The Heretics' Workshop

An post for the Summer Reading Shindig at Thistle & Nightshade. It says, "This Saturday, June 28, Summer Reading Shindig: For kids, tweens, and teens, featuring local authors, arts and crafts, games, and more! BYO chairs and blankets." It includes Thistle & Nightshade's address (5365 Mae Anne, #A38), the time (10am-1pm), and the website (thistle-nightshade.com). The image itself is of watercolor stars and clouds and brown hands hold up a green book.

THIS SATURDAY, I am teaming up with @thistle-nightshade.bsky.social for our first SUMMER READING SHINDIG!! This event is for kids, tweens, and teens, and is absolutely free!

Several local authors will be there, and I'm lucky enough to be featured with THE GLADE! Come hang from 10-1 on Saturday!!

Pride + Palestinian Poetry! Come celebrate the release of @yaffasutopia.bsky.social's new book, Sage, with an evening dedicated to Palestinian liberation - Thursday, June 12 at 6 PM. Event is free, but please donate at givebutter.com/iPxsAf to support Palestinians living through an ongoing genocide!

If you're a spec writer, you have about a week left to apply to @tinhouse.bsky.social fall workshop!! It's online, it's got scholarships, and it's got MEEEEEEE

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A flyer for "Fantastical Worlds and Beings," a panel on Saturday, May 31, at 11am in the Berkley Public Library Teen Room, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkley. Each of the four panelists—Zetta Elliot, Gloria Huang, Naseem Jamnia, and Avione Lee—have their headshots and the cover of their book. The moderator, Isis Asare, also has a headshot. The flyer has the Bay Area Book Festival logo and information and emphasizes free admission.

Well, well, well, what's this? A panel at this weekend's Bay Area Book Fest, you say? It's true!! Catch my dork ass and four superstar colleagues of color—Zetta Elliot, Gloria Huang, Avione Lee, and Sistah Scifi founder Isis Asare —talking about the worlds on our pages and in our heads!

Naseem sits at a table reading The Glade with a smile. They're a light skinned West Asian with curly brown hair and blue highlights, a nose ring, and tattoos visible. On the black tablecloth are colored pens, bookmarks, some flyers, cupcakes, and a table.

Naseem sits at a table holding up The Glade with a smile. They're a light skinned West Asian with curly brown hair and blue highlights, a nose ring, and tattoos visible. In the background is a colorful couch. In the corner of the picture is a basket of flowers.

Yesterday was release day for THE GLADE!! I'm so proud of this book and so happy it'll be in the hands of kids. I hope the ones who need it find it.

I still have physical ARCs if any reviewers/educators/librarians would like them!!

Virgie is coming!! Don't miss two amazing events this weekend featuring our very very special out-of-town guest, www.virgietovar.com! Saturday night will be a rad talk and Sunday morning an embodied writing workshop. More info and sign up here tinyurl.com/ybw724wp! We love Virgie!

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We've got a new logo, which means new merch! Preorder your bag or t-shirt on our bonfire.
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@dc-corvino.bsky.social IS IN THIS ANTHOLOGY WITH A DELICIOUS STORY AND BEAUTIFUL ART YOU DON'T WANNA MISS IT

“No Cop City, No Cop World” Offers a Roadmap for Organizers Everywhere A new book documents the fight against Atlanta’s Cop City — and provides a blueprint for organizers everywhere.

"What started as a small movement had grown into one where there could be no question that Black organizing was now at the center of the struggle against Cop City, uplifting the Black radical tradition in Atlanta."

Saturday, 10-2, No City Coffee, Silver State Pie Co, and Bibo will be here serving up drinks, pies, and gelato! Sunday 12-3 we're grillin' veggie dogs and kickin' it to low-key outdoor jams, including a live fiddle set from The Peavine Pickers! Oh - and 10% off storewide all weekend!

BONUS! On June 21, I'm helping organize the Summer Reading Fest at @thistle-nightshade.bsky.social! This will serve as a kids launch for THE GLADE! It's shaping up to be a super cool event, so save the date!

Okay I actually thought I only had three things so making it to six is impressive.

5. I have a newsletter called I send out every other Tuesday! Faithfully! You can opt-in to receive either just my writing Telegrams or to also receive personal musings/essay-ish things. NaseemWrites.Kit.Com has samples; naseemwrites.kit.com/signup lets you choose which to receive!

FIVE THINGS!

1. The in-person launch party for THE GLADE is TOMORROW!!! 5/16! 6pm! @theradicalcat.bsky.social!

2. I have physical ARCs of THE GLADE that I would LOVE to send educators/librarians/booksellers/reviewers who are queer/BIPOC (particularly if you're Iranian or Filipino!) Shipping on me!

That's if you're *lucky*.

A busy flyer that says, “Join the book launch event for The Glade at the Radical Cat: Friday, May 16, 6pm. Free and open to the public. The middle grade horror debut of local award-winning author Naseem Jamnia, in conversation with 4x poetry slam champion and local educator Griffin Peralta.” On the side of the image it says, “Books will be available for purchasing and signing.” There is a picture of Naseem holding a copy of The Glade and another of Griffin performing into a microphone. Drawn mushroom images are everywhere. The Heretics’ Workshop logo is at the top.

A hand holds up a copy of The Glade by Naseem Jamnia, with the other hand flashing a peace sign. The text over the image says, “Join the book launch event for The Glade at the Radical Cat: Friday, May 16, 6pm. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing. The middle grade horror debut of local award-winning author Naseem Jamnia, in conversation with 4x poetry slam champion and local educator Griffin Peralta.” The Heretics’ Workshop logo is in the corner.

BOOK LAUNCH BOOK LAUNCH AT @theradicalcat.bsky.social AT WEEK FROM TODAY

FRIDAY, MAY 16
6PM

COME CELEBRATE A QUEER BIPOC MG MUSHROOM HORROR WITH MEEEEEE

#Reno #BookLaunch #NorthernNevada #Booksky

An image that says, “What’s in The Glade? (out May 27 from S&S!)” and arrows pointing to various texts around the image. These are: anxious and autistic Iranian American MC whose special interest is plants; racialized, neurodivergent, and queer cast of misfits with “atypical” families; age-appropriate discussions of anxiety, mental illness, trauma, and feeling/being othered; BIG best friend feels; Minnesota- and Midwest-isms; fungal (mushroom) horror; summer camp with secrets; creepy and incorrect nursery rhymes; creepy “kid” and disembodied voices; creepy nature and giant spiders.” In the middle is a picture in profile of the author, Naseem Jamnia, a nonbinary West Asian (Iranian diaspora) person with curly brown hair with blue highlights, wearing a black coat, red scarf, and sunglasses, reading a paperback advanced readers copy of THE GLADE, with pine leaves crossing in front of the photo. The cover of the book has a tween in a blue-purple hoodie standing in an eerie green mushroom forest.

HELLO MY QUEER BIPOC MIDDLE GRADE MUSHROOM HORROR MANIFESTING AS A SPIDER HORROR DEBUT COMES OUT ON MAY 27TH

IT FOLLOWS AN ANXIOUS AUTISTIC SCIENCE-Y IRANIAN AMERICAN TWEEN WHO DISCOVERS A CLEARING IN HER WOODSY SUMMER CAMP WHERE DREAMS & NIGHTMARES COME TO LIFE & THREATENS HER BESTIE

Friday, May 16 at 6 PM join award-winning local author Naseem Jamnia in celebration of their middle grade horror debut, The Glade. Be one of the first to pick up a copy of The Glade (not out until 5/27!). Naseem will be in convo with local poet and slam champion Griffin Peralta. tinyurl.com/2s7w9473

A young Afro-Latina woman with purple and black braids wears a maroon shirt with the word “labor” on the front. Text below: Labor Organizer of the Year Katherine Passley is bridging the gap between—and combining the strengths of—labor and criminal justice reform movements. PHOTO BY MELODY TIMOTHEE

It was my honor to profile @inthesetimes.com’s Labor Organizer of the Year, Katherine Passley. She is the co-director of Beyond the Bars, a visionary member-led worker center in Miami-Dade County for people with criminal records and their families
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At UT, a Day of Drag and Defiance Students gathered for a joyful protest of the university system’s drag show ban.

“Ain’t nothing illegal happening here. We’re just having fun.”

Last week: These queens joyously defied a university system ban on drag shows with makeup, storytelling and dance.

* to stay accountable

...write-ins will also make you feel better about your own typos <33 because they are inevitable no matter how experienced you are 😅

A spring themed flyer for The Heretics' Workshop Tuesday Write Ins from 1-3 pm

Hope to see you soon!! Write-ins are a great way tos tay accountable and find community while you work

ALERT! >12 Reno citizen boards & commissions to be put on immediate 90-day hiatus ostensibly due to City’s budget shortfall & staffing shortages.

Please visit the Barber Brief for info on how to contact the City Manager & Councilmembers before their 05/05 meeting: open.substack.com/pub/thebarbe...

Nooo forgot to add alt text. The image above is a table showing the Heretics' bookmarks, Freedom to Read information flyers, and two sign up sheets with the names blanked out in red for protection.

We got 2 full sheets for pledges to help protect our freedom to read!! Thanks so much to the Northern Nevada DSA!

A table featuring a fanned out pile of Ursula Le Guin quote bookmarks and a Freedom to Read sign up sheet

We've got some Le Guin bookmarks and a Freedom to Read sign up sheet at Northern Nevada DSA's May Day Fair today!! Grab a bookmark and sign up to help our libraries today <33

It's true -- we have a whole slew of free original ebooks you should grab and read: subterraneanpress.com/free-ebooks/

Happy #AANHPI Heritage Month! Get to know a few amazing Asian Authors by using our Starter Pack go.bsky.app/VDxKNDN

And also some amazing Pacific Islander authors here: www.pacificislanderbooks.org

Happy May Day, fellow workers! a fiery writer-owned cooperative

Happy May Day from your friendly neighborhood anarchist! Remember the martyrs, and keep fighting like hell flaminghydra.com/r/a8869239?m...

We've got two #localauthor events coming up! @tahoeanime.bsky.social is signing copies of Stitched Tales on Saturday May 3rd, 2-4pm. We're also hanging out at Monday Night Poetry on Monday May 5th for Dani Putney's newest #poetry collection! Come support your #renonv authors!

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