Shenny
Dave MaddenA free newsletter for fans of queer thinking, personal narrative, and TV screenshots.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 93 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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Shenny: The Poem My Mom Prefers
Dear Friends:
The news in this newsletter is sparse: the semester is rolling along. What am I reading? Annie Ernaux’s The Years, Laleh Khadivi’s Female Life on Planet Earth, T.S. Leonard’s Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, and the memoi...
How to write your credo (part 2 of 2)
Dear Friends:
Last week, Kimberly Garrett, our friend and colleague in the MFA program, passed away very suddenly at home. I don’t know many more details than that, but she was my age, and she was the heart and soul of our program. Literal...
How to find your credo (Part 1 of 2)
Dear Friends:
This letter initially tried to complain about the weather, because it’s summertime in San Francisco and we’ve got 80-deg temps today, but people are dying of heat exposure in situations far worse, so the letter quickly read a...
Writing without calculation
Dear Friends:
Welcome to Fall 2026! Our semester started yesterday, I taught the NF workshop, where we talked, in part, about why we write. I revisit this questions every few years, usually as part of an exercise in a workshop I’m teaching...
The tech is always to blame
Dear Friends:
Since around June or so, Shenny has been getting between 10 and 20 new subscribers a day. A day! It’s exciting times. They all have email addresses like [email protected], and I suppose I should be flatter...
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Essayist and MFA professor writing fortnightly about things I wish more people were talking about.
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