NOVEL EXCERPT IN QUARTER AFTER EIGHT

Chapter 8 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in the new issue (vol. 27) of this journal out of Ohio University edited by Laura Post and Melanie Ritzenthaler.

To order an issue, click the link below:

https://www.ohio.edu/cas/quarter-after-eight/issues

NOVEL NAMED FINALIST FOR PEN/BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR SOCIALLY ENGAGED FICTION

To learn more about the award follow the link below: 

https://pen.org/pen-bellwether-prize/

The manuscript, Meanwhile in the Dronx…, invents a sixth borough of NYC where people driven out of the other five boroughs retreat to resurrect their lives. Including a map and 25 drawings by a Brooklyn-based visual artist Dale Williams—harking back to the 19th Century publishing motif of illustrated socially-conscious literary melodramas—this work locates and adores humans struggling to recreate themselves amid the surreal wreckage of history.

NOVEL EXCERPT IN BEST AMERICAN EXPERIMENTAL WRITING 2020

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