Image Publishes “The Cave of My Imagination”

This piece is set in Hebron, on the trip to Israel I made with Jeffrey a few years ago.  Modern-day political realities kept butting up against the lessons I learned in Hebrew school. The Image blog Good Letters is a wonderful home for progressive religious viewpoints on contemporary culture. http://www.imagejournal.org/2016/04/25/the-cave-of-my-imagination/

Gettysburg Review Publishes “The Breasts”

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

Jonathan Publishes “I Know Who You Are”

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

Fire Year Chosen Runner-up for the 2015 Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award

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  

Southern Humanities Review Reviews Fire Year

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

New Personal Essay in The Queer South Anthology

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

Mission at Tenth Publishes Excerpt from My Memoir of Madness

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

Out in Print Reviews Fire Year

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/

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