QueerType: Chelsea Station Magazine 2015

Saturday, January 03, 2015

Chelsea Station Magazine 2015

In 2015 Chelsea Station, an online magazine devoted to gay literature located at www.chelseastationmagazine.com, will publish during the months of March, June, and October.

Deadlines for each issue are:

February 1, 2015 for the March 2015 issue

April 15, 2015 for the June 2015 issue

August 15, 2015 for the October 2015 issue.

The magazine will continue to publish original and unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, memoir, humor, narrative travelogue, interviews, and reviews (books, theater, television, and film) relating to gay literature and gay men.

The magazine will also consider seasonal or special event submissions that could be published off-cycle.

Submissions should be sent to info@chelseastationeditions.com. Manuscripts should be emailed as a Word attachment. Please include your name, address, and e-mail contact information on the first page of your Word document. Please query about reprints or promotional excerpts. Please also include a brief bio of 100 words at the end of your submission. Please do not send more than one prose work or more than four poems for consideration. The online magazine will also feature art and photos and contributors can query by sending samples or links to their portfolio.

For more information on the online magazine visit www.chelsestationmagazine.com.

The Haunted Heart and Other Tales
ghost stories by Jameson Currier

In his newest collection of short stories, The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, author Jameson Currier modernizes the traditional ghost story with gay lovers, loners, activists, and addicts, blending history and contemporary issues of the gay community with the unexpected of the supernatural.

“Jameson Currier’s The Haunted Heart and Other Tales expands upon the usual ghost story tropes by imbuing them with deep metaphorical resonance to the queer experience. Infused with flawed, three-dimensional characters, this first-rate collection strikes all the right chords in just the right places. Equal parts unnerving and heartrending, these chilling tales are testament to Currier’s literary prowess and the profound humanity at the core of his writing. Gay, straight, twisted like a pretzel…his writing is simply not to be missed by any reader with a taste for good fiction.”
Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine

Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier

Still Dancing: New and Selected Stories by Jameson Currier, published by Lethe Press, brings together 20 of the author’s short stories about the impact of AIDS on the gay community which have been written over the last three decades. Along with ten stories from Currier’s debut collection Dancing on the Moon (1993), praised by The Village Voice as “defiant and elegiac,” are ten newly selected stories written by one of our preeminent masters of the short narrative form. And for this new collection the author has also chosen stories that revolve around gay New Yorkers—those lost, those surviving, those displaced, those undaunted, and those who became expatriates.

"In these stories, Currier fictionalizes queer life and times from three decades of the AIDS era, capturing the years in his prose. It has the literary heft of Camus and the quiet urbanity of Cheever…. Currier chronicles not only a defining era in gay America, but the private lives of the people who triumphed through what looked like defeat. These lives are often so finely drawn, Currier never has to resort to cliché… Gritty, esoteric, funny and passionate, Currier’s courageous prose reminds us that we must never forget."
Lewis Whittington, EDGE