Publications: Andy Quan                                           updated: 23 Feb 2008

 

 

BOOKS

"Bowling Pin Fire" (2007) Signature Editions, Winnipeg, Manitoba

                                                      Poetry. 72 pages. ISBN 1-897109-22-9

 

                                                      "Six Positions: Sex Writing by Andy Quan" (2005) Green Candy Press, San Francisco

                                                      Erotica/Gay Fiction. ISBN 1-931160-36-8

 

"Six Positions: Sex Writing by Andy Quan" (2005) Insight Out Books / Green Candy Press

Hardcover Edition. Erotica/Gay Fiction. ISBN 0 7394 5901 5

 

                                                      "Calendar Boy (2002) Penguin Australia, Sydney, Australia

                                                        Short Fiction. ISBN 0 14 100734 6

 

"Calendar Boy" (2001) New Star Books, Vancouver, B.C.

                                                        Short Fiction. 228 pages. ISBN 0-92158-682-5

 

                                                      "Slant" (2001) Nightwood Editions, Madeira Park, B.C.

                                                        Poetry. 112 pages. ISBN 0-88971-179-8

 

 

CO-EDITOR

                                                      Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry (1999)

                                                      Edited by Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

                                                      288 pages. ISBN 1-55152-073-7

 

 

PROSE

 

"The Best Sex Between Them" (reprint)

                                                      In Best Gay Erotica 2008 (2007)

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco

                                                      ISBN 978-1-57344-301-2

 

"The Best Sex Between Them"

                                                      In The Mammoth Book of New Gay Erotica (2007)

                                                      Edited by Lawrence Schimel, Robinson, London

                                                      ISBN: 978-1-84529-593-6

 

"The Best Sex Between Them" (reprint)

                                                      In Inside Him (2006)

                                                      Edited by Joel Tan, Carroll and Graf,  New York

                                                      ISBN 13: 978-0-7867-1722-4

 

"Homosexuality saved me from nerd-dom" (essay)

                                                      Online on Peril: An Asian-Australian Journal, June 2006

                                                      http://www.asianaustralian.org/content/view/22/1/

 

"Positive" (reprint)

                                                      In Best of the Best Gay Erotica 2 (2005)

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco

                                                      ISBN 1-57344-213-5

 

"First Draft" (reprint)

In Best American Erotica (2005)

Edited by Susie Bright, Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 0-7432-5850-9

 

"The Day I Wrestled My Heart Out" (essay)

                                                      In Let the Games Be Gay (2005), p. 120-124

                                                      Edited by Philipp Braun and Heike Bosch, Gatzanis, Stuttgart

                                                      ISBN 3-932855-11-6

 

"Surf" (reprint)

In Best Gay Erotica 2005 (2004) Selected by William Mann

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

                                                      ISBN 1-57344-203-8

 

"The Gayest Christmas"

                                                      In Upon A Midnight Clear: Gay Christmas Stories (2004)

                                                      Edited by Greg Herren, Haworth Press,

ISBN: 1-56023-467-9

 

 "Why IÕm"

In The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name:

Essays on Queer Sexuality and Desire (2004)

Edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Phillips, Boheme Press—Alley Cat Editions

ISBN: 1-55583-792-1

 

"Marry Me a Little"                   

                                                      In I Do/I DonÕt: Queers on Marriage (2004) p. 268-270

Edited by Greg Wharton and Ian Phillips,

Suspect Thoughts Press, San Francisco

ISBN 0-9746388-7-0

 

"The Scene" (reprint)

                                                      Lustre, issue #1   (posted Sept 2004)

                                                      www.lustre-magazine.com (defunct as of 9/05)

 

"Positive" (reprint)

"Surf" (as Joe Ching)

In Best Gay Asian Erotica (2004)

                                                      Edited by Jo‘l B. Tan, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

                                                      ISBN: 1-57344-184-8

 

"Something About Muscle" (reprint)

                                                      In Law of Desire: Tales of Gay Male Lust and Obsession (2004)

                                                      Edited by Ian Philips and Greg Wharton, Alyson Books, Los Angeles.

                                                      ISBN: 1-55583-792-1

 

"Something About Muscle"

In Best Gay Erotica 2004 (2003) Selected by Kirk Read

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

                                                      ISBN 1-57344-183-X

 

"Found in Translation?" (essay)

                                                      In Meanjin, volume 63, number 2, 2004, p. 172-180

Melbourne, Australia

 

"Ants"      

                                                      In Lodestar Quarterly , winter 2003 (posted 21 December 2003)

                                                      www.lodestarquarterly.com

 

"Ants"

In Striking  the Wok: Anthology of Contemporary Chinese
Canadian Fiction. (2003) Edited by Jim Wong-Chu and Lien Chao

Tsar Publications, Toronto. ISBN: 1-894770-09-9

 

"Shoes"                                       In Quickies 3: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire. (2003)

                                                      Edited by James Johnstone, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

ISBN: 1-55152-144-X

 

"The Scene"

                                                      in Velvet Mafia, issue #7   (posted May 2003)

                                                      www.velvetmafia.com

 

"Positive" (reprint)

                                                      Reprint - short version

                                                      In Positive Nation, April 2003, Issue 89, p. 28-30

 

"Rufo"

                                                      In Boyfriends from Hell (2003)

Edited by Kevin Bentley, Green Candy Press, Canada

Part of Rufo was published as "Long Gone Wrong" in HQ Magazine.

ISBN: 1-931160-14-7

 

"First Draft"

In Best Gay Erotica 2003 (2002) Selected by Michael Rowe

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

ISBN: 1-57344-140-6

 

"On a Night Like This"

                                                      In Big Night Out (2002)

                                                      Edited by Jessica Adams, Maggie Alderson, Nick Earls & Imogen Edwards-Jones

                                                      Penguin Books Australia

                                                      ISBN: 0-14-300023-3

"Love Gone Wrong"

                                                      in HQ (Special: The WriterÕs Issue)

                                                      June 2002 No. 91, 2 pgs, p. 78-79. Sydney, Australia

 

"I DonÕt Have A Racist Bone In My Body" (on internet racism)

                                                      in CRANK no 2, 2002. 3 pgs. P. 34-36. Vancouver, B.C.

 

"Getting It If YouÕre Asian"

                                                      in RICEPAPER Magazine V7.3 – ASIAN [arts] CANADIAN [culture]

                                                      Spring 2002 – the SEX [-y/ual/ualized] issue. 3 pgs, p. 11-13. Vancouver, B.C.

 

"Sleep"

                                                      In Penguin Australian Summer Stories 4 (2001)

                                                      Penguin Books Australia

                                                      ISBN 0-14-300038-1

 

"Positive"

In Best Gay Erotica 2002 (2001) Selected by Neal Drinnan

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

ISBN: 1-57344-140-6

 

"Calendar Boy"

"What I Really Hate"

                                                      in TAKE OUT: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America (2001)

                                                      Edited by Quang Bao and Hanya Yanagihara.

 AAWW and Temple University Press: 2001. ISBN: 1-889876-119

 

"Instrumental"

                                                      In Carnal Nation: Brave New Sex Fictions (2000)

                                                      Edited by Carellin Brooks and Brett Josef Grubisic, Arsenal Pulp Press

                                                      Vancouver, B.C. 10 pages: p. 109-118. ISBN: 1-55152-083-4

 

"Hair"

                                                      In Circa 2000: Gay Fiction at the Millenium (2000)

Edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton. 14 pages: p. 307-320

                                                      Alyson Publications, Los Angeles/New York. ISBN: 1-55583-517-1

                                                      (Circa 2000 includes high profile gay writers such as David Leavitt, C—lm To’bin

                                                      Frank Ronan, Scott Heim and Jameson Currier)

 

"Six Positions"  (reprint)

                                                      In Best of the Best Gay Erotica (2000)

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco

                                                      3 pages: p. 109-111. ISBN: 1-57344-0104-X

 

"If it Sticks Out"

                                                      In Quickies 2: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire. (1999)

                                                      Edited by James Johnstone, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

                                                      3 pages: p. 62-64. ISBN 1-55152-069-9

 

"At First Sight"

                                                      In Best Gay Erotica 2000 (1999) Selected by R. Travers Scott

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco

                                                      5 pages: p. 35-39. ISBN: 1-57344-092-2

 

"Six Positions"  (reprint)

                                                      In Best Gay Erotica 1999 (1998) Selected by Felice Picano

                                                      Edited by Richard Labontˇ, Cleis Press, San Francisco.

3 pages: p. 127-9. ISBN: 1-57344-048-5

 

"Immigrant Song" (short version)

                                                      In Contra/Diction: New Queer Male Fiction (1998)

                                                      Edited by Brent J. Grubisic, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver.

7 pages: p. 63-69. ISBN: 1-55152-056-7

 

"Six Positions"

In Quickies (1998)

Edited by James Johnstone, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

3 pages, p. 69-71. ISBN: 0-88978-271-7

(Quickies was #3 on the list of menÕs bestsellers in The Advocate, March 1999)

 

"Bald" (excerpt from the short story "Hair")

                                                      In Queer View Mirror (1995)

                                                      edited by Johnstone/Kulchinsky, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver.

                                                      3 pages, p. 225-227. ISBN: 1-55152-026-5

 

"How to Cook Chinese Rice" (reprint: fiction)

"stories from year ten: the kitchen, the car ride"

                                                      in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Vol 3, #2

                                                      Fall/Winter 1994, 15 pages, p. 5-13, 14-18.

 

"nine, eleven, sixteen, twenty-four" (fiction)

                                                      in Absinthe, summer '94, Calgary, AL, 2 pgs, p. 26-27

 

"Interview with poet Ian Young"

                                                      in ARC no. 34, spring '94. 7 pgs, p. 19-25

                                                      Special Issue: Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Canada, Ottawa, ON

 

"How to Cook Chinese Rice" (reprint: fiction)

                                                      in GEIST, "The Canadian Magazine of Ideas and Culture"

                                                      Sept-Oct 1993 No. 11 Vol. 2, 5 pgs, p. 31-35. Vancouver, B.C.

 

"How to Cook Chinese Rice" (fiction)

                                                      in Queeries: An Anthology of Gay Male Prose. (1993)

                                                      edited by Dennis Denisoff. (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press)

                                                      9 pgs, p. 102-110  ISBN: 0-88978-271-7

 

 

POETRY

 

 "Condensation"

 "The Gentle Man"

"Crystal"

                                    In Seminal: The Anthology Of Canadian Gay Male Poetry (2007)

                                                      John Barton, Billeh Nickerson, editors. (Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press)

                                                      4 pages: 300-303, ISBN:

 

"Passport Problems"

 

                                                      In Contemporary Australian Poetry in Chinese Translation (2007)

John Kinsella, Ouyang Yu, editors. Ouyang Yu, translator.

                                                      (Shanghai: Shanghai Arts and Literature Publishing House)

                                                     

 

"Reprimand"

"Wings"

"Language Lost"

 

In Journal of Australian Studies no 87, upcoming (May 2006)

 

 "Oath"

                                                      In Meanjin, 2004 Volume 63 No 1, 1 page: 46.

 

"Shopping in KL"

                                                      In Heat #15, 2000. Sydney, Australia. 3 pages: 213-215. ISBN: 0-9578311-0-2

 

"Arrangements"

"Resonance"

"gingko nuts"

"Nails"

"Sun Bathing: i. the first time ii. the photo"

"flight ice blood metal" (reprint)

 

In Journal of Australian Studies no 65 / Australian Cultural History no 19, 2000
Special Joint Issue: DIASPORA Negotiating Asian-Australia

Edited by H. Gilbert, T. Khoo, and J. Lo with M. Wei Wei Lo and F. Murphy

9 pages: 76-84



"flight ice blood metal"

                                                      In Canadian Literature, Number 163. Winter 1999.

                                                      Special issues: Asian Canadian Writing. Vancouver, B.C. 2 pages: 45-46

 

"En Route"

"Via Puerto Quito, km. 89"

"The Old Women of Seville"

"Belonging"

"First Sun"

"First Night"

"Passport Problems"

"Monday Night Entertainment"

"Names of Fuschias"

In Swallowing Clouds: An Anthology of Chinese-Canadian Poetry (1999)

                                                      Edited by Andy Quan and Jim Wong-Chu. Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver

                                                      13 pages: p. 205-217

 

"The Back of the Produce Truck"

                                                      in "Freeze Dried"

                                                      edited by Chen Lin, Snazzy Writers Workshop, Los Angeles, 1999. 1 page

                                   

"Sinking"

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