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Upcoming short fiction in Reckoning

Be on the lookout for my new short fiction, “A Move to a New Country” in the newest issue of Reckoning. Reckoning is a journal of speculative work focused on environmental justice that I have been following since before their first issue. To say I’m very happy to be a part of it is an understatement. The eBook version of the issue is available already at Weightless Books and Amazon, with new material being added online weekly at https://reckoning.press/reckoning-8/. A printed version will be available in July, for those that partake.

My story will be released on the Reckoning website May 2oth, though it has already received a recommendation from Charles Payseur at Locus Mag. Check out the link for other prose and poetry he recommends, with new installments posted regularly.

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“Nathan” live in Longreads

After a time of few updates, owing to a heavy focus on teaching and raising my daughter, I have some writing news to report.

“Nathan” is live at Longreads. I could make the case that I began this essay in June 2009. The first actual draft came about in 2017. I submitted it to one contest, was a finalist, and then did not even look at it for the next 5 years. It wasn’t until the last year or so that I was able to revise it again and start submitting. Over a decade of thinking about it and it is still so fresh in my mind. I miss him a lot, but I’m grateful to share a little bit of him with the world.

Soon, I’ll have another link for everyone. I also have an essay (about being raised in a house of guns) coming out in Consequence Forum this month. I hope it contributes (constructively) to the dialogue we’re having about firearms.

The last update worth noting is that I will be returning to Vietnam at the end of the month with my father and younger brother in the hopes of completing everything we could not get to the first time around. All while the country is experiencing its worst heatwave on record.

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Indigenous Peoples Day gift: “No Machine” live in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading

A keen Indigenous Peoples Day to you all.

I am deep in the final stages of preparing for an international trip that will be the foundation of the next few months of my writing, but on my way out of town, I want to share my latest publication: “No Machine” in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading.

It’s a little flash fiction and I’m thrilled to have it out in the world. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to make sure I have enough socks for the next couple weeks.

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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.”