Upcoming Rohin Guha and Jason Helm reading + some

Hello all,

This coming Saturday 2/25, in Brooklyn, both Jason Helm (Fetish) and Rohin Guha (Relief Work) will be reading at the Slapdash reading series. Click the link for more info; rumor has it Rohin will be raffling off some copies of Relief Work, and Jason will have copies of Fetish on hand to sell you.

AWP is coming up! There are a hundred million readings to tell you about. As the time comes closer- aka later this week- I will post a list of not-to-miss readings, including a few from our own Anna Joy Springer and Carrie Murphy, who will be a part of our jointly hosted event on 3/1 with Action Books and Kate Durbin.

Speaking of Carrie Murphy, you can now pre-order her gorgeous, astonishing first book Pretty Tilt ( from Keyhole Press) here, which you should really, really do. Trust.

A Birds of Lace favorite, Mica Sigourney, has a new performance premiering in SF in March. It’s called Masterwork and you can learn more about it here. Mica does phenomenal, genre-bending, avant-drag as Vivvyanne Forevermore!, often showcased at his weekly party in SF called Something. Mica is also a beautiful, heart-rending writer; I am awed by his recent contribution to offcenter.org’s series of posts on queer economy, which was be found here.

Hope the month of Pisces is treating you well so far.

xo

February Chapbook Special + Carrie Murphy’s ‘Pretty Tilt’

For the month of February you can purchase 3 chapbooks for $10 (regularly $13) over here. If you are brave and want a surprise mix of readings, just tell me three of your favorite words in the paypal invoice + I’ll choose three that I suspect may suit your needs.

Additionally, Meet the Lavenders author Carrie Murphy has created a tumblr to document inspirations for her soon-to-be-released full length book Pretty Tilt (Keyhole Press), which you can follow here.

xox

New issue of Prayers for Children + news

The third and final issue of Prayers for Children (an online art zine I co-edit) is now up over here. Our swan song is a love letter to music and how it inspires; this issue features the genius of Jack X. Taylor, Leon Baham, Cleonette Harris, Matthew Gallaway (author of the excellent The Metropolis Case), Mindtroll (a band featuring BoL’s own Niina Pollari), Ula Zuhra, Christine Vi-Van Nguyen, Susanna Troxler, Meghan Lamb, B.C. Edwards, Lustcats of the Gutters, Andrew Bell, Rohin Guha, Jef Barbara, Erik Peterson, Samuelroy, Inbred Hybrid Collective, Demian Dine’Yazhi’, Thomas Boettner, and Matt Momchilov, plus interviews with SSION’s Cody Critchole and Bow Wow Wow’s Annabella Lwin.

Laura Beth Davis wrote a great post on chapbooks over at the ModCloth blog which features Birds of Lace, Dancing Girl Press and Blood Pudding Press. You can find it here. We’re honored to be featured alongside two other presses that we love!

This Thurs. in NYC you can (and should!) go to the Sweet! Actors Reading Writers Series. This event will feature a reading of Jason Helm’s Fetish, and early copies of the chapbook will be available from the author. More information on the event can be found here.

Speaking of Fetish, here are a few examples of the collaged covers for the CD of Helm reading the story, which is being sent out with pre-orders:

xox

Action Books, Birds of Lace, and Kate Durbin Present: An Evening of Intimate Readings in the Bathroom of a Goth Club

AWP will never be the same again! Facebook event page here.

xox

Jason Helm’s ‘Fetish’ now available for pre-order!

Today our first chapbook of 2012, Jason Helm’s Fetish, is available for pre-order!

Fetish is a story about roommates, sex, violence, empathy, fear, desire, hustling, porn, compassion, kindness, disgust, and survival. It is also a story about a fetish. Jason Helm writes beautiful, finely-tuned prose sharpened with the rangy knife of reality, bitten to shards by the sweetnesses we manage to pull from within us in the most gnarled of times.

Your pre-order of Fetish also gets you a CD of Jason Helm reading the entirety of the chapbook, with background spooky soundscapes by Brother Bramm and a one-of-a-kind, collaged slipcover.

Read an excerpt and order from the Birds of Lace etsy shop here

xo

Call for Chapbook Submissions

Birds of Lace Press seeks spooky, gorgeous, tainted and taloned texts for chapbook publication. 12-25 pages (give or take a few) in any genre or hybrid creation thereof, including pen and ink drawings. We love that which hurts so good, tips the scales of our guts, makes the sky spit glass and the ground leak fluids. For examples and general aesthetic of work we’ve published, please visit: http://birdsoflace.wordpress.com/chapbooks/

But don’t be deterred if your work isn’t reflected there- we also love surprises. Please email as an RTF attachment to birdsoflace@gmail.com by March 31st, 2012. No bio. required; do take note that Birds of Lace exclusively publishes those who are women and/or queer-identified.

Please re-post/blog/facebook etc!

xox

Happy New Year! + etc.

Welcome to 2012! Birds of Lace has some exciting things planned, beginning with the release of Jason Helm’s Fetish at the end of this month- pre-orders will be up soon!

A few copies of the limited-edition (of 30) catalog BoL did for Matt Momchilov’s show They Really Want You are now available for purchase here. The catalog features full color photos of all the work in the show, plus writing inspired by that work by Leon Baham, Ben Fama, Kate Durbin, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Rohin Guha, Mike Kitchell, and Niina Pollari. Each catalog also comes with a one-of-a-kind polaroid of a sculpture from the show and a mix cd of music relating to the show. Read more about the show here and view more of Matt Momchilov’s work here.

Leon Baham’s Ponyboy, Sigh was named a best read of 2011 by both Johannes Goransson and Mike Kitchell.

Carrie Murphy has a poem up over at JMWW.

Rohin Guha has posted the title story from Relief Work just for you over here.

Finally, will you be AWP Chicago this year? Birds of Lace will be part of an event co-hosted by Action Books and Kate Durbin- stay tuned for more…

xox

Gifting

illustration by susanna troxler for carrie murphy’s meet the lavenders

The holidays are nigh and perhaps you want to send someone a bundle of books. Birds of Lace is having two December sales:

-purchase all 7 of our chapbooks + Anna Joy Springer’s The Birdwisher for only $20 here
-purchase a Birds of Lace 2011 subscription, which includes everything released this year, for $18 (was $28) here

I hope you’re staying warm & weird.

xo

BoL Giveaway!

Birds of Lace is giving away a copy of our limited edition They Really Want You catalog! The catalog features photos of the work that appeared in the show, a mix cd inspired by the show and writing inspired by the show by Niina Pollari, Rohin Guha, Ben Fama, Leon Baham, Mike Kitchell, Tim Jones-Yelvington, and Kate Durbin. Tweet the name of your favorite Hole song to @birdsoflace, or, if you don’t have a twitter, email to birdsoflace@gmail.com. We’ll be taking entries until midnight tomorrow. You can read more about Matt Momchilov’s They Really Want You at the Unspeakable Projects website.

xox

Giant BoL-related News Update

It has been far too long since I’ve posted, so there is quite a bit of news to share.

First, I’m excited to announce that our first publication of 2012 will be Jason Helm’s chapbook Fetish. I was lucky enough to hear Jason read this story at the release party for Rohin Guha’s Relief Work earlier this year; I loved the story then and can’t wait to unleash it upon the world, soon.

Birds of Lace authors have been up to quite a bit in the past few months. Here are some links to a few of those endeavors:

- Meet the Lavenders author Carrie Murphy had some poems published in NAP Magazine, which can be read here. She also has a poem up over at Story Bought Dress which can be read here. Additionally, Carrie is an excellent cook, and her food blog Plums in the Icebox is full of wonderful recipes, and even more of those recipes are available via Carrie’s posts over at Hello Giggles. In the most exciting C.M.-related news of all, her first full-length book of poems, Pretty Tilt, will be published by Keyhole Press in 2012!

-Relief Work author Rohin Guha has been making videos of his lovely self reading Courtney Stodden’s tweets. (If you are unaware of who Courtney Stodden is, a quick google search will illuminate.) Those videos are compiled here for your viewing pleasure.

-Fabulous Essential author Niina Pollari’s newest & beautiful chapbook, Book Four, is now available from Hyacinth Girl Press here.

-Perhaps a Girl Elsewhere author Adam Strauss has a poem up in the new issue of Smoking Glue Gun here.

-The Birdwisher author Anna Joy Springer has work up at Joyland here.

-BoL is having a holiday sale: seven chapbooks PLUS The Birdwisher for only $20! Available at the etsy shop here.

-Lastly but not leastly, Birds of Lace created a limited-edition (of 30) catalog for Matt Momchilov’s recent show They Really Want You at Unspeakable Projects Gallery in San Francisco, CA. The catalog features writing in response to the pieces in Momchilov’s show by Niina Pollari, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Rohin Guha, Kate Durbin, Mike Kitchell, Leon Baham, and Ben Fama. The catalog also includes a mix cd of music chosen to accompany the art, as well as a one-of-a-kind polaroid of a sculpture from the show; a few copies will be available later in the month for purchase through the Birds of Lace etsy store.

xox