Collections
Creature Needs: Wrtiers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, University of Minnesota Press, co-edited by Christopher Kondrich and Susan Tacent, and Dr. Lucy Spelman www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creature-needs
WRITING CONSERVATION: A Book-Based Interactive Installation
Compiled by Susan Tacent, Creature Conserve Writer-in-Residence & Lisa Kahn Schnell, Creature Conserve Mentorship Program
Writing Conservation developed out of a desire to gather writing that raises questions, poses solutions, mourns and celebrates the world nonhuman animals share with human animals. The writings compiled here are not an endpoint, but a starting point for further conversation around conservation. They are a work in progress and may always be so, as our understanding of what conservation means and how we can be active in conservation must keep evolving.
Fiction
Bastion, Solidarity- Rhode Island Stories of, zine, What Cheer Writers, March 2023 www.whatcheerclub.org/_files/ugd/461ecb_761a7c542eba434099dc93789ee4a32a.pdf
Shadow Love, Postnatural Ecologies, ed. Adira Andlay
We Haven't Been the Same Since the Butterflies Flew Away, Slice Magazine, May 2022 slicemagazine.org/we-havent-been-the-same-since-the-butterflies-flew-away-by-susan-tacent/
Clama a Dios, Reckoning Issue #6 January 2022 reckoning.press/clama-a-dios/
Habitat, Coolest American Stories 2022, January 11, 2022
Engaged, Cleaver www.cleavermagazine.com/engaged-by-susan-tacent/
The Other Side of the Fence, Tin House Online tinhouse.com/the-other-side-of-the-fence/
Sirens, Paragraph Planet
The Life of Cats, decomP www.decompmagazine.com/thelifeofcats.htm
Discriminate Affections, Michigan Quarterly Review quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx
Whoever Took Me Here Will Have to Take Me Back, DIAGRAM thediagram.com/13_2/tacent.html
Poke, Ontario Review
Long Spoons, Blackbird blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/fiction/nitida_s/spoons_page.shtml
Camel Slap, aka Long Spoons, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train
The Mayor of New York City, Newport Review
Death Will Be A Peaceful Room, Oasis
Poetry
Passing in the Night, Frequency Anthology #3, forthcoming
On First Listening to Joseph Brodsky Read, The MacGuffin
Laundromat, Amherst Review
Nonfiction
Runnning Water, Mom Egg Review, momeggreview.com/latest-issue/
In a Small State of Poetry: Random acts of poetry help make sense of the senseless, Providence Journal www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/07/17/in-small-state-of-poetry-random-acts-of-poetry-help-make-sense-of-senseless/42494889/
TRI-X Providence, Missing Providence: An Anthology
Sigmund Freud and the Case of the Underground Man, Dostoevsky Studies
Like the Sound of His Own Voice: Gender, Audition, and Echo in Alastor, Keats-Shelley Journal
Even As We Speak: Women's Voice and the Myth of Echo, Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts
Interviews
Urgency and Momentum: An Interview with Charles Baxter, Tin House Open Bar tinhouse.com/urgency-and-momentum-an-interview-with-charles-baxter/
Love is What's Needed: Justine Bevilacqua on Growing the Arts and Social Justice in Providence, Philanthropy Women philanthropywomen.org/author/sustac/
Book Reviews
Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-theres-something-i-want-you-to-do/
Ann Hood, editor, Providence Noir, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-providence-noir/
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-lincoln-in-the-bardo/
Maria Terrone, At Home in the New World: Essays, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-hutling-in-the-same-direction-at-home-in-the-new-world/
Readings
A Tooth Fairy Tale, nonfiction for Stranger Stories' first anniversary on May 30, 2019, AS220, Providence RI
Honored to be featured with creatureconserve.com/ in Poets&Writers' July-August 2021 News Trends section www.pw.org/content/conservation_stories
Pictured below: My beloved fifth grade Expressional Writing notebook!
Creature Needs: Wrtiers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, University of Minnesota Press, co-edited by Christopher Kondrich and Susan Tacent, and Dr. Lucy Spelman www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creature-needs
WRITING CONSERVATION: A Book-Based Interactive Installation
Compiled by Susan Tacent, Creature Conserve Writer-in-Residence & Lisa Kahn Schnell, Creature Conserve Mentorship Program
Writing Conservation developed out of a desire to gather writing that raises questions, poses solutions, mourns and celebrates the world nonhuman animals share with human animals. The writings compiled here are not an endpoint, but a starting point for further conversation around conservation. They are a work in progress and may always be so, as our understanding of what conservation means and how we can be active in conservation must keep evolving.
Fiction
Bastion, Solidarity- Rhode Island Stories of, zine, What Cheer Writers, March 2023 www.whatcheerclub.org/_files/ugd/461ecb_761a7c542eba434099dc93789ee4a32a.pdf
Shadow Love, Postnatural Ecologies, ed. Adira Andlay
We Haven't Been the Same Since the Butterflies Flew Away, Slice Magazine, May 2022 slicemagazine.org/we-havent-been-the-same-since-the-butterflies-flew-away-by-susan-tacent/
Clama a Dios, Reckoning Issue #6 January 2022 reckoning.press/clama-a-dios/
Habitat, Coolest American Stories 2022, January 11, 2022
Engaged, Cleaver www.cleavermagazine.com/engaged-by-susan-tacent/
The Other Side of the Fence, Tin House Online tinhouse.com/the-other-side-of-the-fence/
Sirens, Paragraph Planet
The Life of Cats, decomP www.decompmagazine.com/thelifeofcats.htm
Discriminate Affections, Michigan Quarterly Review quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx
Whoever Took Me Here Will Have to Take Me Back, DIAGRAM thediagram.com/13_2/tacent.html
Poke, Ontario Review
Long Spoons, Blackbird blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/fiction/nitida_s/spoons_page.shtml
Camel Slap, aka Long Spoons, Finalist, Very Short Fiction Contest, Glimmer Train
The Mayor of New York City, Newport Review
Death Will Be A Peaceful Room, Oasis
Poetry
Passing in the Night, Frequency Anthology #3, forthcoming
On First Listening to Joseph Brodsky Read, The MacGuffin
Laundromat, Amherst Review
Nonfiction
Runnning Water, Mom Egg Review, momeggreview.com/latest-issue/
In a Small State of Poetry: Random acts of poetry help make sense of the senseless, Providence Journal www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/07/17/in-small-state-of-poetry-random-acts-of-poetry-help-make-sense-of-senseless/42494889/
TRI-X Providence, Missing Providence: An Anthology
Sigmund Freud and the Case of the Underground Man, Dostoevsky Studies
Like the Sound of His Own Voice: Gender, Audition, and Echo in Alastor, Keats-Shelley Journal
Even As We Speak: Women's Voice and the Myth of Echo, Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts
Interviews
Urgency and Momentum: An Interview with Charles Baxter, Tin House Open Bar tinhouse.com/urgency-and-momentum-an-interview-with-charles-baxter/
Love is What's Needed: Justine Bevilacqua on Growing the Arts and Social Justice in Providence, Philanthropy Women philanthropywomen.org/author/sustac/
Book Reviews
Charles Baxter, There's Something I Want You to Do, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-theres-something-i-want-you-to-do/
Ann Hood, editor, Providence Noir, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-providence-noir/
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-lincoln-in-the-bardo/
Maria Terrone, At Home in the New World: Essays, The Common online www.thecommononline.org/review-hutling-in-the-same-direction-at-home-in-the-new-world/
Readings
A Tooth Fairy Tale, nonfiction for Stranger Stories' first anniversary on May 30, 2019, AS220, Providence RI
Honored to be featured with creatureconserve.com/ in Poets&Writers' July-August 2021 News Trends section www.pw.org/content/conservation_stories
Pictured below: My beloved fifth grade Expressional Writing notebook!
