Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. We publish one print issue per year and feature online content year-round. We are headquartered in Chicago and Durham, NC.
Readers for this event include:
Moni Garcia
Anne K. Yoder
Benjamin Niespodziany
Performers for this event include:
Twilight Furniture
Jacob Stovall
Wolf3000
Moni Garcia (they/them) is a lesbian Latine artist and poet from Illinois. They have been published in Foglifter Journal, NOTHING HERE IS CORRECT AND IT IS DELICIOUS (a zine of writing and art in dedication to the CW television network), ALOCASIA Magazine, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere. They call on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of Palestinian people every day.
Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel The Enhancers, which was called “ a new contemporary standout” among “great books in pharma culture” and featured as a must-read at Wired, Vulture, Nylon, and elsewhere. Her fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, The Believer, NY Tyrant, and Tin House, among other publications, and has been recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks and is a member of the Chicago-based publishing collective, Meekling Press. She writes, lives, and occasionally dispenses pharmaceuticals in Chicago.
Benjamin Niespodziany’s work has appeared in Bennington Review, Puerto del Sol, Conduit, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He released a book of poems in 2022 with Okay Donkey and a book of microfictions in 2023 with X-R-A-Y. You can find more at neonpajamas.com.
Twilight Furniture (Daniel James Burke) is equally influenced by atonal modern classical, the ambient music of Brian Eno, the piano style and minimalism of Harold Budd, the nuanced and free improvisation approach of AMM, the chamber pop of Burt Bacharach, and the industrial machinations of Throbbing Gristle, minimalists Reich and Glass, as well as jazz, rock, prog, & punk. Dan has been playing with projects in Chicago and experimenting with sound since the early 80’s as Illusion of Safety, releasing over 40 full length recordings and performing over 300 concerts worldwide. He is currently working in a rotating trio improv format with drummer Erik Sowa (+Jeb Bishop, Cory Bengtsen, and/or Jeffrey Goulet), recording & performing in a synthesizer context as Soundoferror, in an ambient project, Twilight Furniture, and in singer-songwriter mode as Daniel James Burke. He has collaborated in composition, live performance, or recorded with Jim O’Rourke, Darin Gray, Kevin Drumm, Jeb Bishop, Jon Mueller, & Olivia Block, et. al. Also in ensemble groups CHEER-ACCIDENT, Tertium Quid (w/Bill Horist & Dave Abramson), and Total Sound (w/Chris Block). He makes music videos as Finite Material Context.
Jacob Stovall is a writer and musician from Nashville, sort of. His work has been published in Sobotaka Lit, Juked, The Journal of American Language, Expat Lit, The Belmont Literary Journal, and other places. He is the author of the chapbook ""Republic of Gum"" and the host of Vow of Silence, a combination readings series and noise art showcase.
Wolf3000's Susan Wolf is a cello and violin player. She co-founded the improvisational music and dance group PICO (Pueblo Improvisers Community Orchestra) and performed with a number of musicians in the Chicago and Pueblo scenes over the past 30 years.
