Events and Arrivals

Houston is about to have a problem.

Sep 20, 2023

Join Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and me for Intellect U Well Journeys: Afrofuturism book discussion at the African American History Research Center in Houston, Texas on October 7th! Get your tickets!

Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton is an internationally-known writer, librettist, educator, activist, performer, and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Houston, Texas.

Formerly ranked the #2 Best Female Performance Poet in the World, Her recent poetry collection, Newsworthy (Bloomsday Literary, 2019), garnered her a Pushcart nomination and was named a finalist for the 2019 Writer’s League of Texas Book Award and an honorable mention for the Summerlee Book Prize. Her memoir, Black Chameleon (Henry Holt & Co, 2023), explores the use of modern mythology as a path to social commentary.

I’ll be talking about how the edited collection, Boogie Down Predictions came together, and, inevitably, about writing its companion volume, Dead Precedents.

Join us!

Coming Ashore:

My sister Cynthia already copped her copy!

Different Waves, Different Depths

My first collection of short stories came out last week on Impeller Press, and it’s starting to wash up in the mailboxes of the fortunate!

Different Waves, Different Depths is a collection of nine stories, varying in style from the literarily weird (“Subletter,” “Hayseed, Inc.”) to the science fiction (“Drawn & Courted,” “Not a Day Goes By”) and in length from the flash (“Kiss Destroyer,” “Antecedent”) to the novella (“Fender the Fall”). There’s even a pilot script in here (“Post-Intelligence”). There are time loops and time travel, reality television and big data, consultants who can make anyone a winner, a newspaper that’s just gone online-only, a band that never existed but is all too real, mistaken identities, roadtrips, drugs, guns, murder, and a love story or three.

Here’s a brief excerpt, in case you missed it: