Chris Drew

The new pope is apparently a Cubs fan, which makes me question the doctrine of papal infallibility.

Me checking my 401k today:

I'm almost 30 years late, but I'm finally getting around to watching From the Earth to the Moon. Two episodes in, it's really good, but I'm specifically reminded that @kevinpollak is a goddamn national treasure.

Excited to share that my travel essay, "Shadow Rails," went live this morning in the newest issue of The Woven Tale Press! thewoventalepress.net/wtp-vol-xiii-1/

I'm honestly a bit unnerved by the sheer amount of worldbuilding going on in car insurance commercials these days.

The only hero in that meeting spoke English as a second language, but somehow still wasn't the worst English-speaker in the room.

Some good news: I got official notification today that I've been promoted to Full Professor here at Indiana State University, effective this fall!

I'm thrilled to share a short(ish) story I've been trying to publish in one form or another since, oh, 2007 or so! thecourtshipofwinds.org/chris-drew?fbc…

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

@EddieTrunk I’ll agree with some other replies. My daughter’s a big fan, so I end up listening to songs from Guts pretty regularly in the car with her. It’s far more rock and roll than most of her pop contemporaries’ work. Not Metallica or anything, but real instruments and distortion!

Rock event???????? Talented woman , but rock ??????

Just got my plane ticket and rental car sorted for the Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference in November. Looking forward to seeing some old friends and plenty of new faces. It's been a while!

@_lucyjbrown @BloomsburyLit As someone involved in CW Studies, I’m so appreciative of the work you and Bloomsbury have done assembling such a collection of books. When I started in the field 15 years ago, the stack of truly useful books wasn’t all that tall. :) It’s been discipline-changing!

The Creative Writing section of the Bloomsbury website is now live! It's been a pleasure to curate this list and watch it grow and I can't wait to see where we go next. Check out all our new books as well as our stellar backlist here: bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/cr…

@sepinwall Fwiw, I’m a big Tolkien nerd who didn’t love Season One, but I enjoyed the first three episodes of Season Two because (so far, at least) they’ve ditched the Halbrand mystery box in favor of hewing more closely to Tolkien’s actual legendarium. Not perfect, but much better so far.

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Fantastic.

The final episode of The Acolyte was probably the best of the lot, but the ending was dumb. Swing and a miss overall, I'm afraid.

@devincf Every. Time.

Tried to cancel SiriusXM and the chat bot offered me a price that was like 80% off what I had been paying and like a fool I took it.

@CzaiaZach Thanks, Zach! @amykierzekash , @MDeanClark , and I are super proud of the book, but it's hard to know sometimes how it's been received at the classroom level, so I'm thrilled to see it in the hands of someone else pushing to bounds of secondary creative writing pedagogy! Kudos!

Incorporating/integrating creative writing pedagogy into high school English classroom. Shout out @chrisdrew76 for inspiration! Teacher / Poet #23 open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/…

My essay, "Elegy for a Gargoyle," is live in the current issue of @TwistedVineLit! (It's on page 44, if you want to have a look.) Excited that this piece has found a good home! twistedvine.wnmu.edu

Yet another order shipped and sold by @amazon that promised 1 day shipping but is now delayed an additional 5 days. Maybe. Who knows? The Prime subscription seems less and less worth it every day.

Sometimes I think teaching is largely the art of telling students things they don't want to hear in ways that make them glad you told them.