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Fixator Press Publishes “The Blood Soaks Into the Dust in Minutes”

On By Scott HolstadIn MY WRITING, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, WritingLeave a comment

https://fixatorpress.home.blog/2026/07/28/the-blood-soaks-into-the-dust-in-minutes-by-scott-c-holstad/?page_id=3708 Thank you to Fixator Press for publishing one of my protest poems this past week. This is "The Blood Soaks Into the Dust in Minutes." I've been writing and publishing protest, political, social justice, pissed off poems for over 35 years and as for those I've been writing the past couple of years, I …

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5 poems by Scott C Holstad @ Blood+Honey

5 experimental poems published by Blood+Honey magazine

On By Scott HolstadIn experimental, MY WRITING, Poetry, Politics, Publishing, Writing3 Comments

Last week, Blood+Honey Magazine published "five poems by Scott C. Holstad." I wanted to announce that, to thank the editors for supporting experimental & political writing/art, for supporting my work & publishing these poems. It's a batch I'm pretty proud of. I used the cut-up technique virtually exclusively for all five poems & 11 pages …

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They’re Going to Start Killing ICE Agents (D Pakman)

On By Scott HolstadIn Culture/Commentary, Politics

I'm reposting some food for thought... They're going to start killing ICE agents by David Pakman What the killing of Alex Pretti reveals about the risks of unaccountable federal policing Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js

Mad Swirl Features my Short Story “Change Redux” This Week!

On By Scott HolstadIn fiction, MY WRITING, Writing

Mad Swirl is a great literary magazine that publishes quality short stories among other things. In 2024, they featured three of mine but this year I hadn't sent them anything until it was almost summer and as time elapsed, I realized I had sent them a story I had been experimenting with which some might …

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