About the Collection
Red Reader #1 is the first in a series of print publications aimed at promoting the work of underground and under-recognized writers and artists.
In conjunction with Lit Vision Press, Red Fez Publications will release a limited print edition of Red Reader #1 on August 6, 2011. This collection of poetry, prose and art is as gritty on the inside as it is on the outside– sexed-up clowns, porn shop killers and baby Jesus bashers. Based on the collective true-to-life acid trip down memory lane from fifteen talented writers and artists, how can you go wrong?
Edited and designed by Michele McDannold, this limited edition is a 8 ½ x 11 side-stapled book with a sandpaper cover and full-color interior pages.
Contributors
Lynn Alexander produces and manages Full of Crow Press, print and web based poetry, fiction, interviews, and more.
Shane Allison has been called a fag, a nigger and a genius. His new collection, Slut Machine is out from Queer Mojo. He’s such a drama queen.
Shaindel Beers’ poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in Eastern Oregon’s high desert and serves as Poetry Editor of Contrary. A Brief History of Time, her first full-length poetry collection, was released by Salt Publishing in 2009. Find her online at shaindelbeers.com
Tyson Bley walks dogs for a living. He writes mainly about these experiences. He lives in Germany and daily updates his blog, as a looking glass into my daily goings-on.
April Michelle Bratten is a writer currently living in North Dakota. She edits the online literary journal Up the Staircase Quarterly. She has current or forthcoming work in Trailer Park Quarterly, Durable Goods, Southeast Review, San Pedro River Review, and Tjgrszmk Journal. She is in the process of getting her first full length collection of poetry published.
Judy L. Brekke Born in and again resided in Minnesota with the late Stephen S. Morse (spent between 1969 and 1982 in the Bay Area). A co-editor of the small press magazine JUICE (first as a print magazine then an e-zine). She has worked with children all her life in early childhood education. Wrote and illustrated a child’s book of poetry in 1981- never submitted – it rests on a bookshelf. Completed a book of poetry with Stephen S. Morse, ‘Places that Linger’, dedicated to their granddaughter.
Published in numerous small literary magazines both print and on-line. Won the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Award in 1978 and 1979 with her poems in the University of California at Berkeley Archives.
Brad Burjan is awkward around people. He probably drinks and smokes too much and he likes to travel. Brad lives with a plant he adopted from one of his friends.
Paul Corman-Roberts is the fiction editor for Full of Crow magazine, and writes the monthly column “Dispatches From Atlantis” for Red Fez. He is the author of 3 books of poetry and flash fiction: 19th Street Station (F.O.C. Chaps, 2011), Neocom(muter) (Tainted Coffee, 2009) and The Abomunauts Are Coming To Piss On Your Lawn (Howling Dog Press, 2006.) He produces the Bitchez Brew monthly reading series in San Francisco and occasionally blogs at www.paulcormanroberts.com
Aleathia Drehmer is the publisher of the print microzine Durable Goods. She is the poetry editor at Full of Crow and editor of the flash fiction website, In Between Altered States. Aleathia has a shared collection of poetry called “A Quiet Learning Curve” from Rank Stranger Press and a poetry collection, “You Find Me Everywhere” from Propaganda Press. Previously, she had two small collections of poetry published by Kendra Steiner Editions (which are now out of print): “Thickets of Mayapple” and “Circles”. Aleathia began publishing in the small press around 2006 and has met a great number of excellent people who are still her friends today. She had a small stint as web-layout editor at Zygote in my Coffee and edited the book “The Beards” for Tainted Coffee Press. She lives in upstate New York with a curious daughter and an even more curious cat named Carrot.
Mary Ann Loesch is an award-winning author living in the Austin Area. Teacher by day, writer by night, Ms. Loesch has an extensive background in Theatre Arts and education. In 2009 her novel, Nephilim, won the Writers League of Texas Manuscript contest in the category of Science Fiction/Fantasy. Having published short stories in SNM Horror Magazine, A Side of Grits, and Red Fez, she is also a proud contributor to the blogs All Things Writing and Loesch’s Muse, both guides for beginning writers. Lyrical Press, Inc will publish her urban fantasy, Nephilim, July 2011. She is excited to have a story in the upcoming anthology Red Fez 1.
Leopold McGinnis started this whole thing, but now occupies a shadowy darth-vader like role on the outer-fringes, plotting and planning the secret future for Red Fez.
Mathias Nelson has recently published in Rattle and The New York Tyrant. His first chapbook, They may try to kill me for this, is still available. He is currently working on his first full-length collection with NYQ Books.
Puma Perl is a NYC based writer, performance artist, producer, and curator. Her poetry and fiction have been published in over 100 print and online journals and anthologies. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook, Belinda and Her Friends, and a full length collection, knuckle tattoos. She lives and writes on the Lower East Side and has facilitated writing workshops in community based agencies and at Riker’s Island, a NYC prison. She is a founding member of DDAY Productions, which presents poetry and performance events. Link to her blog for info about book purchases and events: http://pumaperl.blogspot.com/
Misti Rainwater-Lites has full-length books and chapbooks available from Coatlism Press, American Mettle Books and Propaganda Press. Misti is a member of the Fictionaut writing community.
Luis Rivas lives in Echo Park, California. He was a telemarketer, construction worker, assistant drug dealer, flower delivery driver, fast food cashier, sales clerk, adult store manager and package handler/zip code sorter. His work has appeared in the following publications, some of which he contributes to regularly: Zygote in My Coffee, Unlikely Stories, My Favorite Bullet, Cherry Bleeds, Corium, Red Fez, Rural Messenger Press, Thieves Jargon, Origami Condom, Outsider Writers, Full of Crow, Counter Punch and Gloom Cupboard, where his is currently Poetry Editor.
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