In which the artist has
no chance to relax....
More omigawds: Thanks to DLD for featuring my poem "Brick"! Please, please go check out the other awesome pieces in the news article!
Also, if you haven't heard of the artist Daughter, please, PLEASE go listen to her stuff, she is AMAZING! For your listening pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucfEr…
Omigod. To the anonymous donor who just extended my premium membership by 3 months: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This means I have now moved on to attempting to raise points to upgrade Wordsmiths-Guild to a super group!
Hello, all! Just wanted to give a bit of an update about what's been going on lately:
First of all, if you haven't submitted to :devtherwittenrevolution:'s Summer Haze Contest, you should.
In real life, I've FINISHED THE GREs. Bleh. Now I just have more thesis work and grad school apps to work on >_<
And finally, I would LOVE IT if you all would go poke your heads into the Goodfibres gallery. Goodfibres is a really awesome tshirt website similar to Threadless (artists design and post tshirts, others vote on them), except all tshirt sales are matched by a donation to a good cause. I currently have a design up in the gallery (here's a direct link to the design if you're interested: goodfibres.com/artwork/three-l…), entitled "Three Laws Safe."
Hope you all are having a great summer (or winter, depending on where you are )
NEWS
Old news about my book of poetry: You can buy it for $3 US and download it instantly (which means no shipping fees!). It features 20 short poems, some of them old, some of them new, and some of them not featured on DA at all! Cover artwork by MOI! Buy here: www.lulu.com/author/content_re…
Visual Art
Just up:
Coming Soon:
Prose
Short Stories
Just up: The Dream-Makers - Part II
Coming Soon: The Dream-Makers - Part III
Not-So-Short Stories
Just up:
Coming Soon:
Poetry:
Just up: Brick
Coming soon: Whatever strikes me
100 Poem Project
Current progress: 13/100
journal: azizriandaoxrak.deviantart.com…
blog: 100-poem-project.blogspot.com/
Also note that the terribly sweet SayaStarshine took a look at my list and decided she wanted to do it, too! She is using the same topics as me, and you can find the link to her stuff here.
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Preorder Now: The Crawling Moon
Hi there, everyone! I have some very exciting news to share, if you're a lover of horror. You will soon be able to read my short story, "The House of Coiled Earth" in the anthology The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (Neon Hemlock Press, 2024). It is a trans cosmic horror story about a young man who returns to his haunted family home hoping it will eat him (sexually), and learns there are a lot of things he doesn't understand about his family and its relationship to what, actually, the house is. It is such an honor to be included alongside some of the heavy-hitters in this TOC. Even if you don't pick it up for my story, I highly recommend you grab a copy, it's gonna be sick. Expected to release in February, preorder now! My account has been pretty dead of late, largely because I am actively trying to get my work published in lit mags and anthologies, and posting my work here counts as published, so it would disqualify me from most submissions. I am also opposed to
A Fistful of Thorns
Happy Halloween, everyone! This year for National Novel Writing Month I'll be working on a novel that I started in the spring, tentatively titled A FISTFUL OF THORNS. You can find more details on my NaNoWriMo Project Page !!! You'll be able to hear the most updates about AFoT over on my Twitter. I'm going to try and be more confident this November and actually post lines that I like. See below for a portrait I did of the main character and a short excerpt!
A FISTFUL OF THORNS is adult, secondary-world fantasy. UPROOTED meets UNDER THE PENDULUM SUN in a world inspired by 1830s Europe, where magic used to exist but has died out for some reason
Tchotchke Review: Accepting Submissions!
:new: You have only 5 days left to submit to our first issue! Your piece does not have to fit the theme, although we would love pieces that do. See below for details. :new:
I am so excited to announce that I am the Associate Editor for Poetry for the new dA-based literary magazine, TchotchkeReview (https://www.deviantart.com/tchotchkereview)!!!
At TchotchkeReview (https://www.deviantart.com/tchotchkereview) we are looking for gems in the junk drawer, and I am joined by some really incredible co-editors and some wonderful talent scouts. We still have a few more positions open; please consider joining our team!
Our first Call for Submissions is live! The theme of our first issue, to be published in July, is "Crisis," but we wil
With Hands in the Shape of the Sea
Greetings, everyone! This is a little heads-up to talk about a new story I'm working on. I am writing a novella during Camp NaNoWriMo tentatively titled "With Hands in the Shape of the Sea," in which a Victorian spiritualist encounters Norse witchcraft and doesn't quite know what to do with herself!
This is a historical fantasy queer romance work-in-progress! I will be limiting deviantArt posts to excerpts, because I hope to publish the story at some point.
If you would like the full (terrible WIP) synopsis, check out the "Camp NaNo" link on the left!
~Excerpt~
“Who has called me here?” the woman sighed, in a rasping voice
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Thanks for the feature! I will vote on your Goodfibres's submission as well. Best of luck!
"Retrograde" by *Packeranatic has a poetic-ness to it, while still being eerie and almost ethereal. I love the element of sci-fi in it, in the subtle world that has been built and suggested around the single moment that we as readers are shown.
This makes me all warm and fuzzy knowing the message got across. Thank you.
"Retrograde" by *Packeranatic has a poetic-ness to it, while still being eerie and almost ethereal. I love the element of sci-fi in it, in the subtle world that has been built and suggested around the single moment that we as readers are shown.
This makes me all warm and fuzzy knowing the message got across. Thank you.