news!

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Happy Friday, all!

Here’s what I have for you today:

• News

• Resources

• Tweets

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I have news:

I’m writing to let you know that my story collection, Burials, will come out in March 2022 from Bull City Press and is now available to preorder!

Here’s how Bull City Press describes my mini-collection: 

The stories in Despy Boutris’ Burials represent a contemporary queering of the “rural Gothic”: a coming-of-age narrative that interrogates familial relationships, abuse, grief, guilt, trauma, and sexuality, in a pastoral landscape that can be tender and nostalgic and yet threatening underneath. The trials and tribulations of girlhood in a small town are complicated further as the narrator explores her sapphic desires—but what begins with secrecy in the narrator transforms into a space of solace and safety, and a refusal to be silenced or ignored within a heteronormative society. With rich and emotive prose that carries the sonic texture and rhythmic cadence of poetry, Despy Boutris expertly weaves a powerful account of the ache and awe of adolescence.

You can preorder Burials now at Bull City Press. It’s only $4!

Many thanks to each of you for your love & friendship & support.

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Resources:

• 5 Paying Literary Markets to Submit to in February 2022

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Tweets:

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

does anyone have an antidote for longing. asking for me. Thank u

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

hiiiii another lil poem out today ❤️

thesunlightpress.comJune Morning with Thoughts of MortalityWe continue our poetry week with the work of Despy Boutris.

Sammy Guns 🔜 SCOTIACON @SONTRA_

matt @mattxiv

thinking about gwyneth paltrow’s $62,760 sex swing

manufactured heaven @k8bushofficial

don’t have a dog in this fight. but as i read tweets from trans people who are frustrated by cis people assuming they’re into drag BECAUSE they’re trans, i’m floored that they’ve decided to dismiss one of our art forms rather than cis people and their wretched manners

Lia Mageira @EvangeliaMagei1

My #photo from #Pelion #Greece is paired with a wonderful #poem of @itsdbouts. Thank you very much @Sunlight_Press @rudribpatel and @sebburrell for that honour!

thesunlightpress.comJune Morning with Thoughts of MortalityWe continue our poetry week with the work of Despy Boutris.

Nicole Tallman says PREORDER SOMETHING KINDRED🙏🏼 @natallman

So many gorgeous poems in the February issue of @SoFloPoJo. Here’s a sampling by @itsdbouts and Rick Campbell. Read the full issue here: southfloridapoetryjournal.com

Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff

This is @Spotify CEO Daniel Ek. This is who is choosing to profit over deadly COVID lies. He flies under the radar compared to Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. Make him famous for all the wrong reasons.

He Who Sautés @Dee_Ar_Jay

Euphoria wildly funny because everybody be horned up and Rue just be like “where’s the fucking blow?”

Barlow Adams @BarlowAdams

If women wrote about men the way men write about women: “He sighed, his medium-sized balls bobbing in his jeans like buoys in a sea of denim, rising and falling with his breath. They were not the firm, boisterous nuts of a young man. He lamented this as much as the years lost.”

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

all: my fiction collection, BURIALS, officially has a cover (!!!) & is officially available to preorder (!!!) right here: bit.ly/3J0JI3J endless thank yous to @BullCityPress's talented team & to my incredible editor, @mariacarlospoet. i feel so grateful!❤️

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Have a good weekend—

-Despy Boutris

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