Readings & Reviews
SIMPLY PUT, there aren't enough books like Jillian Weise's The Colony. With its casual rejection of genre lines, bracingly contemporary voice, and a premise that's both extended metaphor and compelling narrative in its own right, The Colony is a refreshingly idiosyncratic debut.
-- Alison Hallett, The Portland Mercury
IN THE BEST NARRATIVE TRADITION, Weise entertains and involves us right up until her devastating final point is driven home. -- Karen Laws, The Rumpus
THE NOVEL is at times hilarious, though the story never unhinges itself from the vertiginous, troubling questions that give the book its drive and urgency. -- Ben Mirov, BOMBlog
WEISE IS INTERESTED IN BIG IDEAS: genetic ethics, self-esteem, slippery slopes [...] But mostly her world feels like ours, largely because she anchors her out-there ideas with very real emotions. -- Soyia Ellison, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A NOVEL AS DENSE & CREATIVE AS IT IS EFFORTLESS; a blend of the dystopian and the romantic, all served with a side of whimsical postmodernism. -- Karen Kipperton, Cool'eh Magazine
THE COLONY IS A NOVEL in which science can be literally miraculous. --Niall Harrison, Strange Horizons.
WHERE THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX was tightly enclosed, THE COLONY is expansive. Weise has made the leap from psychological realism to near-future (2015) science fiction. -- Kyle Minor, The Faster Times
READINGS // 2011
Feb 3 D.C., Happy Hour Reading at the Velvet Lounge
Feb 5 D.C., AWP Reading w/ UNCG Alumni
April 7-8 Fourth Annual Clemson Literary Festival
April 29 Southeastern Literary Magazine & Small Press Festival
Sept 4 Poetrio @ Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville
Nov 4-6 SAMLA: The Power of Poetry in the Modern World, Atlanta
REVIEWS FOR THE AMPUTEE'S GUIDE TO SEX
Publishers Weekly: [C]harged & daring ... an agile & powerful poet.
L.A. Times: ... an elegant examination of intimacy and disability ...
Small Spiral Notebook: Weise speaks not just for herself, or for her
'community' of fellow disabled people, but for all readers.
Galatea Resurrects: The Amputee's Guide to Sex is full of poetry
that is on fire.
INTERVIEWS
w/ Secret Agent Elizabeth on Bookslut.
w/ Dick Gordon for The Story on American Public Media.
w/ Robert Lee Brewer for Poetic Asides.
w/ Silenced Press.
