PROXIMITY is literary meditation on sex. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice.
Out March 7th from CLASH Books
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CHECK OUT THE LINEUP!
Alexandrine Ogundimu
Brian Allen Carr
B Kolcow
Eugenio Volpe
Garrett Cook
Greg Mania
Jack Allison
Jiordan Castle
Kate Shapiro
Kyle Seibel
Sam Heaps
Sunny Rosen
Terri Linn Davis
ABOUT THE READERS
Alexandrine Ogundimu is a Nigerian-American transgender writer from Indiana. She lives in the zeitgeist. This is her first novel.
Brian Allen Carr is an Aspen Words Finalist and a Wonderland Book Award winner. His short fiction has appeared in Granta, McSweeney’s, Boulevard, and Pindeldyboz (IYKYK). His books include Opioid, Indiana, Motherfucking Sharks, and (coming soon) Bad Foundations.
Brooke “B” Kolcow is a queer trans writer, artist, and editor currently living in Buffalo, NY. They work in prose, poetry, digital and traditional art, performance, and mixed media. B Kolcow currently adjuncts in WNY and they are also the Deputy Editor and Snack Mechanic for Taco Bell Quarterly.
Eugenio Volpe is the author of the forthcoming novel "I, Caravaggio" (Clash Books 2023). His essay 'Jesus Kicks His Oedipus Complex' was listed as notable in Best American Essays 2021. His stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, New York Tyrant, VICE, Post Road, The Nervous Breakdown, BULL, and elsewhere. He is a former winner of the PEN Discovery Award for Fiction. He teaches rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Garrett Cook work has appeared alongside Joe Lansdale in Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade, Michael Moorcock in Kizuna and Jack Ketchum in DOA III and James Joyce in I Transgress. He is the winner of the Wonderland award for Time Pimp and an Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year 7 for his story Beast with Two Backs. His work has been translated into Spanish, Japanese and Russian. Twitter @GarrettACook
Greg Mania is a writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter based in New York City. His words have been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, Oprah Daily, PAPER, among other international online and print platforms. His debut memoir, Born to Be Public, is out now from CLASH Books.
Jack Allison is a writer based in Los Angeles. He has written for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Academy Awards, The Emmy Awards, and Funny Or Die. He is the co-host of the pop culture podcast Struggle Session. Kill The Rich is his debut novel. Kill The Rich is his debut novel.
Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a true story in verse (out from FSG on August 15, 2023), as well as the chapbook All His Breakable Things. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the food and culture magazine Compound Butter. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their dog.
Kate Shapiro is a Miami-based writer. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and holds a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She won first place in the Summer Literary Seminars 2018 Fiction Contest. Her work can be seen in Fence, X-R-A-Y, and Interim. Kill the Rich is her debut novel.
Kyle Seibel is a writer in Santa Barbara, CA. His debut collection, Hey You Assholes, will be published on Bear Creek Press in 2023.
Sam Heaps is a genderqueer writer, organizer, and visual artist. They have lived and worked places such as Tokyo, Hanoi, Istanbul, and the North American West. In Hanoi they were a contributing writer and editor at the online arts magazine & Of Other Things. Heaps has received support from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and was a 2022 Tin House Scholar. Heaps currently lives in Philadelphia and teaches writing at the University of the Arts. Proximity is their first book.
Sunny Rosen is an MFA candidate in fiction at LSU, a copywriter and publicity coordinator for LSU Press and The Southern Review, and fiction editor for New Delta Review. Originally from Newark, Delaware, she currently lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Terri Linn Davis is a neurodivergent, pop-culture obsessed writer and adjunct who teaches writing composition and poetry. She is the co-editor of Icebreakers Lit, a journal featuring collaborative writing and the host of the podcast Too Lit to Quit: the Podcast for Literary Writers. You can find some of her poems, reviews, and craft talks in Taco Bell Quarterly, Flypaper Lit, Cultural Daily, The Daily Drunk Mag, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Connecticut with her co-habby and their three children. You can find her on Twitter @TerriLinnDavis and on her website www.terrilinndavis.com
