As follow up to my first list, some more journals I’m checking out: BUTT Magazine – “fagazine extraordinaire” is biannual magazine that features photography and interviews about alternative gay and queer culture and sexuality. Founded in the Netherlands (Amsterdam), it initially ran from 2001 to 2016 but reopened in 2022 with backing from luxury fashion … Continue reading
THIS Magazine Jan/Feb 2023 and a teaser
You can now read the beginning of a piece I wrote for THIS Magazine. This is the first time I’ve had my writing paired with an illustration by someone else and it’s sort of fascinating how Xulin Wang interpreted the characters and the aesthetic of the piece versus how I saw things in my mind. … Continue reading
Witch Craft Magazine #8
My contributor’s copy of Witch Craft Magazine #8 just arrived by post and it’s really gorgeous ❤ The theme for this issue is Erotica and it features an experimental prose piece I wrote, 19 Covid Safe Scenes. Treat yourself to over 170 pages of high-quality, ritualistic smut. I’ve been offline so wasn’t able to plug … Continue reading
Recommended but not a review: Ducks
I recently wrote an article about the critical reception of Ducks over at SOLRAD Magazine. As a footnote, I debated whether to get into the sexual violence in Ducks and decided (1) the article was already too long and (2) Beaton clearly did not want there to be a focus on the book’s most disturbing … Continue reading
Smutburger in NYC and other updates
SAVE THE DATE!!! Smutburger is hosting an NYC party for Volume Two – unfortunately I won’t be able to make it to give a reading but if you’re in the East Village, do check out this smoking lineup 🔥🔥🔥 In other news, DON’T SUBMIT published my bizarro prose poem misappropriating Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer. Shortly … Continue reading
October releases 🦠
I’ve two articles being published this month and coincidentally, they are both about COVID-19. In the Mood has released its horror issue, suitably timed a few weeks before Halloween. Features my tongue-in-cheek piece about Ti West’s X and dodging omicron. Check it out for more cinematic suggestions for your horror watch list! My experimental piece/ritual … Continue reading
Publishing updates
I’m dropping in today with some teasers: I’m very excited to have in my hands a copy of the second volume of Smutburger featuring a short piece commissioned by the editors, Courtney Toderash and Tamara Faith Berger. The “soft launch” will be online this Friday, part of a Smutburger-hosted teach-in about abortion rights in Canada. … Continue reading
Metatron interview + excerpt
My interview with Metatron Press is now live! Includes one of the short stories from my book, Accounting for Taste, which was previously published by Looseleaf Magazine. Continue reading
2021 Metatron Prize for Rising Authors
I’m happy to announce I was shortlisted for the 2021 Metatron Prize for Rising Authors for a collection of short stories. Congrats to all the writers who made it! You can learn more details and find out more about Metatron’s Poetry shortlist on the publisher’s website. Stay tuned for more writing news from me when … Continue reading
Writing from the ground up
A veteran activist was kind enough to speak with me the other day about antiracist work and we both agreed that we were dissatisfied with what we saw as an overemphasis on education and training. Personally, I have long thought this was not an effective strategy – only useful if augmenting more radical changes that … Continue reading