What makes PNW literature? Writers from Joyland, a literary magazine that believes fiction is an international movement supported by local communities, will attempt to answer that as they read their stories of the PNW.
Readers:
Kait Heacock (host and editor of Joyland PNW), Cory Mimms, and Marcelle Heath
Find out more about Joyland Magazine here:
http://www.joylandmagazine.com/More about the readers at this event:
Kait Heacock (host and editor of Joyland PNW) is a fiction writer whose debut short story collection, Siblings and Other Disappointments, is available now. Her fiction has appeared in Esquire Russia, Joyland, KGB Bar Lit Mag, Portland Review, Tin House, tNY.Press, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Her nonfiction has appeared in Bustle, Crab Creek Review, DAME, Largehearted Boy, Literary Hub, The Millions, and The Washington Post. Her work has received support from the Montez Press summer residency at Mathew Gallery. She is the Pacific Northwest editor for Joyland and loves that it means she gets to ask the question, "What is PNW literature?"
Cory Mimms is the author of Trailing Tennessee, a coming-of-age story published in 2013. As a journalist, he has written for west-coast magazines and newspapers. He now spends his days as associate publisher of Pomegranate Communications, a fine art publisher based in Portland, Oregon. He studied publishing at Portland State University and screenwriting at New York Film Academy.
Marcelle Heath’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, matchbook, Nanoism, Nat. Brut, Necessary Fiction, NOÖ, PANK, Portland Review, Split Lip Magazine, Snake Nation Review, Wigleaf, and other journals. Her short story collection, Nine times Gretchen King is mistaken, was a semifinalist for YesYes Books 2017 Pamet River Prize. Marcelle is Series Editor of Wigleaf Top 50, and Managing Editor of VIDA Review.
