DOUBLEBACK REVIEW from Sundress Publications does reprints of work originally published in magazines that are now defunct. I was thrilled when they accepted "Doorbells," which is out today, I wasn't sure that folks would read a reprint, but it's getting a lot of responses on twitter. Takes me back to a different era, before my mother died, when I was under more stress than I knew. And also a different era of writing, when I wrote naturally in scenes (even when most of the essay takes place in phone calls). Not sure when that changed or how to change back.
Here's the cover, with art by Kathleen Harris. interview after being taught in a university class, & author's note and a flash in a textbook4/12/2024
Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante just sent a contract, so that must mean that W.W. Norton approved the inclusion of "The Lunatics' Ball" and my accompanying author's note in their textbook THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN HYBRID WRITING. Very exciting to know that my work will be in classrooms! Forthcoming spring 2025.
Last fall a graduate student in Jill Talbot's graduate creative writing workshop interviewed me. It's a pretty frank interview, since she's bipolar and was very curious about that aspect of my writing. She did her research, but she was inspired by her initial reading of "Little Colored Pills" in Jill's class. When we did the interview there was no question of publishing it, but now it's come out in AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. "Come out" is a good way of putting it, since I'm nervous about putting my bipolar mood disorder out there, and my age out there. But that will be true of the book and I need to get used to it. I like Ashley's title, pulled from the interview: "Creative Nonfiction and Poetic License: An Interview with Jacqueline Doyle." "Little Colored Pills" will be included in Jill Talbot's forthcoming book from Columbia University Press (where I worked, long ago): ESSAY FORM(S). I'm honored. Here's the cover of THE PAST TEN: AN ANTHOLOGY, edited by Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore: I'm not sure who'll be included, but there have been some great contributions to the online Past Ten project. Kathy Fish just announced that she'll be in the anthology, and I love her essay.
Will Woolfitt just posted a reading list of what he's teaching in his class at Lee University and "The Madwoman on BART" is included. He's taught it before. I'm so pleased that he's teaching it again.
I'll be on a Zoom panel of CNF editors visiting Hannah Grieco's advanced creative writing class at The Writer's Center later today. I know I should be thinking about what it is that we look for in CNF at CRAFT, but I find the answer difficult so I'm postponing m thoughts, hoping that ad libbing will work. To be published by Cornerstone Press at the University of Wisconsin, and Bailey Moore is including my essay on my heart, "January 10, 2014." I sort of dashed that one off between sleep and worry and doctors' visits, but I like it and I'm glad to see it get new life. They're going to showcase the anthology with a reading at the next AWP. Probably won't be there, but who knows.
Partly because of my health, but not only, my writing has really slowed down. Dinner in Berkeley last night with Lynn Mundell and her husband inspired me to think about ways to jump start it (she does short DIY retreats in hotels on the coast and gets a lot written). So today when Grant Faulkner mentioned an accountability group through Left Margin LIT in his Sunday newsletter, I impulsively joined. Two hours every M and W evening, writing to a prompt or on your own project (I'm thinking the latter). Like the daily 25-minute walk I'm doing for my heart, it's not very long but in fact it's a lot longer than I've been doing most days.
Small Press Distribution (SPD) has suddenly closed its doors, affecting hundreds of small presses who relied on them to handle distribution of their books and royalties. BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS, who published my chapbook The. Missing Girl and who has long been one of my favorite presses, is taking a blow it may not recover from: on their GoFundMe, they estimate a loss of over $17,000 for the books SPD has and the royalties SPD owes them. Give if you can.
Kathy Fish, flash guru—a brilliant flash writer and brilliant flash teacher—told me that she's teaching my microflash "Because I Couldl Not Stop for Death" in her 3-in-90 Workshop today! I'm so honored and touched. I'm reading proofs for the reprint of "Doorbells" today, and noticed in my slender pending pubs file that I had an interview with WOW (Women on Writing) forthcoming. Turns out they published the interview last November and I missed it.
I missed "Shoplifting" when it came out last week in Current. Really a nice place for it, since it emphasizes a political context that might be lost in a flash zine.
Within minutes twitter flagged the post for "sensitive content." Why? I have no idea. The warnings apply to "nudity, sensitive content, violence, gore, or hateful symbols." I don't think stealing clothes years ago at age 18 really applies. DOUBLEBACK REVIEW (Sundress Publications) wants to reprint my long-ago essay "Doorbells"! I've always loved that essay, which was published in South Loop Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. At the time, South Loop Review was my dream publication, and I was so disappointed when they went defunct a couple of issues later. "Doorbells" will be out on April 15.
I've been very hard at work reading 80 finalists for the CRAFT Memoir Excerpt/Essay Contest, developing a short list for the judge, a long list, and a list of honorable mentions list with my associate editor Shara Kronmal. This is the first year I've had an associate editor and it's a great relief. |
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