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大ニュース
—Debut memoir dropped: DREAM POP ORIGAMI (Unsolicited Press, 2022)
—Debut novel dropped: AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS (7.13 Books, 2022)
—Newsletter created on Substack: MIXTAPE by Jackson Bliss | ジャクソンのミクステープ
—Debut short story collection drops: COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES & OTHER EXPERIMENTS (Noemi Press, 2021)
—Visiting writer offer made & accepted: Distinguished Visiting Writer, Bowling Green State University, 2021
—Contest won: Winner of the 2020 Noemi Book Award in Prose
—Tenure-track offer made & accepted: Assistant professor of English & Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University, 2019
—Literary/Speculative hypertext published: DUKKHA, MY LOVE, 2017
小ニュース
—Interview in BOMB, 15 June 2023
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami is a Mayday Book of the Year, 2 February 2023
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments highlighted in Snow Flakes Arise, 14 Feb 2023
—Buzz: The Miseducation of Jessie Hayashi & His Infinite Dictionary of Loss makes YesYes Books 2023 shortlist in fiction, 2023
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs is one the Livingston Public Library’s Notable Indie Books of 2022, 11 January 2023
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami is one of the best books of 2022 according to the Lit Reactor, 22 December 2022
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami is one of the thirty best books of 2022 according to the Independent Book Review, 8 December 2022
—Interview in The Masters Review, 3 November 2022
—Essay/CNF published in the Adroit Journal, 6 September 2022
—Podcast: Dream Pop Origami interview in the Lives of Writers podcast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, & Lives of Writers, 2 September 2022
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami is the #1 best-selling softcover nonfiction book in Northern Michigan, Traverse City Record Eagle, 28 August 2022
—Book Review for Dream Pop Origami, The Southern Review, 25 August 2022
—Essay/CNF published in Hyphen, 18 August 2022
—Book Review for Dream Pop Origami, “A Nonfiction Roundup both Wondrous and Beautiful,” LitReactor, 17 August 2022
—Interview in The Rumpus with Marie Mutsuki Mockett, 10 August 2022
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami included in Books & Scarves, 7 August 2022
—Craft Essay published in LitReactor, 26 July 2022
—Interview in Authors Answer, 26 July 2022
—Craft Essay published in John Scalzi’s Whatever, 26 July 2022
—Essay/CNF published in Monkey Bicycle, 26 July 2022
—Essay/CNF published in Juked, 23 July 2022
—Interview at Unsolicited Press, 10 July 2022
—Essay/CNF published: “When Home is Not a Verb Chart,” Hypertext, 8 July 2022
—Interview in Hypertext about Dream Pop Origami, 8 July 2022
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami included in Vol. 1 Brooklyn July Book Preview, 7 July 2022
—Short story published: “The Hungarian Divorce in Seven Movements,” The Offing, 30 June 2022
—Essay/CNF published: “12 Mate Sips,” Dream Pop Origami excerpt, published in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 21 June 2022
—Buzz: Dream Pop Origami included in Big Indie Books for “My Top-5 Literary Influences,” 16 June 2022
—Podcast: Amnesia of June Bugs included in Are You There Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan (podcast & Youtube), 2 June 2022
—Interview in Lit Pub with Bonnie Nadzam about Amnesia of June Bugs, 1 June 2022
—Reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery, 30 May 2022
—Interview in Book Goodies, 24 May 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs listed in Book Goodies, 24 May 2022
—Interview in Awesome Gang about Amnesia of June Bugs, 15 May 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs listed in Awesome Gang, 14 May 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs included in Mixed-Race Studies, 13 May 2022
—Reading: Joint Remote Reading, Readings on the Pike, 12 May 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs included in Taylor Swift as Books, 5 May 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs mentioned in Vol.1 Brooklyn’s “Morning Bites,” 3 May 2022
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments mentioned in Oberlin College’s Alumni Magazine, 1 May 2022
—Essay published: ”For Ten Years, This Novel was a Chunk of Starlight that I Buried In the Thick Earth & Then Dug Up Again, Heartbroken & Stubborn,” Necessary Fiction, 29 April 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs is one of Bookshop’s New Release titles of the week, 28 April 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs is a Foreword Reviews Book of the Day, 5/5 stars, 26 April 2022
—Interview in Apparel for Authors about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Amnesia of June Bugs, & Dream Pop Origami, 26 April 2022
—Buzz: Amnesia of June Bugs included in Foreword Reviews Book of the Day Roundup, 25 April 2022
—Craft/Nonfiction appears in Poets & Writers, 20 April 2022
—Joint reading: MFA Alumni Reading Series, University of Notre Dame, 20-21 April 2022
—Interview in Shoutout LA about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Amnesia of June Bugs, & Dream Pop Origami, 18 April 2022
—Podcast: Amnesia of June Bugs & Dream Pop Origami included in A World Without Books & Past/Forward, 12 April 2022
—Reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Distinguished Visiting Writer Reading, Bowling Green State University, 31 March 2022
—Joint reading: AWP Offsite: The Adroit Journal, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Noemi Press, & Deep Vellum, The Whiskey Room @ The Loews Hotel Philadelphia, 25 March 2022
—Joint reading: AWP Offsite: 1st Annual 7.13 Books Read-A-Rama, Drinkers Pub, Rittenhouse Square, 25 March 2022
—Joint remote reading: Politics of Reconfiguration: Writing Complex Masculinity with Tyler James Russell, SMOL Fair, 24 March 2022
—Book review for Amnesia of June Bugs, Booklist, 1 March 2022
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments is a fiction bestseller for December & January, Small Press Distribution, 1 February 2022
—Book review for Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments in the Cleveland Review of Books, 26 January 2022
—Personal essay/CNF published: “Keeping Me Company,” Shuffle Synchronicities, 27 December 2021
—Cover reveal for Amnesia of June Bugs, 7.13 Books, 9 December 2021
—Joint remote reading: Noemi Press Fall 2021 Reading Series, Noemi Press YouTube Channel, 9 December 2021
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments is a fiction bestseller for October/November, Small Press Distribution, 1 December 2021
—Interview in Los Angeles Review of Books with Bryan Hurt about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, 14 November 2021
—Remote reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 12 November 2021
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments included in Alta’s California Book Club for November, 2 November 2021
—Book review for Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments in Heavy Feather Review, 9 November 2021
—Interview in No Contact Magazine with Gauraa Shekhar about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, 26 October 2021
—Interview in ZYZZYVA with Peter Schlachte about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, 22 October 2021
—Remote reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Pages Bookshop, Detroit, MI, 21 October 2021
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments is a “New & Noteworthy” book in New Pages Book Stand for October, 20 October 2021
—Remote reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Literati Books, Ann Arbor, MI, 19 October 2021
—Book review for Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments in the Chicago Review of Books, 14 October 2021
—Interview in Juked about Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments with Ashley Farmer, 10 October 2021
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments is ranked #2 in Amazon Hot Releases, 7 October 2021
—Buzz: Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments is a Book of the Month at Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 5 October 2021
—Reading: Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023), Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA, 1 October 2021
—Book review for Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments reposted in Discover Nikkei, 12 Sept 2021
—Book tour poster drop: the official Love, Amnesia, & Dream Tour (2021-2023) poster is released, 1 July 2021
—Contest judge: The Hunger's Spring Prose Contest 2021, May 2021
—Fiction contest semifinalist: All The Places We were Broken, YesYes Books Open Reading Period, 16 May 2021
—Short story published: “French Vowels that Make You Look like Goldfish,” Vol.1 Brooklyn, 21 March 2021
—Short story published: “Semi-Permeable Membrane,” Columbia Journal, Special Uprising Issue, 20 December 2020
—Nomination: “The Geography of Desire,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction by Juked 2020
—Buzz about AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS announced at 7.13 Books, 23 October 2020
—Book Review for COUNTERFACTUAL LOVE STORIES & OTHER EXPERIMENTS in BG Independent News, 11 November 2020
—Short stories published: “Secret Codes & Oppressive Histories” and “Ten Zen Koans Translated from Japanese, Mandarin, Wu, Vietnamese, Thai, Fujian, Korean, Tibetan, Hakka, Javenese, Mizo, Nepal Bhasa, Khasi, Buryat, Malay, Paiwan, Burmese, Ryukyuan, and Okinawan By Jackson Bliss,” Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, 17 October 2020
—Podcast published: “Writing Identity: Experimenting with Form, Voice, & Style,” hosted by Jolie Sheffer, BG Ideas Podcast, Institute of Cultural Studies, 14 April 2020: Apple Podcasts, Podbean.
—Group panel discussion: LOVE IS BLIND: Barrelhouse TV Workshop, Part 1: 4 March 2020, Part 2: 5 March 2020, Part 3: 6 March 2020
—Buzz about AMNESIA OF JUNE BUGS in the English Department News, 28 February 2020
—Short story published: “The Geography of Desire,” Juked, Issue #17, Winter/Spring 2020
—Craft essay published: “The Cult of Likeability (or Why You Should Kill Your Literary Friendships),” TriQuarterly, 23 January 2020
—In the News: At the Michael Martone Reading, BG Independent News, 12 October 2019
—Reading: Gathered Voices: A Night of Spoken Word, Gathered Glassblowing Studio, Toledo, OH, 25 October 2019
—Reading: Faculty Reading, Prout Chapel, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 10 October 2019
—Reading: CityLit Festival, The Beiging of America panel, The University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, 28 April 2019
—Interview published: “Jackson Bliss Joining Creative Writing Program in Fall 2019,” English Department News, English Department, Bowling Green State University, 19 April 2019
—Personal essay/CNF published: “Our Words Will Free Us & Set Free,” Longreads, 18 March 2019
—Personal essay/CNF published: “Not Done With the World,” The New York Times, 23 October 2018
—Personal essay/cultural criticism published: "The Scarcity of Affection Among among Men,” The Good Men Project, 9 October 2018
—Interview published (with Kaitlyn Davisio): "The Pulp OC Breaking News,” The rhetorical devices of the NRA & the culture of violence, KUCI, 14 May 2018, 5-5:30
—Group post: “POC Writers & Their Libraries,” De-Canon, 2 February 2018
—Personal essay/CNF published: “When Words Make You Real,” The Beiging of America Anthology: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century, 2Leaf Press, 2017
—Short story published: "Guide to the Other Side of the Universe," Angel City Review, Issue 5, 2017
—Essay published: "(My) Ten Rules for APIA/Hapa Fiction," Ploughshares, 6 August 2017
—Short story published: "The Conspiracy of Lemons," Witness, Vol. XXX No.2, Summer 2017
—Essay published: "Stories without Women," Ploughshares, 2 July 2017
—Essay published: "Matriarchy and the Tired Assassin," Ploughshares, 28 May 2017
—Short story published: "Living in the Future," Arts & Letters, Issue 34, Spring 2017
—Interview published: “Killing the Messenger: a Dual Interview with Charles Baxter & Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Importance and the Stigma of Didactic (APIA) Fiction,” Ploughshares, 19 March 2017
—Interview published: “Speaking for Everyone, Speaking for No One: the Question of (APIA) Canonicity: a Dual Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita & Celeste Ng,” Ploughshares, 23 April 2017
—Essay published: "The Psychopathic Gaze: Murder, Violence, and Misogyny in Natsuo Kirino's Out," Ploughshares, 12 February 2017
—Essay published: "Japanese Boy Band Saves the World: Postcolonial Masculinities in Final Fantasy XV," Ploughshares, 8 January 2017
—Blogging position accepted: Ploughshares, focusing on APIA literature, video games, and gender constructions, 2017-2018
—Prose poem published (in collaboration with visual artist, Rick Potts): "The Voice Inside Your Bones," 7x7, 1 December 2016
—Novella contest finalist: The Laws of Drowning and Rhetoric, Second-Annual Wild Onion Novella Contest, Curbside Splendor, 28 October 2016
—Novella chapter published: "Castaways and Worry Dolls," Joyland, 28 October 2016
—Novella chapter published: "Oaxaca Smack and Space Gladiators," Hobart, 13 October 2016
—Lyrical essay/CNF published: "Obāsan in a Cup," Guernica, 17 August 2016
—Pedagogy essay published: "The Velocity of Flying Objects," Pleiades, 30 July 2016
—Reading: "Poets & Writers' Sixth Annual Los Angeles Connecting Cultures Reading," Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center, Venice, CA, 30 June 2016, 7:30-9pm
—Reading: "Hapa Writers: Our Stories," Mixed Remixed Festival, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 10 June 2016, 2-3:20pm
—Short story published: "My 12-Step Program for Yuki Hiramoto," Santa Monica Review, Spring 2016
•Buzz about “My 12-Step Program for Yuki Hiramoto,” Santa Monica Lookout, 23 March 2016
—Reading: "The English Department Presents Readings by John Hoppenthaler & Jackson Bliss," Cal State Northridge, Jerome Hall 319, Northridge, CA, 30 March 2016, 7:00pm
—Interview published: "Bryan Hurt's Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France," Full Stop, 12 January 2016
—Cultural analysis published: "How the Internet Changed the Way We Read," The Daily Dot, 1 Dec 2015
•Buzz about “How the Internet Changed the Way We Read” by the ALS (American Library Association), 1 January 2016
•Buzz about “How the Internet Changed the Way We Read” by Librarian’s Group, 1 January 2016
•Buzz about “How the Internet Changed the Way We Read” by Bustle, 4 January 2016
—Personal essay published: "We Others: A Conversation with My 13-Year Old Self," The Good Men Project, 16 November 2015
—Nomination: "The Transfusion of Yukiyo Kanahashi," nominated for a Pushcart Prize in creative nonfiction by Kartika Review
—Bilingual lyrical poem performed: "The Miracle of the Walking Fish," Musical Performance of Lyrical Poem for Songs About Places Series: Los Angeles, Pasadena Conservatory of Music, 15 February 2015, 4pm
—Lyrical essay/CNF published: "The Day I Lost Rock and Roll," Boston Review, 23 September 2014
—Personal essay republished in French: La Pénurie d'affection entre hommes," (translated and reprinted), L'Homme simple, 22 Juin 2014
—Cultural analysis published: "Driving the World Insane," Huffington Post UK, 24 March 2014
—Personal essay/cultural analysis essay published: "The Scarcity of Male Affection," The Good Men Project, 1 January 2014
—Award: 1st runner-up, The California Exchange Award (Fiction), Poets + Writers, 2013
—Lyrical essay/CNF republished: "The Transfusion of Yukiyo Kanahashi," The 2012-2013 Anthology of APIA Literature, 2013
—Short story published: “Cabrón,” Tin House, 20 September 2013
—Personal essay/CNF published: "アメリカ人のお宅 (American Otaku), Discover Nikkei, 20 September 2013
—Lyrical essay/CNF republished: “How to Stay in Love,” (abridged), News.com (Australia), 1 Sept 2013
—Lyrical essay/CNF published: “How to Stay in Love,” The Good Men Project, 23 August 2013
—Cultural analysis published: “The Dream of an Inclusive Masculinity,” The Good Men Project, 12 August 2013
—Personal essay/CNF published: “The Transfusion of Yukiyo Kanahashi,” Kartika Review, Issue 15, Spring 2013
—Short story published: “When Silence is an Old Warehouse and Love is a Pocketful of Rocks,” Fiction International, Issue #45: Ways of Seeing, 2012
—Short story published: “I Didn’t Accidentally Karate-Kick the Stereo,” Last Night on Earth Anthology, So Say We All, 2012
—Short story published: “The Blue Men inside My Head,” The Antioch Review, Fall 2012
—Short story published: “Kothar," Quarter After Eight, Vol. 18, 2012
—Award: 1st place winner, Edward W. Moses Graduate Creative Writing Competition (Fiction), University of Southern California, 2011
—Short story published: “30 Roofies,” Quarterly West, Issue #70/71, 2011
—Reading: Kundiman West (reading with Melissa Roxas, Oliver de la Paz, Nicky Schildkraut, and Ngoc Luu), 28 April 2010, Café Princesa, 7-8
—Short story published: “Imperfect Stranger,” The Loudest Voice Anthology, Volume 1, 2010
—Novella chapter published (from The Laws of Drowning and Rhetoric): “The Great Fall,” Fiction #56, 2010
—Novella chapter published (from The Laws of Drowning and Rhetoric): “The Molestation of Skinny Boys,” African American Review, Vol. 43, No.1, 2010
—Short story published: “A Full Cellar,” ZYZZYVA #88, Spring 2010
—Reading: The Loudest Voice (reading with Mark Irwin, Elise Suklje Martin, Lisa Locascio, and Jessica Piazza), The Mountain Bar, 1 October 2009, 7-9
—Award: College Merit Award Fellow for the PhD in Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California, 2009-2013
—Short story published: “City of Sand,” Notre Dame Review, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2009
—Short story published: “Broken Pottery,” Connecticut Review, Spring 2009
—Short story published: “Cowboys of My Heart: the 5-DVD Box Set,” Kenyon Review, May 2009
—Award: Kaneb Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award Winner for Excellence in Teaching, University of Notre Dame, 2008
—Reading: Sparks Prize Winner Reading, The University of Notre Dame, North Dining Hall, 6 February 2008, 6-7
—Short story published: “Nimble Calligraphy,” Stand Magazine (UK), 8(4) 2008
—Lyrical essay/CNF published: “Piano Lessons,” South Loop Review, V. 10, 2008
—Short story published: “Change Gonna Come,” Fringe Magazine, January 2008
—Award: La Vie de Bohème Literary Prize Winner, Steve Tomasula, 2007
—Award: Sparks Prize Winner in Fiction, University of Notre Dame, 2007
—Personal essay/CNF published: “Stripped Down,” Pology Magazine, October 2007
—Novella chapter published (from The Laws of Drowning and Rhetoric): “The Space Between Brooklyn and Manhattan,” Word Riot, July 2007
—Novella chapter published (from The Laws of Drowning and Rhetoric): “Body Language,” Writers Post-Journal, 2007
—Short story published: “City Lunch,” 3:am Magazine, January 2007
—Short story published: “Golden State,” The SoMa Literary Review, January 2007
—Reading: Notre Dame Literary Festival, University of Notre Dame, Washington Hall, 14 February 2006, 8-9:30
—Reading: Lulu Reading Series (reading with Katie Pilles-Genaw), 28 March 2006, 7:30-8:30
—Novel excerpt published: “Delilah in Collision,” The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Spring 2006
—Short story published: “The Gift of Space,” Denver Syntax, Issue 9, 2006
—Reading: Lulu Reading Series (reading with Lynne Chien), 13 September 2006, 7:30-8:30
—Short story published: “Lost,” Right Hand Pointing, Fiction Issue, 2006
—Short story published: “Everyday Corporate America,” BlazeVox, Spring 2006