To Stay Drunk on Writing: 2018

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury

Artwork by Lina Kusaite for Terse Journal

This was my most prolific writing year yet with 175 submissions, 96 rejections, and 91 poems or stories accepted or published. I have a novel and a poetry chapbook coming out in 2019. I finished my MA thesis (another novel) finally! I studied poetry in Belfast and spent almost two weeks at a residency in Nairobi and Loita Hills. My chapbook, The Night Will be Long But Beautiful: The Life and Death of Jeff Lakes was turned into an exquisite art book by Tim van Wijk as part of the Canada Council Print(ed) word project (Loft 112 and Alberta Printmakers). The books were later purchased by the Calgary Public Library and are on permanent display in the new Central Library Reading Room. The catalogue went into a second printing this fall! I was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Nets, and an Alberta Magazine Award. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Stacy Walyuchow and Jo Luke Giles for The People’s Poetry Festival.

If you’ve been following along this year, I thank you from the bottom of my dark little heart!

Below are links to all of my work published this year that is available to read for free online:

• “Honey Cookery,” “Spring,” “Hymn”
  • Antilang 1
• “Nuptial Flight”
  • The Warren Review 1.2
• “Cervinae,” “Weeds,” “thumb,” “the drag of the key in the lock”
  • The Temz Review
• “Evernia Prunastri”
  • Plentitude Magazine
• “with her legs dangling over the edge of the maidenhead bridge”
  • Revue Post
• “verum, n.”
  • Terse Journal
• “To the Widow Writing to the Inmates at Ponoka,” “Crumbs”
  • The Black Dog Review 1
• “Room”
  • The Occulum
• “Only Death to Me,” “Heavy Breather”​
  • Cauldron Anthology
• “Flickers,” “Missing Persons Report,” “The Man in the Bowler Hat, by the Pond Out Back”
  • Half a Grapefruit Magazine
• “Awake in Roscommon”  (audio recording)
  • Soundbite vol. 1
•  “Birdbones,” “Mistress”
  • Antilang 2 
• “Crossing the Wires,” “Being Alive was the Hard Part”
  • Awkward Mermaid Magazine
• “Happy Hour” (Fiction)
  • Antilang Blog
• “Phases of Gone”
  • Rose Quartz Journal
• “Dead Leaves”
  • Barren Magazine
• “Keep Very Still and Quiet,” “Couples Counselling for Ghosts,” “Ice Fishing in May”
  • Coffin Bell Journal 1.4
• “A Half-Life” (Fiction)
  • Antilang Blog
• “Axe Tidings”
  • Talking About Strawberries All of the Time
• “Initiation”
  • The Poetry Society of New York
• “Spell to Finish A Masters Thesis,” “Protection Spell for Poetry Readings”
  • Pussy Magic Online
• “Bucolic”
  • Three Drops from a Cauldron
• “Crepuscular Time” (Fiction)
  • Antilang Blog
• “Death Cap in November,” “Lac La Biche”
  • The Ambrosia Literary Review
• “Boy: An Erasure of Robert Browning’s The Laboratory”
  • Wilde Boy 1
• “The Purported Last Words of Ruth Blay”
  • Barren Magazine
• “Red Bird in Window”
  • Bad Nudes 3.3
• “Another Resurrection”
  • Dark Marrow 1

If you’d like to purchase some of the other magazines and anthologies I’ve been published in, head to the links below:

• Untethered Vol. 4.2 
• Wyrd & Wyse Issue 4
• The Quilliad Issue 10
• In/Words 18.1
• You are Not Your R*pe Anthology from Rhythm & Bones Press
• Pussy Magic Special Issue 2: Hallow’s Eve
• Small Poems for the Masses Vol. 1 from Post Ghost Press

You can buy my solo leaflet from The Blasted Tree, Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen for 2.50 HERE.

Take a look at some of the gorgeous covers of publications I’ve been featured in:

 

If you’ve enjoyed my writing this year and would like to support me, CLICK HERE to visit my PayPal! Writing doesn’t pay as much as we all know it should, and every little bit helps me to continue creating.

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