Your hold is ready! (7. 18. 2022)

Hello all! Lots of news and updates, including the publication of the amazing 18th issue of Stone of Madness and the return of Lazy Adventurer Publishing, with which I’ll be involved in some editorial work. Submissions for the beestung special issue on nonbinary speculative fiction just closed, and I cannot wait to share the first of two parts (!!) with you soon.

In terms of open deadlines: I’m chairing a NeMLA panel on Mad prose/poetics and narrative noncompliance, taking abstracts through 9/30. All, academic or not, are welcome.

I’m getting super pumped for the publication of my fourth chapbook, BUGBUTTER, from Gap Riot Press. I just received cover/inner PDFs to confirm, and I’m floored at how wonderful they look. Those interested in early/review copies can email me (editorialcavar at gmail). Trust that I’ll be sharing links widely when regular orders open up, too.

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:

• Olivia Muenz, Where Was I Again.

• Eileen Myles, Inferno (A Poet's Novel).

• Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest.

• Piotr Paziński, The Boarding House.

Podcasts and Media:

• I tried speedrunning Club Penguin and it was surprisingly stressful.

• You can now explore all of the Book of Kells for free online.

• Ben Riddle, Smile.

Albums:

• Astrid Sonne, outside of your lifetime (2021).

• Leikeli47, Wash & Set (2017).

• Mort Garson, Mother Earth's Plantasia (2019).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Lidia Yuknavitch, Olga (2022).

• Lauren Hunt, Law School (2022).

• Jenny Xie, from "Reaching Saturation" (2022).

• Sally Rosen Kindred, Altarpiece With Wolf and Door (2019).

• Lauren Ring, Magical Girl Burnout Bingo (2022).

• Rick Hollon, That Sweet Old Water (2022).

• Kareem Tayyar, The Revolution of Heavenly Bodies (2022).

• Bryan Washington, Arrivals (2022).

Essays and Articles:

• JS Tan, Tech Workers Lie Flat (2022).

• Matt Stieb, The Vaping Industry Has Gone Rogue (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]

• Social Skills: A TransDyke Autie-Biography in Sinister Wisdom.

• 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!