The latest issue of Raritan contains “Field Notes from a Pandemic: Call of the Killdeer.”
Follow the link below to reach my essay:
Category Archives: General
General updates from my writing life.
BEST AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL WRITING 2020 RELEASED
This anthology is now available to the public. Edited by Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney, it includes Chapter 12 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines, a project of mine inspired by the drawings of Dale Williams. Below are two posts addressing the release:
https://www.facebook.com/BAXseries/posts/2492258954412788
https://twitter.com/BAX_Series/status/1336366547410018310?s=20
NEW ESSAY IN RADCLIFFE MAGAZINE
Follow the link below to reach this special number of Radcliffe Magazine, a publication of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
The issue consists of essays by artists, journalists, scholars and scientists addressing lessons learned in the difficult year of 2020.
NOVEL EXCERPT AND ESSAY IN THE JOURNAL OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE STUDIES
Volume 11 of this journal—“The Practice and Pedagogy of Writing at Black Mountain College”—features twelve pages from What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights, accompanied by an essay on form entitled “The Road: A Shared Plight.”
To experience the writing go here:
NOVEL EXCERPT IN FICTION INTERNATIONAL
Chapter 17 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in this journal out of San Diego State University edited by Harold Jaffe. When possible, a print version will appear. In the meantime the issue is available on-line.
To experience the writing go here:
ARTIST CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECEIVED
This $5,000 award—jointly funded by the state of South Dakota and the National Endowment for the Arts—is “designed to support emerging artists committed to advancing their work and careers by providing funding to produce new work.”
These funds will importantly help alleviate financial pressure, allowing me to more quickly push various projects toward conclusion.
Deep gratitude goes out to the NEA, and, as well, the South Dakota Arts Council.
FICTION FEATURED IN CONJUNCTIONS
Recently fiction was featured by the literary journal Conjunctions.
Follow the link below to experience “Camp Gesticulslapper”:
http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/ben-miller-05-26-2020
NEW ENGLAND REVIEW INTERVIEW
To read an interview exploring the roots of my recent NER essay “The Haunting of Byerly Hall: WC” follow the link below:
THE HIDEOUS ECHO
George Floyd’s last words speak for generations of Americans: “I can’t breathe.”
NOVEL EXCERPT IN AMP
An excerpt from my novel What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights just appeared in the latest issue of AMP (#5), out of Hofstra University.
To experience the writing read on:
