Hi, folks!
We have a couple of big pieces of very exciting news to share with y’all this week. The first piece of news is that we’ve announced our new flash fiction collection to be released this Fall, Jennifer Fliss’s wonderful debut, full-length short story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.
You can pre-order your copy HERE!
Our other piece of big news is that we set our OKD poetry reading to celebrate Dani Putney’s terrific debut poetry collection SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY for Saturday, June 26th at 4:00 pm PST/7:00 EST. The line-up includes Dani (of course!), C. T. Salazar, Matt Broaddus, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Lilyanne Kane, Danielle Rose, and Shannon Suzuki-Martinez. Be there or be square!
The Zoom Link for the reading is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85765781535.
In honor and celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, we want to highlight a handful of our favorite LGBTQIA+ OKD contributors, and their stories and poems:
“No One Holds a Grudge Like a Crow” by Marisa Crane
“Hello There, Talk Show Host” by Nicholas Grider
“The Squirrels in the Attic” by Jenny Fried
“Half the Joy” by Ruth Joffre
“Country Song Erasures” by Kit Armstrong
“tell me i’m prettier when i smile” by Danielle Rose
“text message to alexia from a cleveland clinic waiting room before an electromyogram” by Matt Mitchell
“Hierarchy of Hunger” by Anthony Aguero
And so many more! We’ve got so many wonderful queer works of art, we didn’t want to stop linking! We could’ve gone all day! So be sure to check out the site, too!
We hope y’all have a great LGBTQIA+ Pride Month!
All Best,
Eric, Genevieve, Matt, Steve, Joaquin, Téa, and Elizabeth
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