My “Conversations With AIs”

If you haven't noticed the new tab in the menu running across the top of this website titled Holstad — Conversations With AIs, consider checking it out. I've had a lot of downtime this year because of injuries, post-op complications and a host of other horrors, and while that hasn't eliminated all of my various obligations, …

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Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS

Me, reading (from) my 2nd little poetry collection, INDUSTRIAL MADNESS, published in 1991 by Sivullinen in Helsinki, Finland. It underwent a 2nd printing a couple of years later by a different Finnish publisher who paired it with a small work by Charles Bukowski in an ombudsman that can be found on FINNA, the Finnish National …

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Author Scott Holstad reads dirty realism story, “Premeditated”

Poet, writer & author Scott C. Holstad reads a dirty realism short story titled "Premeditated" that was published in Bristol Noir magazine in August 2025.

Lowlife Lit Press merch, c/o Scott Holstad

My New Lowlife Lit Press Merch is Making Me Look a Little Crazy!

Just got my new Lowlife Lit Press shirt and asked my wife to take a photo of me in it. Look at what happened to me when I was just supposed to look "Normal" for the pic! Heh. Love the shirt and the slogan: "Write. Drink. Submit. Repeat." Badass and an apt description of most …

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