Readings & Reviews
Jillian Weise Wins Isabella Gardner Poetry Award from BOA. "The Book of Goodbyes" will be published in Fall 2013.
SIMPLY PUT, there aren't enough books like Jillian Weise's The Colony. With its casual rejection of genre lines, bracingly contemporary voice, and a premise that's both extended metaphor and compelling narrative in its own right, The Colony is a refreshingly idiosyncratic debut.
-- Alison Hallett, The Portland Mercury.
WEISE IS INTERESTED IN BIG IDEAS: genetic ethics, self-esteem, slippery slopes [...] But mostly her world feels like ours, largely because she anchors her out-there ideas with very real emotions. -- Soyia Ellison, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
THE COLONY IS A NOVEL in which science can be literally miraculous. --Niall Harrison, Strange Horizons.
WHERE THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX was tightly enclosed, THE COLONY is expansive. Weise has made the leap from psychological realism to near-future (2015) science fiction. -- Kyle Minor, The Faster Times
READINGS // 2012
March 31 The Magician's Workshop: Tricks of the Trade from Magical Realists. 10 - Noon. Hosted by Emrys and the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Register at www.emrys.org.
April 11-14 The Fifth Annual Clemson Literary Festival. Featuring: Richard Ford, Chris Bachelder, Heather Christle, Keith Flynn, Lev Grossman, Steve Healey, Harmony Holiday, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Maurice Manning, Dennis McFadden, Jon Thompson, Laura Van Den Berg and John Warner. www.clemson.edu/litfest
May 19 The SC Book Festival. Panel discussion with Emily St. John Mandel and Michel Stone at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center (Lexington Room B), 11:20 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. www.scbookfestival.org
REVIEWS FOR THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX
Publishers Weekly: [C]harged & daring ... an agile & powerful poet.
L.A. Times: ... an elegant examination of intimacy and disability ...
Small Spiral Notebook: Weise speaks not just for herself, or for her
'community' of fellow disabled people, but for all readers.
Galatea Resurrects: The Amputee's Guide to Sex is full of poetry
that is on fire.
INTERVIEWS
w/ Secret Agent Elizabeth on Bookslut.
w/ Dick Gordon for The Story on American Public Media.
w/ Robert Lee Brewer for Poetic Asides.
w/ Silenced Press.
