Daniel Allen Cox

Krakow melt has been shortlisted for a ReLit Award, presented to the best books published by Canada’s independent presses. Winners will be announced at the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival in October.

This is Daniel’s second ReLit Award nomination.

The nominees:

Novel

•The Cube People, Christian McPherson (Nightwood Editions)
•Book, Ken Sparling (Pedlar Press)
•Blood Relatives, Craig Francis Power (Pedlar)
•The Find, Kathy Page (McArthur & Company)
•Krakow Melt, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp Press)
•The Goon, Jerrod Edson (Oberon Press)
•The Bourgeois Empire, Evie Christie (ECW Press)
•One Bloody Thing After Another, Joey Comeau (ECW)
•Good Evening, Central Laundromat, Jason Heroux (Quattro Books)
•Sweet England, Steve Weiner (New Star Books)

Short Fiction

•The Devil You Know, Jenn Farrell (Anvil Press)
•Ravenna Gets, Tony Burgess (Anvil)
•I’m a Registered Nurse Not a Whore, Anne Perdue (Insomniac Press)
•Bats or Swallows, Teri Vlassopoulos (Invisible Publishing)
•There is No Other, Jonathan Papernick (Exile Press)
•Punishing Ugly Children, Darryl Joel Berger (Killick Press)
•I Still Don’t Even Know You, Michelle Berry (Turnstone Press)
•Missed Her, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
•Ronald Reagan, My Father, Brian Joseph Davis (ECW)

Poetry

•The Inquisition Yours, Jen Currin (Coach House Books)
•Sweet, Dani Couture (Pedlar)
•Every Day in the Morning (Slow), Adam Seelig (New Star)
•A Good Time Had By All, Meaghan Strimas (Exile)
•The Good News About Armageddon, Steve McOrmond (Brick Books)
•You Know Who You Are, Ian Williams (Wolsak and Wynn)
•Marimba Forever, Jim Christy (Guernica Editions)

Daniel Allen Cox’s second novel Krakow Melt (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010) will be translated into Turkish and released as part of an underground literature series by Istanbul-based publisher Altikirkbes. The series will also include a book by Lydia Lunch. Altikirkbes publishes well-known literary journal Underground Poetix, as well as work by Franz Kafka and Allen Ginsberg.

Krakow Melt has been selected by syndicated LGBT book review column Book Marks as one of its 10 Best Fictions picks of 2010.

“It’s quite likely Cox’s second novel qualifies as one of the two most original queer stories of the year.”

San Francisco’s famed A Different Light bookstore has selected Krakow Melt as its October book club pick, in connection with Magnet Club SF and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Daniel will be appearing at the bookstore on October 19, 2010 to read from the novel and join in the book club discussion. Moderated by legendary San Francisco author Kevin Killian.

http://adl-books.blogspot.com/

The Advocate, the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States, has excerpted Krakow Melt, the second novel by Daniel Allen Cox.

An excerpt is forthcoming from Canadian indi magazine Broken Pencil later this month.

2011

MONTREAL
Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival

Saturday, April 30, 3:00 PM – Eastern Europe Stories, with Josip Novakovich, Anna Porter, and David Homel
Sunday May 1, 1:00 PM
Becoming a Writer, with Kathleen Winter, Doug Harris, and Guy Rodgers

Blue Metropolis 2011 schedule

HAMILTON
GritLit: Hamilton’s Literary Festival
Sunday, April 10, 2011, 1:30 pm
gritLIT Literary Festival
The Workers’ Arts and Heritage Centre
51 Stuart St
www.gritlit.ca

“Urban Lit”

Daniel Allen Cox, Alexander McLeod, Zoe Whittall

MONTREAL, Saturday March 12, 2011, 6:00 pm
Outspoken
Radical Queer Semaine
Mise au Jeu, 90 de la Gauchetière Est

With Lady Zen Quezada, David Sokolowski
www.radicalqueersemaine.org

MONTREAL, Saturday March 12, 2011, 7:30 pm
A Reading Hosted by the English Graduate Student Society at the Université de Montréal
Arts Café
201 Fairmount Ouest

With Larissa Andrusyshyn, Bronwyn Haslam, Erín Moure, Gillian Sze, Priscila Uppal

2010

MONTREAL: October 29, Local Legends Reading Series, Concordia Co-op Bookstore, 2150 Bishop Street

NEW YORK CITY: October 21, Orgasm Night, In the Flesh reading series, Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street  Click to RSVP on Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO: October 19, A Different Light bookstore, 489 Castro St., 7 pm. Krakow Melt is the October book club pick, in association with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation   Click to RSVP on Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO: October 16, Writers with Drinks reading series, The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd, 7:30 pm http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/

CHICAGO: October 12, Yellow Door Project, 3065 North Rockwell, 7:30 pm click to RSVP on Facebook

CHICAGO: October 12, Northeastern Illinois University,3701 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Lech Walesa Hall (LWH) 1002, 10:50-12:05

CHICAGO: October 11, Columbia College Chicago, LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community, 1-3 pm.

MONTREAL: September 26, Pilot Reading Series, Sparrow, 5322 boul St. Laurent, 8 pm. click to RSVP on Facebook

TORONTO: September 16, The Ossington, click to RSVP on Facebook

MONTREAL: September 10, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, click to RSVP on Facebook

OTTAWA: August 26, Get Naked Benefit, Swizzles Boat Cruise click to RSVP on Facebook

In honor of Canada Day, AfterElton.com has named Daniel Allen Cox as one of its eleven ”Favorite Gay Canucks.”   

Daniel is the author of the Lambda Award-nominated novel Shuck, now in its second printing; his second novel, Krakow Melt, will be published in September.

The AfterElton.com article can be found here

I’m thrilled to announce the blurbs for my new novel Krakow Melt, forthcoming this October from Arsenal Pulp Press, and recently profiled in Publishers Weekly: http://bit.ly/cFLNf3

Here are comments from super-fabulous celebrity Village Voice columnist Michael Musto, legendary New Narrative author Kevin Killian, award-winning enfant terrible Scott Heim, queer CanLit powerhouse Zoe Whittall and iconic gender outlaw and sexual anarchist Patrick Califia!  

“Strange, provocative, and daring: all adjectives that fit Daniel Allen Cox’s work. In Krakow Melt, the writer gets stranger, more provocative, and more daring. Best of all, he’s given us a novel that’s both thrilling and fun to read.”

—Scott Heim, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear

“Dying Popes and gays with matches—two of my favorite subjects. Daniel Allen Cox reminds us that queers and their allies from Krakow to California won’t stand for institutions getting between them and an orgasm. I say burn it all down, especially if it has stained glass. And buy this book!”

—Michael Musto, Village Voice columnist, author of Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back

“I’ve been a fan of Daniel Allen Cox’s writing for some time, and in Krakow Melt the wit, punch and sexual heat of Shuck return, revved up even more. As we read we slip into a free zone of writing, almost as if the boundaries of the page had themselves slipped away and we were free to wander through Eastern Europe like natives, with the haunted and nomadic gaze of those on whom history has given up. Cox brings us a story of struggle, defeat, liberation and love that I will never forget.”

—Kevin Killian, author of Spreadeagle

“Krakow Melt is Syd Barrett crossed with the Polish queer nation, a rollicking and heart-pounding urban jump through some grim realities and fine prose stylings.”

—Zoe Whittall, author of Bottle Rocket Hearts and Holding Still For As Long As Possible

“Krakow Melt goes beyond gay fiction into the realm of queer narrative. After a glut of “feel-good” books about twinks and their summer crushes, it’s a relief to sit down with a book that has a larger agenda. Its tragic vignettes about homophobia in Eastern Europe, and the sly and rage-fueled humor that such oppression provokes are beautifully written; stamped upon the reader’s memory. The description of a gay pride march ought to be prescribed reading for anybody who thinks activism is passe. Let your sense of foreboding guide you through Krakow Melt until you smell gasoline and realize you are gripping your own box of matches.”

 —Patrick Califia, author of Public Sex and Macho Sluts

Thank you, Kevin, Michael, Scott, Patrick and Zoe! You rawk.

Publishers Weekly, the renowned international news website and magazine of book publishing and bookselling, has previewed Krakow Melt in its April 19, 2010 issue.

Daniel Allen Cox will be performing at WESTFEST, a free annual music and arts festival held in Ottawa, Canada. The 2010 will be the biggest edition in the festival’s seven-year history, featuring legendary alt-rock group Sloan.

Daniel will be previewing his second novel Krakow Melt, forthcoming from Arsenal Pulp Press in October 2010.

The WESTFEST Lit performances, featuring Matthew Firth, Bill Brown, Rita Donovan, Sheila James and Harold Hoefle, run from 12:00 to 1:30 pm on Saturday, June 12, 2010.

Read the full WestFest schedule

Read coverage in Ottawa Citizen.