Your hold is ready! (6.22.22)

Hi all, it’s been a while!

Happy almost-end-of-June. I’m coming at you from a very, very warm Davis, relieved to have some time away from class and more focused toward my personal creative projects –– there’s much on the horizon! For now, I’ll just plug my call for submissions from nonbinary/genderqueer speculative writers over at beestung (open through 7/05) and my NeMLA panel on Mad prose/poetics and narrative noncompliance, taking abstracts through 9/30.

As for publications by me, there’s a bunch of exciting stuff forthcoming, not least a chapbook from Gap Riot Press –– I’ll be saying more about that in July!

Lastly: be sure to check out swallow::tale press, a Mad press for Mad manuscripts, co-run by myself and my co-conspirator and fellow Mad creator, Feyxuan. Browse our bookstore and be in touch with questions and suggestions. We’re open to submissions from Mad writers of color only, and will likely remain open through the middle of August. Send in those manuscripts & check twitter for more info about what we like!

Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Agustina Bazterrica, Tender is the Flesh.

• Jeff Vandermeer, Veniss Underground.

• Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

• Casey Plett, A Dream of a Woman

• JinJin Xu, This is My Testimony

• Malka Ann Older, ...And Other Disasters

• Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

Podcasts and Media:

• Swindled

• Africa is a Country Podcast

• The Great Pottery Throw-Down

Albums:

• mosaictheanimated, FREE SAMPLES (2022).

• world’s end girlfriend, farewell kingdom (2001)

• Ramona Lisa, Arcadia (2014).

• Mdou Moctar, Afrique Victime (2021).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Robert Carr, How to Eat Lobster (2022).

• Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí, Lay Me Down (2022).

• Jessica Q Stark, MY MOTHER READS ME LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AS A YOUNG GIRL (2021).

• Jane Shi, Fiddling my chew toy strolling across Matthew Wong's River at Night (2018). (2022).

• Candice May, Gods of Hunger, Gods of Want (2022).

• Natalie Yap, Santa Maria (2022).

• Lucille Walker, Everything Is Not Fine Right Now (2022).

Essays and Articles:

• Tajja Isen, How the Book Industry Turns its Own Racism into a Marketable Product (2022).

• Heather Havrilesky, Daydreaming with Leslie Jamison (2022).

• Imogen Binnie, Notes on Nevada: Trans Literature and the Early Internet (2022).

My Recent Work:

• New book alert! My third chapbook, Out of Mind & Into Body, is available from Ethel Press and up on Goodreads.

• My Published chapbooks: Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In. And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• Famous Bear Encore: Dance-Off Edition! in Augur Magazine

• IN WHICH TIME DEMANDS ITS SHIT BACK in Woodward Review.

• UPON HEARING YOU WISH ME DECONSTRUCTED in A Velvet Giant.

• to a specified fate) in The Institutionalized Review.

• in response to the viral r/AskReddit thread titled “what’s classy if you’re rich, but trashy if you’re poor?” which received second place in Invisible City’s flash CNF contest.

• Tulip Monologue in Foglifter.

• Late Summer Dispatch (winner of the 2021 Princemere Poetry Prize)

• t four terrior in Epoch Press.

• Two Flash Fictions [1] [2] in Bodega Magazine.

• Review: The Kissing of Kissing by Hannah Emerson in Barrelhouse.

That’s all for now! Again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!