Christopher’s book review of Set in Stone, from author Kevin Carey, appears in The Brooklyn Rail.
Kevin Carey again flies ahead of the pack for a breakaway with a new collection of poems which are shot through with storytelling verve and vulnerability.
Now an app, inspired by the book project:
Follow on Instagram @cxshade and hashtag #shieldthejoyous.
Give yourself a reminder each morning to reflect on a new meditation.
These meditations are helpful and light-giving to everyone in today’s difficult times.
The origins of Today’s Meditation were to provide daily support for those with the disease of addiction among loved ones in their lives.
Today’s Meditation is a project of the book of poems Shield the Joyous.
Unless attributed otherwise, all text is composed and owned by Christopher X. Shade.
The Literary Review has published the poem “Dogs, Cincinnati” in the Granary issue, Vol.62 Issue 02.
12th Street Journal has published “Best Men” which is a short fictional story. It is available to read online.
Chaleur Magazine has published “Cathedral Square, Mobile, Alabama” which is a very short, fiction story. It is not available to read online at this time.
The American Journal of Poetry published the poem “Ambulance Rides” in Volume 6, January 1, 2019.
UPDATE: Since the pandemic, Christopher has taken a break from teaching.
Christopher teaches writing, both fiction and poetry, at The Writers Studio in the West Village, NYC. Christopher’s class is the Level 1 introduction to the Writers Studio method. Visit the class schedule on the Writers Studio website.
From the website: “All students new to The Writers Studio NYC start with Level I. Since we approach teaching with our own method and vocabulary, even experienced writers with publications and/or MFAs will find plenty that is new and challenging in Level I. Our short weekly exercises are designed to stimulate students’ imaginations while also teaching a lot of nuts-and-bolts narrative strategies. Students learn that a narrative voice is born out of conscious creation and is not merely the voice we use when speaking or keeping a journal. We encourage students to turn autobiographical fragments into publishable work by using different narrative personas to tell their story in fiction and poetry.”
Portland Review has published Christopher’s story, “Marseille Hunger.” The story is set in Marseille, France; similar in ways, in voice and themes, to Christopher’s novel, The Good Mother of Marseille (Paloma Press, 2019). But this story isn’t related to the novel, except by way of Marseille.
In 2017, Christopher X. Shade and Sylvie Bertrand co-founded the literary journal Cagibi, at cagibilit.com. The Cagibi journal’s quarterly issues feature stories, poems, personal narratives, works in translation, and visual art from around the world.
Cagibi also offers writing retreats.
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The Writers Studio Reading Series Presents:
Fiction and Poetry Readings By:
Of The Writers Studio Faculty and Master Class
Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 7 PM
KGB Bar & Lit Mag
85 E 4th St, New York, New York
Christopher X. Shade