The Renegades — Projects

The fire begins here. Stories carried in the hand, stitched in spiral, rising in smoke. I wanted to begin not with just words, but with something you can hold. These are the first handmade zines of The Renegades project. Each one carries a story, a spiral, a myth rising from the Basin.

Renegade Shorts are stand-alone stories drawn from the fires of history and myth — brief but searing works that carry the same pulse as The Renegades project. Each piece distills survival, resistance, and memory into a single strike of prose. From The Ballad of Chetco Jennie — longlisted in the 2025 History Through Fiction contest — to other fragments of rebellion, these shorts are small in size but heavy with flame.

In the wake of a forgotten genocide, a modern father and son return to sacred Modoc land — where spirals carved in stone and soaked in silence echo a story of betrayal, survival, and the sacred burden of remembering the New American Gospel.

Myths & Poems carry the older voices — fragments of story, prophecy, and song reimagined for the present. These works move between verse and vision, drawing from the Basin’s creation stories, medicine wheel cycles, and the shadows of spirits like Amhuluk and Shining Shirt. Each poem is both incantation and remembrance, a way of keeping the fire alive in language.