Posts tagged ‘Chet Weise’
Happy New Year!
Lots of news to share! First, our Kickstarter campaign for How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens has 10 days left to go—get your pre-ordered copy now!
Secondly, the deadline for submissions to The Museum of All Things Awesome And That Go Boom is coming up on Sunday.
Finally, there’s tons of new reading out from, and news for, Upper Rubber Boot authors since our last round-up over the summer!
Corey Mesler, author of The Sky Needs More Work, was discussed recently in The Commercial Appeal Memphis‘s article “2014 in Review: Remembering the year’s best Memphis poetry“:
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Lyn Lifshin, author of Marilyn Monroe: Poems, has a new book out with Glass Lyre Press entitled Femme Eterna.
Soles author Mari Ness has a poem in Goblin Fruit.
Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Margaret Atwood did an AMA (ask me anything) over at Reddit.
- Paolo Bacigalupi‘s The Doubt Factory reviewed by The New York Times and by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing.
- Kelly Link had a story in Lightspeed (“Water Off a Black Dog’s Back“) and her Get in Trouble was featured in a The Millions article, “A Year in Reading: Isaac Fitzgerald.”
- Ed Pavlić‘s book Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno is one of five winners of the National Poetry Series.
- David Roderick‘s poetry collection The Americans reviewed by Here & Now and featured on PBS Newshour.
- Chet Weise‘s anthology of music and poetry, Language Lessons: Volume I, got a call-out in the Nashville Scene article, “Literary Death Match a Knockout in Music City.” Language Lessons also contains work by Apocalypse Now contributors Brian Barker, Nicky Beer, Wayne Miller, Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (who also edits our Floodgate Poetry Series) and Pinckney Benedict (who also contributed to How to Live on Other Planets), as well Upper Rubber Boot’s Publisher Joanne Merriam.
- E. Lily Yu‘s “Local Stop on the Floating Train” in Motherboard
How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens contributors:
- Indrapramit Das had a story at Strange Horizons: “A Moon for the Unborn.”
- Benjamin S. Grossberg‘s poem “Tense” was in Poetry Daily.
- Rose Lemberg has a poem at Goblin Fruit: “The Law of Germinating Seeds“
- Ken Liu (who is also a 140 And Counting contributor) had a story in Lightspeed (“State Change“) and an interview with Xia Jia in the latest Clarkesworld (“Exploring the Frontier: A Conversation with Xia Jia“), as well as, in their past issues, a short story (“The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009“) and an article on Chinese science fiction (“China Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction“).
- Alex Dally MacFarlane had stories at Beneath Ceaseless Skies (“Written on the Hides of Foxes“) and Strange Horizons (“Because I Prayed This Word“).
- Mary Anne Mohanraj had an opinion piece at Salon (“My feminist revolution at 40: Why I let my gray show, and why it’s a political act“).
- Daniel José Older had a story in Lightspeed (“Dust“) and several opinion pieces at Buzzfeed Books including “I Sought Solace In My Bookshelf” and “Diversity Is Not Enough: Race, Power, Publishing.”
- Sarah Pinsker had stories in Escape Pod (“The Transdimensional Horsemaster Rabbis of Mpumalanga Province“), in Lightspeed (“No Lonely Seafarer“), and in Asimov’s (which you’ll have to get at the newstand to read).
- Erica L. Satifka had stories in Daily Science Fiction (“Days Like These“) and Shimmer (“We Take the Long View“).
- Sonya Taaffe had a story in Lackington’s (“In Winter“).
Hope you all have a happy New Year!
1 January 2015
Contributor & Book News, & Review Round-up
Lots of great reading from, and news for, Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Paolo Bacigalupi‘s new novel The Water Knife, will be “about a water war between Phoenix and Las Vegas.”
- Kelly Link‘s Magic for Beginners was Flavorwire’s Book of the Week at the beginning of July.
- Chet Weise co-edited and appears in Language Lessons: Volume 1, released on Jack White’s Third Man, and including work from other Apocalypse Now alums Brian Barker, Pinckney Benedict, Nicky Beer, Andrew McFadyen Ketchum and Wayne Miller as well as two poems by URB editor Joanne Merriam.
- E. Lily Yu‘s “The Urashima Effect” was reviewed at Marooned Off Vesta.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
- Berit Ellingsen‘s short story “Dancing on the Red Planet” is in the newly released The Apex Book of World SF 3. Her “Grains of Sand” appears in the winter edition of Blue Fifth Review.
- Simon Kewin‘s short story “Eighteen Million Butterflies” came out last month in Lakeside Circus.
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- Simon Sylvester‘s flash fiction piece, “Charlie Loved the Circus,” is up at The List, which also reviewed his The Visitors.
- Charles Trumbull has a piece about haiku in, unusually, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Lyn Lifshin, whose persona poetry collection Marilyn Monroe: Poems we published back in December, has a new poetry collection out with Texas Review Press entitled Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle.
Corey Mesler‘s The Sky Needs More Work will be released on Thursday, and is already available for pre-order at Kobo! Here’s a sample:
Mesler’s book was recently reviewed by Susan Cushman at Pen & Palette, who wrote, in part, “…the subject matter is dripping with delicious verbal concoctions… This book is not to be missed.”
Speaking of reviews, Upper Rubber Boot titles are getting some great reader reviews!
Bicycle Girl is not for the faint-hearted, as it includes some brutal scenes of interrogation, but this is a fascinating depiction of an all-too-credible future played out in a convincing (and refreshingly non-standard) setting.
—Amazon.co.uk reader VikingS, on Tade Thompson’s “Bicycle Girl“
Best 99 cents I’ve spent in a long time. …It left me with the feeling that my brain had just been set afire (in a good way).
—Amazon.com reader Barbara A. Varacalli, on David M. Harris’ “Changing the World“
This was a lovely, quick read with some powerful imagery!
—Amazon.com reader Colleen B., on Shira Lipkin’s “The Selves We Leave Behind“
1 comment 28 July 2014
Hey, how about some contributor news
Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted contributor news, since I’ve been pretty busy with our new projects, like the Floodgate Poetry Series, the Soles Series of Stories, our forthcoming 2015 anthology, How to Live on Other Planets: A Handbook for Aspiring Aliens, and another anthology still being formed, co-edited by H. L. Nelson and me, Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good. I’m pretty psyched about all of these projects.
…on to the news!
Lyn Lifshin, whose Marilyn Monroe: Poems we put back into circulation in December, has a new book of poems, Malala, out from Poetic Matrix Press.
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
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- Tina Connolly‘s Copperhead (sequel to the Nebula-nominated Ironskin) came out in November, and her story “On the Eyeball Floor”, which first appeared in Strange Horizons, came out in translation in the Argentinian magazine La Idea Fija. Her “Flash Bang Remember,” co-written with Caroline M. Yoachim, was featured in StarShipSofa 320.
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- Chet Weise is the co-editor, with Third Man co-founder Ben Swank, of Language Lessons: Volume 1, the debut book by Third Man Books (a new division of Nashville’s Third Man Records), which was celebrated at AWP. Contributors include Jake Adam York, C.D. Wright, Brian Barker, and me.
- E. Lily Yu‘s “Daedalum, the Devil’s Wheel” appeared in Clarkesworld.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
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- Kaolin Fire‘s poem, “Future Cities,” was in Polu Texni.
- During the recent TwitterFiction Festival launch event live in NYC March 12, S. Kay‘s very short story (#vss) was one of three chosen to be featured and read aloud by the host Sara Barron (video 41:29), and a second story was featured in the TwitterFiction Festival feed.
- Deborah P Kolodji had a haiku in the March 2014 issue of A Hundred Gourds.
- David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s poem, “Spark,” was in Polu Texni, and his story “A Better Place” is in the December issue of The Fifth Di….
- Lightspeed published Ken Liu‘s “Ghost Days” (which will be reprinted in our How to Live on Other Planets) and “None Owns the Air” as well as his translations of Hao Jingfang’s “Invisible Planets” and Chen Qiufan’s “The Mao Ghost,” and Clarkesworld published his “The Clockwork Soldier.”
30 March 2014
I initially mistyped that as The Bling Assassin
Ducklings, I’m sorry. I’ve been busy enjoying my life and editing our upcoming titles, and have fallen behind on posting contributor news, so I’ma write this long-ass post and hope y’all will click through every one of these delicious links.
But first! If you live in Nashville, a couplethree events you should know about:
We’re having two readings this coming Saturday June 1st for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, at 11 am at the downtown library (Conference Center, Main Library First Floor, 615 Church Street, Nashville, TN; FB; NPL; Nashville Scene) and at 2 pm at East Side Story (1108 Woodland Street, Unit B, Nashville, TN; FB). Join Chet Weise, Tessa Mellas and Maggie Smith for readings from the end of days! Maggie Smith is the author of Lamp of the Body, Nesting Dolls and The List of Dangers. Trapeze aficionado Tessa Mellas is a lecturer at the Ohio State University. Chet Weise, the force behind the local Poetry Sucks! A Night of Poetry, Music, and All Sorts of Bad Language reading series, was once banned from Canada for playing rock-n-roll without a permit.
And speaking of Poetry Sucks!… I will be reading at their open mic night on Thursday, June 6th at Dino’s Bar and Grill (411 Gallatin Ave, Nashville, TN 37206; FB; Nashville Scene listing). They begin at 8 pm and end at 10 pm. Dino’s is very smoky so people with allergies may find it hard to take, but they have to-die-for cheeseburgers and fries and Poetry Sucks! is always a ridiculous good time with a great crowd. My portion will be 5-8 minutes long and I won’t know where I am in the line-up til that night. They turn off the grill when the readings start so you’ll want to arrive by 7 pm if you want to eat.
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Byliner publishes Margaret Atwood‘s The Heart Goes Last, #4 in the acclaimed Positron Series; additionally, her marginalia on The Blind Assassin is being auctioned off for English PEN; subscribers to The New Yorker can read her “Cat’s Robo-cradle” online; she offers three reasons to keep physical books (and I’ll take advantage of her thoughts to mention we still have physical copies of Apocalypse Now for sale); the Royal Winnipeg Ballet is adapting her The Handmaid’s Tale; and, Tim Wu talks to her on SlateRadio (warning: autoplays).
- In Conversation: Paolo Bacigalupi, Lauren Beukes, and Jesse Bullington: a conversation on genre and world-building (warning: auto plays).
- ManArchy Magazine interviewed Brian Evenson; his story “A Collapse of Horses” is at The American Reader, from their February/March issue.
- T.R. Hummer at Slate: “The Intimacy of Walt Whitman’s ‘America’“
- Tessa Mellas won the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her short story collection Lungs Full of Noise.
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And for 140 And Counting contributors:
- Richard Baldasty‘s “Op Art” appeared at Burrow Press Review.
- Peg Duthie, who is also the author of the poetry collection Measured Extravagance, had two menupoems in Alimentum (you’ll have to scroll about halfway down the page).
- Chris Galvin posted a review of Berit Ellingsen‘s Beneath the Liquid Skin at the Lit Hub; Ellingsen also was interviewed about writing and being Asian in Timothy Moore’s blog (Moore edits Ghost Ocean Magazine).
- Simon Kewin is providing story prompts at StoryADay.
- Chen-ou Liu has haiku at Issa’s Untidy Hut.
- Luc Reid interviewed Ken Liu for Strange Horizons.
- Jonathan Pinnock was featured on The Undercover Soundtrack, a weekly guest post by a writer who uses music as part of their creative process.
27 May 2013
“The Romantics and the Bohemians wrote poems to impress girls and get drunk–exactly what Chet is trying to bring to Nashville.”
| Hi there peeps. I took the day off from my day job today so I could work on URB stuff, and I’m really excited about some of the stuff we’re bringing into the world in the next fews months, not least Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories and The Mask Game. I’ll be working on The Mask Game cover art in the next few weeks.
This afternoon I stopped at East Side Story and met their proprietor, Chuck Beard, and dropped off some copies of Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days. Chuck posed for a photo (below). |
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Lots of news to report! For Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: a review of The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman is up at The Toronto Review of Books; Booklist Online has a new cute, contentless interview with Paolo Bacigalupi; Davis McCombs received the 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellowship; reviews of Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates are up at Pop Matters and The Times; and Chet Weise is featured in the latest issue of Native (check out page 35). If you live near Bellingham, WA, you should go see him performing poetry (and selling anthologies!) on 22 February 2013 with two seminal garage/punk bands, The Mono Men and Fireballs of Freedom.
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For 140 And Counting contributors: David C. Kopaska-Merkel‘s Luminous Worlds should come out this month from Dark Regions Press; David was also recently interviewed by The Mystic Nebula; Peter Newton‘s haiku appeared in Neverending Story; so did Liam Wilkinson‘s; Jonathan Pinnock has two poems in The Pygmy Giant: “Dissonant Love Song #2” and “Dali’s Moustache“, and The Independent gave his Dot Dash four stars; Miriam Sagan‘s short story “The Nun” appears in Orion headless. |
7 February 2013
kickstarting the apocalypse
It’s been longer than usual since our last update (so look at all the links to read below! ALL THE READING!), because we’ve been completely absorbed with our Kickstarter campaign for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days!
The aim of this campaign is to release limited edition collectible paperbacks for you bibliophiles, your family, and your friends just in time for the holidays. Your orders will aid in the creation of a real, physical, bona fide, corporeal thing you can hold and flip through and show off to friends and read intently and bludgeon zombies with when the bullets run out. You can get ebooks for $2 less than they’ll retail, or the print edition (or both!) here.
News for Apocalypse Now contributors: the most recent issue of Abyss & Apex has a poem by Tina Connolly; The Brown Daily Herald published a Faculty profile: Q&A with Brian Evenson; T.R. Hummer has seven poems in Blackbird‘s Fall 2012 issue, and Nicky Beer has in the same issue an essay on poets in fiction; Hummer is also featured in Prairie Schooner; and, Chet Weise was featured in Coldfront.
News for 140 And Counting contributors: Ken Liu just won the Hugo, the Nebula and the World Fantasy Award for his touching short story “Paper Menagerie“! You can read it here. Liu is also translating Volume One of the Three-Body Trilogy (《三体》) by Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), and live-tweeting about it with the #threebody hashtag. Also, another 140 contributor, David M. Harris‘s poem “Bed, 3 A.M.” appeared in Your Daily Poem last week; and, Marge Simon has a poem in Abyss & Apex.
Finally, URB editor Joanne Merriam had a short story (“The Candy Aisle“) in the latest issue of The Journal of Unlikely Entomology.
14 November 2012