There are many, many, many wonderful things about life in Portland, Oregon. One of them is the Hollywood Theatre on Sandy, a quick bike ride from my place.
Very excited to have been invited again this year as a guest of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in October. Fantastic people, rollicking events (films! readings! panels!), and the not insignificant beauty of the historic Hollywood.
I will bike to you, Hollywood! I will be in you!
Table of contents has been announced for the forthcoming anthology Playground of Lost Toys. Turns out my Norse neo-myth sword-battle tale “Between the Branches of the Nine” will be rounding out a most excellent lineup of stories by talented authors, despite (because of?) its wild speculation about what it means to be the playthings of uncaring gods, and just how vast a space might exist between the great branches of the Yddgrasil tree that shapes the cosmos.
More about lost toys and abandoned playthings in the fall closer to the book’s release.
So happy to have been asked to join fellow fictionists Shannon Page, Mark Ferrari, & Claude Lalumière on Saturday, June 20th, at the Cascade Park Library in Vancouver, WA. Discussion, readings, kaffeeklatsch and informal exchange of ideas, inspirations, random opinions, and whatever YOU want to talk about.
From the Cascade Writers site:
Rigid genre classifications, familiar formats, standard page lengths, even reader interactivity—it’s all in flux as we swim through a sea of change about what it means to read books, as well as how to write them.
Join Portland area writers Alex C. Renwick, Claude Lalumière, Shannon Page, and Mark Ferrari on June 20 as they share their thoughts and experiences with writing, publication, and reading in this new literary environment. Ask questions of your own, hear readings from the authors’ current works, and join them for informal conversation about the evolution of all things ‘bookish’ at this exciting moment in literary history.
The table of contents has been revealed for the next Tesseracts anthology, #19. Happy to say this one includes my short bit of happiness and light, “A Week in the Superlife.”
Very pleased with this piece, as it has very little (if any) death and destruction. Sometimes the world collapses at the personal level, and all there is left to do after a day saving people is head to your local dive bar and sing Billie Holiday karaoke.
Zandra Renwick 