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I'm so boring these days. All I do is write. Thanks to long COVID (I finally caught COVID at the dentist office last October), I don't have the energy to do much more. Good thing I have an active imagination!
That being said, I had a public reading a couple of weekends ago for the Cabbagetown Festival in Toronto, and this weekend, I have a reading at the Multicultural Festival of Elmira (I'll be on around noon) and at the book launch for Mihko-Kiskisiwin--Blood Memory book launch at Idea Exchange in Cambridge (from 2-4). I'll be wearing a mask at the indoor reading because I do NOT want COVID again.
An excerpt from my award-winning story "The Tupilaq" has been published by Kinsman Quarterly.
Another award-winning story, "The Snow Hath No Queen," has been accepted for publication by MetaStellar and should be going live next week. I'll share the link once it's up.
My story "The Lupercal" was a runner-up in Louisiana State University Alexandria's flash fiction contest, and my story "The Yolk of the Moon" came in second place. The latter story will be published sometime soon. I'll share the link when it's available.
I was also longlisted for the diverse voices/diverse worlds grant sponsored by the Speculative Literature Foundation, but I didn't make it to the short list. Womp womp. This is my second time getting longlisted by them, so I must be doing something mostly right.
To top it all off, I applied for residencies in Alaska, Costa Rica, and Switzerland for next year. If I get them all, I'm in big trouble.
That being said, I had a public reading a couple of weekends ago for the Cabbagetown Festival in Toronto, and this weekend, I have a reading at the Multicultural Festival of Elmira (I'll be on around noon) and at the book launch for Mihko-Kiskisiwin--Blood Memory book launch at Idea Exchange in Cambridge (from 2-4). I'll be wearing a mask at the indoor reading because I do NOT want COVID again.
An excerpt from my award-winning story "The Tupilaq" has been published by Kinsman Quarterly.
Another award-winning story, "The Snow Hath No Queen," has been accepted for publication by MetaStellar and should be going live next week. I'll share the link once it's up.
My story "The Lupercal" was a runner-up in Louisiana State University Alexandria's flash fiction contest, and my story "The Yolk of the Moon" came in second place. The latter story will be published sometime soon. I'll share the link when it's available.
I was also longlisted for the diverse voices/diverse worlds grant sponsored by the Speculative Literature Foundation, but I didn't make it to the short list. Womp womp. This is my second time getting longlisted by them, so I must be doing something mostly right.
To top it all off, I applied for residencies in Alaska, Costa Rica, and Switzerland for next year. If I get them all, I'm in big trouble.
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Date: 2024-09-19 11:21 am (UTC)From:Me? I'm just happy that whatever I had going on finally let up enough for me to write a few hundred words for the first time in almost two weeks. Bad brains? Depressive apathy? Stress because *gestures at world*? No idea, but it seems to have lifted somewhat.