Hello, yes, I — and How to Set Yourself on Fire — will be at AWP in Portland this month and I would love to say hello and share some pleasantries or get super weird, whatever. Here's where you can find me: BOOKFAIR AWP Portland Conference Bookfair: I will likely be lurking at the Ayahuasca Publishing Table and … Continue reading Heck yes I will be at AWP 2019 in Portland
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How To Set Yourself on Fire: Book Launch Party
Hey it's a book release party for Julia Dixon Evans's debut novel, HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE. Readings and books and signings and drinks and food and stuff. --- HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE: BOOK RELEASE PARTY MAY 8th, 2018 - 8 PM STARLITE SAN DIEGO 3175 INDIA ST (21+) --- ABOUT HOW … Continue reading How To Set Yourself on Fire: Book Launch Party
How to Set Yourself on Fire: a Book Tour
(Keep an eye on the EVENTS page for updates). SAN DIEGO BOOK LAUNCH Tuesday, May 8th @ 8 PM @ Starlite LOS ANGELES: In Conversation with Jim Ruland Wednesday, May 9th @ 7:30 PM @ Skylight Books SAN DIEGO: with Tessa Fontaine and Ryan Bradford Friday, May 11th @ 7 PM @ Mysterious Galaxy SAN … Continue reading How to Set Yourself on Fire: a Book Tour
Featured in the Union-Tribune Spring Arts Preview
So happy to see How to Set Yourself on Fire in the Sunday San Diego Union-Tribune Spring Arts Preview! You can read it online here! http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/books/sd-et-spring-arts-books-dixon-20180325-story.html Q: How has living in San Diego influenced your debut novel? A: San Diego is fundamental to this book. I’ve lived here since I was 11 years old, and I’m still always unsettled … Continue reading Featured in the Union-Tribune Spring Arts Preview
Playing Baseball Mediocrely But Playing Baseball With Pure Joy
Delighted to have some non-fiction up at Hobart, my true love lit mag, for their month-long Baseball issue. Mine is called "Playing Baseball Mediocrely But Playing Baseball With Pure Joy." It's about Little League, motherhood, and those awful moments that flip you upside down. It was kind of hard to write and kind of hard … Continue reading Playing Baseball Mediocrely But Playing Baseball With Pure Joy
Beth in Her Swimsuit
You know how when you first start out as a writer, you send your shitty first short story to The New Yorker and The Paris Review? Well, yeah, I did that. But of the submissions when I understood, when I knew what it meant to "read before submitting," Pithead Chapel was one of my very first real submissions. And … Continue reading Beth in Her Swimsuit
Beneath The Floorboards (There Are Bones)
My short story, "Beneath The Floorboards (There Are Bones)" was just published in issue 22 of Corium Magazine. It’s dark down here, but vast. An entire dwelling. I keep my things here. There’s room for everything, there’s room for me. I think this story has two main external influences. One is the season finale of … Continue reading Beneath The Floorboards (There Are Bones)
AN UNCAREFUL MATHEMATICIAN WOULD ALWAYS MISTAKE THIS FOR LOVE
My first published poem, An Uncareful Mathematician Would Always Mistake This For Love, up today at Hobart, is actually near-total thievery. It's found poetry, from a calculus and analytical geometry textbook circa 1992. Too small a harvest, and you starve; too large, and you destroy and you starve 1. Get a feel The most important step … Continue reading AN UNCAREFUL MATHEMATICIAN WOULD ALWAYS MISTAKE THIS FOR LOVE
BY THE TEETH
Once, driving home, my daughter Edie, who is five, asked: "Mama, what if I had a million teeth?" (noble / gas issue 3 artwork by Bo Yeon Kim) This was basically the day after I found out that Paper Darts just opened a short fiction contest, judged by one of my favorite writers, Lindsay Hunter. It felt like serendipity. I told Edie, … Continue reading BY THE TEETH
Some live readings.
I'm doing some readings this month, two different stories. I hope you can come to one! Or both! That'd be really nice for me. Each evening features a bunch of really impressive writers. Here follows lots of data: The first one, this Saturday, June 13th, 7:30pm, at 3rdspace, is Vermin on the Mount and I'll … Continue reading Some live readings.
JULIA DIXON EVANS 