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/
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_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
Read moreSUMMER READING 2018, PART TWO: JULIA WATTS AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Howdy from Palm Springs! I’m out here enjoying the area (most especially the restaurants) while my husbear works in Moreno Valley, California. I have so many writer friends that I could easily read nothing else but their latest publications. This summer I gobbled up several novels by Julia Watts, with
Read moreCover of LGBTQ FICTION AND POETRY FROM APPALACHIA!
We finally have a cover for the first-ever anthology of LGBTQ writing from Appalachia! Here it is! The anthology will be released April 2019. If you’d like to pre-order the book, here’s the link: https://wvupressonline.com/node/775.
Read moreSUMMER READING 2018, PART ONE: CYNTHIA BURACK’S NEW BOOK
The anthology I’ve been co-editing with Julia Watts, LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia, is off to the editorial department at West Virginia University Press, and I’ve recently composed an introduction and a Suggested Reading List for a new edition of one of my books of poems (details to come),
Read more“Krispy Kreme Fantasia”; or, Viggo Mortensen, We Hardly Knew Ye
Mark Ward at Impossible Archetype kindly published “Krispy Kreme Fantasia,” my poem about Viggo Mortensen, back in March 2017, but now he’s released it with its own URL. I wrote this poem a long time ago, back when my husband John and I had a house in Fort Hill, a
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