Unmasking Family Secrets and Fierce Truths: Jackie Domenus’s Raw, Unfiltered Memoir Challenges Everything You Think You Know
I might have a vested interest in the sharing of coming-out stories like Jackie’s — I am also writing one — but unlike my nameless literary agent, I firmly believe that there can never be enough of them. Queer people come home to themselves in myriad ways, and what an honor it was for me to share in Jackie’s journey.
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Brian Watson’s essays on queerness and Japan have been published in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer series and TriQuarterly, among other places. An excerpt from Crying in Foreign Language, their memoir’s manuscript, was recently accepted by Stone Canoe for the September 2025 issue. They were named a finalist in the 2025 Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association’s Unpublished Book contest, and in the 2024 Iron Horse Literary Review long-form essay contest.
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