Posts tagged 'Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days'
Hey, how about some contributor news
Well, it's been awhile since I've posted contributor news, since I've been pretty busy with our new projects, like the Floodgate Poetry Series, the Soles Series of Stories, our forthcoming 2015 anthology, How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens, and another anthology still being formed, co-edited by H. L. Nelson and me, Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good. I'm pretty psyched about all of these projects.
…on to the news!
Lyn Lifshin, whose Marilyn Monroe: Poems we put back into circulation in December, has a new book of poems, Malala, out from Poetic Matrix Press.
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
Margaret Atwood will be reading her poetry as part of Toronto's Art of Time Ensemble's concert The Poem/The Song on November 7 & 8, 2014; Pauline, the opera she co-wrote with Tobin Stokes, opens at City Opera Vancouver on 23 May; her MaddAddam was nominated for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (check out the longlist here); hear her read Mavis Gallant here.
Paolo Bacigalupi's Zombie Baseball Beatdown was reviewed at Boing Boing.
Tina Connolly's Copperhead (sequel to the Nebula-nominated Ironskin) came out in November, and her story "On the Eyeball Floor", which first appeared in Strange Horizons, came out in translation in the Argentinian magazine La Idea Fija. Her "Flash Bang Remember," co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim, was featured in StarShipSofa 320.
David J. Daniels has a new chapbook, Indecency. It was co-winner of the 2012 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, selected by Elena Georgiou, and published in a limited edition of 200 copies—if you're lucky, Seven Kitchens Press still has copies available.
Darcie Dennigan's poem "The Ambidextrous" appeared at Thermos.
Seth Fried's story "Hello Again" is in the Spring 2014 issue of Tin House (and you'll have to buy a copy to read it).
Sharon Olds reads Rodney Jones for The New Yorker's Poetry Podcast.
Meghan McCarron interviewed Kelly Link for Gigantic magazine about vampires as metaphors.
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum's poetry collection Ghost Gear, a 2013 Miller Williams Poetry Prize finalist, was released by University of Arkansas Press.
Tessa Mellas has a new book of short fiction, Lungs Full of Noise, out with University of Iowa Press.
Ploughshares reviewed Joyce Carol Oates' On Boxing; The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The New York Times, Otago Daily Times, Roanoke Times, and The Washington Post all reviewed her Carthage; Huffington Post interviewed her.
Ed Pavlić was nominated for as Georgia Author of the Year.
Chet Weise is the co-editor, with Third Man co-founder Ben Swank, of Language Lessons: Volume 1, the debut book by Third Man Books (a new division of Nashville's Third Man Records), which was celebrated at AWP. Contributors include Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Brian Barker, and me.
E. Lily Yu's "Daedalum, the Devil's Wheel" appeared in Clarkesworld.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
Elizabeth Barrette's poems, "Rods and Reels" and "Assumptions of Precedence" were in Polu Texni.
The Poetry Storehouse has five poems, including two videopoem remixes, by Peg Duthie. The first three of these poems are also in her URB book, Measured Extravagance. She was interviewed at Moving Poems Forum about the videopoems. Duthie's poem "Spelling 'For Worse'" appeared in Goblin Fruit's Winter 2014 issue.
Kaolin Fire's poem, "Future Cities," was in Polu Texni.
During the recent TwitterFiction Festival launch event live in NYC March 12, S. Kay's very short story (#vss) was one of three chosen to be featured and read aloud by the host Sara Barron (video 41:29), and a second story was featured in the TwitterFiction Festival feed.
Deborah P Kolodji had a haiku in the March 2014 issue of A Hundred Gourds.
David C. Kopaska-Merkel's poem, "Spark," was in Polu Texni, and his story "A Better Place" is in the December issue of The Fifth Di….
Lightspeed published Ken Liu's "Ghost Days" (which will be reprinted in our How to Live on Other Planets) and "None Owns the Air" as well as his translations of Hao Jingfang's "Invisible Planets" and Chen Qiufan's "The Mao Ghost," and Clarkesworld published his "The Clockwork Soldier."
"What a gruesome question. Let's see. If you leave a tadpole in a jar in the sun it will die." – Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood will be a guest speaker at the 2013 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) in Montreal, Canada between December 3 and 6; she has committed to writing a contemporary version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, for the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death; she's been interviewed in the Ottawa Citizen, The List, The Guardian and The Scotsman; and, of course, her MaddAdam is out.
Paolo Bacigalupi was on Jonathan Stahan's podcast to discuss his middle-grade novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and other topics; he'll be in Denver, CO October 18-20, at Williams College, MA October 22-24, and here in Nashville, TN for the Southern Festival of Books October 12; and has work in the Twenty-First Century Science Fiction anthology (along with 140 And Counting's Ken Liu).
Ed Pavlić will read from his latest collection of poetry, Visiting Hours at the Color Line, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA.
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself for the Washington Post; has a new short story in The American Reader ("Sex With Camel"); and has a new book: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong.
The August inkscrawl has two of Peg Duthie's poems: "Making Rice Dance" and "Even an Empty Life Can Hold Water"; in addition to being in 140 And Counting, Duthie is the author of Measured Extravagance.
Deborah Finkelstein edited the anthology Like One, Poems for Boston in response to April's bombings at the Boston Marathon.
David M. Harris's book The Review Mirror is out—and URB publisher Joanne Merriam interviewed him for Intermittent Visitors.
Stella Pierides is giving away copies of Feeding the Doves (a collection of 31 stories and haibun from Fruit Dove Press) at Goodreads.
Finally, this is a great reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories at LibraryThing:
This collection has so many endearing elements I fear I will not be able to do them justice here. The stories interweave so well that it can be read like a novel, but they are also different in big and small ways that create more than enough interest to keep on reading. I was up till 6am this morning completely captivated by the themes and excellent continuity of the stories. These themes are sometimes deep, metaphysical, existential – generally philosophical; but, they are measured by wry and observant humour. Nothing is left in the ether; this is one of the most satisfying short story collections I've ever read.
grotesquely captivating
I love this reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories over at Smashwords:
The characters, plots and themes are very graphic, perverse at times, shockingly so. But the writing is so good, that you find yourself flitting through the stories effortlessly, accepting one outrageous thing after another. You're eager to turn the page to find out what grotesquely captivating character the author will dream up next.
Margaret Atwood's first commissioned opera, Pauline, will be performed by City Opera Vancouver next May; the opera is about poet Pauline Johnson. A trailer has been released for her forthcoming MaddAddam:
Tina Connolly's story "Old Dead Futures" is part of Tor.com's 5th birthday celebration.
Alexander Lumans will be reading at Bucknell University with Ross Gay on Tuesday, February 18, 2014.
Joyce Carol Oates' poem "Too Young to Marry but Not Too Young to Die" appears in The New Yorker; she also tweeted ten writing tips recently.
Peg Duthie has work in the very cool conceptual anthology Overplay/Underdone.
Simon Kewin has guest posts at Winged Reviews, M. Pax and Musings of a Penniless Writer about his Engn, a YA fantasy novel.
Deborah P. Kolodji's poem "Basho After Cinderella" is at Rattle.
September's Asimov's includes David C. Kopaska-Merkel's poem "Archive Copy."
Stella Pierides has reprinted her haiku that appeared in the June Presence.
Signs coming tomorrow
I'm sitting here in the Dalek Pride t-shirt I got last week at Hypericon (a fun little science fiction and fantasy convention here in Nashville), pretty excited by all the stuff my peeps have done in the past month or so.
Also! We have a new book coming out tomorrow. Well, officially tomorrow, but actually it's already up at Amazon and Barnes & Noble—which you'd already know if you followed us on Facebook or Twitter. Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories is a collection of a dozen intertwined short stories by New Zealand author RJ Astruc, featuring airship crashes, Interpol agents, artificial intelligence, hologram cities, bioterrorism and psychic gamblers. Official announcement, naturally, tomorrow.
Margaret Atwood was interviewed by Morning Edition host Sheila Coles; will be at Harbourfront in Toronto at the end of October; and was featured in The Guardian for her digital publishing.
Kristin Bock was interviewed for The Recorder in Greenfield, Mass.
Brian Evenson is at HTMLGIANT talking about his summer reads.
Seth Fried's "Notifications" is in The New Yorker. He and Julia Mehoke have a brand new webcomic, The FactSpace (e.g.: "FACT: Daylight Saving Time was invented to confuse the people who make time bombs.")
Akashic Books' The Marijuana Chronicles contains a short story by Joyce Carol Oates and comes out the day after Canada Day (that is, next Tuesday); Oates' "To Marlon Brando In Hell" recently appeared in Port and her commentary, "If You Wish To Be A Writer, Have Sex With Someone Who Works In Publishing," in the Onion.
E. Lily Yu's "The Urashima Effect" appeared at Clarkesworld (also as a podcast); her "The Forgetting Shiraz" appeared in Boston Review; she also appeared on Jonathan Strahan's Notes from Code Street podcast.
Ken Liu's "Mono no aware" appeared in Lightspeed Magazine and was reviewed in detail and with spoilers by Carl V. Anderson at Stainless Steel Droppings; he's also Lightspeed's author spotlight.
Simon Kewin was interviewed by Jeff Chapman about The Genehunter, and December House has revealed the gorgeous cover for his Young Adult / Fantasy novel Engn (left).
Steven Saus is raising funds at Kickstarter for What Fates Impose, an anthology of original speculative stories about the complications of predicting the future.
I initially mistyped that as The Bling Assassin
Ducklings, I'm sorry. I've been busy enjoying my life and editing our upcoming titles, and have fallen behind on posting contributor news, so I'ma write this long-ass post and hope y'all will click through every one of these delicious links.
But first! If you live in Nashville, a couplethree events you should know about:
We're having two readings this coming Saturday June 1st for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, at 11 am at the downtown library (Conference Center, Main Library First Floor, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN; FB; NPL; Nashville Scene) and at 2 pm at East Side Story (1108 Woodland Street, Unit B, Nashville, TN; FB). Join Chet Weise, Tessa Mellas and Maggie Smith for readings from the end of days! Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, Nesting Dolls and The List of Dangers. Trapeze aficionado Tessa Mellas is a lecturer at the Ohio State University. Chet Weise, the force behind the local Poetry Sucks! A Night of Poetry, Music, and All Sorts of Bad Language reading series, was once banned from Canada for playing rock-n-roll without a permit.
And speaking of Poetry Sucks!… I will be reading at their open mic night on Thursday, June 6th at Dino's Bar and Grill (411 Gallatin Ave, Nashville, TN 37206; FB; Nashville Scene listing). They begin at 8 pm and end at 10 pm. Dino's is very smoky so people with allergies may find it hard to take, but they have to-die-for cheeseburgers and fries and Poetry Sucks! is always a ridiculous good time with a great crowd. My portion will be 5-8 minutes long and I won't know where I am in the line-up til that night. They turn off the grill when the readings start so you'll want to arrive by 7 pm if you want to eat.
Byliner publishes Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last, #4 in the acclaimed Positron Series; additionally, her marginalia on The Blind Assassin is being auctioned off for English PEN; subscribers to The New Yorker can read her "Cat's Robo-cradle" online; she offers three reasons to keep physical books (and I'll take advantage of her thoughts to mention we still have physical copies of Apocalypse Now for sale); the Royal Winnipeg Ballet is adapting her The Handmaid's Tale; and, Tim Wu talks to her on SlateRadio (warning: autoplays).
In Conversation: Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, and Jesse Bullington: a conversation on genre and world-building (warning: auto plays).
ManArchy Magazine interviewed Brian Evenson; his story "A Collapse of Horses" is at The American Reader, from their February/March issue.
T.R. Hummer at Slate: "The Intimacy of Walt Whitman's 'America'"
Tessa Mellas won the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her short story collection Lungs Full of Noise.
UC Berkeley has posted a video of Joyce Carol Oates in Story Hour in the Library; and she was interviewed on PBS about her newest novel, The Accursed.
Catherine Pierce won the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters award for poetry for poetry book The Girls of Peculiar.
Kevin Prufer's "Cat in a Box" appeared on Akashic Books' website.
The Mary Sue features a short story from Apex Magazine's current issue: "Ilse, Who Saw Clearly" by E. Lily Yu.
Richard Baldasty's "Op Art" appeared at Burrow Press Review.
Peg Duthie, who is also the author of the poetry collection Measured Extravagance, had two menupoems in Alimentum (you'll have to scroll about halfway down the page).
Chris Galvin posted a review of Berit Ellingsen's Beneath the Liquid Skin at the Lit Hub; Ellingsen also was interviewed about writing and being Asian in Timothy Moore's blog (Moore edits Ghost Ocean Magazine).
Simon Kewin is providing story prompts at StoryADay.
Chen-ou Liu has haiku at Issa's Untidy Hut.
Luc Reid interviewed Ken Liu for Strange Horizons.
Jonathan Pinnock was featured on The Undercover Soundtrack, a weekly guest post by a writer who uses music as part of their creative process.
In the midst of this hyperbolic fun, Apocalypse Now is a startlingly serious contribution. Six sections encompass 98 stories and poems, which are fairly evenly across the breadth of the book in tone and topic. Lured in by the promise of big names like Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi, I fell in love with the sheer variety in this book. Covering more than traditional apocalypse scenarios, it's a collection of absolute endings.
Missed this when it came out: Apocalypse Now: Revisiting the Daydream, a review by Sarah Dunn for the Nelson Mail.
Quick, incomplete list of contributor news!
Hi ducklings. I've been pulled six ways from Sunday for the past month or two, so I am way behind on listing contributor news! So let's just get through what we can over my lunch hour.
For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
Nicky Beer's "The Plagiarist" at The Rumpus
Darcie Dennigan's "The Job Interview" at Books Matter
Seth Fried's "Das Kolumne" #10 at Tin House
WWNO discusses Rodney Jones' Imaginary Logic
Kevin Prufer reading with Martha Serpas at Lone Star College-Montgomery on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. Free, open to public; Library Building (Building F).
Poets' Quarterly reviewed The Girls of Peculiar by Catherine Pierce
Chapter16 reviews Joshua Robbins' Praise Nothing
For 140 And Counting contributors:
Ken Liu nominated for Hugo (!!) and spotlighted in Locus
Stella Pierides's "The Price of Youth" at Contemporary Haibun Online
Rhonda Parrish posted a gallery of Marge Simon's art
a little shine left
Okay, ducklings. Save the date! We've set up two Apocalypse Now readings for Saturday the 1st of June—one at 11 am at the Main Branch of the Nashville Public Library (which, if you've never been, is a gorgeous modern classical building that's all limestone and marble with loads of light inside) and the other in the early afternoon at East Side Story (a great bookstore in East Nashville).
Other news! For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: Margaret Atwood will be on the Giller Prize jury and was recently on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor; and Joyce Carol Oates will headline the 15th Annual Get Lit! Festival in Spokane, WA.
And for 140 And Counting contributors: Jim Kacian won second runner-up for the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards for The Heron's Nest; Ken Liu's "The Message" is at StarShipSofa; and Peter Newton's haiku is at Issa's Untidy Hut.
"The Romantics and the Bohemians wrote poems to impress girls and get drunk–exactly what Chet is trying to bring to Nashville."
Hi there peeps. I took the day off from my day job today so I could work on URB stuff, and I'm really excited about some of the stuff we're bringing into the world in the next fews months, not least Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories and The Mask Game. I'll be working on The Mask Game cover art in the next few weeks.
This afternoon I stopped at East Side Story and met their proprietor, Chuck Beard, and dropped off some copies of Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Chuck posed for a photo (below).
Lots of news to report! For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: a review of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman is up at The Toronto Review of Books; Booklist Online has a new cute, contentless interview with Paolo Bacigalupi; Davis McCombs received the 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellowship; reviews of Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates are up at Pop Matters and The Times; and Chet Weise is featured in the latest issue of Native (check out page 35). If you live near Bellingham, WA, you should go see him performing poetry (and selling anthologies!) on 22 February 2013 with two seminal garage/punk bands, The Mono Men and Fireballs of Freedom.
For 140 And Counting contributors: David C. Kopaska-Merkel's Luminous Worlds should come out this month from Dark Regions Press; David was also recently interviewed by The Mystic Nebula; Peter Newton's haiku appeared in Neverending Story; so did Liam Wilkinson's; Jonathan Pinnock has two poems in The Pygmy Giant: "Dissonant Love Song #2" and "Dali's Moustache", and The Independent gave his Dot Dash four stars; Miriam Sagan's short story "The Nun" appears in Orion headless.
"Writing is alone, yes, but I don't think it's lonely" – Atwood
The print edition of Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days is now available on Amazon as well as at a handful of independents:
710 Book Store (710 South Illinois Ave, Carbondale, Illinois 62901, 618-549-7304)
Book People of Moscow (521 S. Main St, Moscow, Idaho 83843, 208-882-2669)
Cornerstone Books (3601 S Sherman Street, Englewood, Colorado 80113, 303-762-0499)
Fireside Books (410 W Hampden Ave, Englewood, Colorado, 303-761-9191)
Shining Lotus (2178 S. Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80222, 303-758-9113)
And!! we're doing a giveaway of ten copies over at Goodreads.
Apocalypse Now contributor Margaret Atwood was featured in Wired for her latest project, Fanado. She was also interviewed yesterday in The Rumpus, and will appear at a free, public event at University of Calgary for Valentine's Day.
Tobias Carroll and R. Stephen Shodin discussed Brian Evenson's fiction for Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and TSP: The official blog of The Story Prize interviewed him.
T. R. Hummer was interviewed by Meg Pokrass and had 3 poems in Slate this month.
Joyce Carol Oates' Black Dahlia & White Rose was reviewed last week in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
140 And Counting contributor Dawn Corrigan had a story ("Force Majeure") in The Dying Goose.
Ken Liu talked about translating Chinese science fiction into English.
Jonathan Pinnock's Dot Dash was reviewed at The Independent, and his poem "This is Just To Be Meta" went up at The Pygmy Giant.
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