Writing

The Birdwisher, Birds of Lace Press, December, 2009

The Vicious Red Relic, Love, Jaded Ibis Press, August 2011

The Vicious Red Relic, Love [The Forests]: A Companion To The Memoir, Jaded Ibis Press, February, 2013

“The Blackbird II,” “The Crow,” and “The Swan II,” (From Thieves with Tiny Eyes, novel in progress) LTTR 4 Do You Wish To Direct Me?), edited by Ulrike Mueller, K8 Hardy, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and Emily Roysdon, Printed Matter, Inc., fall 2005. (43-45).

“Kathy Acker’s Mystickle Snail and Bone Pedagogy; or, My Cannibble Entreaty Dear,” Encyclopedia, edited by Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, spring 2006. (10-13).

“The Forest of Clashing Erotics,” (from novel in progress, The Vicious Red Relic, Love, C.1 page 107), Sidebrow digital journal, winter 2006. http://www.sidebrow.net/

“The Forest of Clashing Erotics,” (from novel in progress, The Vicious Red Relic, Love), C.1. page 107, Sidebrow 1 2008 Anthology, October 2008. (24). (print, perfect bound version of above)

“My Pride and Broken Buzzers,” Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry, Ed. Tara Perkins, Seal Press, winter 2007. (264-276).

Excerpts from The Vicious Red Relic, Love, from Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing #18, “Utopia Means Nowhere,” Ed. Peggy Munson, winter, 2007. http://www.suspectthoughtspress.com/springer.htm

“Forests,” “Goddess,” and “Inanna”, (solicited excerpts from The Vicious Red Relic, LoveEncyclopedia F-K, edited by Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, fall 2008. (139-144)

“Pneumonic Devices” ArtXX: Women in Art, Issue 1, edited by Francesca Austin Ochoa, fall 2008.

“The Mafia Man in Two Voices” [out of nothing] electronic magazine, Winter 2009, ed. Janice Lee, Eric Lindley, and Joe Milazzo. http://www.outofnothing.org/509/

“Metamorphabulous”, introduction to The Evolutionary Revolution by Lily Hoang, Les Figues Press, 2010. (vii-xiv)

“Slime Mold as Power Animal” Facilitate This ed. EE Miller, Fall 2010. http://www.nonsitecollective.org/system/files/The Slime Mold as Power Animal.pdf

“The Seagull,” “The Vulture,” “The Lark,” “The Albatross,” and “The Peacock.” (From Thieves with Tiny Eyes, novel in progress Thieves With Tiny Eyes) Joyland, edited by Matt Timmons (July, 2011). http://www.joylandmagazine.com/stories/los_angeles/thieves_tiny_eyes_excerpt

“Variations on a Theme: The Ruling Class Rules for Realism,” Eleven Eleven 12 Winter 2012. http://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/2012/01/25/anna-springer/

“Thieves Rebus” NAP 2.9, Ed. by Janey Smith, Aug, 2012. (29-31)

“The Forest of Despots’ Daughters,” a rebus. Pank (LGBTQ Issue), Guest edited by Tim Jones-Yelvington (Fall 2012). http://www.pankmagazine.com/the-forest-of-despots/

“Identity as Encounter: I as Thou in Discontinuous Memoir,” essay. Bombay Gin Literary Magazine 39.1, February 2013. (54-62)

“CONNIE SAMARAS: ORACLE APOSTATE” for the artist book Tales of Tomorrow for survey show at The Armory in Pasadena (Armory Press, Pasadena, May 2013. DAP, NYC, Distributor). (77)

“Diagetic” No More Potlucks 32: Perform, Edited by Mél Hogan & M-C MacPhee, Winter, 2014. http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/diagetic-an-excerpt-from-art-in-heaven-anna-joy-springer/

“Even if it’s Bad: Eileen Myles and Anna Joy Springer In Conversation,” No More Potlucks 34: Failure, edited by Mél Hogan & M-C MacPhee, Spring 2014. http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/even-if-its-bad-eileen-myles-and-anna-joy-springer-in-conversation/

“On Trigger Warnings,” Entropy with CAConrad, Jos A. Charles, Sarah Schulman, Aishah Sahidah Simmons, moderated by Megan Milks, April, 2014. “Part I: In the Creative Writing Classroom” http://entropymag.org/on-trigger-warnings-part-i-in-the-creative-writing-classroom/; “Part II: Generational Tensions” http://entropymag.org/on-trigger-warnings-part-ii-generational-tensions/; “Part III: Disability and Accommodation” http://entropymag.org/on-trigger-warnings-part-iii-disability-and-accommodation/

 “Variations On A [Fucked] Theme: The Ruling-Class Rules For Realism,” The &Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, edited Megan Milks, &NOW Books, an imprint of Lake Forest College Press, March, 2015. (82-86)

Thieves Rebus (Paintings 1-4), Encyclopedia Volume 3 (L-Z) edited by Tisa Bryant and Miranda Mellis, forthcoming, 2016. http://encyclopediaproject.net/

“Windows Let In Light” (Excerpt from Art in Heaven) Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature 8, Ed. Ellen Redbird, Pyriform Press, Fall 2015. (78-83)

“If I Touch It” On The Volta In Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal Of Poetics (The Force Of What’s Possible—Issue 48, December 2014), edited by Lily Hoang and Joshua Marie Wilkinson. http://www.thevolta.org/ewc47-jmwilkinson-intro-p1.html   http://Www.Thevolta.Org/Ewc48-Ajspringer-P1.Html

“Church Camp Romance, Age 14” (excerpt). The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought Special Issue: Graphic Works. Spring, 2015. Edited by Brooke Wonders. http://theaccountmagazine.com/?article=church-camp-romance-age-14

“Cops and Fathers” from Art in Heaven in Fourteen Hills, Vol. 21.2, 2015 (San Francisco State University Press) (168-170) http://14hills.net/content/volume-212-2015

“Art in Heaven,” (excerpt) Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy, edited by Damien Luxe, Heather Maria Acs, and Sabina Ibarola Publication Studio, Winter 2015. (296-300)

“Blood Origins of the Miniature Outer Space Theater Re-Enactment Experiment” (excerpt from Art in Heaven). Yes Femmes chapbook for “Yes Femmes” reading, AWP Los Angeles Offsite Event at Human Resources Gallery, Birds of Lace Press and Institute for Flying, April 2016. (19-22)

“Magic and the Intellect: Four Writers Discuss The Stakes of Magic in Literature Today,” Co-authored with Lucy Corin, Kate Berneheimer and Rikki DuCornet, edited by Lucy Corin. The Writer’s Chronicle: May/Summer 2016. (59-70)

Excerpts from The Vicious Red Relic, Love in HERE + NOW: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Other Hybrid Writings as Contemporary Art, solicited and edited by Steve Tomasula. Excepted chapters are “The Forest of Mandatory Innocence,” “The Forest of Peril That’s Real,” “The Forest of Good Bad Intentions,” “The Not Fake Parallel Forest,” and “No Escape Hatch in the Forest.” (forthcoming, The University of Alabama Press, Winter 2018.) 

“Dazzle The Sky,” in Portland Review. (forthcoming, Portland State University, Spring 2018).