MY BABY IS HERE! Please order, read, share, teach, ask me to things for UNWIELDY CREATURES, my queer biracial Asian genderswapped Frankenstein! A book I started the summer of 2019, & somehow managed to finish as my divorce grief & the pandemic bloomed around me. Link in thread!
@DLBLLC
yes this is my major problem with interview questions that require us to give intellectual property cause most orgs have no problem stealing it and you very rarely get the job
One thing I would love to see all editors think about more thoughtfully is the rhythm of sentences. If it's not grammatically incorrect (or whatever copyedit standard one is using) and it's clear the writer is writing for musicality, maybe don't change it to your preference?
Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with Bloomsbury to publish a book based on my dance dissertation, Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Media, to release next year. This year is truly wild! I'm so grateful and excited.
I've been thinking recently about what it means to work with disabled, including ND, writers as an editor. I wanted to give some thoughts in case people haven't thought about this.
On the hunt for queer Chinese and Taiwanese artists that could design a book cover. An ability to write Chinese characters a bonus. Please retweet and DM. We have funding but not a huge amount. Not tiny, either. Please only reach out if you have time and ability.
the longer we talk about THE SIMPLE MEASURE OF WEARING A MASK the more i'm reminded of my father. my grandfather died in taiwan during SARS but not of SARS. he had a stroke, and they had to quickly move him home from the hospital because of risk of SARS, and he died soon after.
My Asian father just gave me a bag and mentioned it was unisex (the closest he’s come to addressing/affitming my gender identity) and I almost burst into tears.
Did someone sitting next to me on the subway just rub their face vigorously with their bare hands and then start taking a COVID test?! (I’m double masked.) 😵💫🥴
there's an upcoming anthology project that is very exciting - if you would consider your poems "surreal confessional" and you want in, respond to this post!
@LexiAlex
@sairasameerarao
oh lookie the person who cherrypicked me and a handful of other non tenured faculty of color to call out for signing a letter in support of P*lestine & caused me rw backlash
I didn’t win the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel but I got this stone for being a finalist and a queer Asian person cried telling me what Unwieldy Creatures meant to them, better than any award. My heart is full.
for those who've written a non-linear lyric memoir, esp fragmented, etc., how do you "structure" it? I know that's kind of ironic, but do you write it as it comes, do you have a sense of the arc of certain sections, do you work from chronology or some sort of thematic idea?
My parents married just ten years after Loving Day. Imagine how differently our lives would have ended up, and the fight is clearly far from over. Happy Loving Day, my mixed race loves. I see you, I see us. 💕👊🏼
AWP tips! 1. MASK - Even if you're not a masker, we're talking THOUSANDS of people traveling from all over, but also your immune system isn't as strong when you're stressed, tired, running rampant. Mask esp: in the bookfair, sitting in panels, in crowded places.
Name something writers today wouldn’t understand that you’ve lived through. No snark, but we’re all better off for it.
I’ll start: having to buy and lug around Writers Market to find out who to submit to & guidelines. 🫠🤦🏻♂️😩
i'm in a particularly depressive moment - usually they pass, but they still scare me. can i see moments of beauty, joy, pets, love, whatever usually lifts you up?
In other words, it means you must be adaptable as an editor, & possibly more "hands-on" than you are w other writers. This is what it means to be accessible, but this is also what it means to prioritize disabled writers.
I am emboldened and inspired by
@birdpoems
to take advantage of this moment, and to re-share something I wrote years ago about a very well known white cis male poet, that barely made a drop.
If you’re a yt writer noticing that innocent POC are getting harassed & stalked by a crew of young yt writers & editors w strangely substantial platforms, & DMing about how terrible they are, maybe consider speaking up instead. This isn’t a subtweet, just a pattern I’m noticing.
My publicity team left cupcakes for me at my hotel in London with my face and book cover, knowing I was sad I never had them or a book cover cake for the tour. 😭🥹
@KellyannNavarre
@PoagueAmy
As a professor this makes me livid. Also one shouldn’t NEED filed accommodations to be given support in the classroom. I hope you get the support you need and deserve with this. So sorry. 🙄
For those who don’t believe in being pushing for acceptances by “tiered” journals largely for the status/career blah blah, what litmags would you be elated for an acceptance just because you love what they do?
And of course, you should always be including image descriptions, audio transcriptions and video descriptions of media, on your websites. You should be asking all contributors to image describe their headshots and included images.
happily unfollowing those more fixated on lionizing a writer they don't know than centering a child who not only was abused but also forced to secrecy to maintain a complicit parent's image so keep it coming
@chenchenwrites
Everything I know about love and its necessities
I learned in that one moment
when I found myself
thrusting my little burning red backside like a baboon
at a man who no longer cherished me. (Carson)
"Whiteness is not a color or a race or an ethnicity but a construct of power, the power to speak, to tell stories, not only about oneself but about other people." (Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint, Names for Light.)
Let's say an agent reached out asking you to send them yr ms, then sent a positive & thoughtful rejection you still think about - would it be weird to offer to send them the released book so they could see what came of it (& also how their notes were helpful)?
GUESS WHAT'S HERE A DAY EARLY?! Please check out my cover reveal for my queer genderswapped biracial Frankenstein retelling, UNWIELDY CREATURES, forthcoming from
@JadedIbisPress
August 2, 2022! Grateful to
@LambdaLiterary
for publishing it &
@IsipXin
for such a dynamic cover!
It's great, & necessary, to prioritize disabled writers, reviewers, etc., in your mags. But it's not enough to just decide that, & move forward. For example, working with disabled writers/editors might look like:
I'm sharing this because it's something I understand implicitly and I'm realizing this might not be evident to other editors who want to be more accessible.
Just found out that I got a Best Small Fictions nom for my Little Mermaid retelling in Fairy Tale Review! Second year to get a nom! (This year I got in the anthology. 🥳) This piece means a lot to me and I’m so excited about this. 🥳🥳🥹🥹😭😭
OH MY GOD TURNED IN MY EDITS TO THE EDITOR. Goes to publisher next! OOF WHEE ALL THE FEELINGS! Book two, baby, here we come! (PLEASE GIVE ME ALL THE GIFS)
It's my three-year divorceversary, please clap for me for freeing myself of a sociopath and finding my way back to the truest of myself. (PSA ask before you congratulate on divorce, unless you know the way they feel about it, we all have deeply different experiences.)
One of the most vulnerable pieces I've ever written is out today
@ElectricLit
, the first piece up in
@TheDenneMichele
's Both/And series. Please give it love. I'm unbelievably honored to be part of this series, & mindblown to start it off.
The way people are responding to this. Y’all realize she never actually judged anyone? That she was hired to help? That hundreds of reality shows with judges judging hard ya’ll squeal about the “burns”? Many responses to her feel anti-Asian & you can’t convince me otherwise.
it is truly stupefying to me that we actually have the resources to protect ourselves but just don't give a shit. i am not high risk. but i barely go anywhere, i don't eat indoors, i don't attend concerts (in or out) and if small events aren't masked. i don't go. period.
If there's any sort of involved process for submitting, to be on call for their messages with questions, or to provide video instructions, or the steps broken up into bite-size pieces. This, too, may take more time than expected.
in order to do so. he wore a mask around my stepmother inside the house for two weeks. no one asked him to do this. it was not required of him. he did not have to be guilted into doing it. it was just the smart and safe thing to do for him, his coworkers, family, etc.
When I was in my 20s I remembered being in awe of femmes and women in their 40s up not taking shit anymore. And now I’m realizing I am in that same place. Tired and refusing to be anyone’s sacrificial lamb for one more second. Feels good.
So it’s non-binary week, and saying this here for the first time. My gender is gentlefem. I identify as a gentleman with a hint of femme styling. I’ll take all the pronouns, but lately I resonate with she the least. Hi to all you lovelies!
Just a reminder that at
@ANMLY_LIT
we're looking for an editor for a column centering disabled artists & writers, & etc. Please send bio, letter of interest, & a couple of bylines to addie@/anomalouspress.org. (The person who ends up heading this up can name the column!)
i've volunteered myself to advise an independent study for my wonderful trans femme student in trans poetics, so please tell me who/what collections to add to her reading list! (so far she's been taught cishet poets exclusively so the world is her/our oyster!)
Do you have a story about
#nickflynn
being abusive or inappropriate, big or small? All your support strengthens me to say outright. I was groomed as a young writer to be mired in a sexual relationship with him for six years. This is my story:
my father forbid us to travel w him to the funeral because of risk of SARS, and so he went alone. my stepmother also stayed home for the same reason. when my father returned, he quarantined at home for two weeks, taking more time off from work (he worked at NASA so no small feat)
I submitted a poetry manuscript that is mostly brand new which I haven't done in like fifteen years? I'm feeling excited and hopeful, but more just proud of myself that I'm actually doing the poetry thing again.
Damn, are others realizing how burnt out they are (not to mention the added stress of Omicron)? I had all these plans to go to town cleaning my apt & writing a lot, but my body is telling me to take it S L O W. I'm taking LOTS of naps, & going with what the body dictates.
I wish there was a zoom cooking class for people never taught to cook, or don't have the skills to teach themselves, so they could learn 25-50 simple recipes to sustain themselves. All made w simple ingredients, adaptable re eating restrictions, w tools you have or can acquire.
This was filled with clutter days ago. And that yellow chair is my first serious post divorce home purchase. And I had to pry apart two fused screws to put it together! But I did it! My win for the day.
Super excited to have been hired part time to teach in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program! A low-residency, in addition to my current job, and super excited to see what awaits!
One thing I didn’t expect during AAPIA month was to be called a eugenicist bigot by a yt person who barely knows me so if you could throw me some love and affirmation my way I would very much appreciate it. Damn people can be a lot.
I have a big faculty orientation this morning and getting dressed for it was stressful. Does anyone else go through this if they feel they’re expected to be some brand of “professional”? Well, this is the best I got, and still gonna wear my blue eyeliner.
I am sending off my first two grad students who I had the honor of advising through their thesis work and so here I am in all blue for their zoom graduation today
I haven’t been public about the backlash I’ve faced but found out I’m officially on a watchlist for speaking up and signing letters. But here’s the thing. I’m alive, safe, warm, fed. Until there is a permanent ceasefire, I’m not going to stop speaking out against genocide.
For our next Senior Editor, we are excited to introduce Addie Tsai (
@addiebrook
) as our Senior Prose Acquisitions Editor. Thank you for being a part of Abode, Addie! ♥️
Learn more about Addie and their work below:
Welp. For the first time ALL the AWP panels I was added to were accepted, which is 💅🥳😩🥹😂💜
Singing Our Joy: A Reading of Neurodivergent Poets
What I Wish I Would Have Known: Considerations for First Books and Far Beyond
Writers Who Drag
Yayyyyyyy see y’all soon! 🥳
I was super thrilled to learn that I was one of 22 finalists out of 800 entries for the 2021 Colorado Prize for Poetry! It was my first year in a long time sending this baby out, and it definitely helps me to keep on keepin on.
Just learned you can get a second bivalent booster if you got your first in fell so if you’re AWP headed (or in general but especially) go get it and help protect each other!
question for the couples: would you get upset w your partner for traveling w a friend, or do you feel that all vacations must now & forever include your partner?
So thrilled to dig into this!
@Vanessid
is such an important voice in so many ways. And the book came with a 🗡️, WHAT! If you wanna review or interview Magical Realism for Anomaly, come find me!