writing: lena judith drake

Publications

A complete list of both forthcoming and current publications of Lena Judith Drake's writing, divided by genre. Some pieces are for adults only-- please use discretion when reading. For a list of interviews with Lena, please see the biography page.

Poetry

"Used Underwear Store" in Read & Destroy, 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"the ravines" in The Telling Story, issue 1, 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"I am certain" in The Telling Story, issue 1, 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"St. Ignace, MI" in Smash Cake, issue 1, Fall 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"Mold and Bark" in Kerouac's Dog Magazine, issue 4, July 2011. Available here.
"Biting Lightbulbs" in Kerouac's Dog Magazine, issue 4, July 2011. Available here.
"her chopped hair and the lighter" in Kerouac's Dog Magazine, issue 4, July 2011. Available here.
"The Pansexual Appetite VII" in Kerouac's Dog Magazine, issue 4, July 2011. Available here.
"character development" in Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2011, archived here.
"The Pansexual Appetite V" in Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2011, archived here.
"food and sex: yes and no" in Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2011, archived here.
"food and sex: kink" in Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2011, archived here.
"The Pansexual Appetite IV" in Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2011, archived here.
"veritas, or, contrary to popular opinion, you're not (in love with me)" in Amaranthine Muses, 3 April 2011.
"Yeast" in Deadlier Than Thou: 2010 Short, Fast, and Deadly Best-Of Anthology, Deadly Chaps, Feb. 2011, archived here. Available for purchase here.
"only your skin" in The Survivor Chronicles, Dec. 2010, archived here.
"Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize" in The Survivor Chronicles, Dec. 2010, archived here.
"Tuned in Fifths" in Kill Poet, issue 9, Nov. 2010, archived here.
"This wasn't her pain/story" in The Survivor Chronicles, 27 Oct. 2010, archived here.
"tiptoe on her body" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part A, Aug. 2010. Available here.
"Preparing" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part A, Aug. 2010. Available here.
"fourth of july cumshot" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part B, Aug. 2010. Available here.
"moving in" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part B, Aug. 2010. Available here.
"Yes yes" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part B, Aug. 2010. Available here.
"impermanence on my arm" in Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), issue 501, Aug. 2010, archived here.
A poem in Up the Staircase, issue 10, Aug. 2010, under a psuedonym.
"things i got" in From the Porch Swing: Memories of Our Grandparents, Silver Boomer Books, June 2010. Available here.
"phone sex operator" in Alien Sloth Sex Print Edition, issue 11. Available here.
"The first time I stop breathing" in Weirdyear, 7 May 2010, archived here.
"Subsist" in Weirdyear, 3 May 2010, archived here.
"Pronouns" in Daily Love, 2 May 2010, archived here.
"The Bus to New Orleans" in Gutter Eloquence, Road theme, issue 9, May 2010, archived here.
"Fire-eyes" in Daily Love, 29 Apr. 2010, archived here.
"inside, a few inches" in Bi Women, The (First) Youth Issue theme, vol. 28, number 2, Spring 2010, archived here.
"Kissing the Bearded Lady" in The Legendary, issue 16, 20 Apr. 2010, archived here.
"Visit" in The Legendary, issue 16, 20 Apr. 2010, archived here.
"Alan's Amen (The Hostel)" in The Legendary, issue 16, 20 Apr. 2010, archived here.
"Bourbon Street" in Through the 3rd Eye, Mar. 2010, archived here.
"we have jagged edges left" in Disingenuous Twaddle, issue 1, Mar. 2010, archived here.
"Dandelions" in This Zine Will Change Your Life, Feb. 2010, archived here.
"moving in" in Thirteen Myna Birds, Feb. 2010.
"my mother taught me" in Thirteen Myna Birds, Feb. 2010.
"President's Ball (I'll even close my eyes)" in Yellow Mama, issue 18, Feb. 2010, archived here.
"planning meals" in Through the 3rd Eye, Feb. 2010, archived here.
"Withdrawal symptoms" in Beggars and Cheeseburgers, Feb. 2010.
"october, 2008" in Beggars and Cheeseburgers, Feb. 2010.
"Not B.S." in Read & Destroy: UNI-VERSE, issue 4, Jan. 2010. Available here.
"Yeast" in Short, Fast, and Deadly, issue 4, Jan. 2010, archived here.
"Anointed" in With Painted Words, Dec. 2009, archived here.
"A non-love, non-fuck poem" in the thin edge of staring, Dec. 2009.
"bloodless new year's" in Word Riot, Dec. 2009, archived here.
"A Reading" in Word Riot, Dec. 2009, archived here.
"jealousy, pillowcase, your shrink face" in Yellow Mama, issue 17, Dec. 2009, archived here.
"I, asshole, was never this profound" in Breadcrumb Scabs, editor's poem, issue 12, Dec. 2009. Available here.
"inside, a few inches" in Alien Sloth Sex Presents Online Edition, Nov. 2009.
"summer vacation masturbation" in Calliope Nerve, Oct. 2009, archived here.
"Your fingers in my throat" in Calliope Nerve, Oct. 2009, archived here.
"why i liked T.C." in Calliope Nerve, Oct. 2009. archived here.
"Days Inn" in Calliope Nerve, Oct. 2009, archived here.
"washing clean" in Calliope Nerve, Oct. 2009, archived here.
"Angela (Pantoum)" in Lung, issue 2, Oct. 2009, archived here.
"Beginning" in The Houston Literary Review, Sept. 2009, archived here.
"Yes yes" in Gutter Eloquence, issue 5, Sept. 2009, archived here.
"Corporal woos his Volkswagen (Not his, he means, the lady belongs to herself)" in Gutter Eloquence, issue 5, Sept. 2009, archived here.
"This is how I came to" in lines written w/ a razor, July 2009.
"summer, 2005" in My Favorite Bullet, vol. 9, July 2009, archived here.
"Your sheets are dirty and pink but you see orange" in My Favorite Bullet, vol. 9, July 2009, archived here.
"weekly checkups" in Zygote in my Coffee, issue 119, 8 July 2009, archived here.
"Halloween, Kenny rents a warehouse" in Zygote in my Coffee, issue 119, 8 July 2009, archived here.
"est amère" in Mirror Dance, Summer 2009, archived here.
"i used to wear these clothes" in Clockwise Cat, issue 13, Mar. 2009, archived here.
"The Boy Scout and the Anarchist" in Waterlogged August, Mar. 2009, archived here.
"Self Portrait as a Tehuana" in Della Donna: A Webzine for Women, Winter 2009, archived here.
"An Etymology of Katrina" in Pemmican Press, Jan. 2009.
"The Holiday Inn" in Pemmican Press, Jan. 2009.
"Tab of stolen, or lost, in New Orleans:" in Pemmican Press, Jan. 2009.
"First Orgasm" in Pemmican Press, Jan. 2009.
"date it, staple it" in Pemmican Press, Jan. 2009.
"Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in Mademoiselle's Fingertips Print Edition, Jan. 2009. Available here.
"Fingernails" in Lo-Fidelity, 12 Dec. 2008, archived here.
"The little girl got a new party dress" in Drunk and Lonely Men, issue 3, Dec. 2008.
"your etc." in Nefarious Ballerina, issue 1, Winter 2008, archived here.
"Nourish My Tongue" in Halfway Down the Stairs, Bon Appetit theme, Sept. 2008, archived here.
"it was on the right side" in Mirrors Magazine, issue 1, Aug. 2008.
"Dried Up All the Rain" in Cerulean Rain, issue 2, Aug. 2008, archived here.
"natural birth control" in Scifaikuest Print Edition, issue 20, May 2008. Available here.
"he used to like the sun" in Scifaikuest Online Edition, vol. 5, number 4, May 2008.
"Fact and Figure" in Subterraneans: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Writing, vol. 1, number 2, Feb. 2007.
"necrosis" in Underground Voices, Jan. 2007 issue, archived here.
Phaeton: Churchill High School's Literary Arts Magazine. 2004-2007.

Prose

"Forever, scratched and chipping" in Moonshot, vol. 1, issue 1, Fall 2010. Available here.
"Forever, scratched and chipping" in The Fence, issue 10, Feb. 2010. Available here.
"Stains" in Sex and Murder, issue 2, Aug. 2009, archived here. Available for purchase here.
"She'll Wear the Dress He Gave Her" in Shipped First Class, Jan. 2009. Available here.
Phaeton: Churchill High School's Literary Arts Magazine. 2004-2007.

Nonfiction

A review of Ann Tweedy's Beleaguered Oases (reprint) in Untitled Country Review, issue 4, Winter 2011, archived here.
A review of Ann Tweedy's Beleaguered Oases in Bi Women, vol. 29, number 1, Winter 2011, archived here.
An article in The Bandit, issue 4, June 2010, under a psuedonym, archived here.
An article in The Bandit, issue 3, May 2010, under a psuedonym, archived here.
Sex and Relationships articles (70+) in Examiner.com, 2009-2010, archived here.
"Nobody's talking about McCain's pastor" entry discussed in New Orleans News Ladder, 1 June 2008, archived here.

Books

Editor. Breadcrumb Scabs: a poetry magazine. Available here.
Simply Dreaming. Albion, MI: Jose M. Oxholm printing press, 2004.

Performance Pieces

"inside, a few inches" in Beyond Words: Performing Gender, Grand Valley State University, Cook DeWitt Auditorium, 25 Mar. 2011.
"things i got" in Beyond Words: Performing Gender, Grand Valley State University, Cook DeWitt Auditorium, 25 Mar. 2011.
"The Boy Scout and the Anarchist" in Beyond Words: Performing Gender, Grand Valley State University, Cook DeWitt Auditorium, 25 Mar. 2011.
Sexuality storytelling workshop/reading ("inside, a few inches"), Grand Valley State University's The Vagina Monologues Vagina Activist Gathering, 5 Dec. 2010.
Poetry reading (3 pieces), Literary Life Bookstore, Breadcrumb Scabs Banned Books Week event, adults only, 30 Sept. 2010.
"Anybody Got a 9-Volt?" in The Interdimensional Buddy Wilson, season 1, episode 7. Hiatus.
"Working for the Man" in The Interdimensional Buddy Wilson, season 1, episode 6. Hiatus.
"The Wicker Man in Black" in The Interdimensional Buddy Wilson, season 1, episode 5. Hiatus.
"Buddy Rock" in The Interdimensional Buddy Wilson, season 1, episode 3, archived here.
"Six Liters of Water" in Collective Fallout, vol. 1, number 3, Jan. 2010. Excerpt here. Available here.
Poetry reading (3 pieces), The Meadows Grand Valley Hookah Lounge, 20 Apr. 2009.
"est amère". Student Reading Series' Short Story Contest, Grand Valley State University, 8 Nov. 2007.

Mixed Media / Visual

"Whitewash" in a Washington-area social issues 'zine, 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"Sick as Secrets" in a Washington-area social issues 'zine, 2011. FORTHCOMING.
"Body & Hole" in pocket smut, vol. 2, part A, Aug. 2010. Available here.

Awards

Poetry-- "Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize" read at the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers vigil, Las Vegas, NV, SWOP-USA, 17 Dec. 2010.
Poetry-- Awarded grant for The Edible Body: Food and Sex as Pleasure, Disorder, and Commodity. Grand Valley State University's Student Summer Scholars program. Spring/Summer 2010.
Performance Pieces-- First Place in the Drama division for "Six Liters of Water". Grand Valley State University's Oldenburg Writing Contest. 22 Apr. 2010.
Books-- Breadcrumb Scabs ranked among "25 Most Approachable Poetry Markets" at Duotrope's Digest. 2009.
Books-- Breadcrumb Scabs ranked among "25 Swiftest Poetry Markets" at Duotrope's Digest. 2009.
Poetry-- Second Place Reader's Choice Award for "out of focus". Phaeton. 2007.

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