Rae Bryant
- Location
- Maryland,
- Birthday
- February 19
- Title
- Writer/Editor
- Bio
- Rae Bryant's fiction has received Honors and Awards in the Lorian Hemingway, Whidbey Writers, and Bartleby Snopes Competitions. You can read her stories now and soon forthcoming in Rick Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review), PANK, Gargoyle Magazine, Annalemma, and Kill Author, among other publications. She is an M.A. writing candidate at Johns Hopkins University and the editor of Moon Milk Review. Rae lives in Maryland with her husband and two children. You can read more at www.raebryant.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- “Someone” by National Book
Award Winner Alice McDermott
in The New Yorker
January 25, 2012 10:35AM - Derangement of the Senses |
Chinatown, NY
January 10, 2012 10:37AM - The Nervous Breakdown |
“Adrien Brody,” Adrien
Brody, and Adrien Brody’s
Nose: A Response to Tao
Lin’s Response to “Tumblr
‘Shit-Talking’”
January 03, 2012 12:44AM - Reading at Ciao Stella |
Greenwhich NY
November 15, 2011 03:25PM
October 03, 2011 06:42PM
Rae Bryant's Links
JANUARY 25, 2012 10:35AM
“Someone” by National Book Award Winner Alice McDermott in The New Yorker
"Someone" by National Book Award Winner Alice McDermott in The New
Yorker
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JANUARY 10, 2012 10:37AM
Derangement of the Senses | Chinatown, NY
Derangement of the Senses | First Anniversary Show
January 20th, 2012
7:30-9:30
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street
Chinatown | NYC
I’ll be reading a saucy multimedia piece this month in NYC at Happy Ending Lounge. Derangement of the Senses is a multimedia reading seri… Read full post »
JANUARY 3, 2012 12:44AM
The Nervous Breakdown | “Adrien Brody,” Adrien Brody, and Adrien Brody’s Nose: A Response to Tao Lin’s Response to “Tumblr ‘Shit-Talking’”
I wrote a little essay, “Adrien Brody,” Adrien Brody, and Adrien Brody’s Nose: A Response to Tao Lin’s Response to “Tumblr ‘Shit-Talking’” on Marie Calloway’s story, “Adrien Brody,” now at The Nervous Breakdown.
NOVEMBER 15, 2011 3:25PM
Reading at Ciao Stella | Greenwhich NY
Saturday, November 19, 2011
8-10 pm
Ciao Stella206 Sullivan Street New York, NY I read along with Stephanie Berger, Joseph A.W. Quintela, Lenea Grace, and Lauren Hunter.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 6:42PM
Rae Bryant reads at Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins Bookstore
Fantastic time at B&N JHU Bookstore last night where I read from The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. All photos taken by Andrew Tagoe.
AUGUST 10, 2011 9:40PM
Rabbit Tales Reading and Performance Series
August 11, 7-9pm Theme: Nostalgia Submitted by rabbitholeprojects
on Thu, 08/04/2011 – 13:37 Rabbit Tales Reading and
Performance Series! August 11, 7-9pm Theme: Nostalgia $3 suggested
donation to RABBITHOLE and the series. READERS: Rae
Bryant’s short story collection, The Indefinite
State of…
JULY 26, 2011 11:13AM
Pen/Hemingway Nomination, Rae Bryant’s The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
Thank you to Patasola Press and Editor in Chief, Lisa Marie Basile,
for nominating The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals for the
2012 Pen Hemingway. An honor that Patasola thinks so highly of this
little collection and to see it share desk space with
the brilliant debut works out and about this…
JULY 12, 2011 9:27AM
Sex as War: An Interview with Rae Bryant at The Nervous Breakdown
Gary Percesepe interviews me at The Nervous Breakdown. GP: Sex as
war. RB: For some women, walking down an abandoned alley, hearing
footsteps behind her, can be as scary as crawling a trench. Why?
Because we have vaginas, and unlike the soldier in the trench, our
vaginas do not shoot bullets…
MAY 17, 2011 7:56PM
Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2011
Very honored to have been accepted at the 2011 Sewanee
Writers’ Conference for
Fiction. Amazing faculty… FICTION: John Casey,
Tony Earley, Randall Kenan, Margot Livesey, Jill McCorkle, Alice
McDermott, Christine Schutt, and Steve Yarbrough PLAYWRITING: Beth
Henley and Dan O’Brien
PO…
MAY 17, 2011 7:30PM
Fellowship to Florence, Italy | Johns Hopkins Conference on Craft
I’m honored to be attending Johns
Hopkins Conference on Craft 2011 in Florence, Italy. I’ll be
studying fiction with Jill McCorkle. 10 days. Florence, Italy.
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MAY 17, 2011 7:19PM
RE: Telling Morals Reading Event at The Way Station, New York
APRIL 27, 2011 10:09PM
Pre-order The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals now from Patasola Press, NY
Pre-order at HERE “Will make you simultaneously
laugh and cringe at the squeamish awkwardness of post-one night
stand
intimacies…witty…strangely
fantastical and familiar.â€
—Flavorwire “Rae
Bryant’s fiction is smart and sexy and
post-feminist and dangerous and akin to doing the tango wit…
APRIL 23, 2011 11:43AM
Reading at Remedy Bar | Pittsburgh PA
Tonight, I’ll be reading from my upcoming
collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals (Patasola
Press, NY), at the Remedy Bar in Pittsburgh, PA. Many readers. Come
out and join in the
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APRIL 18, 2011 1:33PM
Conversations and Connections
*Originally posted at Patasola Press. _ This last Saturday, I was
in D.C. at the Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on
Writing conference, sponsored by Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review,
Potomac Review, and Johns Hopkins University, funded in part by
Poets and Writers. Independent presses, e…
APRIL 10, 2011 10:15PM
New story coming from PS Books anthology En(Un)Gender Me
PS Books and guest editors, Nicole Monaghan and Marc Schuster, are
putting together a very exciting anthology titled En(Un)Gender Me.
I can’t tell you the title of my piece that will
be included because this anthology has a delicious
scheme. Each piece will be titled without contributor name…
APRIL 10, 2011 9:52PM
Prose-poetry and prose-poetry/visual Fusion coming from Ampersand
Two new pieces are coming soon from Ampersand courtesy of guest
editor Jesse Bradley. “The Art of
Truncation” is a prose poem about, you guessed it,
truncation, and the other, “Coffined,” is a
prose-poem/visual fusion from my series, Klimt Redux: A Study in
Desecration. You…
MARCH 30, 2011 5:22PM
Weave Magazine Reviews The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals
Thanks to Weave Magazine for reviewing The
Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. “Bryant creates a vivid
portrayal of what it means to be human, in its gritty glory”
(Robyn Campbell,
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MARCH 24, 2011 3:14PM
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals reviewed at Outsider Writers Collective
First Review: A big thank you to Mel Bosworth, at Outsider Writers
Collective, for reviewing The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals.
“If I had to describe Rae Bryant’s
collection The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals in two words,
the words would be these: damn impressive….”…
MARCH 24, 2011 12:31PM
Conversations & Connections | Interview
Dave Housley, editor of Barrelhouse, asks questions
about the upcoming Prosetry Workshop to be held at Conversations
and Connections on April 16th at Johns Hopkins University,
Washington
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MARCH 16, 2011 6:17PM
New York City: Four Nights, Four Mornings, Three Days
Manhattan and Pinot Noir. Brasserie Athenée. Dark into
morning light, familiar spaces, new spaces. Tight corners.
Sometimes you fall in love, with a
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MARCH 3, 2011 3:11PM
“Monk Man and Moonshine” nominated by Menda City Press for Million Writers Award
Thank you to Terry Rogers, editor of Menda City Review, for
nominating “Monk Man and Moonshine” for the 2011
storySouth Million Writers Award. And, thank you to Jason Sanford
and all who work to keep this series going. It’s an honor to
be included in a list of really fantastic magaz…
FEBRUARY 25, 2011 4:52PM
Reading at The Cell Theatre, NY
In March, I'll be reading at The Cell Theatre in New York. A big
thank you to Karen Heuler, the reading series curator. She titles
this reading Love Interrupted. Delicious. Sunday, Mar. 13, 2011
5:00 pm 338 West
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JANUARY 26, 2011 7:27PM
Literary Death Match | February 2nd in DC
I’ll be reading at the Literary Death Match on February 2nd
during AWP. Come on out and cheer me on! Where: The Black Cat, DC
Time: 8:30
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JANUARY 20, 2011 10:19PM
The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, a collection of short stories, coming soon from Patasola Press
I am ecstatic and tickled and fully caffeinated with a dash of
champagne. My first book, a collection of short stories, is coming
soon from Patasola Press. Patasola is new, out of New York, and
founded by the talented poet/writer/literary magazine editor, now
small press book publisher, the lovely Li…
Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
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