March Second Chanceness 2025

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The upside of getting ousted in round 1 last year is that my essay is eligible for Second Chanceness in 2025! If you're feeling so inclined, read "Miasma" (link in comments) and nominate for the tourney below. Gimme another chance, baby!

Yoooooooo. Long time no hear from us but we have some good news to share shortly, including that we're doing the lottery at last for this year's tournament this coming week. So this is the last call for folks to nominate essays that lost in the 1st round (incl playins).

@DickensheetsLv We are behind in our process this year; apologies. Had a million other things to deal with but we're gonna do the lottery here in the next week.

The 2025 March Second Chanceness nomination form is now open. Songs/essays that lost in the first round of a previous tournament are eligible. We welcome nominations incl. self nominations, for the August lottery: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@suburbanprairie also we'd publish this!

"I did all this believing sometimes in a dream that held a constructive future—a career, fame, at least stability—but mostly wishing only to make songs and hold the lingering hum quietly within me." Love this essay by @CameronInACarr in @Longreads: longreads.com/2024/06/18/wor…

@MartinSeay SOON

@marchxness Hey Selection Committee, slow news day so I thought I'd ask: when would you like to have these nominations in by? Looking forward to rereading 256 essays!!!

@AEWeisgerber We didn't love how that worked when last we tried it so prolly not.

@legaultd We would presume that most people will expand/rework/rewrite to some extendt. At minimum writers would be required to add an addendum to address the occasion of a different tournament, we figure.

@WesMakin we will eventually but trying to get things on multiple socials is a lot so it takes us a while

@marchxness Please don't forget to post this on Bluesky as well - I was lucky to have wandered into Twitter today.

This means 256 essays, exactly half of all March Xness previous tournament essays, are eligible. YOU GOT ROBBED. PROVE IT.

Big @marchxness moment last night; No Doubt opened their Coachella set with Hella Good. By all accounts they rocked the crowd & Gwen was climbing the risers. Glad to see the love they're getting on social media this morning.

@KateCarmody8 @HugoHouse extremely legit. We'll have an anthology for you to work from in about 2 years.

So excited to teach the glorious @marchxness essays in my @HugoHouse Pop Culture in Personal Essays class! Hope you join us! Class starts May 15th! hugohouse.org/product/pop-cu…

forgot to repost this yesterday, but wrote abt @Weezer for @marchxness a few yrs ago. this essay means a lot to me; I wrote it while my dad was dying, & it’s abt “personal” writing/sharing in art (& dads…ofc god what else is new emily stfu) 💙 marchxness.com/round1-weezerv…

Tagging along w my daughter to the vintage shop, and who do I find sitting right on top of the pile of Yo! @MTV Raps cards? @Robbasemusic @marchxness