Wild Age Press

Yesterday, Sampsonia Way Magazine published a feature article and interview with Israel Centeno about his English language debut, Bamboo City.

Magazine writer Zach Tackett asks Israel some great questions, like: “Throughout the book, there are explicit moments of violence. Are you commenting on Venezuela or the violence there? Is this book political in any sense?”

They also discuss the hybrid nature of the text. Israel’s description of what exactly Bamboo City can be defined as is perfect, in my opinion: “But Bamboo City can’t be defined as a ‘short story’ or a ‘poem.’ It is more like a cocktail. … In a good cocktail, you can taste everything.”

You can read the full text of the article here: Bamboo City: A New Book by Venezuelan Writer Israel Centeno.

*Also to note: Some issues we were having with the online store have been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The Anything Goes Contest is now officially closed and we are knee-deep in piles of paper, reading, reading, reading! Well, we aren’t really knee-deep, because everything is electronic. But you get the picture (because we gave you a metaphor, albeit a lame one; sorry, we’ll do better next time, promise!).

This was the first contest we’ve ever run, so we’ve already learned a lot. We know that it’s the great writers who submit work to us who make us a great publisher, not the other way around, so one of our goals is to make sure we’re always improving our submission process and guidelines to make things easier for you. Hopefully when the Prescription Bottle Project comes around, the guidelines will be more streamlined from the beginning, eliminating confusion. Thanks for bearing with us!

For the next few weeks we’re going to work hard at getting responses out to everyone who submitted as quickly as possible. So if things seem a bit dead around here, it’s because we’re reading, reading, reading!