Pool Party | A Reading Series & Literary Journal

Pool Party is an independent online journal, reading series, and book publisher founded by Ryan-Ashley Anderson and Kevin Maloney—writers and artists who look for well-crafted literary and critical writing that that questions reality, evokes nostalgia, explores the uncanny, and interrogates the human condition.

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The Hideaway

by Sarp Sozdinler
December 6, 2025 | Fiction

When my parents got divorced, my dad moved into a house three blocks away and left the shed in our backyard to rot. The kind of shed with cheap plywood walls, a warped door, and windows smudged with spiderwebs and the grease of a thousand hands. Growing up, the shed...

Everything’s Okay, Nothing’s Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney

by Kevin & Ryan-Ashley Maloney
November 21, 2025 | The Deep End

Unlike the dinosaurs, whose extinction was the result of a single cataclysmic event, humans are courting...

I May Leave

by Alicia Gee
November 13, 2025 | Essays

Mum says that Don’s womanizing killed him, along with the smoking and the drinking. Fucking is good cardio, I tell her. I have a soft spot for infidelity. Dad tells the story of a family Christmas Eve party he attended when he was a child. My grandfather Don...

The Pool Pit

by Guy Cramer
October 30, 2025 | Fiction

I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button. I was in my room chewing a whole packet of gum when the phone rang, ten times. On the eleventh time Mom yelled “Oh let...

Equitable Access and Meaningful Support for The Arts

by Ryan-Ashley (Anderson) Maloney
October 28, 2025 | The Deep End

Since moving to Portland, I have seen art organizations close, arts funding diminish, and a focus on equitable access to creative opportunities, recede in favor of individual fundraising efforts. Beyond Portland, I have seen beloved literary...

SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI

by Jaime Fountaine
October 16, 2025 | The Deep End

As I helped with the load-out after the closing of their most recent show, “Entity Cramming” with Eric Anthony Berdis at Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia, it struck me that, even though Soso Capaldi and I...

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Newly Published

The Hideaway

Everything’s Okay, Nothing’s Bad Here: Patrick Wensink in Conversation with Kevin Maloney and Ryan-Ashley Anderson Maloney

I May Leave

The Pool Pit

Equitable Access and Meaningful Support for The Arts

SCRATCHING BOTH ITCHES: JAIME FOUNTAINE IN CONVERSATION WITH SOSO CAPALDI

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