Your hold is ready! (8. 21. 2022)

Hello all! As August winds down and I begin to think about getting back to class, it’s been especially enjoyable to disappear into books and writing. I’ve been holed up in coffee shops, reading books at record speed; after all, reading is way more fun than dealing with the news. I’ve also been happy to get feedback on my fourth chapbook, bugbutter, which is now up for purchase!

My editing life has been pretty awesome, too –– part 1 of a two-part special issue on trans speculative fiction, which I edited for the amazing beestung magazine, is now available to read! Not to toot my own horn, but it’s fucking awesome, and has multiple writers I deeply admire and am over-the-moon to have the chance to publish.

Also, on the editorial end, I’m still reading submissions for swallow::tale press, 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. Send in those manuscripts & check twitter for more info about what we like!

As for 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.

Okay, now to the recommendations.

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Mari Lowe, Aviva vs. The Dybbuk

• Sara Nović, True Biz

• Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

• Petra Kuppers, Eco Soma

• lark benobi, The Book of Dog

• Meghan Malachi, The Autodidact

Media:

• Johnni Phillips, Wasteland (2019).

• GIMP Prologue (2020).

Albums:

• Turnstile, GLOW ON (2021).

• Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL, PLECTRUM ELECTRUM (2014).

• Angel of the Odd, Footage from the Film (2005).

• Indigo De Souza, Any Shape You Take (2021).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Erin Vincent, Fourteen Ways of Looking (2022).

• Briar Ripley Page, Help! My Body is Changing! (2021).

• Adele Tincelin, We Only Live Twice (2022).

• Stacey Tran, Three Poems (2022).

• Raquel Abend van Dalen, translated by Dillon Scalzo and Raquel Abend van Dalen, The Beautified Among the Insane (2022).

• Katherine May, Cut Here (2022).

• Kendra Mills, Five Poems (2022).

Essays and Articles:

• Jane Shi, Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue (2021).

• Diana K. Davis, Of Deserts and Decolonization: Dispelling Myths About Drylands (2020).

• Som-Mai Nguyen, Blunt-Force Ethnic Credibility (2022).

• Sarah Gailey, Between the Coats: A Sensitivity Read That Changed My Life (2018).

• Randall Patterson, The Organ Grinder (2006).

My Recent Work:

• New book alert! My fourth chapbook, bugbutter, is available from Gap Riot Press and up on Goodreads.

• My third chapbook (2022), Out of Mind & Into Body, is available from Ethel Press and up on Goodreads.

• My 2021 chapbooks: Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In. And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• In praise of -less: transMad shouts from absent (pl)aces in AZE Journal.

• Tomboy in Cobra Milk Magazine.

• 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.

• Tulip Monologue in Foglifter.

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

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

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!