Juan Martinez

Please spread the word: Applications are open for my 2027 @storystudiochicago.bsky.social Novel-in-a-Year First Draft course. I can promise you a supportive community & sessions where I share every strategy I've learned to help you finish your draft. www.storystudiochicago.org/advanced-wri...

you can get your 20 grams of protein at the poetry reading if you go hard at the cheese cubes

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a conspiracy of hats.

This thing is at 9996/10000. Can someone please buy a pencil or a zine and then you’ll never hear about it again? (That’s not true)

Today’s best pigeons.

heck yes Brazil

we’re one more data center away from one more data center 🥰

brb gotta shut down another beloved cultural institution so I can expand my Perception Box

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is some Minions.

This is the angel of Minions.

I’ve been low-key freaking out about every possible permutation of the midterms, including attempts from Trump to subvert or taint the results. One small thing that helped is voting early. If you’re freaking out too I promise u that your vote counts & that voting will make u feel better.

Assuming Counterpoint is included in the Catapult news, that means that 20% of this year's National Book Awards longlist for fiction was published by imprints that will no longer exist in their current form by the time of awards night.

This is the Minion you see before your whole life flashes before your eyes.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is some Minions.

I am in Juan's current Novel In A Year cohort (the next one starts January 2027), and no exaggeration, it has been the best writing year of life. For real, DO NOT miss this chance!!! #writersofbluesky

Juan is a pal and a vicious CrossPlay competitor. Recommended.

Love this trio (of novels & people both). My all-time favorite Straub is FLOATING DRAGON (not in this LoA edition), but GHOST STORY is incredible and Straub was and is a guiding light for the kinds of things I love to write.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is an opinionated hat.

Chicago! Still a few seats left for our free Writers on Writing event in person at the Newberry Library on 10/22 at 6 pm. National Book Award winner Justin Torres will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. Register here: buff.ly/rj49vaN #chicagot

“I’m at the ballroom, I’m at the military complex, I’m at the—“

It really is an amazing book & owe @petersagal.bsky.social huge thanks for pointing me to Ben Wickey's monumental MORE WEIGHT--an exhaustively researched, gorgeously rendered account of the Salem Witch Trials. Super dense, super rewarding.

Friends, I have been absolutely devouring this 1950s novel (recommended by @fulmerford.com) about Vikings, and now all I want to do is watch Viking-related content. i know there's a lot out there... what's good? (I have seen: The Northman)

The @morningtransport.bsky.social always delivers but this James Morrow story is brilliant and as playful and surprising as anything Morrow has done (and he's done plenty of playful, surprising, brilliant things): www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/john-and-t...

Exile in Bookville hosted the launch event for the English and Spanish editions of Latine horror anthology Something Followed Us Home (Primero Sueño). The anthology’s editor, Cynthia Pelayo (r.), was joined at the event by contributors and authors Ananda Lima (l.) and Juan Martinez (c.).

I wore a camel blazer & a black turtleneck for last night’s (amazing) reading at the Hemingway House & channeled Jack Cassidy in Columbo’s “Murder by the Book” or possibly Hemingway’s stuffed muskrat.

got these two updates one right after the other & in my mind they're now related.

Cool writers reading in a cool setting - go check it out, Chicago-area people!

Me & so many amazing people read you ghost stories TONIGHT (Friday 10/16) in Oak Park's Hemingway House! Join us!

HUGE APOLOGIES! @lavietidhar.bsky.social & @anandalima.bsky.social & myself are all part of the Weird Vending Machine Canon

check this out. Book Moon is a legendary bookstore run by legendary ppl & if u help out u will get a legendary t-shirt www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

Ring footage of the neighborhood package thief.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is a poetry reading.

he doesn’t though

For the stock-photo book of confusing visual analogies

he knows what he did

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle diptych is two deer who are never speaking to each other ever again.

hi friends! Please spread the word: lots of things to do in nyc but only one place and one night to hear Rivers Solomon read new work

I drew some friends

I cropped too hard and didn’t include the majestic field

I drew a deer