Category: Our Beautiful Reward

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: Dyani Sabin

We’ve got one more late-entry mini-interview for you on the eve of the Our Beautiful Reward launch event! (which is tonight, and for which you can still RSVP, click that link!).

Dyani Sabin’s searing poem about love amid oppression, “This is a romantic comedy” is online here.

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Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: Leah Bobet

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you’re invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It’s been too long since we’ve run many interviews here, and I’ve missed it; getting to know writers and how they think and . . .

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: Riley Tao

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you’re invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It’s been too long since we’ve run many interviews here, and I’ve missed it; getting to know writers and how they think and . . .

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: Juliana Roth

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you’re invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It’s been too long since we’ve run many interviews here, and I’ve missed it; getting to know writers and how they think and . . .

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: Marissa Lingen

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you’re invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It’s been too long since we’ve run many interviews here, and I’ve missed it; getting to know writers and how they think and . . .

Our Beautiful Reward Mini-Interviews: M. C. Benner-Dixon

To celebrate the official print release of Our Beautiful Reward on March 16th (virtual release party Sunday the 19th, you’re invited!), I asked some of the contributors a few of the questions foremost on my mind. It’s been too long since we’ve run many interviews here, and I’ve missed it; getting to know writers and how they think and . . .

Podcast Epsiode 29: Catherine Rockwood on Editing Our Beautiful Reward

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Welcome back to the Reckoning Press Podcast! It’s me, Michael J. DeLuca, publisher, and we are coming back out of hiatus just for a minute to celebrate that Our Beautiful Reward, our special issue on bodily autonomy, comes out in print on March 16th. We’re having a virtual launch party on Sunday the 19th at 8PM eastern US . . .

Exception

Surely I will breathe fresh air

Surely I will drink clean water

Surely I will not suffer alone

Surely I will not rage with fever

Surely I will not be turned away

To cramp and bleed unaided

Surely I will root in rich soil

Surely my voice will be heard

For what I meant, not what I said;

For what I should have meant.

Surely my trees will not burn,

Nor my bridges, nor my books. . . .

Those Dark Halls

Paige was twelve years old when she first noticed the buds along her spine. She was in the upstairs bathroom, the one with the vining yellow flowers in the wallpaper and the faux-tile linoleum, about to get in the shower. She stopped to examine herself in the mirror above the sink, not yet steamed with the hot water. Did her elbows look weird? Were her widening hips . . .