Honey Mine

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Collected Stories

By Camille Roy

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Honey Mine by Camille Roy is a vibrant exploration of queer experience woven with erotics and humour. Rooted in American realities beyond mainstream narratives, the book challenges fantasies to reveal the complex truths of life within diverse communities. As a figure in the Bay Area’s experimental and New Narrative literary scenes, Roy’s work reflects a rich creative legacy and a commitment to authentic storytelling.
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This compelling narrative will resonate strongly with queer and lesbian/dyke readers as well as those interested in experimental literature and stories that address authentic American experiences beyond dominant cultural paradigms.

This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.

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Honey Mine is of interest to queer readers and lesbian/dyke readers. It is a journey rich in erotics and humour that may appeal to many readers. This book has the potential to reach a broad audience, particularly those interested in American realities outside the dominant paradigm who wish to cut through American fantasy to encounter the complex reality in which we are embedded.

The author, a revered member of the Bay Area experimental writing community, is associated with the New Narrative literary movement. They are one of the editors of the landmark New Narrative anthology, Biting the Error, and the editor of Narrativity literary journal. Additionally, they co-edited Dear World, an early queer literary magazine.

The author taught creative writing at San Francisco State University for 12 years and has also taught at Naropa and other institutions. They served as the literature curator at New Langton Arts in San Francisco for 10 years.

Editor Eric Sneathan co-organised the conference Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today and maintains strong connections within Bay Area art and literary circles, particularly in the LGBTQ+ community.

Editor Lauren Levin was an editor and publicist for Timeless Infinite Light and is very motivated to promote the book.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643620749

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 August 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Lauren Levin
Edited by Eric Sneathen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 127.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 352

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Camille Roy Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

CAMILLE ROY is a San Francisco-based writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her books include SHERWOOD FOREST (Futurepoem Books), Cheap Speech (Leroy), Craquer, (2nd Story Books), Swarm (Black Star Series), THE ROSY MEDALLIONS (Kelsey St Press) and COLD HEAVEN (O Books). Her recent work has been published in Amerarcana and Open Space (SFMoma blog). Roy has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several institutions, most recently at San Francisco State University.

ERIC SNEATHEN is a poet living in Oakland. His first collection, Snail Poems, was published by Krupskaya. With Daniel Benjamin he edited The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture and organized Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today. A Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, he writes about the history of LGBT poetry and innovative writing of the San Francisco Bay Area. Essays can be found at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space platform, Social Text Online, and in From Our Hearts to Yours (ON, 2017), edited by Rob Halpern and Robin Tremblay-McGaw.

LAUREN LEVIN is a poet and mixed-genre writer, author of The Braid (Krupskaya, 2016) and Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). With Emji Spero, they were developmental editor for We Both Laughed in Pleasure: the Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma (Timeless, Infinite Light/Nightboat). From 2011-2014, they co-edited the Poetic Labor Project blog. Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer, Jewish great-aunt, and aspirational Frank O'Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond, CA, are from New Orleans, LA, and are committed to queer art, intersectional feminism, being a parent, and anxiety.