I’m happy to announce that my poem ‘Helsinki Love Song’ has been accepted for publication in Wild Violet. I’ll post a link when the poem is published! It was great to get some good poetry news, because I’ve been bogged down with work and an insidious stress that chooses, at inopportune moments, to make everything […]
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Interfictions #2 is out! Including my most personal piece so far…
This wasn’t intended to be a two-post day, but I just checked the Interfictions webpage and noticed that Issue #2 is up! Thus, I am extremely proud and happy to say that you can now read my piece ‘Orthography: A Personal History’ here. You can also listen to me read it – God, it was […]
Humbling experiences
A wonderful thing: when you finish reading a poem intended to be funny, and the whole room bursts out into loud, genuine laughter. At my writers’ group meeting today I read that poem I edited yesterday (it’s about a demon bus driver… in a way). It was intended to be a funny piece – but […]
Poetry sale: Interfictions
I’m extremely happy to announce that my piece ‘Orthography: A Personal History’ will be published in Interfictions. It’s really exciting to be part of a new, intriguing publication like Interfictions. And I’m so pleased my piece found a home! I call it a poetry sale, although really – true to the spirit of Interfictions – […]
Flash fiction is rewarding
I went to check out a wonderful art installation by the Helsinki coast today, involving a huge collection of intriguing instruments made so that the wind played them. It was ethereal, gorgeous – wind-spirits singing! As a result, I got inspired for a stuck-in-space sci-fi story. I wrote the first part on my mobile phone […]
Fuzzy but finished
My hands and forearms are tingling and aching a bit; my brain is tired, fuzzy but pleased. I finally finished the first draft of the short-story-turned-novelette that I mentioned here! Word count: almost 14,000. Ooops. The word count will most likely go down a bit during the editing process, because there’s loose stuff and fluff […]
Strange Horizons poetry podcast
My voice is now on the internet in the Strange Horizons poetry podcast for July: listen to the podcast here! It is so weird to listen to myself doing a poetry reading. I like reading out loud,* but I haven’t ventured too much into actually performing my poetry. I’m fine with reading my own stuff […]
Poetry sale: Plunge Magazine
I’m back from a wonderful trip to the UK – much silliness, laughter and shenanigans ensued in London, Elmswell and Deganwy. I swam in a glacial lake in my underwear, took lots of photos of castles and the Welsh hills, watched trolling Saruman and enjoyed myself muchly in the company of dear friends. The only […]
‘Wolf Daughter’ online at Strange Horizons!
I feel like a fool because my poem ‘Wolf Daughter’ has been online at Strange Horizons for a week, and I’ve failed to notice before now! Read it here! Anyway! This is my celebratory wee-hours-of-the-night post. I feel really happy to have a poem in Strange Horizons – it’s a wonderful publication full of really […]
Poetry in Polu Texni: Beauty Remembers
Excellent news for this June Monday: my poem ‘Beauty Remembers’ is now online at Polu Texni. Read it here! * Since the poem was inspired by the tale of Beauty and the Beast, I think this is the time to wax lyrical about how much that fairy tale has inspired and continues to inspire me. […]