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Steve Fox

@stevefoxwrites.com
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Can run backwards Rick Bass Montana Fiction Prize Winner SOMETIMES CREEK (Cornerstone) winner American BookFest Best Book Award • Chicago Writers Book of the Year Award finalist order THESE ARE MY PEOPLE now at stevefoxwrites.com

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@bleakhousing.bsky.social
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 28/09/2026
Good to hear!
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 28/09/2026
which bistro / window manager?
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 28/09/2026
Sign of the times. #thesearemypeople @benjaminpercy.bsky.social
The sign outside the Ishnala Supper Club, on Mirror Lake (Wisconsin) reads "Number of Old Fashioned served this season: 85, 990." True sign of the times.
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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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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/09/2026
Same
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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 · 04/09/2026
She did a lot for men, too.
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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 · 24/08/2026
No favorites yet! Just started My Dear You and like it a good deal. Enjoyed the F. Scott stories more than I thought I would! Not included in the stack is Is Our Time, by Hemingway. Been reading alternate stories of that with Bernice Bobs Her Hair as a writing exercise.
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 23/08/2026
August reads.
Stack of books. Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Pastoralia, Chain-Gang All Stars, My Dear You, Foundations, Hemlock
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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
Authored and illustrated by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Alaires
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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.
Cover image of d’Aulaires’ Trolls
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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 · 31/07/2026
@reckonreview.bsky.social making me smile this morning.
Screenshot of Reckon Review’s submission tips. No. 1: please read our journal first! 

“Craft a piece of fiction that you're tremendously proud of, that will move and compel, and that fits the aesthetic of this magazine (which you have obviously, previously, read at least once).
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 18/07/2026
I am Gen X and it was about 2021 before I heard people converse, daily, about AQI with the familiarity wind-chill factors. #wisconsin www.instagram.com/p/Da2zUbbA0Dk/
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Mike De Sisti on Instagram: "This morning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. #Wildfires #Smoke #weather"
8,664 likes, 383 comments - mdesisti on July 16, 2026: "This morning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. #Wildfires #Smoke #weather".
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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 · 29/06/2026
Arrived. Hemlock by @mlfaliveno.bsky.social
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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 · 06/06/2026
Check out her essay on LitHub.
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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 · 13/05/2026
Hey Cheryl -- that's my publisher! They are wonderful. Congratulations. Looking forward to reading the book!
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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 · 12/04/2026
Cool.
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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 · 08/04/2026
Yes.
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 27/03/2026
New collection is out! These Are My People - Blurbed by Kim Parsons, Amber Sparks, Richard Thomas, and others. bookshop.org/p/books/thes...
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These Are My People: Stories
Stories
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 27/03/2026
Hey, cool.
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Mercedes Chandler @campcallout.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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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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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 09/03/2026
Cool
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 28/02/2026
It’s gonna get worse Before it gets worse
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 13/02/2026
Have you written draft one?
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 07/02/2026
One of my stories made it into this cool anthology. Now available for early ordering. #WritingCommunity bookshop.org/p/books/a-wi...
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A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror
Check out A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror - <p><strong>A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror.</strong> Continuing the Wisconsin Harvest theme, WWA brings you the next installment of finely crafted Wisconsin-the...
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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 · 04/02/2026
I am open to recommendations.
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Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com · 04/02/2026
Congrats!
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