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  • John Madera

    • Congrats to Big Other’s own Tim Jones-Yelvington, who will guest edit PANK’s October “special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry, and art.” The full details, below. Looking forward to it, Tim.

    Submissions are now open for PANK’s October special online issue featuring Queer prose, poetry & art, guest edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington. Submit fiction, poetry, art and unidentified or hybrid literary text objects by September 1, 2010 through the special issue submission manager: http://pankmagazine.submishmash.com/Submit.

    We are open to any of the following and especially those things we haven’t thought of. But these are not guidelines. There are no guidelines. This shit is Queer.

    ~Work by, about or representing Queer people of color, women, trans folk, poor Queers, Queers with disabilities, homeless Queers, immigrant Queers, incarcerated Queers, Queers involved in sex work and other street economies, and others who bring the Queer.

    ~Work that explores the relationship between formal/aesthetic innovation and Queer identities and experiences.

    ~Queer heterosexuality.

    ~”Realist,” “experimental,” “magical realist/irrealist/fabulist, etc.” writing conscious of language and form.

    ~Queer avant-garde.

    ~Graphic sex and violence, and/or the grotesque.

    ~Appropriations, transformations or recontextualizations of existing writers or texts.

    ~What PANK would publish anyway because that’s what PANK does.

    ~Deadline, September 1st, 2010.

    • John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026).  His  fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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