Ashé contributor Jeff Mann will be speaking on a panel “Gay Regionalism through the Eyes ofAppalachia” with Jackson Tucker, Dorothy Allison, Julia Watts, and Aaron Smithat this week’s Associated Writing Programs Conference in Chicago. The panel is scheduled for Thursday, February 12th.Read Jeff’s poetry in the current issue.
Rebel Satori Press is actively seeking new and independent writers!We are looking for nonfiction works focussing on the general categories of personal spirituality, Buddhism, occulture, esoterica, personal growth and social issues. We list these broad categories as a first point of reference, but we will consider material across a very wide spectrum. Rebelious, revolutionary and experimental works welcomed!Areas we are particularly interested in: Buddhism Meditation Esoteric/Occult/Magick Kabalah Paganism Revolutionary Personal GrowthMore Information
Desperately Seeking: Punks, urban outcasts and the just plain morally unfit for a Queer Male Erotic AnthologyEditor: Sven DavissonPublisher: Queer Mojo (an imprint of Rebel Satori Press)Submission Deadline: June 1, 2009Queer Mojo is looking for quality erotic, short fiction for an upcoming anthology. Stories should be creative, revolutionary, queer and… well, pieces gotta be good reads and they gotta be hot. They may be as explicit as you like, but should have some redeeming literary value (whatever you take that to mean).QM seeks characters out of the mainstream: punks, out-casts, skaters, urban anarchists and secretly rebellious farmboys. Whether you draw inspiration from Bill Burroughs or are a latter-day Lovecraft in creepy crawly tentacular stimulation, all genres are welcome.Previously published material considered on a case-by-case basis depending on original exposure.Please indicate place and date of previous publication in email.Stories should be no longer than 7,000 words. Email submissions as a Word doc attachment to info at queermojo.net
Ashé contributing editor and Madder Love editor Peter Dubé is teaching a SHORT FICTION workshop entitled 4 Windows and a Door in Montreal, Thursdays, 6 to 8 p.m., March 5 to April 30
For more information: www.qwf.org/workshops/
Read Peter’s interview with Ms. Julie here
On February 19 @ 7 PM, Ashé contributing editor Craig Gidney will be reading from and signing copies of his debut collection of short stories, Sea, Swallow Me at the DC Center (The DC Center, 1111 14th Street NW Suite 350, Washington DC) as a part of the Outwrite Author Series.
Sea, Swallow Me is a wonderfully original and eventful collection, whose stories range from the supernatural to the historical to the right-now moment. Craig Gidney combines an exceptional gift for prose poetry - often as dark and steely as it is beautiful - with an unerring sense of the preposterous and the horrifying. ( But add to that also occasional hilarity that should make a stone laugh aloud.) He breaks rules and remakes them, as many talented writers will, and is undaunted by the murks of society or psyche. Though inevitably ( and rightly ) he brings to his work the voices of Black and Gay Experience, what speaks most strongly throughout is the Human Experience - yes, even when confronted by a god of the sea. Here are elements of the young Ray Bradbury, of John Steinbeck, of Toni Morrison and James Baldwin and Angela Carter. But most of all it is the uniqueness of Gidney’s own take on life, clad in vivid, cunning and, in places, Dionysian language, that make this a must-read ( and read again ) collection. With new writers producing work of this caliber, the future of books looks bright. —Tanith Lee