New Zines for 2024
BRUISER closed out 2023 on a high note, with a standing-room-only reading to celebrate the release of Anna K. Crooks’ girl poems, which is still available in very limited quantites.
After a short break for the holidays, we’re hitting the ground running in 2024 with five more zines and at least a few more release events:
- Cutting Promos, a collection of erasure poems constructed from iconic wrestling promos by the Oklahoma City poet Josh Shepard. Read two of them here.
- Founders Day, a short story by the Philadelphia writer Arzhang Zafar. Longtime BRUISER readers may remember his excellent story “Academic,” which we nominated for the 2023 Pushcart Prize.
- Saturn Returns, a mixed media zine by Los Angeles photographer and poet Ashley E. Walters.
- Foul Black Rookeries, a collection of short stories by Baltimore horror/crime writer David Simmons, whose 2023 novel Ghosts of West Baltimore Brian Evenson described as “visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it.”
- one more day on earth together & no more days in hell alone, a collaborative work from Baltimore poets and consummate bruisers Kelly Xio & Aeon Ginsberg.
Anna K. Crooks
IG: @anna_y2k
Josh Shepard
Twitter: @JoshShepard
IG: @joshshepardofficial
Arzhang Zafar
Twitter: @vomunculus
Ashley E. Walters
IG: @ashleyewalters
David Simmons
Twitter: @WholeTimeDavid
IG: @toppdogghill
Kelly Xio
IG: @ohgeography
Aeon Ginsberg
Twitter: @aeonfx
IG: @aeon.f.u.x
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