PARTING GIFTS FOR LOSING CONTESTANTS

BY JESSICA MOONEY

Parting Gifts for Losing Contestants is in its 2nd printing!

100% of proceeds will go to Wa Na Wari. Located in Seattle’s Central District, Wa Na Wari “creates space for Black ownership, possibility, and belonging through art, historic preservation, and connection.”

Learn more about Wa Na Wari here: https://www.wanawari.org/.

The debut chapbook of nonfiction by Jessica Mooney, and the first chapbook in the COAST|noCOAST Chapbook Series is available for purchase.

Published Work

Chapbook

Parting Gifts for Losing Contestants, COAST|noCOAST, Fall 2019

RADIO

NPR affiliate KUOW’s “The Record”: A discussion with host Bill Radke on my essay, “During this Present Pandemic, We Are All Mourning the Future”, and what we are missing during this pandemic; featuring call-ins from Seattle listeners: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-do-you-replace-a-hug

Essays

“During this Present Pandemic, We Are All Mourning the Future”, Seattle Magazine, May 2020

“Hello, Goodbye”, City Arts Magazine

“High Elopement Risk”, Entropy

“Love is Love”, City Arts Magazine

“The Myth of Aubrey Lee”, 826 Seattle, What to Read in the Rain Anthology

Short Stories

“Close Encounters”, Moss

“Who I’ve Been on Airplanes”, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

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“Love Canal”, Seattle Review of Books

“Objects in Motion”, City Arts Magazine

Literary Criticism

“Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick”, a review of Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks

“Among the Ruins”, a review of Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This

Poetry

“Anatomy Lesson”, City Arts Magazine