Mid-January update 2023

Some random notes on this relatively pleasant (to me) dark future early evening here in central Seattle.

-So congratulate me on this new program I am in. I have a new Chromebook. It's mine to keep. So paired with my rebuild (Industry) we have a younger sister in the temple - Capital.
The program is looking like lit might be very good for me; this is a longer subject and would be boring but the last week has been overall a really good one. Though am totally and completely broke right now lol Whatever.
- (Some of you might want to skip this one CW Sex work)
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but I need to remember for future reference that on nice and pleasant evenings like tonight when I find myself out....Walking the Streets, I should really consider wearing my Wonder woman top again.
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moving on to other matters
-going over (...gushing over) the second proof for Jolly Scarlet and OMG I AM SO FUCKING HYPE. For every page I just get a little charge. As they have done from the very beginning, the team at kith books has done me right, nay, best. They are my dream team and it is always a pleasure and an honor to work with them.
In the meantime they have started putting out the balance of the "winter collection" I am elevated to be anywhere near these new works, they are one and all incredible.
https://www.kithbooks.com/pubme

-Bonemilk volume two is out and the five pieces I have in there are the second item in the compilation. The compilation itself is MIGHTY and some of my very best contemporary indie lit writers and several very good friends and colleagues have great work in there and I'm extra super duper proud to have some work I am especially proud of alongside theirs, which is much better. :)
https://gutslutpress.com/product/pre-order-the-b-o-n-e-m-i-l-k-collective-volume-ii-print/

-thanks to my therapist who first introduced me to the idea and then this specific program/organization (....and then wrote me a formal letter of recommendation) I have registered for a semester's art program here in the downtown area. In addition to giving me *workspace* omg they give me all the supplies I need and (it would seem) a motherfuck of networking opportunities. This is a big funding thing that I have an inroads into because my therapist thinks it would be (very) good for my trauma recovery
it will also, crassly (If registration goes well) give me a chance to work in some media that I would not otherwise get a chance to without paying a f'ton of money - and because I am endlessly trying to push and challenge myself this primarily means "art made with my hands" - some sculpture for example. :)
-my therapist also keeps trying to put oil pastels in my hands. I find it unlikely but look forward to the opportunity to play with something like that without going broke in minutes or stealing someone else's materials. FUN

-sponsored by the incredible people (again!) at Kith books I will be attending a workshop in February
Writing to the Body: Poetry of Disability and Illness
(which is a nice transition to......)

- the 2023 SAP conference is meeting in meatspace here in Seattle this year. I note this with some irritation. Gatekeeping is 500 dollars to walk in the door. Nonetheless, my editor will be there and if we move quickly Jolly Scarlet may drop just in time for that be at the show. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 It would make a better showing than I would anyway lol

-On that note I need to finish going over that proof so I can get it back to them so we can all get PBS grants or something. Maybe some awards. Or just pure outrage. I’m good with that too.


Either way, it's Hostess fruit pie time. They're good for me, I know because the Fantastic Four told me so.
Spider-man, and the Hulk, OTOH, wanted me to eat twinkies.;)

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