https://www.dissonancepress.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-05-07 https://www.dissonancepress.com/mission daily 0.75 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1592777740621-1K7K6086LABXTBOP96R8/IMG_4212.jpg Mission - About Us Dissonance Press is a workspace and test platform for writing projects that subvert or repurpose how literature is made and read. By doing so, we hope to foster modes of writing that creatively respond to expectations, limitations, and exclusions of the literary machine. We seek work that actively challenges the perception of the author as solitary genius, in favor of work that stresses collaboration, serialization, and creation of shared narrative. We also produce works in overlooked genres, such as prayer books, photo albums, quilts, cookbooks and letters, that help uncover the ingenuity and brilliance of writers whose cultural, religious, economic, and social positions made it difficult or impossible to create work within traditional literary forms. https://www.dissonancepress.com/news daily 0.75 2019-05-22 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/2016/2/25/new-product-sneak-peek monthly 0.5 2019-05-07 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/category/books monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/category/queer+books monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/under+the+belly+of+the+beast monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/queer monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/books monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/dissonance+press monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/book monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/dissonance monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/anthology monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/press monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/news/tag/queer+books monthly 0.5 https://www.dissonancepress.com/staff daily 0.75 2021-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1592778058539-EHR835OB5MPSV436VR9V/pfphlogkfiealnle.jpg Staff Francisco Armenta Jr. Art and Media Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1557250138615-8VZY817S2ZAWK642N04D/12038451_10207862406986969_2328107094023636695_n.jpg Staff Cori Bratby-Rudd Director of Programs & Co-Founder contact@coribratbyrudd.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1615085576708-TBFPHYGNKU2NHN237CLG/download-1.jpg Staff Moncha Alvarado Editor, Eat Me Out and Editor-at-Large https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1557250005712-Y5RUJ9Z0WH77F91W3NBP/546711_123025784493985_1379948011_n.jpg Staff Ryka Aoki Executive Director rykaaoki@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1557250244327-3D9343XM03HJRF9KD4WW/10427250_872083832811669_3406824122245760314_n.jpg Staff Diana Gutierrez Director of Publicity and Community Outreach https://www.dissonancepress.com/meetings daily 0.75 2019-09-22 https://www.dissonancepress.com/under-the-belly-of-the-beast daily 0.75 2020-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1565398058274-T5PC7E3TFV019921DROO/image-asset.jpeg Under The Belly Of The Beast https://www.dissonancepress.com/fortune-express daily 0.75 2019-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1565397801806-24I3BYX4BTC276PMWJE9/image-asset.jpeg Fortune Express - Fortune Express In a city that never seems to stop driving, Fortune Express gives its readers a place to pull over, rest ones feet, and have a slice of life. In the late 1990’s. Japanese writers developed a genre called “Iyashikei.” Literally meaning “healing kind,” this genre slowed time down, contemplated, reveled in the significance of the small, even the mundane. Some think the genre responded to events like the Kobe earthquake, while others think it is simply a response to the Japanese culture of overwork. In any case, rather than plot, what drives iyashikei literature is feeling, experience, catharsis. While most short stories will focus on a conflict, the iyashikei might focus on the aftermath of the conflict, where the protagonist or antagonist might sit by a river with an ice cream cone, watch children play, and remember the name of a long-ago friend. Fortune Express brings this style of story to Los Angeles. We also have a culture that experiences so much fear and uncertainty we often overlook the basic and familiar. Fortune Express itself is an old food truck that shows up in a different part of the city every night. There’s nothing fancy, but there is always something on the menu a character needs to eat, though they may not yet know it. 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We are especially interested collaborative projects and works that subvert traditional publishing standards. Please email all queries to contact@coribratbyrudd.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1583628670972-MDN0FBH5MD2TS5TQMV2X/image-asset.jpeg Call for Submissions - Fast Food Review For this project’s first installment we are asking writers to go to a local fast food restaurant and write a complete, serious/earnest review (of the meal, service, dining establishment, etc). The review can be positive or negative or a combination of both! Sample articles/things to consider: Here is an earnest review of Olive Garden that went viral. https://www.grandforksherald.com/lifestyle/2350615-eatbeat-long-awaited-olive-garden-receives-warm-welcome https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marilyn-hagerty-olive-garden_n_1332753 Hopefully some folks will write a “positive” review: https://www.laweekly.com/jonathan-gold-reviews-baco-mercat/ Some negative reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/11/dining/restaurants-where-the-romantic-decor-is-the-draw.html https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/26/dining/restaurants-and-now-unmistakably-from-the-pacific-rim.html https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/27/dining/restaurants-the-way-we-ate-somewhat-souped-up.html Please email all submissions to contact@coribratbyrudd.com https://www.dissonancepress.com/under-the-belly-of-the-beast-1 daily 1.0 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1613433356431-N5DAYW4N6JCHSVJMO9V8/71GGxyYVeyL.jpg Under The Belly Of The Beast - UNDER THE BELLY OF THE BEAST Now Available at a Bookstore (or an iPhone) hear you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1592778058539-EHR835OB5MPSV436VR9V/pfphlogkfiealnle.jpg Under The Belly Of The Beast - For Review Copies or Interview Requests, please contact us! <—Francisco, our Art Director. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1613434389604-Q6CTIS3RF78E1YUTOJHD/71GGxyYVeyL.jpg Under The Belly Of The Beast - Now Available via Amazon. Or not via Amazon. Publisher : The After School Workspace (February 24, 2020) Language : English Paperback : 128 pages ISBN-10 : 0985110546 ISBN-13 : 978-0985110543 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd0e15b8dfc8c352d7ebb72/1613435377986-2KRI69ORJQEA73847WAE/image-asset.jpeg Under The Belly Of The Beast https://www.dissonancepress.com/eat-me-out-call-for-submissions daily 0.75 2022-01-28