I’m so excited to announce that my full length collection, Your Strange Fortune, is now available from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press (coming out in July). If you pre-order before May 31st, you receive free shipping and my heartfelt thank you. Pre-orders are an extremely important aspect of publishing and one of the most helpful things you can do for an author.
You can pre-order (or find out more about the book) here: http://www.vegetarianalcoholicpress.com/titles/chloe-n-clark-your-strange-fortune
The new year is off to a lovely start! First off, the most exciting news: my debut full length collection of poetry, Your Strange Fortune, which is filled with little hopeful apocalypses will be published by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press this summer! Stay tuned for more info and book trailers (because I can’t help myself).
I also had some lovely publications that I’m quite proud of:
I also had this poem at the wonderful SWWIM.
My first ever flash fiction workshop, Strange Quickness, begins soon! If it goes well, I’ll be offering more in the future.
And I have some upcoming pieces in Milk Candy Review, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Uncanny, Glass, Modern Language Studies, and Alegrarse!
I published some things this year that are Awards Eligible. Links are up for the ones published online!
Waves Like Constellations (Longleaf Review)
–Lakes, memories, creepy stuff
Leopard Seals (Supernatural Tales)
–apartments, contractual law, a monster, loving descriptions of pie
Like the Absence (Supernatural Tales)
–time travel, ghosts, childhood friendships
Balancing Beams (Little Fiction)
–SPACE, FRIENDSHIP, CREEPY STUFF, EVERYTHING I LOVE
Out in the Night, I Found Myself Falling (Third Point Press)
–See above description
These Arms of Yours (Lost Balloon)
–Trees, creepy houses, mannequins
Spoken Like Tongues (Moon Park Review)
–tongues, language, sadness (the Chloe N Clark special)
The Intimacy of Objects (Jellyfish Review)
–astronauts, SEX! :O, sadness
The Width of Your Body Apart (Noble/Gas Quarterly)
–Yoga (but not rage yoga), strangeness under the skin
This is the Color of Your Eyes in the Dark (Noble/Gas Quarterly)
–forests, friendship, near misses
Someone Else’s Sleeper (Drunken Monkeys)
–dreams and those who eat them
Over and Somewhere (Pithead Chapel)
–pie! Mystery! LOVE!
Where God Suddenly (Bird’s Thumb)
–angels, cranberry juice, more sadness
And here are some that are non-speculative
–basketball, road trips, siblings, a Sheed reference
–gel pens, relationships, that feeling you get from running too fast when youre nervous
On the Point Between You and Infinity (Okay Donkey)
–lakes, dancing, comfort
So what’s been happening in the world of my writing?
I’ve had pieces recently in the following awesome places:
2 poems over at New Southern Fugitives, 1 in Likely Red, and 1 in Bone & Ink Press. Banshee Lit is also putting some pieces, that were previously only in print, up on their website and you can read one of mine here.
I had a flash fiction piece in Pithead Chapel and a new short story in the print edition of Supernatural Tales!
I also found out my poetry manuscript was a semi-finalist in UW Press’ Brittingham/Pollak Award Contest!
And I also have an interview with the lovely Nadia at her site.
And you can be on the lookout, if you so desire, for forthcoming pieces in Bridge Eight, Modern Language Studies, Anomaly, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, The Wild Hunt, Dirty Paws Poetry, Uncanny, and Glass!
Also in the next week or so, I’ll be doing a round-up of my awards eligible stories!
Some new things of EXCITEMENT
My story “Where God Suddenly” was the second place winner in Bird Thumb’s Summer Fiction Contest.
I also had two flash pieces published in Okay Donkey and JMWW!
Finally, my story published last year in Gamut was listed as an Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Horror (edited by Ellen Datlow. YES ELLEN DATLOW).
And I have pieces forthcoming from Modern Language Studies, Anomaly, Bridge Eight, Bone/Ink, and more.
Over the summer, I had some pieces published with lovely places. Here is a round-up:
I have three pieces of flash out and about:
The Width of Your Body Apart (Noble/Gas Quarterly)
This is the Color of Your Eyes in the Dark (Noble/Gas Quarterly)
These Arms of Yours (Lost Balloon)
I did an interview about my book with the lovely Naya Clark for Split Lip Magazine!
I did an interview with the awesome people at former cactus
I have a short story in Drunk Monkeys: Someone Else’s Sleeper (Drunk Monkeys)
And finally some poems in various places:
Cooking with Turmeric (Boston Accent)
Two poems in Moonchild:
Apocalypse Scenario #1 (Moonchild)
Pod Person Time (Moonchild)
But Also this is Why the Robots Always Turn on Us (Glass Poetry)
Finally, a poem called Lichenometry (The Coil)
And I have pieces forthcoming from: Jellyfish Review, The Coil, Bird’s Thumb, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel,Drunken Boat, and Modern Language Studies.
And finally, I have decided to remain open for editing/critiquing work even during the school year!
Well April was a busy month, as the end of the semester always is. But I did have some new pieces up around in some amazing journals.
I have a story in the spring issue of Supernatural Tales—its titled after my greatest fear. I have a story about basketball over at Bull: Men’s Fiction (this piece was also chosen as one of Longform’s stories of the week).
I had poems in Eye to the Telescope, Terse, and Cease, Cows.
The Game of Nerds has a kind review of my book here!
Additionally, I’m delighted that I’ll be on two panels at WisCon this month: one on interactive storytelling and one on creating diverse spaces in writing, editing, publishing, and teaching.
Finally, I have pieces forthcoming from: Moonchild, Drunken Boat, The Coil, Juxtaprose, Lost Balloon, Graviton, and Jellyfish Review.
