Writing Links 'n Stuff

updated:

January 2007

• The Velvet Mafia is a sharp, cool queer e-zine. Their last edition published lots of my pals. Check it out. They nicely listed me on their links page without me having to ask!
• Suspect Thoughts - another innovative queer e-zine of good writing. Check them out!
• Word it Out! is an online journal for gay, lesbian and queer liberation with articles, reviews and commentary - it's based out of Sydney.
• AsianCanadian.net is a new site promoting Asian Canadian arts and culture. They've got a link to my site under their Writers section.
• PERIL is an on-line Asian-Australian journal "designed to build a critical mass of Asian-Australian art and cultural concerns". Their first edition was on "Nerds" and I've got an essay in it!

Andy writing links

• When you google me, one of the top ten listings is now my Wikipedia listing. Which I got a friend to put up for me mainly as a reference to my writing...
• My author profile at Q*INK - the LGBT writer's network - I encourage my writer friends to get their own profiles up - and subscribe to their very useful newsletter.
• My author profile at Shergood Forest - "Art, Literature & Entertainment for Gay Men", it's a great resource centre. Have a look. If you're a gay author, get yourself a bio up!
• My author profile at BC Bookworld, an author bank of writers from or living in British Columbia, Canada
• Practising Sexualities is a 1998 publication on queer theory in Japanese! Ed. Kazama Takashi, J. Keith Vincent & Kawaguchi Kazuya. The activist group OCCUR pushed this project forward and they've included my master's thesis on ILGA and the international lesbian and gay movement. If you can read Japanese, have a look....

Books I've read

• Just as a whimsical thing, this is a list I've been keeping of books I've read...

Andy's writer friends

• My pal George Ilsley, who has just had published the fabulous "Manbug", has an amazing website. This one is slick!
• Now, I wasn't sure whether to put these links up on the general links section or on the writing links section but I know these friends primarily through writing, and if you're here on this page, I hope you'll get to know them too. First off, my pal Marshall Moore, author of Concrete Sky, other novels in the works, and many short stories - we've somehow ended up side by side in a few different anthologies.
• Jim Gladstone, I met at the same time I met Marshall. He wrote the Big Book of Misunderstanding, and I understand he's got more new stuff in the works.
• One of my first reviews ever was from Jameson Currier, a talented writer of short stories and erotica, and a novel. It was great to finally meet him at the Lambda Awards in New York a few years ago. Pay him a visit.
• Ian Young is probably Canada's first important gay poet. He kindly sent me one of his books while I was at university and I had the privilege of getting to know him a little. He now sells books too!
• Steve Kluger is a friend I got to know by e-mail and then finally met in San Francisco in 2005. He wrote the wonderful "Last Days of Summer" and has latest novel is "Almost like being in love."
• Mitch Cullin is a friend I've never met. His book "Tideland" has been made into a movie. He's written a ton of books - the last one which I've seen great reviews for all over the place.

Real actual physical magazines that you can touch

• The Loop Magazine from Vancouver did a fantastic Pride Cover photo of me (courtesy of David Ellingsen) - if the photo is not still up, check the covers archive.
• Trade Magazine did a review of Slant a while back. My brother and I were VERY impressed with the issue - sharp, interesting and substantial interrogations into QUEER THINGS.
• RicePaper is a magazine that promotes Asian Canadian arts and culture. They're closely linked the Asian Canadian Writer's Workshop. It was through their writing contests that my manuscripts found their way to Harbour and New Star.