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"With that, Spaghetti morphed from impromptu experiment to tent pole. On paper it informed, entertained and ticked key financial boxes, including anticipated appeal in lucrative Asian markets." George Wehrfritz, Spaghetti by Real Ken Spoon Knife 8 autpress.com

Thank you Joy Reichart for this beautiful interview. Your groups are so accessible and do help us come home to ourselves. autpress.com/2024/06/inte...

"Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God." - Russell Brand

"Clearly our aesthetic preferences had no overlap. I don’t think I even waited to finish the meal before walking out. There was no second date." Cirrus Wood, The Allegory of the Cave Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

"Leif was a grad student writing a PhD on disabled imaginaries in the work of Mary Robinson and Rosalía de Castro. He sported button suspenders and a bejeweled cane, and brought Z bouquets snipped from the provost’s garden." Eben Lou, Spoon Knife 8 autpress.com

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Want to start learning aikido? My dojo, Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley, CA, is offering a series of summer intro classes. 4 Fridays: July 12, 19, & 26; August 2. Arrive at 6pm; class ends at 7:30. $60 for 4 classes (or as many of them as you can make it to). Please spread the word! aikiarts.com

Aiki Arts Center – A Friendly Space to Practice Aikido in Berkeleyaikiarts.com

"On the one hand, his earpieces had probably equalized her profanity into a greeting; on the other, he might be cursing her, and her own gear was rendering this as a friendly hello." Mark McElroy, Bloom Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

Thank you to the El Cerrito Art Association for hosting Hao Tran today. It was a beautiful gathering of art in many forms. We appreciate the chance to be in community together.

"Handing it over feels like giving up part of his body, but those hospital scrubs the Kid’s wearing aren’t enough armor for the street and sure as hell won’t keep him warm when the sun goes down." Nick Walker, Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

We have an open call for submissions: Spoon Knife 9 - Numbers. Send us your fiction (weird especially welcome), memoir, and poetry. In early August, we will swap in the next open call, for Spoon Knife 10 - Polarities. Stay tuned for more information. autpress.com/2023/08/call...

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"Complete, unconditional, forever. From the second they saw me. From long before that actually. Love so strong and abundant they were willing to commission a tank to come pick me up." Joy Reichart, author of Soul Writing www.soulwriting.org/joy-blog/how...

How I learned love — Soul Writingwww.soulwriting.org I call myself lucky a lot. And it’s true, I am. I’ve been spared and saved and buoyed more than any flawed human deserves. But I don’t know that it’s random luck so much as it is love.

We sat down with Joy Reichart, author of Soul Writing, to discuss her book and creative process. Here is the interview - it's a chance to learn more about a beloved author, and join the Discord group and build community. Happy reading - and writing. autpress.com/2024/06/inte...

Hao Tran is giving a reading from Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat at the Hana Garden Senior Center (10860 San Pablo Avenue) on Wednesday, June 12 at 1pm. It's hosted by the El Cerrito Arts Association in the Bay Area, California. Hope to see you there.

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Thrilled to see Jenkins provide, in this story, some reasonable assessment of the irredeemably evil “trolley problem,” a thought-experiment whose sole function is to exercise the ability to create justifications for killing innocent people.

"If I flip the switch, if I don’t flip the switch, it doesn’t matter. Because I didn’t tie these people to the tracks, you did." Brian Jenkins, Trolley Solution Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

It's queer pride month! We have queer-themed stories in all of the Spoon Knife volumes and the fabulous Weird Luck Tales 8. Happy reading. autonomous-press.myshopify.com/collections/...

"I noticed that there was another, fainter distress call coming from near the surface of the moon, but I knew that the skipper would want to check out the ship first, so I ignored it at that moment." CB Droege, Spoon Knife 8 autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

So awesome! We recognize several authors: Dean Gloster from Spoon Knife 6, Mike Jung from Spoon Knife 7, and Hao Tran from Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat.

That’s a wonderful day.

"Grant is the newest member of our birding clique. We don’t know much about him except he’s tall, talks a lot without saying much, and he’s new to birding, which is mainly why we like him." Mark A. Nobles, Spoon Knife 8 shorturl.at/0uk0r

"It had been pouring on and off most of the week, and everything felt wet and clammy, the kind of cold that sunk into your bones and never seemed to warm up." Orrin Grey, In the Blue Room Spoon Knife 8 autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

"Apart from work and private time with Daphne, sitting on my ass with a physical book takes up the majority of my time. The only way to unwind from looking at a screen is to not look at a screen." James Fritz, Spoon Knife 8: Smoke and Mirrors autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

"It was a pre-ritual I used to conduct at home in my early days, prep work before meeting a client in person. Now, putting the feelers out was rapid-fire; I could locate a spirit within a minute." Chris Campeau, Spoon Knife 8 autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

"We’d be sitting watching TV and would become aware of that distinctive wind-tunnelly reverberation with its curious poppings and crackling. The sound grew, as if ever more insistently demanding our attention." Guy Russell, Spoon Knife 8 autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

We're happy to share two events with Hao Tran, author of Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat. El Cerrito Arts Association Wednesday, June 12 @ 1pm Hana Garden Senior Center 10860 San Pablo Avenue Dunsmuir Branch Library Saturday, June 15 @ 2pm 5714 Dunsmuir Ave

SPOON KNIFE 8 is available on Amazon now (in both paperback and Kindle editions), and is starting to show up on the sites of other online booksellers. Your local independent bookstore can also order it for you via the Ingram distribution catalogue. www.amazon.com/Spoon-Knife-...

We are delighted to share the work of Zoe Jung, a queer poet. They have a collection to share as part of the senior project. Thank you for supporting the next generation of artists. www.srbooklaunch.com/zoe.html

SPOON KNIFE 8: SMOKE & MIRRORS is now available for order from the Autonomous Press website, for readers within the USA. This eighth volume of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology features two dozen strange tales in which things are never quite what they seem. bit.ly/44AsUfT

Numbers can be rational and irrational, as can the contributions to Spoon Knife 9: Numbers. Authors are encouraged to interpret the theme broadly, twisting and queering as needed. autpress.com/2023/08/call...

"They may contain the dust of history, or the blood and bones of ancestors, or the vestigial remains of ancient arts that seem lost but are merely dormant." Mike Jung, Spoon Knife 7: Transitions autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spo...

Tinfoil Hats: Stories by Mad People in an Insane World is a collection of true stories by neurodivergent people who identify as being Mad, about what it’s like to live Mad in a world that oppresses them because they think, live, and act differently. autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/tin...