decomp journal

Announcing a special e-zine, “Arts of Encampment: a living digital archive of the UBC Student Solidarity Encampment for Palestine.” Submissions are open now. Please submit and help spread the word. Free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸 decompjournal.com/artsofencampme…

Horror storytelling is a powerful epistemological tool to understand how we source individual and communal wellness, and how we can make powerful critiques that speak back to systems of oppression that have deadly health consequences. Share your story: decompjournal.com/submitzine7

Who is allowed to be healthy and at whose expense? How might a medical check-up feel routine for some, and for others, horrific? Can horror offer a complex site of healing, cultural production, and empowering social commentary? Submit to our ezine at: decompjournal.com/submitzine7

decomp journal is now accepting unpublished submissions (of a wide-range of mediums) for its 7th themed e-zine “Horror Story: Health and Healing Through the Lens of Horror” Submission Deadline: Friday April 12th, 2024, 23:59 PST For more visit: decompjournal.com/submitzine7

On Wednesday, November 29th at 6pm, join Massy Arts, @massybooks and @DukePress in celebrating the launch of Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by @KawikaGuillermo, with guest David Chariandy. Register here: bit.ly/3SdGPV2

Tonight at @ArgoBookshop!

Scholars & Writers & Artists: Please consider contributing to this special issue on Y-DANG TROEUNG's life and works, including her books REFUGEE LIFEWORLDS @TempleUnivPress and LANDBRIDGE @KnopfCA. We are hoping for short pieces inspired by Y-Dang's life and writings.

Over three years in the making, STAMPED: AN ANTI-TRAVEL GAME is now on Steam and Itch, slated for release on Nov 1! We are offering free copies to educators, gamemakers, and reviewers. DM me! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2620330/St… Itch: drchrisp.itch.io/stamped-an-ant…

I’ll be speaking at this event to represent the work of my late wife and soulmate, Y-Dang Troeung. Oct 10 7pm PST

My late wife Y-Dang Troeung and her book REFUGEE LIFEWORLDS wins the Shelley Fisher Fishkin prize from @AmerStudiesAssn for work in Transnational American Studies!! We will be in Montreal to accept the award and launch her two recent books. Thank you to the jury 😊

Y-Dang Troeung’s LANDBRIDGE is now out in audiobook! On Kobo, Googleplay, Soundcloud, and Audible, where it seems to be a bestseller. Christine L. Nguyen provides a fantastic narration, and the producer and director @KnopfCA were a dream to work with. Thank you for listening ☺️

NIMRODS is published today. Overwhelmed with emotion. Thank you to the illustrators, editors, readers, & all who inspired the work. To purchase, use code E23NIMRD for 30% off on @DukePress website: dukeupress.edu/nimrods I’m happy to do talks/readings. Can bring buttons 😃

Y-Dang Troeung's LANDBRIDGE will be featured in Waterloo at Wild Writers fest @thenewquarterly! Much love to panelists David and @madeleinethien, and organizers Thy & Vinh Fragments of Life: On Memoir and Y-Dang Troeung's Landbridge Sat, Oct 28, 3:10PM wildwriters.ca/product/fragme…

"Nimrods" by @KawikaGuillermo is among the great new books we have coming out this September. #Memoir #AsianAmericanStudies ow.ly/mVP650PG5Gi

A beautiful review of LANDBRIDGE from @Ubyssey. Thanks Elena & @KnopfCA “Above all, Landbridge is a love letter to Troeung’s family. She is not afraid to be vulnerable, recognizing both the good and bad, the hurt and healing, the hardship and joy.” ubyssey.ca/culture/y-dang…

The first review for Y-Dang Troeung’s LANDBRIDGE is out today in the Vancouver Sun! It is raving and praiseful. They call it a “remarkable and beautiful book…Highly recommended.” So thankful for this and can’t wait to share many more. vancouversun.com/entertainment/…

Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir, is released TODAY by @DukePress , and is on sale for 50% off until midnight tonight! See the book’s webpage here: dukeupress.edu/nimrods Use code SU23NIMR for a 50% discount on August 18th only. After, Save 30% with SAVE30

The first review of my forthcoming prose-poetry book NIMRODS is with @PublishersWkly who call it “uncompromising, confrontational” with “the feel of a zine” and a “chaotic, fascinating self-portrait.” NIMRODS comes out September 12 with @DukePress. publishersweekly.com/9781478024927

My @thebookseller #nonfiction October Editor's Choices are books by Adam Biles @Shakespeare_Co @catbohannon @pcaruanagalizia @gracedent @tweetTimHubbard @QcMansfield @Philippa_Perry @carlorovelli @SafiyaSinclair Y-Dang Troeung (a few proofs missing)

Y-Dang Troeung, my departed wife, now has work in the latest issue of @GrantaMag . The piece is an excerpt from her forthcoming family memoir, LANDBRIDGE [life in fragments] with @KnopfCA. Coming August 23, 2023.