Announcing: Prose. Poems. A Novel.

I am extremely excited to announce the release date of the next novel on Orange Alert Press. On October 20th we will be releasing the debut novel from Atlanta-based writer Jamie Iredell. Prose. Poems. A Novel. is exactly that, a collection of prose poems that come together to tell a compelling story. The novel also will feature full-color illustrations from the wonderful Christy Call.

Jamie Iredell was born in Carmel-by-the-sea, California, and grew up near Castroville. He moved to Reno, Nevada for his Bachelor’s and Master’s dregrees, and to Atlanta for his PhD. His writing has appeared in many magazines, among them The Chattahoochee Review, Keyhole, Zone 3, Descant, elimae, Lamination Colony, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and Weber: The Contemprary West.

You can pre-order your copy here for a special pre-order price of $12.

Here is a new excerpt:
The party was in Simonville, an apt name,
considering someone named Simon once
herded cattle over the land. Now exactly eight
trailers gathered make for a total of thirty-twoand-
a-half villagers. Randy gazed starward, into
the sky’s kaleidoscope. A burn barrel burned
our backs. “Dee Hernandez” and “cops”
drifted in from a pair of lips. Me and Dee
collided daily on a football field. The steroids—
and his ridiculous first name—made him grunt
and punch and scream at his teammates. He
was a cop target for the coke he pinched into
tiny sacks. Randy and me leapt over the fence
where my back met a mass of stinging nettle.
Dee wasn’t even at that party. I kicked down
the fence instead of clambering back over. We
continued drinking Crazy Horse.