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New chapbook: I Awake in My Womb

After 5+ years of sending out poetry manuscripts, I have somehow managed to have three poetry chapbooks accepted for publication in 2013. This is ridiculous, and it’s also very fun.

I’m pleased to tell you that you can pre-order a new chapbook called I Awake in My Womb. This book contains a series of poems based on dreams that I had immediately before, during, and after pregnancy. It’s completely bizarre, sometimes frightening, and sometimes very amusing. I adore the cover. Yellow Flag Press is awesome!

This chapbook will have a limited first edition, but it will be followed quickly by a larger second run. If it’s important to you to have a first edition, then you’ll need to jump on that pre-order form very quickly!

Cover - I Awake in My Womb

Cover News

I got to see the cover for The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman, and it is gorgeous! I’m so thrilled. Image coming soon…

Tea with Ezra

It’s official: My chapbook Tea with Ezra will be published by a brand new small press called Boneset Books. The poems in this chapbook interact with familiar stories, poems, and writers, and they are some of my very favorite poems to read aloud (in fact, I just read many of these poems last month at The San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival). The printed chapbook will be crafty and handbound. I can’t wait to see the finished book!

More info to come soon!

Welcome!

Hello, reader who somehow happened upon my new author site. Welcome! I’m glad you’re here.

I got some good news this past week. My poetry chapbook, The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman, has been accepted for publication with Point Loma Press. It’s a quirky little book that explores the boundary between faith and doubt by imagining a life for an interesting, unnamed biblical character: the bleeding woman who touches Jesus in three of the gospel accounts. The first half of this collection is biblical/historical fiction; the second half, after the healing touch, moves into the realm of speculative fantasy (because faith is a strange, strange thing). After a few years of submitting the manuscript to presses, with many editors saying some version of “This is wonderful, but it’s not a good fit for us,” I’m thrilled that this chapbook will appear in print soon.

With such good news, I felt motivated to create this author website. Although I have many identities, this site will be devoted to the poet part of me. My domain name, katiemanningpoet, also serves to distinguish me from the many other Katie Mannings online: I am not a psychic or a former Doctor Who companion who took risque photos with daleks.

Thanks for stopping by! Come back soon for more updates about my poetry publications and readings.