Big thanks to Rebecca LeBoeuf for featuring Among Animals 2 in the latest issue of The Penmen Review! Contributors Rachel King, Catherine Evleshin, and Anne Elliot each talk about their stories, along with yours truly.
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New Year, New Anthology
My new short story “It Wants To Be a Swamp” will appear in the upcoming anthology Mother’s Revenge from Scary Dairy Press — fine publishers of dark, bizarre, and strange fiction. As the editors describe it: “This is a passionate anthology about Mother Earth taking her world back from the humans and teaching us a lesson.”
Intrigued, aren’t you?
Upcoming Book Readings
“Phoenix Cross” is making the rounds of the DMV, one administrative district at a time!
I.e., after reading at the wonderful Potter’s House in the District last October, I’m heading across the Maryland border on January 7 to Robert Harper Books. Then, on February 8, I’ll be joining friend-to-equines and historic fiction writer J. Bowers at One More Page Books in Arlington, Virginia. Check out her devastating story “Shooting a Mule” in Among Animals 2.
Details and dates:
Robert Harper Books
6216 Rhode Island Ave
Riverdale Park, MD 20737
Saturday, Jan 7, 2pm
One More Page Books
2200 N Westmoreland Street #101
Arlington, VA 22213
Wednesday, Feb 8, 7pm
If you’re in the neighborhood, come down and get a book, get a signature, or get a firm handshake.
It really is an honor just to be nominated
“Phoenix Cross” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize!
The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America.
Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in our annual collections. Each year most of the writers and many of the presses are new to the series. Every volume contains an index of past selections, plus lists of outstanding presses with addresses.
Ashland Creek Press nominated the story, which is quite an honor for me, considering they are limited to six nominations for the year, and they’ve published over a dozen stand-out short stories just in Among Animals 2. Definitely check them out.
Interview with Ashland Creek Press
I talked with the good folks of Ashland Creek Press about my contribution “Phoenix Cross,” to their new anthology Among Animals 2. You can check out the results here. We cover inspiration, research, empathetic farmers, and more!
It’s out!
Among Animals 2 is now available from Ashland Creek Press, featuring my short story “Phoenix Cross”! What happens when struggling chicken farmers gene-splice the company breed with a mythological phoenix? Well, not exactly what they hoped for.
I’ll be reading from the story at The Potter’s House at 7pm, October 14. If you’re in the DC-area, stop on by! Then stick around for the discussion with DC Stampede – a grassroots social justice collective for animals, people, and the planet. Details available on Facebook.
I did an interview
When you write things and share them, people will occasionally ask you questions about yourself and the things you write. When this happens in such formal settings as a newspaper, a podcast, or a blog, you can call it an interview and blog about it yourself. As I shall demonstrate…now!
Here is an interview I did about my short story “Meat” for Ashland Creek Press, in which I discuss the material roots of oppression, ideology, escapist (or not escapist) literature, and impressing one’s English teacher.
Thank you, Jennifer, for thinking of cogent questions and putting it all together.