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Patreon update & poems to look out for:
* I'm at $388/month on Patreon, and my goal by August is to reach $500/month. As promised, I have been posting poem drafts as they become available; these are viewable by Patrons only. I will no longer...
View ArticleMy Readercon 2015 Schedule:
Friday, July 1111:00 AM G Drift-Compatibile Fictional Characters. Amal El-Mohtar, Victoria Janssen, Nicole Kornher-Stace (leader), A. J. Odasso, Navah Wolfe. The film Pacific Rim created the idea of...
View ArticleConcern re: 2015 Elgin Award nomination & voting procedures
As a first-time Elgin Award nominee this year, I decided in late June to email all currently nominated individuals in both the Chapbook and Full-Length Book categories in order to obtain PDF copies for...
View ArticleNine Worlds 2015 & Elgin Awards Voting Reminder
* I'm going to be at Nine Worlds from Thursday through Sunday this week. Hope to see you there! Tight turn-around on this trip, yikes.* This is where you vote for the 2015 Elgin Awards. Votes are due...
View ArticleThis went live last night, and I'm very grateful to WU:
Wellesley Writes It: An Interview With Poet / Editor A.J. Odasso '05
View ArticleLetters from the front-lines of MFA Land
As many of you know via my Patreon page, I'm currently a Teaching Fellow and MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) Candidate at Boston University. I had meant to start blogging more faithfully here once...
View ArticleBelated October / Commence November
The three new poems I'd mentioned are now live in SWAMP Issue #17, along with work from a colleague of mine, Matthew Porto. Please do support this fantastic Australia-based MFA journal!I'm well aware...
View ArticleStrange Horizons Poetry Acceptances Oct. 1st - Nov. 30th:
"Death by Three Senses," by Lev Mirov"Minions," by Bryan Thao Worra"Neither/Nor," by Alleliah Nuguid"Lady Agnes," by Carlene Kucharczyk"Agadez Love Stories," by Annette Frost"Little Red Cap," by...
View ArticleMy 2016 Rhysling-Eligible Poems (Pub. in 2015):
"Bone-House," Liminality #4, Summer 2015 (LINK TO POEM)Poem Trilogy: "Red Wire," "Monsters," and "Slipknot"; SWAMP#17, September 2015 (LINK TO POEMS)"Transition Metal," My Dear Watson: The Very...
View ArticleRecent Publications & Forthcoming Stuff:
"Red Wire," "Monsters," and "Slipknot" (reprints); Tiny Moments, ed. David Pring-Mill, March 2016"Plague Year," Barking Sycamores: Year One, ed. V. Solomon Maday and N.I. Nicholson, Spring...
View ArticleFingernail-Hold On Reality
I've updated my previous post with links to the pieces that were previously forthcoming. There's new poetry to be had now, in link form. Two are books (anthologies) that you can buy!I'm two weeks...
View ArticleStrange Horizons Queer Planet Poetry Acceptances:
"Duck Dance, Two-Step," by Halee Kirkwood"eve (and adam)," by Njemile"Interview With a 22nd-Century Sex Worker," by Darren Lipman"Odessa," by Marina Berlin"A Mergirl Speaks of Travels," by Michelle...
View ArticleHIDDEN YOUTH anthology Kickstarter has 5 days left!
(My fellowship/MFA program ended a few days ago, so I'm attempting to catch up on everything I've semi-neglected online.)Please consider contributing to the Hidden Youth anthology Kickstarter,...
View ArticleMuch-Belated Summer 2016 Publications Round-Up:
"XX/XY,"Mythic Delirium, June 2016"Jellyfish / Out of Water,"Liminality, Issue 8."Augur Effect," Spelling the Hours, Stone Bird Press, July 2016."Sargasso Sea,"Remixt Magazine (forthcoming)"Widening...
View ArticleStrange Horizons July/Aug Reading Period Acceptances:
Gabriel Noel, "If I Told You"Symantha Reagor, "How to Breathe On Venus"José González Vargas, "Last Time"Rose Condon, "The day after we saved the city"T.D. Walker, "Iris"Ethan Chua, "Explorers"Ada...
View ArticleMy 2016/2017 Rhysling-Eligible Poems:
"Outbound," "Oblivious," and "The Calm Before";Belmont Story Review, Spring 2016"XX/XY,"Mythic Delirium, June 2016"Jellyfish" and "Out of Water,"Liminality, Issue 8."Augur Effect," Spelling the Hours,...
View ArticleFirst two writing sales of 2017 + reading project
A new poem, "Origin Story," will be published in Dreams & Nightmares 106 (May), and a new essay, "Being the Dictionary," will be published in an as-yet-untitled anthology of pieces by...
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Concern re: removal of a 2017 Rhysling Award nomination
ETA, 1/25/17: Yes, what you read in the final sentence of this entry, and more explicitly in the comments, is correct. I'm running for SFPA Treasurer. I'd been planning on making a bid at getting...
View ArticleThank you, Strange Horizons Readers' Poll voters!
Our Queer Roundtable is one of the many favorites to place. So much love to fellow round-table participants Anna Anthropy, Rose Fox, Vanessa Rose Phin, Nisi Shawl, and Cynthia Ward!
View ArticleJanuary '17 Strange Horizons poetry acceptances:
"Hullabaloo in Thambapani," by Rushda Rafeek"Small Insects and Their Place Among Main Sequence Stars," by Juanjo Bazán "Time to Want," by E.K. Morse"Concerning Boston's Haunted Subways," by Konner...
View ArticleMaking this place look lived-in again...
My sidebar needed some serious streamlining, so I've done just that.Otherwise: bed, and Rhysling Award nominations close in an hour.
View ArticleMy Jul/Aug16 & Jan/Feb17 Strange Horizons acceptances + pub dates:
3/6/2017 Small Insects and Their Place Among Main Sequence Stars - Juanjo Bazán 3/13/2017 Concerning Boston's Haunted Subways - Konner Jebb3/20/2017 If I Told You - Gabriel Noel3/27/2017 Last Time -...
View ArticleAfter long silence, poetry news from here and there:
* My new poetry manuscript, Things Being What They Are, has been long-listed for the 2017 Sexton Prize. That's about as much as I can say at the moment, and it's unbearably exciting!* I have a new poem...
View ArticleMy poems eligible for 2018 Rhysling Nomination:
"Systems Inertia,"A Bees' Breakfast anthology, Beautiful Dragons Press, May 2017."The Devil in Boston,"Barking Sycamores, Issue 12 (June 2017)."Radiant Things,"Noble Dissent anthology, Beautiful...
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