Dr. Casey Lawrence 🎓

I know the submission and defense are the actual milestones, but graduating makes it feel real. I have a PhD! 🎓 #PhDone

Just dropping by to say that the next paper in our @openlibhums special collection, Caliban's Mirror, is out! ‘The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation’ by Casey Lawrence. Open Library of Humanities Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2025 • olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/234…

The boys are back in town! By which I mean, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. We've got an all new article from Mónica Galindo-González joining the collection! Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ @openlibhums doi.org/10.16995/olh.1…

Literary Blackface, DEI, and the Ethics of Authorship by @MyExplodingPen aninjusticemag.com/literary-black…

“the ampersand is the sexiest punctuation mark & I dont case who knows it & she doesnt either because shes the one holding it together” — @MyExplodingPen medium.com/promptly-writt…

Congratulations to @MyExplodingPen Their marvellous story (which we first published in our SKIN Anthology) has been shortlisted by Tenebrous Press for Brave New Weird Vol 3! tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/31…?

After what just happened to @DrAllyLouks, I’m officially deleting this app from my phone. Twitter keeps sending notifications to tell me I’ll be interested in this pile-on, but all I see is how vile this app has become. I’m out. Find me on Bluesky with the same handle.

Transitioning over to where the skies are bluer: find me over there with the same handle, MyExplodingPen.

@LiamJHogan Oh if only!

@MyExplodingPen This means you only get acceptances for the rest of the year. (Right? Right?!)

Got my 100th rejection for the year today (goal = met), on the same day as receiving $300 for a poem. Being a writer is really weird!!

@helolaw67 "Notes on Camp," for a book explaining queer theory through poetry. Tentative publication date in late 2025.

@MyExplodingPen Ooh, which poem?

Joyce readers in Ireland/UK/Europe/Middle East, we scheduled this so you could attend! Vicki Mahaffey online book launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" 12 November, 5pm GMT RSVP for link: forms.gle/MiYfkaPeMNNKra…… @JoyceFound @JamesJoyceCentr @JJ_Gazette @JoyceTower @JoyceTrieste

Periodic reminder that you can request indie books from your library, and authors get paid a lump sum. My commission on a library acquisition is like $35, which amounts to a LOT of eBooks. Instead of pirating that $1.99 eBook, help the author get paid and still read for free!!

1994 academic: "do you do spousal hiring?" 2024 academic: "do you do hiring?"

@DiannaLGunn I’m slowly moving to the Other Place as well. Followed you!

Friendly reminder that I've moved most of my socializing & shitposting to the sky place I have the same username there & will follow you back if I recognize you

Yeah sure let's boil whales alive for this

Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new

Two things can be true at the same time

Watching a cheesy movie where the hot young neighbour gifts Jennifer Lopez a first edition of her favourite book...The Iliad. A first edition. Of The Iliad. He found it in a garage sale.

@BnotBea American spellings usually throw me off, but I got today’s. Not really fair for the rest of the world. MOMMY, CORER, and STINT all in one week was messed up.

@MyExplodingPen Today: “Hold my beer!”

I will never forgive Wordle for ruining a 66 day streak with this bullshit. CORER??