Category Archives: News and Reviews

This story has been around awhile, and I’m thrilled it’s found a home in the Spring 2016 issue of The Gettysburg Review.  The story is better than ever, thanks to editor Mark Drew’s good ear.  The nugget of fact at the heart of the story turned out to be the one thing that didn’t ring   …Continue Reading

This new story just came out in the gay-men’s literary journal Jonathan, which has published some of my brilliant, talented friends.  My contributor’s copy seems to have got lost in the mail.  But on the publisher’s website I saw the cover, which appears to show three bears bathing–so I know it exists!  Can’t wait to   …Continue Reading

Whoever anonymously nominated Fire Year for this prize, which “recognizes Bay Area writers who have made an exceptional contribution to literary arts through a uniquely Jewish perspective,” thank you! http://jewishfed.org/news/press-releases/announcing-winners-2015-anne-and-robert-cowan-writers-award  

Well, I won second prize and get to read at the Jewish Museum in New York in December.

Is it a pathetic need for credibility in my home region that makes me so happy to be reviewed in Southern Humanities Review?  Or just that it’s such a good journal? bit.ly/1NsPkQd

I’m honored to be included with Dorothy Allison and a generous selection of other writers in the anthology The Queer South, edited by charming man of letters Douglas Ray.  My contribution is a new personal essay.  You can order the book anywhere, including from the publisher, Sibling Rivalry Press. http://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/the-queer-south-lgbt-writers-on-the-american-south-douglas-ray-editor

Writing is hard; mostly you fail.  What you think is passable meets constant rejection.  It gets a bit much.  This is why so many writers have memoirs of madness in them.  Mission at Tenth, published by California Institute of Integral Studies, located right here in Fog City, which I think is a way of referring   …Continue Reading

Storyville, an app that brings a story from a published collection each week to its subscribers, has chosen “The Golem,” from Fire Year, for its story of the week.  Check it out at http://storyvilleapp.com/.

Thanks, David Pratt, for the kind words in the gay book review blog Out in Print. http://outinprintblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/fire-year-jason-a-friedman-sarabande-books/

As much as I want everyone to read my book, even I wouldn’t go so far as to call Fire Year beach reading.  But I’m happy that the gay “distraction” site Rukkle did. http://rukkle.com/features/best-gay-books-summer-2014/