Teague von Bohlen

I’m getting ready to head up to Joes, Colorado for a week-long residency at Prairie Futures, courtesy of the art initiative Prairie Sea Projects. While I’m there from June 7-14, I’ll be roaming a bit and working on a sort series of essays focusing on rural life on the Great Plains. I’ve already started the writing a bit in anticipation…it’s tentatively titled “Once More to the Rural,” which is a tip of the hat to the great E.B. White, of course, and his essay “Once More to the Lake.” Always a favorite of mine, and it’ll be great to be out of the city for a bit, reconnecting to the farms and the folks and the festivals and the fare that so effectively inhabit a landscape not designed specifically for them. Where will this writing appear? Still to be determined, but it’ll appear, and I’ll post again when I know where.

Always grateful to join the Terrain.org table at AWP. If you don’t know Terrain.org, you should. One of the best journals out there these days, and next year (AWP Seattle 2023) will mark their 25th anniversary. I’ll be there–so should you, if you’re reading this!

Very much looking forward to joining these other great writers in a celebration of Millikin University’s new chapbook press. C’mon join us on Facebook Live on 4/29 at 7:30 CST (that’s 6:30 for us here in Mountain).

F-Bomb is a fantastic flash reading series here in Denver; I’ve long been a fan, and my pal Jamey Trotter asked me to head up the F-Bomb event for Tuesday, April 20. That’s right: 4/20. As in the pot-holiday here in Colorado. I’m writing something brand-new and pot-related for the occasion, as well as reading a couple of flash pieces from Flatland. Dude. I mean duuuuuuuude. Too cool. Check out the details: F-Bomb Denver.

Just about to get started on a Zoom reading with some fellow finalists–very much looking forward to sharing more about Flatland, and also hearing from all of them about their amazing works. I’m in very good company.

Here’s the invite:

When: May 8, 2020 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Topic: CBA Finalist Reading General Nonfiction, History and Pictorial

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/92403996691

It will also be streaming on Facebook live, and will be available later on (anytime!) on the CBA Facebook account. If you get a chance to check it out, I hope you enjoy it!

Flatland was just named a finalist for a 2020 Colorado Book Award! Winners will be announced on May 30. Here’s hoping this little book continues to do big things. (And congrats to my cousin Britten, too! Happy to share the honors with you, cousin!)

Happy to say that my flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Best of the Small Press award for this past year, and three stories are being considered for inclusion. This is my second time nominated for a Pushcart, which is always an honor in and of itself. Fingers crossed–I’d love to be a part of this always-amazing collection–but the nomination itself is happiness!

Much love to the great lit journal Heavy Feather Review for speaking with me about Flatland, flash fiction, and the great American midwest! Check out the full interview at HFR, and while you’re there, read some of the great work they publish on the regular. Thanks to my friend Hillary Leftwich for the invite and the conversation!

Flatland is now available on Amazon; it’s also still available directly (and probably faster) through Millikin University’s Bronze Man Books, and through BookBar here in Denver, but one more way to get the book is good news that I wanted to share. Thanks to Randy Brooks and Stephen Frech at Millikin for helping to make this available!

This fall was a big one for publication; Split Lip just published a new flash piece called The Other Norma Jean;” Heavy Feather Review published (in print!) two stories; and Nice Cage solicited a story from me–this one’s called “The Rule of Monsters.” Finally, the humor lit-mag Defenestration reprinted “Now Hiring at the Hog Trough” from Flatland. Whew! Thanks to all who supported these stories!