie theater marquee display reads SEND HELP

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/02/2026

In the end, we did the Minneapolis reading. Despite the intensity of the situation just days following the in-broad-daylight murder of Alex Pretti.

The autor signs a book for a book-reading attendee at Magers and Quinn in Mpls. A stack of books, These Are My People, rests at his elbow. He is smiling. It is a good night.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 31/01/2026

Currently recalling a time when they called a presidential candidate ‘Hitlery.’

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/01/2026

I think bots are basically fictional characters. But, as mythology and fandom tend to prove, fictional characters can become very real for people. If we let them wander around the internet writing stuff like this ... ten-year-olds and the NYT are definitely going to think they're real.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 29/01/2026

Some scams are more obvious than others.

Email preview in mail client's Inbox. Sender is Mable Agencykent, Subject: TRULY IMPRESSED BY YOUR BOOK - WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT...
Message preview: Dear Steve, I hope you're doing well. I recently came across These Are My People and felt genuinely compelled to reach out. There's somet...

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 23/01/2026

-30 F at my house 25 miles from downtown mpls. They’ve invaded a winter people during winter. People who get excited when they can finally break out the ‘actual cold’ garb.

Analog thermometer nailed to tree trunk reads -29F

Face of young man in winter beneath frosted covered scarf and fur hat.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 16/01/2026

Having a hard time posting about books, coffee, and doggies when we got shit like this in our face.

ICE workers arrest Mexican workers at restaurant where the just dined

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 14/01/2026

Here I thought we'd hit rock-bottom when we sent our children off to school with Kevlar school bags and said, "Have a great day, honey. Don't get shot." So naive. Every rock-bottom's got a trap door down to yet another lower low.

Roosevelt High School, Minneapolis, MN. ICE agents fire tear gas at- and tackle minors in multiple arrests. Image of numerous agents pressing teenage person face down onto snow-covered schoolyard meanwhile they cuff his wrists behind his back.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/01/2026

Some good news to share, amid all the bad: These Are My People gets a nice write-up from Windy City Reviews. Thanks to @chicagowrites.bsky.social for making it happen. "...not only impeccably written but surprising." www.windycityreviews.org/book-reviews... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Midwest

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Book Review: These Are My People — Windy City Reviews

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 10/01/2026

It’s fun commenting on deleted posts.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/01/2026

My second collection of short stories is out! These Are My People. More here - click cover to order from @bookshop.org stevefoxwrites.com

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/01/2026

So, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a small-to-medium-sized city located in the Midwest, is more populous than all of Greenland.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 02/01/2026

Drop your dialogue tags and read it aloud. Really? Yep. You’re serious? Totally. You should check it out. Huh. Maybe I will.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/01/2026

Killing a character gives you license to write about her more. #WritingCommunity

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/01/2026

Very important not* to forget the tilde (~) on the n when wishing folks a happy new year in Spanish. Feliz año vs feliz ano.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/01/2026

First read of 2026 - The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf.

Cover photo of The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf. S blond woman with tidy curls seated on the deck of an ocean liner pours coffee from a ceramic coffee pot into a cup. A calm sea-green body of water laps beyond.

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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 01/01/2026

12:03,-21 C. Happy New Year and goodnight.

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