A Newsletter from Joanne Merriam
Recent publications: Two online, both haiku: “your roughshod hair” in Enchanted Garden and “leaning against my mother” in Under the Bashō. Two in print only: haiku “planting the for-sale sign” in Kingfisher Journal and poems “The Rainy Season” and “The World Ocean” in Blood & Bourbon.
Recently on Metafilter: I’m a long-time poster on this discussion board and have been promoting small presses there since Small Press Distribution went out of business. Currently I’m doing a series of posts to promote Canadian small presses, three at a time. I have another 20 of these suckers lined up in a Word doc and am only about halfway through my original list so I’ll be doing this for another couplethree months. I’ve been cross-posting the link on Bluesky and Mastodon if you want reminders to check back.
Currently reading: I finished the series by Christelle Dabos that I mentioned in my last newsletter (highly recommended if you like YA) and have since read several books, of which I recommend Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model. I’m about to start T. Kingfisher’s A Sorceress Comes to Call (you can tell I’m reading Hugo noms).
Recommended reading: An older Clarkesworld story that I ran across yesterday when I googled (or rather duckduckgo’d—duckduckwent?) fay technology for a story I’m writing: “My Dear, Like the Sky and Stars and Sun” by Julia K. Patt.
Thanks for being here with me, friend!