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Facial Deficits and more

7 June 201222 May 2015 joannemerriam

The Locus Online Roundtable has been doing a very nice series of posts on speculative poetry! Mine is here: “‘Literary’ Poetry” and F. J. Bergmann

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The hundred hidden chickadees

25 January 201222 May 2015 joannemerriam

“Larix laracina Anaphora” was just accepted for The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee (Texas Review Press, 2013)! Also! My short story “Facial Deficits” just

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Awards Fiction

What is wrong with the Man Booker Prize?

30 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

The finalists for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced today. Irritatingly, of the thirteen finalists, only four are women. Even more irritatingly, my

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Fiction Writing

I took the bladders of blood to the blood bank. The teller was a young woman in a smart black suit with big lapels that looked like they had coathanger wire inside them to keep the points pointy. Her face was as blank and innocent as a head of lettuce, like all the rest of them.

5 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Hey everybody, the Strange Horizons 2010 readers poll closes tomorrow. I have a short story (“Sundowning“) and a poem (“Improving on Nature“) up for it.

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Fiction Writing

steered by a virgin

3 March 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

My short, short, short story “The unicorn pulls…” (originally called “Work Requirements”) was reprinted today at Trapeze Magazine.

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Fiction Writing

“Facial Deficits”

24 February 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

My news! Let me tell you it! PANK just accepted my facial allotransplantation short story. THAT’S RIGHT I’M AWESOME.

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Fiction Writing

I have a lot of things to say…

12 February 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

…mainly about epidemiology and Bobby Rogers (who I saw read on Thursday; short version = he’s great) and more on gender parity, but it all

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The unicorn pulls…

8 January 201122 May 2015 joannemerriam

Trapeze has accepted two of my microfiction pieces for reprint, which originally appeared in Tweet the Meat and PicFic (that second one is also in

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Fiction Yeah

v. [with obj.] set (something) on fire

26 December 201024 December 2022 joannemerriam

Alan’s father got a Kindle for his mother, and Alan handed it to me when she was done playing with it. We were at her

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Fuck yeah oatmeal.

8 December 201022 May 2015 joannemerriam

My Facebook status update last night was, “For the fifth night in a row, I am getting too little sleep. SUCK IT NEUROGENESIS.” and that

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