Heaven and Earth, comprised of two poems ("Cold Covers," a reprint, and a newly written companion-piece, "Uncovered"), has just gone live in the December 2013 issue of Niteblade. That I've got something Hamlet-related in a ghosts issue should come as no surprise.

I have also got my preliminary Arisia 2014 schedule. Exciting!

...except that I've been almost too busy to write (between the day job, organizing an online holiday writing exchange, zine editing, and having spent a couple months on a freelance editing job that's just wrapping up). My apartment has rugs now, though, courtesy of the freelance editing proceeds, and that is a good thing ( Read more... )

"Fragment" will be appearing (alongside a reprint, already, of "Ivy") in the next Battersea Review. I'm glad; they belong together.

It occurs to me that this journal serves mostly as an editorial and otherwise publication-centric notice board these days, although I'm sure there are worse functions it could serve. My life's actually been more interesting in recent months than the silence would suggest; in no particular order, I've done the following things since the end of ( Read more... )

One of my newer poems, "Ivy," will be appearing in Not One of Us #50. I've written very little [poetry] this year, so sales have been few and precious. Hoping to change that!

A new(ish) short poem of mine, Fallout, appears in it, along with marvelous work from a number of other poets (all expertly curated by the incomparable samhenderson).

Here are my acceptances for the June / July reading period I've just wrapped up. Keep an eye out for these titles in the months to come ( as well as these, some of which have already been published ( Read more... )

Last year, I ended up at Readercon by accident: I was newly back in the United States, severely depressed, and sovay said, hey, there's this thing, you should come. So I did, and I was invited to take part in the Mythic Poetry Group Reading at the last minute, and it was awesome. Which is why I resolved not only to attend this year's Readercon, but ( Read more... )

This current reading period (June / July) is my third stint on duty thus far, and given that another of the poems I accepted in one of my first two passes has just been published, here's a recap:

List of titles and authors of my first-round acceptances

December interstitial acceptance courtesy of the fund drive

List of titles and authors of my ( Read more... )

Let me start by saying this: in my first two reading periods as a Poetry Department co-editor at Strange Horizons, which were one month each, I saw right around two hundred submissions each time. Due to a tremendous backlog of accepted work that we need to publish, we have so far this year switched over to two-month reading periods in which we can ( Read more... )