Maya Jewell Zeller

My fall events calendar is shaping up to include readings in Spokane, Portland, Ellensburg, Coeur d’ Alene, and on Zoom; plus craft classes and talks on Zoom and in person via Write Wilmington and CWU! Come hang out with me and all these beautiful humans with whom I have the pleasure of sharing spaces and stages.

And stay tuned for a Winter and Spring Events calendar for 2027– including (free!) generative drop-in workshops via the Spokane public library and Western Colorado University, plus readings in Moscow (University of Idaho) and Chicago (AWP Writers Conference). And if you’re wishing I were coming to your town, let’s make it happen!

https://mayajewellzeller.substack.com/p/is-there-anything-sexier-than-a-trembling?r=650d7

Pre-order link is live for The Wonder of Mushrooms!

AND, I’ve published a second newsletter. Check it out and subscribe, over on Substack.

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Do you want to take a workshop with me, called “Telling Secrets” or “Crossover Artists”? If you do, come to Port Townsend this week, and we’ll write letters and compose CNF lists of aboutnesses together. You can also take workshops with lots of other PNW & national writers. . . and attend readings, and wander the cliffs above the sea.

http://centrum.org/writers-conference-schedule-afternoon-workshop-faculty/

I’M BEYOND THRILLED TO SHARE THAT YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER my forthcoming collaborative collection, Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts!

This book combines Carrie DeBacker’s visual art with my poems. Out in October from Entre Rios Books. We’d be pretty tickled to have you pre-order at the link above.

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IF YOU’D LIKE A PREVIEW of some of the poems in the collection, here’s one appearing in the June issue of Underblong, “little spell for kestrel hovering/ for x-ray & mothering”

& here is “Spell for Conjuring Order: Pleuronectiformes,” in What Rough Beast.

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OTHER NEWS:

Thanks to the following online journals for giving homes to some of my work!

“Tori Amos Nursing the Pig,” in The Shallow Ends

“Will You Tape a Big Zero to My Shirt?“, in Sidereal

“A Small Replica of History,” in Matter Monthly

& this hybrid nonfiction in Passages North: “Lower Columbia Watershed Haibun”

I do–but mine is now palpitating wildly because The Rumpus wanted to share my little heartbreak poem-letter to America with everyone. #dreamjournal #NationalPoetryMonth

Read the poem here, for The Rumpus National Poetry Month feature.

Also this past month, poems out in Lilac City Fairy Tales, Vol 3: Weird Sisters (Thanks Sharma Shields). Very happy to have work in this strange and vibrant collection alongside authors like Claire McQuerry, Ellen Welcker, & Laura Read.