Thanks to a kind invitation by author Carter Taylor Seaton, on September 16 I gave a reading as part of the “Writers Can Read” series, held monthly at the Inner Geek Bookstore in Huntington, West Virginia. Before the evening reading, Carter Taylor Seaton interviewed me for her television show, Chapters.
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SPRING/SUMMER 2019
The spring and summer of 2019 have included a few short trips and a lot of reading and writing. On April 22nd, I drove down to Asheville, North Carolina, with Jakk Blood, a Maine buddy who’s the hot cub on the cover of my upcoming essay collection, Endangered Species. I
Read moreSPRING NEWS 2019: NEW ANTHOLOGY, NEW ESSAY COLLECTION, AND ASA
The anthology that Julia Watts and I have been co-editing, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, has finally been released. The book looks great, thanks to the production folks at West Virginia University Press. If you’re interested in buying it, here’s the link: At the March 2019 Appalachian Studies Association
Read moreCover Cub!
Maine photographer Jakk Blood is the sexy cover cub for my next book of essays. Check out this article: http://mc.mainelymediallc.com/news/2019-03-21/News/Biddeford_resident_on_cover_of_book_of_essays.html?fbclid=IwAR3dq9eitQf0XL1YRETRfs6gFrU5W8Jbvw1y0MtHA2j4iUa1YS1JL6R886w#.XJOfm6Z7kdV
Read moreInterview on Queer Words Podcast
Many thanks to Wayne Goodman and the folks at Queer Words Podcast for including a lengthy interview with me! Here’s the link: https://queerwords.org/2019/02/12/jeff-mann/
Read more_Appalachian Reckoning_ and _Appalachian Heritage_
West Virginia University Press has just released Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, an anthology edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll. Many thanks to Theresa Burriss and the anthology’s editors for including my snarky poem, “Social Capital.” Quite a few Appalachians are profoundly annoyed with how J.
Read moreA PRODUCTIVE SABBATICAL: ESSAYS, POEMS, AND VIKINGS
Much to my great gratitude, professors at Virginia Tech can apply for a research leave every six years. I’ve taken mine for Fall Semester 2018 and Spring Semester 2019, and I’m glad to report that I’m getting a lot done. In Fall 2018, I wrote five new essays. “Muslim Food”
Read moreNLA-I Non-Fiction Article Award
Today, I got this handsome image from the folks at National Leather Association International. In the past, I’ve won their John Preston Short Fiction Award once, for “Kidnapping Chris,” which is included in my 2017 collection, Consent, and I’ve won their Pauline Reage Novel Award twice, for Fog and Salvation.
Read moreKindle Edition of _Consent_ Selling for 99 Cents!
Hey, folks, to celebrate the fact that I just won the Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award, Lethe Press is selling the Kindle edition of _Consent_ for 99 cents! My winning essay, “In Defense of Erotica,” serves as the introduction to _Consent_. Please share this news! The link is below:
Read moreNew Publications in _Gents_ and _Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel_
I’m pleased to report that I have a couple of new publications this Fall 2018. Gents: Steamy Stories from the Age of Steam is edited by Matthew Bright and published by Unzipped Books/Lethe Press. It contains a short story of mine, “London 1888,” which features my vampire alter ego, Derek
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