kailyn mccord

essays, short fiction @pshares @brevitymag @altajournal @lithub @cincinnreview re: California, fire, land, bodies, the end times. i like to be outside.

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@jumibello joy joy joy!

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@KenLayne i was recently deep into a months-long stint of tv addiction. then i had a baby. she will not sleep alone, and so now i spend hours a day beside her reading, or thinking, or doing nothing. it is wonderful.

(thank you, baby)

(i still do not bathe too frequently. good trade).

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@drewpcoles No! No no!

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@lizweil YES! I have faith in that, for sure!!

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

I've got an essay up at The Cut! It's about how the anxiety of new motherhood got me curious about Jesus (Yeah, you read that right).

Big thanks to the digital version of @lizweil 's dining room table for helping me get to the finish line on this one.

https://t.co/tliyXhw05O

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@oo_o0o0o0o_oo pop country is pretty great with narrative in general. it's some efficient storytelling.

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@KenLayne So that's the bar for prose in committee reports (just you wait for the next board meeting, Norma).

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@lizweil @KerryHowley the last line of the first segment!

"The problem with a man always working on himself is that he may also be working on you."

yes!!

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"...you can have talent, but if you cannot endure, if you cannot learn to work, and to work against your own worst tendencies and prejudices, and you cannot take the criticism of strangers, or the uncertainty, then you will not become a writer." ~ @alexanderchee

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@CarolynHembree this is impressive to me. i always spend like days.

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@CarolynHembree but not a man's heart! never a man's heart!

[Alta Journal @AltaJournal]

Delivering her first child in rural Mendocino County, mother-to-be @kkmcwhat hopes for the best while preparing for the worst. https://t.co/F91rNKa5Vh

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

This is happening tomorrow; please stop on by if you feel so moved!

(reg link: https://t.co/t094rK8eLS)

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@drewpcoles mmmm recruit a gaggle of post-reading mostly all-the-way-drunk writers to egg the place.

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@megg_bean @FourWayBooks can we preorder yet?!

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

Can't wait for this one. Ants in my pants for September!

[Megan Pinto 🌘🌗🌖 @megg_bean]

✨Cover reveal!✨

Thank you to Weihui Lu for sharing this beautiful painting, and to @FourWayBooks for, well, everything.

Saints of Little Faith will be out in September 😌

[Dan @eleventhturning]

Looking at this map of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, I am struck by two things:

1) It's so beautiful, we are all woven into this web, the patterns of nature are stunning

2) It's no wonder that New Orleans is an energetic nexus

[kailyn mccord @kkmcwhat]

@mm_kaufman Ug husband wins. WINS!

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@drewpcoles Drew Coles, the fastest algorithm gun in the west :)

Miss you my friend!