I’m releasing a zine called Devil Town—one printing only, already selling fast. It’ll be sold IRL at a reading I’m doing at Starr Bar in Brooklyn on April 14th at 7:30pm as long as it hasn’t sold out. Features three short stories and art by Agnes Walden. $16 + $5 for domestic shipping if need be or just the original price if picking up at the reading. Venmo: hi-grace-byron, send me your address if you need shipping and I’ll confirm the order.
If you’re in NYC, I hope you’ll join us for the reading. Greta Doyle, Whitney Mallett, Heather Akumiah, P. E. Moskowitz, Brendon Holder, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Emmeline Clein, and I will all be reading. 7:30pm, don’t miss it at Starr Bar, next Sunday—April 14th.
Here are some early blurbs:
“Effortlessly erudite and elegantly disaffected, cautiously hopeful and striated with longing, these three stories reveal Grace Byron’s short fiction to be equally formidable as her era-defining criticism. She is one to watch, one to revisit, and one to take cues from.”
-Emily Zhou, Author of Girlfriends
“Sometimes a meme acts as a cautionary tale, like this one I saw a few years ago that tweaked the cover of 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' so that it said 'If You Give a Bitch a Narrative' instead. As trans women, we have our narratives. I enjoy the ways that Grace writes against those narratives, or knowingly writes into them, so that her characters might actually say something else, might figure out what’s bothering them or at least get somewhere new, might realize that they don’t want what they always thought they wanted, that they just want to set shit aflame.”
-Harron Walker, Writer, Author, Woman About Town
“Beautifully compiled by Grace Byron, 'Devil Town' is everything I want in a short story collection: a little sad, a little sexy, and painfully, propulsively alive.”
-Emma Specter, Vogue, Author or More, Please