Stanchion

I no longer believe art can save the world, but I believe still that it can save me. So in the face of chaos, misinformation, hatred & ignorance, I'm going to make more art, experience more, share more, pay for more & publish more. I started this in darkness & it'll continue to be my light. 🖤🤍

Book 168 of 2026 - Terms and Conditions: A Memoir by Amy Goldmacher. Uniquely told in second person vignettes that resemble prose poetry. Exploration of how the author’s childhood and father’s death affect her in adulthood, the journey of learning they don’t have to. #BookSky @stanchion.bsky.social

Biggest and best memory from this visit to Kotor on our street cat cruise...watching my wife Lorelei care for, clean, feed, and love this calico kitten. The heart on this woman is a beautiful thing to behold and being by her side for this life is such a privilege.

Adam Gianforcaro 💙 “This is what it means to write a poem…” @adamg.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social

I got to feed some Croatian street cats in Split today!

I loved this collection @dehm000.bsky.social and Ghost Mom (and everything I've read from @stanchion.bsky.social)

Great story in Stanchion 24!! @stanchion.bsky.social @carstentenbrink.bsky.social

Highly recommend making out with the love of your life in Venice's dark alleys. Did A LOT of that last night and tonight. 💋

A wee wander around Venice today and tonight.

Last day of Latinx heritage month so if you want to support a chicanx and like ghosts, have I got a chapbook for you! 👻🇲🇽👻🇲🇽 bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

The first-ever European street cat cruise I'm hosting departs Ravenna, Italy in 4 days...and in 1 week from today I'm announcing and opening up booking for the next THREE cat cruises!! 🛳🐈😻 Stanchion has failed, but this is...working (?)

"Pantry is the most surprising feel-good book of this year or any year." – Richard Peabody, editor/publisher, Gargoyle Magazine @hildiebook.bsky.social www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I literally just remembered this is Stanchion's last book. 😭 Going out with a cover I made by writing the title in a pound of salt I poured onto a baking sheet about a hundred times to get it right. Not handmade like @thirtywestph.com chapbooks but also kinda handmade ya know.

LOOK AT WHAT'S HERE A MONTH EARLY! The test copies of Pantry are beautiful. Get yours for just $11. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... @hildiebook.bsky.social

In a month, you'll be treated to the feast that is Pantry by @hildiebook.bsky.social, a collection of micro essays that are a celebration of life's ingredients—the sweet, the sour, and everything in between. It's a masterclass in culinary nostalgia that will leave you hungry for more.

Two very different but very incredible books coming out from Stanchion next month. Both on pre-order sale now. Both priced to make the hurdle to buy new books, to take a chance on indie lit, lower than it usually is.

The final lines of the final issue are: "We are free to grab our things and go home."

I just finished reading Terms and Conditions, which reminded me so much of my own journey with unlearning anxiety. A beautiful meditation on grief, growth, and coming to new terms with life and death.

My flash sci-fi, "A Shared Sky over Broken Hearts", will be in @stanchion.bsky.social's issue 25, which will also unfortunately be the magazine's last issue (and in classic zine form). You can pre-order it below, along with their other issues and publications. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Staunch the bleeding at Stanchion and buy my book: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I am hemorrhaging money running Stanchion right now. If anyone would like a phenomenal book or magazine issue (or a handful of them) please consider buying something. I've seriously published some remarkable work.

My wife has started the final read of the final issue. Fuck I'm gonna miss making this magazine. 😢

I'd really like 100 pre-orders of Issue 25, the final rodeo for Stanchion Magazine. Can we do that? It's just $5 + shipping. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

I'd really like 100 pre-orders of Issue 25, the final rodeo for Stanchion Magazine. Can we do that? It's just $5 + shipping. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Now available for #preorder 🔥 Get poems and stories woven together in this debut memoir by Baltimore musician @ezewriter.bsky.social 🎉 masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/... #memoir #hybrid #poems #poetry #debut #books

Want to treat yourself to a workshop for under 10 dollars? All thirty-four of my popular 3-in-90 workshop recordings are now available for purchase! Expect to come away with three fresh flash drafts! Every purchase includes lifetime access in your account. www.artofflashfiction.com/videos

...it's actually 40-pages. But you get the point, I am going backward to move forward in a post-Stanchion world.

Read my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of Amy Goldmacher's memoir Terms & Conditions, available now through @stanchion.bsky.social ! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The final issue of Stanchion Magazine marks a full-circle return to the debut from over 6 years ago: It's a staple-bound, black & white, 36-page zine printed on elegantly thick uncoated paper, available only directly from Stanchion, and priced at a mere $5. www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Find me in Stanchion’s final issue this December! So grateful to be involved in a great send off.

Wicked illuminated floor at the Penn Museum in Philly.

Anyone care to see the cover for the final issue of my lil magazine?

Feel like time is moving too fast? Why not slow down for a moment and read this story I wrote and @stanchion.bsky.social published about parenthood and the illusion that we have any time at all? It will not make you feel better. www.stanchionzine.com/post/best-ne...

Look what's here!! A short story chapbook examining modern masculinity & what it means to be a human on the decline, told through the lens of superheroes & villians. A real genius piece of work by M. Kelleher. Available for just $11 on sale. Shipping next month.

You can buy this at other bookstores, but if you purchase directly from the publisher @stanchion.bsky.social at the link above, they're doing a Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal right now! It's a genuinely delightful collection of stories, each penned collaboratively with a different author.

Now that I have a 'Sheila Ferguson' (three degrees—and yes, my dad made that joke yesterday) I feel mostly-qualified to say that if you're interested in developing your craft as a writer, or even a reader curious about the behind-the-scenes process of creating a story, my craft anthology is great!

Celebrating her birthday in the big city with a fancy dinner and a Daði Freyr concert.

Just wanted to let you all know that I have just spelled 'medieval' correctly on the first try.

It's Latinx heritage month and you can get my chapbook, GHOST MOM, from @bookshop.org or @stanchion.bsky.social. Just saying. 👻 bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

@kiklodge.bsky.social your collection is wonderful! Magical, smart and brilliantly weird. I love Karaoke in the Catacombs especially. It echoes like a gently devastating indie film. 💔 🔗 www.hive.co.uk/product/kik-... (UK) @stanchion.bsky.social (US)

Knocked on my butt this morning by this section of Amy Goldmacher's memoir Terms & Conditions, available now through @stanchion.bsky.social

Terms & Conditions has arrived and is available in print from me or wherever you order books, and as an e-reader-friendly PDF. Get your copy of this important book today. Print: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... PDF: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/term...

I don't think y'all understand how vital, powerful and emotional the anthropological memoir Terms & Conditions truly is. This book is phenomenal in so many ways.

Happy publication day, Amy Goldmacher!! The 28th book in Stanchion history is officially here to remind you that the terms & conditions you grew up with don't have to determine the rest of your life. This is a memoir unlike anything you've ever experienced.

That time the Washington Post dedicated the entire back page of a Sunday Travel section in print to me, my book, and my undying love of and respect for the resilience of street cats & for traveling the world with wonder, curiosity, kindness and love.

Also got my @stanchion.bsky.social books, including @spencerfleury.bsky.social.

Last day to get the groundbreaking memoir Terms & Conditions on sale for just $12. It's a must read for any previvor. A truly remarkable experience to spend time with this book. Such a privilege to have designed the cover and to have published it.

Just gonna leave this here