Fan of Opium
UPDATE: the Opium9 microsite is live, and a thing to behold.
My relationship with Opium Magazine has had many stages over the years. I first met Todd Zuniga by inviting him down to Seattle (he was living in Vancouver at the time) to read at the Monkeybicycle reading series I was hosting. Since then, I’ve published poetry and fiction in several issues, participated in the Literary Death Match (I’ve lost twice!), and had one of their recurring contests (7 Line Story Contest) named after my prose cycle In This Alone Impulse.
Now we’re stepping it up a notch. For Opium’s 9th issue, I’ve edited a fat section of Fan Fiction, which includes many of the most exciting writers I know: Ryan Boudinot, Ben Greenman, B.K. Evenson, Sean Carman, Nick Bredie, Matt Briggs, E. Loic Leuschner, Blake Butler, Matthew Simmons and Lindsay Mound. The rest of the issue promises, as always, an assemblage of fantastic cartoons and fiction, as well as the finalists of the Andrew Sean Greer-judged Bookmark Contest.
It’s available for pre-order, so you know what to do.
The Opium Magazine empire has always kept a door open to me, and I keep finding myself inside. Who knows what will come next? My face on the cover? Let’s hope not.
