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“Nathan” Pushcart Prize Nominated

While eagerly awaiting the proofs for an upcoming publication in Reckoning, a journal of writing on environmental justice, I have received other good news. I am humbled and grateful to announce that “Nathan” has been selected by Longreads as a Pushcart Prize Nominee. A big piece of my heart is in this essay, and I’m so glad it is out there for all to read about and know my friend, Nathan. The support of Carolyn Wells, Cheri and the rest of the editorial team was invaluable throughout the process.

To read my essay and the other nominees, check out Longreads.com.

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“No Machine” to appear in Electric Literature

I just got done signing the contract for a flash fiction piece that will be appearing in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading this fall. Early indications suggest that it’ll appear in vol. 33 in October. One could bet their butt that I will announce it and link directly to the story once it’s out in the world.

The story draws heavily from my time working with captive apes and is another in a long line of attempts where I try to use fiction to capture elements of the personhood of nonhuman beings (apes here) that I couldn’t doing science. I demoed this story in February, opening for George Saunders for a reading here in Tulsa (mentioned in this post).

If anyone is interested in seeing what kinds of work EL’s Recommended Reading publishes, check out the fantastic, little post-apocalyptic flash piece, told in a single sentence, by my fellow TAFwriter, Simon Han, “How to Eat Well at the End of the World.”