C r e a t i v e W r i t i n g
(Part 3, I guess, really...)
B r i c o l a g e
I began writing poetry and little essays during college, and, after submitting a few pieces to Bricolage this year, I was delighted to find out that two of them had been accepted in April, with the Issue coming out in May!
I am not normally a poetry or short story person — I mostly write long-form works, so having tangible example of their merit was… weird and cool?
You can read them both below.
A Town Called Thief / Did You Know Snakes Can Swim?
One of my dreams has always been to publish a novel, and after spending the last several years getting comfortable with completing long-form fiction through Back Again, Back Again, I wrote another novel over the summer. I am currently on my third round of revisions, and will begin sending out query letters in June in the hopes of finding an agent to represent it!
This book is particularly important to me as it takes place in a town very similar to where I grew up — Gainesville, Georgia. I could tell a very long-winded story about Gainesville, Georgia and Rabbittown, Georgia, a previously-unincorporated community that has beefed, big time, with Gainesville since Gainesville absorbed it, but that would take up far too much space.
Throughout my college experience, I’ve wrestled a lot with coming to terms with my own rurality and finding ways to be proud of where I’m from, and writing this book was a very cathartic way of doing that for me. I got to reflect on what it was like to be a queer high schooler and use magical realism and cult-y lake rituals and Eminent Domain law to write a version of the future that would’ve made fifteen-year-old-me proud of where they were.
Here’s a couple of scenes from it.