Michael Davis’ Writing Expedition Newsletter

A Reason for the Screaming

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; in this love, you are like a knife with which I explore myself.”

Sep 18 • 

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Allow Yourself to be Hurt

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is…

Sep 14 • 

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Love

I've got a lot on my mind these days.

Sep 12 • 

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Words and the Reunification of Words

College.

Sep 9 • 

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What if?

My fellow fiction writers, I’m not asking you to accept this, just to entertain it: what if you engaged in less self-promotion and diverted a little…

Sep 7 • 

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August 2025

Perforce, the Library

Standing at a crossroads in a garden of forking paths.

Aug 9 • 

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June 2025

Government Cheese

There’s only one way to write a novel.

Jun 3 • 

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March 2025

Ensō

I wanted to know the truth about life.

Mar 29 • 

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The Atlantic’s Survivalist Problem

Bullets look for targets. Hammers look for nails.

Mar 24 • 

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No Such Thing as a Free Basket

Every morning on the way to my office, I walk past the business school, which is built like a hilltop crusader fortress, replete with battlements, a…

Mar 5 • 

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February 2025

AWP in Ten Exotic Fruits

The guy who sold a superhero script to Disney was giving a talk in the Jabuticaba Room.

Feb 22 • 

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November 2024

The Writing Expedition Omnibus Podcast Ep. 8: "Halfway to Halloween" by Michael Davis

A short short by yours truly.

Nov 25, 2024 • 

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