Montez Press March News

Pre-order the Stacy Skolnik’s debut novel The Ginny Suite 

Stacy Skolnik, co-founder and co-director of Montez Press Radio, affixes her recognisable voice to the page with debut novel The Ginny Suite – upcoming for May [removed];

The Ginny Suite is a perfect hell of a book: a gossipy stylish mystery that’s both petty and profound. I love how its paranoias and insecurities tip lushly into plot: is the lyric condition of poetry a pathology? Is dissociation a radical response to the lived conditions of patriarchy, or is it patriarchy hacking your brain into submission? What if, instead of self-diagnosing through google, your search history was used to diagnose you, and form the basis of covert treatment? Anyone who’s ever suffered the malady of writing poems will recognise The Ginny Suite’s inability to stop picking these scabs. Its prose moves seamlessly from the lush to the blunt, awash with glitching pronouns, horny ennui, sci-fi intrigue and tender girlish digital fantasies—like if the author of Malina had a dormant Neopets account. I adored it.
— Daisy Lafarge, author of Lovebug

Stacy Skolnik is the author of the poetry collection [removed] (2019), the chapbook Sparrows (2023), the workbook From the Punitive to the Ludic: Prompts for Writing Public Apologies (with Thomas Laprade, 2022), and the chapbook Rat Park (with Katie Della-Valle, 2018). 

→ Pre-order your copy of The Ginny Suite here
→ Read an excerpt from The Ginny Suite here

March Interjection: An Email From Sunday, Describing Saturday by Oisín Roberts

Oisín Roberts is a writer and artist from Derry, Ireland and living in London. His writing often recounts experiences in a literal, vernacular or epistolary way to get at something larger. He has read all over, incl. the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, AMP Gallery, San Mei Gallery, The Ivy House, Biblioteka library and on the air (Montez Press Radio and No Bounds FM). He set up and runs Think Big, Read Community Library, a lending library in Peckham, South East London.

→ Read Oisín’s writing here

Book Launch: Friday 22nd March at Reference Point, London

Join Montez Press in the launch of The Interjection Calendar 009 in London at Reference Point, 22nd of March at 7pm with live performances by Hasti, Kasra Jalilipour, Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Aliaskar Abarkas.

Is it hot? Does it look good? Are you proud to serve it? The writers and artists featured in this Calendar work and live at intersections of all kinds—geographies, practices, genders, cultures, canons, interests, specialisms—imagine the overlap in the venn diagram where cunty al-Khwarizmi stands louchely at the bar with Omar Khayyam in a latex dress, necking neon cocktails made with Smirnoff Ice as a mixer, and Rostam in Tom of Finland leather watching from the [removed];  

– From the Editor’s Note by Hasti 

→  Grab your tickets here

Meet our new Assistant Editor, Elida Silvey.

Elida Silvey is a Mexican-American poet, writer and editor living in London, UK. Her self-published zines Home in Limbo, Southwest and Nothings explore cinematic poetry centered around those closest to her as an exploration of the effects desire, language and memory have on identity. She is currently the Poetry Editor at Sunstroke Magazine where she occasionally writes, writer for Hard of Hearing Magazine and a part of the Gobjaw Poetry Collective and the second iteration of Un Nuevo [removed];

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