Mary Jean Chan
forthcoming
Since beginning close in spring of this year, we've been so thrilled with the way our writers have responded to the pleasures and problems encountered through intimacy, in such wonderful variety. And as we enter the final months of the year, we are delighted to share the coming schedule of poets, essayists, and critics, who will reflect on what it means to be intimate, and find intimacy, today.
In November, writers and friends Tom Rasmussen and Amelia Abraham will be in conversation. Tom is a columnist at Dazed and Refinery29 and co-editor of Cause & Effect Magazine, while Crystal, their drag alter-ego, will be releasing her first book, Diary of a Drag Queen, in February 2019. Amelia is a journalist from London, and has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent and Vogue and now manages a new publication, Dazed Beauty. Her first book, Queer Intentions, will be released in May 2019.
December's letter will feature the writer Lauren O'Neill. Originating from Birmingham and now living in London, Lauren is currently on staff at VICE UK, where she covers the arts, internet culture and Gemma Collins. She has been self-publishing art and poetry since 2016, and her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern.
Our January issue presents work from The White Pube, the collective identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they write about art and curate. The writers have gained an international readership and an involved social media following due to their success in diversifying the identity of the art critic, and making criticism newly relevant and accessible. They operate out of G+Z's respective cities Liverpool and London.
In February, we'll be publishing work from the poet Rebecca Tamás. Currently based in York, Rebecca's most recent pamphlet, Savage, came out from Clinic Press in 2017, and was the LRB Bookshop joint pamphlet of the year, and a Poetry School Book of the Year. She was the winner of the 2016 Manchester Prize, and her first full length collection, WITCH, will be out in 2019.
Mary Jean Chan was shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and came Second in the 2017 National Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet, A Hurry of English, is published by ignitionpress, and was selected as the 2018 Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. Mary Jean is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and an editor of Oxford Poetry. Her debut collection will be published by Faber & Faber in July 2019. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mary Jean currently lives in London, and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University.
forthcoming
Since beginning close in spring of this year, we've been so thrilled with the way our writers have responded to the pleasures and problems encountered through intimacy, in such wonderful variety. And as we enter the final months of the year, we are delighted to share the coming schedule of poets, essayists, and critics, who will reflect on what it means to be intimate, and find intimacy, today.
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Later this month, we will be publishing an essay by the poet and essayist Momtaza Mehri. Momtaza won 3rd prize in the 2017 National Poetry Competition and is co-winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She is the current Young People's Laureate for London and a columnist-in-residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space.In November, writers and friends Tom Rasmussen and Amelia Abraham will be in conversation. Tom is a columnist at Dazed and Refinery29 and co-editor of Cause & Effect Magazine, while Crystal, their drag alter-ego, will be releasing her first book, Diary of a Drag Queen, in February 2019. Amelia is a journalist from London, and has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent and Vogue and now manages a new publication, Dazed Beauty. Her first book, Queer Intentions, will be released in May 2019.
December's letter will feature the writer Lauren O'Neill. Originating from Birmingham and now living in London, Lauren is currently on staff at VICE UK, where she covers the arts, internet culture and Gemma Collins. She has been self-publishing art and poetry since 2016, and her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern.
Our January issue presents work from The White Pube, the collective identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they write about art and curate. The writers have gained an international readership and an involved social media following due to their success in diversifying the identity of the art critic, and making criticism newly relevant and accessible. They operate out of G+Z's respective cities Liverpool and London.
In February, we'll be publishing work from the poet Rebecca Tamás. Currently based in York, Rebecca's most recent pamphlet, Savage, came out from Clinic Press in 2017, and was the LRB Bookshop joint pamphlet of the year, and a Poetry School Book of the Year. She was the winner of the 2016 Manchester Prize, and her first full length collection, WITCH, will be out in 2019.
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