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What I Wrote in 2018

12/31/2018

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Here's to You, 2018!


2018 was one wild ride of a year for me. I published my first chapbook. I took many workshops, attended many conferences, and met many new friends. I wrote a lot of things and learned a great deal while writing. 

I've been thinking about how the new year is an arbitrary date. We tell ourselves that it's time to rethink what we've done and to plan for the future. But the truth is that writing is always there. It's a well of creativity that you constantly have to refill, rethink, and renegotiate. As arbitrary as it might be, I love the new year. I love the idea that I might be able to make a difference in my future just by the power of positive thinking. 

In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, we need to "see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.”

I hope your new year is fantastic and full of all the things you love and enjoy. I hope we make it to next year feeling a bit less angry about the world. 

Here's what I wrote in 2018: 

Books


  • Glimmerglass Girl, Finishing Line Press 
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Poetry


I published several speculative poems eligible for the Rhysling Award: 
  • Star*Line 41.4 (October 2018) - "A Terrible Meat Eating God"
  • Liminality Issue #17 (Autumn 2018) - "Dead-Eye Girl" 
  • Nice Cage (Issue 006, Climate Change And/Or Die, Summer/Spring 2018) - "Boll Heart," "And Farther Death Goes," "A Deep Enough Abyss" 
  • Really System(Issue 19: Stymy a Seller, Summer 2018)- "Orbital Debris" 
  • Undead: A Poetry Anthology of Ghouls, Ghosts, and More (Apex Book Company, July 17, 2018) - "Sea Fog"
I also published a few realist poems this year: 
  • Texas Poetry Calendar 2019 (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2018) - "Dear Childhood"
  • Terse Journal (Oct. 3, 2018) - "What it Feels Like to Play Video Games as a Woman" 
  • "Erasure" (after Ralph Waldo Emerson) - in ARTHouston Magazine Issue#7 (September 2018) 
  • Storyscape (Issue 20, July 2018) - "A Woman" (erasure of William Faulkner)and "She was a Nice Little Nothing" (erasure of Jack Kerouac) 
  • ​Isacoustic, April 14, 2018 -  "espejitos"
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Short Stories
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I'm particularly proud to have published several stories in pro-paying publications this year. The following stories are awards eligible:
  • Daily Science Fiction (August 13, 2018) - After the First Comes the Last
  • Robots & Artificial Intelligence Short Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, September 2018) - Stardust
  • Fireside Magazine (February 2018) - knick knack, knick knack
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Nonfiction


Here are the essays and reviews I published this year:
  • ​Cotton Xenomorph (9/17/18) - ​YUM-DERDOME: Oh My Sweet Pickle Babies
  • Up the Staircase (8/1/18) Review: Dear Judas by Melissa Jennings
  • Trish Hopkinson's Blog (7/29/18) 6 Resources for Submitting Your Work
  • Cotton Xenomorph (6/21/18) Manifestos: Six Principles of Flash Fiction
  • ​Entropy Magazine (6/15/18) Review: Consolation Prize by Tyler Robert Sheldon 
That's it! Whew! As per usual, I am supremely grateful to the editors who continue to support my work and think it's worthwhile enough to grace the pages, or cyberspaces, of their publications. 

I have one more thing to be grateful for. This December, I decided to finally launch a small press and magazine. Now, there's not much to share right now as the ink is not quite dry yet on this new venture, but I promise to post soon about my plans. 

Now, who's ready for 2019? Let's do this.
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