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)

He responds to the following four questions:

You’re not Polish. How did this influence your choice of Poland as setting for Krakow Melt, the writing of the book, and how you think it has been received?

The situation for LGTBQ folks in Poland is a difficult one. Can you speak more about this and what—if any—impact you hope Krakow Melt might have?

How would you identify your characters—bisexual, queer, other, both—and is it important for you to clearly define sexual identity in your work?

Krakow Melt is a heart-in-throat read; your characters flout danger and take enormous risks. What role does risk play in your writing?

See the full list of nominees

Krakow Melt is also a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction. The winner of this and other Publishing Triangle award categories will be announced at a gala in New York City on April 28, 2011. Allan Hollinghurst will be the guest of honour and recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.

See the full list of nominees

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

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/

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

Kilian Melloy of EDGE magazine interviews Daniel Allen Cox about Krakow Melt.

Boston-based EDGE publishes local editions in San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Provincetown, Philadelphia, New England, Miami, New York City, and Los Angeles.

Matthew Hays of Xtra magazine interviews Daniel about Krakow Melt.

Entrevue en français avec Natalia Wysocka pour NIGHTLIFE

Interview with Richard “Bugs” Burnett in HOUR

Interview with Alex Manley in The Link

Featured personality on Sex Life Canada

Interview with Michael Hawrysh in 2B Magazine

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

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