Showing posts with label Zoria April. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zoria April. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2018

Zoria April - DISTILLED EMOTION: NEUROMANCER'S TOKYO



Zoria April (Zorica Petkoska Kalajdjieva) has been writing and being published since she was 7 years old. She is a master public reading evader, she writes in short forms, currently lacking the discipline for a novel. She is writing in 3 languages, reading in 10. She translates between some of those, sometimes professionally, sometimes just to break beauty down to its smallest parts and recreate it. She has published 2 poetry collections of her own, Stars and Sparks of a Dream 2000 and Wordigami 2015, and has been published in various group collections and magazines in several countries and languages, most recently in Japan and Hong Kong.
She holds an MA in English literature and is just completed a research fellowship in Japanese culture and concrete/visual poetry. She is currently a travel writer for several magazines and websites.


Monday, May 1, 2017

ISSUE 4

ISSUE #4

Editors note:

Still can't believe this magazine lasted more than three issues. I guess i'm becoming a more organized person because of this. Anyway...

Original plan for the #4 was to make a prose-centered issue. There was a fair share of nice pieces that were individually fine - but in whole it wasn't working at all. It was a mess. So I decided to start from scratch instead trying to fix fundamentally broken concept.

And it was moderately successful. It took longer than usual to make it work. The flow wasn't as good as Issue 3. There were a lot of trash submissions and too many pieces that were critically unfit for the magazine that promotes experimental writing. But after all - it's a solid issue with lots and lots of great stuff to read and think about.

I'm glad to present you the works of the following:

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Table of Contents:

  1. Zoria April - Five Visual Poems
  2. Olchar Lindsann - Five poems
  3. Luc Fierens - Four collages
  4. Mark Antony Rossi - Four poems
  5. Bill DiMichele - Garage
  6. Heath Brougher - Two poems
  7. Howie Good - Five cut-up texts
  8. Phil Openshaw - Five visual pieces
  9. Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Four poems
  10. Stephen Nelson - Fourteen Untitled Minimalist Poems
  11. Juan Angel Italiano - Sound and Visual pieces
  12. Timothy Parfitt - Last First Action Hero
  13. Orchid Tierney - Three visual pieces 

Zoria April - Five Visual Poems


Zoria April (born 1988) is a professional translator and a writer. She has published two poetry books, one at a very young age - Stars and Sparks of a Dream (2000) - and the second one – Wordigami (2015) is a visual poetry book inspired by kanji characters. Her poems and short stories have been published in various poetry collections and have been winners of several national and international literature competitions.
In her free time she also does photography, and has been part of six group exhibitions, the last two taking place in Tokyo, Japan. She holds an MA in English Literature and currently she is a researcher at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies working in the field of Japanese language and literature with an accent on Japanese visual poetry.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Announcing Brave New Word #4


Ladies and gentlemen!


Brave New Word #4 is going live on May 1.

It was a long road and this time it was particularly rocky. Nevertheless, the issue is rock solid piece of experimental literature in high variety.


Issue line-up:

  • Zoria April 
  • Olchar Lindsann 
  • Luc Fierens 
  • Mark Antony Rossi 
  • Bill DiMichele 
  • Heath Brougher 
  • Howie Good
  • Phil Openshaw 
  • Scott-Patrick Mitchell
  • Stephen Nelson 
  • Juan Angel Italiano 
  • Timothy Parfitt
  • Orchid Tierney