e.g. jönsson
July 2010: Been rather lax in sending things out, writing things down, but a new autumn is coming, which for me is the ”new year” of literature. One of my texts has appeared under ‘Prose Poetry’ in the very first issue of Spilling Ink Review. ‘Hair of the Dog’, a short short story, is available in print in issue 1 of new lit mag Fractured West.
November 2009: My poem ‘Nua Una’ was shortlisted for the Chroma International Queer Writing Competition.
October 2009: Will be reading at the Women’s Library in Glasgow on the 14th, 7 pm. Also, the new issue of Mslexia is out, which includes my short story ‘Just looking’. Read Patience Agbabi’s introductory essay here.
August 2009: 'Sic' was shortlisted for the Glasgow Student Short Story Prize and will appear in the anthology available from CompletelyNovel. 'Just Looking' will be published in the Idols-themed issue 43 of MsLexia.
May 2009: my piece in the Oulipo-flavoured concoction the Triangle project is up in the brand new Brown Williams Journal.
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e.g. Jönsson is a translingual, crossgeneric storyteller born outside Malmö, Sweden in 1981. Most of my adult life has been spent going back and forth between this country and Scotland, to the point where I am unsure as to which is ‘back’ and which ‘forward’.
Texts have appeared or are forthcoming in e.g. Mslexia, Brand, Brittle Star, The Packingtown Review and Litro.
A note on my name: online or offline, people have a habit of calling you whatever they are comfortable with calling you. Sometimes this is due to an old misunderstanding, inconsistency, lack of clarity on my part, or simply a preference on the part of the interlocutor. Thus, despite my best efforts, you will not always find my texts under the name e.g. Jönsson. Some of them are published under E.G. Jönsson, some Gabriella Jönsson, others again Gabriella Joensson, Gabriella Jonsson, Elna Gabriella Jönsson, and so on and so forth. Although I prefer to textually identify with the pleasing exempli gratia (i.e., e.g.), and to be personally addressed as Gabriella, I would by no means wish to make you uncomfortable by being a stickler for conventions. Please yourselves.
