Sam Downs @writeitdowns
writer / oft-tangled fly-fisher / @txstmfa / scribbles in @joylandmagazine @pshares @porterhouselit @AtticusReview. he/him samdowns.com Olympia, WA Joined June 2021-
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My first print pub!!! My short-short story “Red on Yellow” (which is also the prologue to my novel-in-progress) is out in issue #57 of @Salamander_Mag!!! (P.S. It was rejected 48 times over three years of submitting, and yet ended up in one of my favorite literary magazines!)
“Shy” (@GraywolfPress) marks another development in Max Porter’s singular, polyphonic style, distinguishing itself as his most urgent book yet. New review by @writeitdowns in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/shy/
Woohoo! Excited to have a review of Max Porter's latest out in Rain Taxi
Woohoo! Excited to have a review of Max Porter's latest out in Rain Taxi
My beloved MFA student @MosabAbuToha was arrested in #Gaza yesterday by the IDF. I know him to be an honorable man, husband & father of 3 kids, a decorated poet who came to us from Harvard. No one cares wot I think, but I demand his release, by all that is just&holy. @NewYorker
Writerly twit-verse, any recs for good literary essays on learning a skill/acquiring literacy in something? I'm having students write a literacy narrative this sem. and looking for examples that engage w/literacies beyond language (which I have some good'ns for already)
.@GregAbbott_TX just accidentally posted a satire article because he wants to hate on queer Texans and Garth Brooks so bad. The Texas Country Jamboree doesn’t exist. Hambriston, Texas is not real. And the Governor is not fit to tweet, much less govern. Happy pride! 🏳️🌈
Joe Rogan Stunned After 5-Year-Old Informs Him That Horseys Come From Outer Space bit.ly/42QG06c
Today we deployed the #BlueBenchBrigade to make sure that @ZoAndBehold would be surrounded by kind people who support her and her work in the #mtleg
Today we deployed the #BlueBenchBrigade to make sure that @ZoAndBehold would be surrounded by kind people who support her and her work in the #mtleg https://t.co/uNyjeXGrn8
I'm suing. The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 constituents to representation. Montana's State House is the people’s House, not Speaker Regier’s, and I’m determined to defend the right of the people to have their voices heard.
"I’ve identified more dead birds than living. An old friend used to quiz me on flora and fauna, pointing and asking what’s that? but now won’t even say my undeadname..." Read "Named" by @sg_poetry theoffingmag.com/micro/named-mi…
The entire @missoulian opinion page—14 LTEs from Kalispell, Hamilton, Florence, Missoula—all expressing support for @ZoAndBehold and disdain for @MTGOP. #mtpol
What is happening inside the walls of the Montana State Capitol, does not at all represent the city or the people outside of those walls. The City of Helena chooses love over fear every time and stands with Rep. @ZoAndBehold — who will continue to outshine the GOP-led extremism…
“LeBron ain’t got that dog in him” LeBron:
i was arrested today for protesting the censure of my dully elected representative rep. zooey zephyr—montana’s first trans legislator. they can censure us, arrest us, legislate us out of existence, but they can never stop us from fighting for the montana we believe in
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“good art is a colonial construct.” people who say this dont realize how insulting it is to, say, my blackfoot ancestors. as if they had no standards for their art. as if they didnt care how things looked. sometimes the anti colonial discourse gets really fkn stupid really fast.
majored in English because I wanted to be a writer but also, to be totally frank, because I thought it was cool? Let’s bring that back.
“Shy” (@GraywolfPress) marks another development in Max Porter’s singular, polyphonic style, distinguishing itself as his most urgent book yet. New review by @writeitdowns in our Online Edition: raintaxi.com/shy/
My beloved MFA student @MosabAbuToha was arrested in #Gaza yesterday by the IDF. I know him to be an honorable man, husband & father of 3 kids, a decorated poet who came to us from Harvard. No one cares wot I think, but I demand his release, by all that is just&holy. @NewYorker
Just heard the wonderful news that I’ve been invited to be a faculty fellow for Atrocity Prevention at the Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, New York for the 2023-2024 academic year!
I finished my full length poetry manuscript last night!!! Ahhh!! She's ready to be submitted places! Have any leads for me for pubs that would like to read my work? <3
So the @OrlandoMagic who have a majority black roster, a black head coach, and a black GM decided it was a good idea to support a man that claims that slavery had personal benefits for the enslaved?
The Orlando Magic have donated $50,000 to Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis' Super PAC, per @FOS
there’s nothing I love more than helping other writers reach their goals!!! being an editor is one of my favorite things in the whole world because I get to work with wonderful humans like Max! :)
omg i just received the MOST AMAZING, encouraging, supportive yet detailed & critical feedback for a short story I'm working on from @DiamondGBraxton yall I'm so happy I could cry 😭😭
News alert: white man doesn’t agree that marginalized communities are harmed by racially charged rhetoric and refuses to even acknowledge they might be unintentionally in the wrong even when initially approached in a way meant to softly educate.
Montana is full of liberals who won’t mention Black Lives Matter or talk about rising anti-Asian-American hate because they swear Montana just happens to be majority white. Gee, wonder why that is? Couldn’t possibly be due to coordinated, intentional efforts by white people.
That’s an awfully loud dog whistle.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) complains about how antitrust laws impact college sports at a hearing on the PGA Tour-LIV merger: “Now everybody that plays basketball in college is gonna be driving a Bentley or a Rolls. I mean, we’re gonna be seeing rap stars instead of basketball stars.”
I was solicited for work for the first time ever a month ago, and the new story I put together for them is... so good and it made me cry. cannot wait to share with you all <3
Still thinking about a presidential candidate posting a video of himself doing 8.5 pushups and struggling on the 9th
Getting in shape for my debates with President Biden!
The ball on this guy
Is there not a world in which one can be supportive of the transgender community and curious about the fairness of Trans athletes in sport yet not be labeled a transphobe or a bigot as we ask questions? Do we yet know the answers? And do we even want to know the answers?
I was raped exactly two years ago, a violation for which I reflexively blamed myself. I wrote my way out from under that guilt & the fruit of that effort will be in this year's Best American Essays collection. On this grim anniversary, a word in defense of art about trauma:
Quick life update - we moved to Kansas! I'll be starting a PhD at KU in the fall! Until then, here's the vibe: youtube.com/watch?v=vVcVXT…