Trigger Warnings Out, Author Copies Received
Thus, from the book’s introduction: As we worked on the book, sexual harassment, rape, and the brutalization of women continued to serially dominate the news cycle. Even though Trump himself remained immune to prosecution, other powerful men-many in the media industry-were fired or resigned in the face of the newly emergent #MeToo Movement’s revelations. Every time we sponsored public readings of contributions to this volume, audience members would approach us to say that they, too, had a story, and ask if we were we still accepting submissions. And listed by Amazon with a publication date of August 31 2013 (but still cited as “Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock”), the book is TRIGGER WARNINGS, Edited by Bloomington Writers Guild notables Joan Hawkins and Kalynn Huffman Brower (cf. October 28, below) who also have articles in the volume, it has finally appeared in physical form — at least here in Bloomington.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: WRITINGS ON NARROW ESCAPES FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT, to give its extended title, is a nearly entirely local production. Quoting again from the introduction: All but one of the pieces in this anthology were authored by writers who belong to The Writers Guild at Bloomington, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting written and spoken word in Bloomington, Indiana and its environs. The one exception, a sort of preface, is reprinted by request from a piece by London-based artist and filmmaker Ruth Novaczek. And so, at least at the Writers Guild’s business meeting today, several of us with work in the book received authors copies. Yes — it exists! A fairly slim volume at only about 110 pages, it should receive one or more official launches at local venues in the near future, so those who have not already received copies should keep eyes open for it.
While as for Amazon’s “supply chain” problems, these things sometimes happen, but in the meantime the book can be found on Goodreads by pressing here, where a quick check a moment ago indicated both Barnes & Noble and AbeBooks do have it.
