Bishop & Wilde is partnering with smoke and mold for a virtual reading in support of their fall fundraiser! smoke and mold is a literary journal started in 2019 and dedicated to publishing a wide range of 'nature writing', broadly defined, by trans and Two-Spirit writers. Join editors Callum Angus, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and past contributor Jeanne Thornton as they read from their new books—all of which were published this year! Readings from all three authors will be followed by a Q&A, where you can ask questions about: their work, trans lit (is this still a thing?) publishing of the small and big sort, and more. To support smoke and mold and help the journal pay trans writers, make a donation and share!
Register for the reading below, and if you'd like to send a question for the Q&A beforehand, find smoke and mold on twitter or send an email to staff@bishopandwilde.com
Callum Angus is the author of the story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press 2021), as well as Managing Editor of smoke and mold. His work has appeared in LA Review of Books, Orion, Catapult, Nat. Brut, The Common and elsewhere. He has worked as a bookseller, book publicist, editor, creative writing instructor, and more things with words. He holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fiction.
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet living in Tio’tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology, GUTS, Carte Blanche, the Shade Journal, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. You can find them on Instagram and Twitter @theonlyelitareq. Their book, knot body, was published by Metatron Press in 2020, and their upcoming book, The Good Arabs, was published by Metonymy Press in September 2021. They are an editor at smoke and mold and the non-fiction editor at The Puritan.
Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, The Dream of Doctor Bantam, and The Black Emerald, as well as the coeditor (with Tara Madison Avery) of the Ignatz Award-winning anthology We're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. She is the co-publisher of Instar Books, and her writing has appeared in n+1, WIRED, WSQ, The Evergreen Review, and of course smoke + mold. She lives in Brooklyn and more information is available at jeannethornton.com.
Callum Angus’ A Natural History of Transition & Eli Tareq El Bechalany-Lynch’s Good Arabs can also be purchased directly at https://metonymypress.com/product-category/print-books/
Jeanne Thornton’s Summer Fun can also be purchased directly at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/653797/summer-fun-by-jeanne-thornton/