About
Shelley Marlow’s new Belladonna* all-gender, all genre, Lesbian All Stars chaplet, Halloween in Edinburgh from their new manuscript, The Wind Blew Through Like A Chorus Of Ghosts. Marlow is the author of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row, a novel, Publication Studio, Portland (2015), plus art editions, Hudson and London(2017). Marlow received an Acker Award in avant-garde writing. Multigenerational readers performed scenes from Two Augusts In a Row In a Row at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, NYC; The London Centre for Book Arts; and The Tender Center, Rotterdam. Marlow served as the prose editor of Ping Pong Magazine out of the Henry Miller Library. Marlow ran a writing workshop at Arts In the Woods, a summer camp for unhoused young LGBTQI adults. Marlow wrote the lyrics to an operatic musical, Unknot Turandot, performed at La Mama. Marlow’s International Witch Stories, with Oreste was presented in the Italian Pavilion for the 48th Venice Biennial. Marlow’s writing and art appear in: Resist Much/Obey Little; Evergreen Review; Hyperallergic; The KGB Bar Lit Mag; Brooklyn Rail; Altered Bodies; Rilking; LTTR (Lesbians To The Rescue); alLuPiNiT; St. Petersburg Review; Zingmagazine; Girlfriends Magazine.
Featured Work
Two Augusts In a Row In a Row
pull quotes from reviews:
"It’s a utopian book, even in the middle of dread climes and dire events, and it’s a book in which “magick” works in oracular turns over old-fashioned realism and psychology. Two Augusts in a Row in a Row is a love letter, between genres as well: it’s a bildungsroman, an anecdotal history of both performance art and recent pathways of gender subversion, it’s travel writing, … commedia dell’arte, epic poetry, postmodernism, etiquette guide, closet drama, reportage. And it has that strangely old-fashioned thing—charm, a spell.” ~ Kevin Killian, Bomb Magazine
Marlow “writes with a fluid quality that pulls the reader through... twining the workaday and the trippy together. Marlow makes a strong case for love in the face of all as the truest magic this life has to offer.” Heather Seggell, Lambda Literary
"As a genderqueer reader who has never before experienced this kind of raw validation in fiction, I daresay it’s groundbreaking...It’s casual magic. It’s truth.” ~ Spencer Shannon, WBUR
Marlow received an Acker Award in avant-garde writing for Two Augusts In a Row In a Row. Quotes about Two Augusts In a Row In a Row:
Other Works
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Halloween In Edinburgh(chaplet from The Wind Blew Through Like A Chorus of Ghosts)
2022
Awards and Recognition
- Acker Award for Excellence in Avant-Garde Writing, 2017.
Press and Media Mentions
- Kevin Killian review of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row.
- Spencer Incasiano reviews on WBUR.org of Two Augusts In a Row In a Row
- A Moth Can't Be Held Onto: Vulnerability and Witchcraft in Shelley Marlow's Two Augusts In a Row In a Row Review by Jenny Montgomery Cutbank The Literary Journal of the University of Montana
- Heather Seggel reviews‘Two Augusts in a Row in a Row’ by Shelley Marlow Lambda Literary
- Yael van der Wouden review of Two Augusts in a Row in a Row by Shelley Marlow on Read Wildness
- featured inclusion on Drag King website
