D.K. McCutchen

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Glasgow WorldCon 2024 Programme Guide

 

READING: D.K. McCutchen (August 10, 2024)

 

D.K. McCUTCHEN's Speculative Fiction trilogy includes: JELLYFISHDREAMING, a Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize winner; ELECTRIC ICE (Aug 2024) winner of a Speculative Literature Foundation grant; & PLASTIC EATERS (forthcoming 2025). WHALE ROAD, creative nonfiction about sailing with whale researchers through the South Pacific was a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and Pushcart Nominee, published in NZ & the UK with an updateby JackLeg Press, US (2023). D.K. teaches writing for College of NaturalSciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is an Associate Director ofthe Junior Year Writing Program.'

 

PANEL: And Adults Will Shout "Save Us!" (August 9, 2024)

David Fenne (moderator), Kate Dylan, T. Kingfisher with D.K. McCutchen & Elisa A. Bonnin (virtual)

 

YA Literature: OK, we tried, but it's time to admit it - we messed up the world. YA literature often acts as the little boy who dared to cry out "The emperorhas no clothes!" But should literary youth also be tasked with saving the world we've created? Do non-literary youth even want to, or could we stop them if we tried? Some teenagers sneak out to save the world while others "just" save their parents and loved ones. Is this trope empoweringor another form of unrealistic escapism? All this and more in this panel for the generations.

 

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ELECTRIC ICE

 Jack, a 200-year-old intersex street kid, has lived countless lives, and he remembers them all. He remembers our world and the massive tidal wave that erased it and everyone he knew. He's been ridden by the trickster god Coyote across the country. He's seen a world blanketed in never-ending ice, and he's witnessed the Great Garbage Ocean spew plastic and jellyfish onto its shores.

Yet Jack also remembers love. As he grapples with the curse of survival while humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, he remembers the found family he connected with when trekking across frozen lakes and over roaring waterfalls to reach the salt sea. He remembers the university researchers, Charlie and Leo, who loved him and the town's other orphans as much as they did each other. And he tells these memories to Joon, his great love – another ageless "Warehouse kid" whose identity is as unique and undefinable as Jack's.

A post-apocalyptic, post-gender series, JELLYFISH DREAMING and its prequel, ELECTRIC ICE, pulse with plot twists, fierce determination, and unrelenting hope, navigating our own unrecognizable world with messages of love and survival in all its forms.

-- Common Press Books, London

 

 

 

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• NIGHT ROLL 

• MAMMALS I THINK WE ARE CALLED 

• JELLYFISH DREAMING 

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University of Massachusetts Amherst, Science & Engineering Library (Lederle Lowrise)
WEDNESDAY MARCH 27. 2024, 6-7:30pm

"Whales, Candy, Insects & Jellyfish: Three Writers Speculating on Environmental
Crisis"

 

"A Video of readings by 3 writers, including UMass CNS faculty member DK McCutchen's speculative fiction trilogy, "Jellyfish Dreaming", "Electric Ice" and "The Plastic Eaters" will read with the underlying purposes to create community and conversation around the themes of environmental crisis explored in their writing. Local author and artist Kirsten Mosher, "Please Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz"  and poet Cindy Snow, "Small Ceremonies" will read highlights from their own speculative works on the theme of environmental crisis, expanding the conversation beyond the walls of UMass to the greater community" .-- Introduced by Librarian IRENE TOURNAS