Nota Bene

Well, after over a year with no word either way, I thought for sure that I’d simply not made the grade, but it turns out it was merely a late decision: according to the email I just got, my story “[Citation Not Needed]” has been selected for publication in Phi Theta Kappa’s 2012 edition of Nota Bene! PTK is the international community college honor society (I was still going to Centralia College when I submitted), Nota Bene is their annual compilation of creative/critical writing, and… this actually looks pretty legit, as opposed to one of those glorified “Who’s Who” poetry books I got semi-conned into in high school; if their stats are to be believed, the 2011 edition featured only sixteen people out of 950 applicants. So while I didn’t get one of the attaboy scholarships accompanying four or five apparently more esteemed entries, this is still pretty neat!

The book should be out by Winter, and it looks like they’ll distribute it to community colleges around the globe. Don’t worry, though! Barring the highly unlikely event of a publication conflict, “[Citation Not Needed]” will also be featured in Love&Darkness Vol. I, set to be released around the same time.

September 10, 2012
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1) This 2) That 3) The Other

It’s been… what, a month and a half? Yeah, that sounds about right. Anyway, some significant events are upcoming!

1) The next issue of UW’s “AU” journal — Volume VI, “Oneiros” (Dreams) — will be having its launch party at the UW Bookstore on May 24th at 6pm! I will… actually not be attending this time, unfortunately, because the induction ceremony for the Tau Sigma honor society got bumped forward an hour. Still, the compilation will be available for purchase from the usual locations thereafter (the English advising office in Padelford, Bulldog News on the Ave, and — in all likelihood — my grandmother), containing my poem “But Crazier Things Have Happened”, among other fine pieces.

2) Immediately after the above event (7pm), I’ll be at the Jacob Lawrence Art Gallery on campus for the debut party of another regular journal, “Bricolage”, for which my poem “Fyrewrit” was graciously accepted. It won’t have the fancy fonts that I pride my PDFs on, but I’ll be reading it aloud and… in the general vicinity of copies of the journal, I suppose.

3) On a tentative afternoon in early June, myself and a group of other burgeoning authors will descend on Chehalis, Washington for a book signing at Book & Brush. I will, of course, have my crate of Distortions in tow, as well as answers to whatever questions you may have about Love&Darkness, and anything else that preparing for gradute school is preventing me from writing. The particulars are underway, but there should be a formal update at chronline.com or its papery predecessor within a week or two. So check it out!

May 18, 2012
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AU is Gold!

Rather, it’s published–but I was going to lose sleep if I didn’t get a chemistry pun in somewhere. Anyway, the point: University of Washington’s burgeoning indie sci-fi/fantasy quarterly lit journal “AU” (enough adjectives?) officially released its fourth volume today, the final story of which is… by me! I could’ve sworn I mentioned this before, but I think it was just through the usual ephemeral social networking channels, so a brief reiteration: I submitted a new story in tune with the theme–“Invasion”–and it’s in there. It’s called Ctrl+C, and about all I can say is that it’ll make you really think next time you do a Google Image Search. By all means, if you or someone you know is a UW student, grab $3 and pick up a copy in the labyrinthine recesses of Padelford Hall, where the English counselors dwell! I’m sure there’s another avenue, though, if only I knew what it was.

Of course, there’s some other stories and poems in there which are quite good as well, which brings me to the more “bloggy” aspect of this post: The party itself! Okay, it wasn’t a massive deal or anything, but it broke up the usual Thursday night tedium. The snacks were great, and I got a chance to read a full story aloud for once–after a generous dose of metaphorical elephant tranquilizer, mind you (except when the frantic pace called for my usual “coffee talk”). The response was favorable, and the term “awesome” was used unprovoked to describe it by at least one member of the audience. Thereafter, we watched the famous “Hush” episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer; for those unaware, this involves a bunch of monsters that look like a cross between Slenderman, Mr. Burns, and the Super Mario Bros. movie Goombas stealing everyone’s voices with the help of a posse of spastic asylum inmates so they can in turn steal peoples’ hearts and… actually, nothing’s clear beyond that. I can see why that show has/had a cult following, though–I’m not about to become latter-day “Whedonite” by any stretch of the imagination just yet, but the mix of camp and creepy was quite laudable.

December 1, 2011
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Purchase Page Modifications

I just tweaked a few things on the purchase page–namely, that it wouldn’t hurt to actually say what’s in Distortions!

Speaking of which, the good friend of mine that set up the original page–Stuart Marlantes–has taken the plunge I dared not to and embarked on NaNoWriMo. You can check out his progress on this page… just don’t divert all of your attention away from here! (/egotism)

November 3, 2011
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A Poem = Published

My submitted poem, “The Dreamers Said”, won a spot in the Creative Communication compendium “A Celebration of Poets”!

May 15, 2010
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