Every month is cruel yet April still tries to claim the mantle of cruelest. Why the big mood? Powell’s is digging into it with a Big Mood Sale: Feel the love, or the angst, or the joy, or all t...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/04/16/big-moods/
Good news for short story readers: Elwin Cotman’s new collection Weird Black Girls comes out tomorrow from Scribner. WBG has seven stories, including the long title story, which go deep and wid...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/04/15/new-elwin-cotman-weird-black-girls/
I just came across Vandana Singh’s recently published textbook Teaching Climate Change: Science, Stories, Justice. You can read the introductory chapter and part of chapter two on the Routledge...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/04/10/new-vandana-singh-book-from-routledge/
There’s a new review of Kij Johnson’s collection The Privilege of the Happy Ending in Strange Horizons by M. L. Clark — the kind of review I’d love to just paste the whole thing in instea...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/04/03/kij-johnson-at-constellation/
Naomi Mitchison is this year’s Memorial Guest of Honor at Readercon so I’ve been trying to find a way to write a little about her. I never met her and didn’t read her until I was in my 20s....
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/04/01/a-naomi-mitchison-bibliography/
Ayize Jama-Everett is coming over from Oakland to Boston on Wednesday March 27 for a showing of his documentary, A Table of Our Own: A Documentary About Black People and Psychedelics. I’ll pu...
The trailer for The Ugly Chickens, the third of three half-hour films based on Howard Waldrop’s short stories has gone up. According to George R.R. Martin, the film will be touring film festiva...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/03/19/the-ugly-chickens-trailer/
Anya Johanna DeNiro has some new readings lined up this spring for her book OKPsyche. We also found recently that it is a finalist in the Blurred Boundaries (how great!) category of The Subject...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/03/14/anya-deniro-madison-marshall-nyc/
Richard Butner has stepped in to read next Wednesday evening with Moses Ose Utomi at KGB Bar in New York City. The post Richard Butner @ KGB Bar first appeared on Small Beer Press .
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/03/08/richard-butner-kgb-bar/
We have a unique intercontinental event coming up tomorrow at 5 p.m. Central Time with Kathleen Jennings and Kelly Link talking about their first collection, Kindling: Stories (Kathleen), and fi...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/03/04/kathleen-kelly-tomorrow/
Kelly is off to the west coast for 3 quick readings then one in Atlanta. If you go, please mask up! Info below or here. The post West Coast Link first appeared on Small Beer Press .
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/26/west-coast-link/
Mike Allen has put together a great StoryBundle, The Twisted Folklore Histories Bundle, which includes not just one but two Small Beer titles, Isabel Yap’s award-winning debut, Never Have I Eve...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/20/the-twisted-folklore-histories-bundle/
Kelly will be at Book Moon tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 17, from 3-5 p.m. signing The Book of Love (and so on), saying hello, and passing out cookies. Drop by if you can! More events. (Cambridge, Nat...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/16/kelly-book-moon-tomorrow/
We published Ayize Jama-Everett’s 4th and final Liminal novel, Heroes of an Unknown World, a year ago today. Good and thoughtful review by Jenny Hamilton just recently popped up on Strange Hori...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/14/heroes-one-year-on/
Tonight, weather willing, Kelly will launch her new book, her first novel, The Book of Love, at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. (All her tour dates are here.) It is an amazing novel, has received th...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/13/happy-publication-day-to-a-great-novelist/
Some years ago I got a positive result on my test to see whether they will print anything in the AWP listings of exhibiting publishers: On Wednesday afternoon I realized the 2024 AWP Conference &...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/08/awp-2024/
Excellent that the search function, while messy, thanks Google, still works well enough for me to find this rather than having to page down through the Not Journalling Updates Page. I was putting...
Kelly’s new (first!) novel, The Book of Love (reviewed today by Ron Charles in the WaPo) comes out next Tuesday and very appropriately she will be at Books Are Magic with Hilary Leichter in Br...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/07/kellys-book-of-love-tour/
Next Wednesday Isabel Yap will be reading in New York as part of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB Reading series hosted by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel: Isabel Yap & Randee Dawn, Februar...
https://smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journal/2024/02/07/isabel-yap-kgb-bar/
My sister Sareen McLay is Writer of the Week at the The People’s Friend. If you’re in the UK you’ll know the mag, the “world’s longest running weekly women’s magazine and number one f...