The New Wei is many things: a Collective of Independent Authors & Artists; a Literary Arts Movement advocating Diverse, Provocative, Subversive and Significant Authors & Artists; a Salon; and a Publishing Company.


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The New Wei Collective of Independent Authors & Artists consists of the following 15 Members:


External link opens in new tab or windowTejas Desai External link opens in new tab or windowVegas K. Jarrow aka Vijay R. Nathan External link opens in new tab or windowKacper Jarecki External link opens in new tab or windowM. C. Allison External link opens in new tab or windowWillam J. McGee External link opens in new tab or windowChris Stylez External link opens in new tab or windowW. Lance Hunt External link opens in new tab or windowAnnette O. Brown External link opens in new tab or windowIshy Christine Degyansky External link opens in new tab or windowLorraine Schein External link opens in new tab or windowCharlie Boatner External link opens in new tab or windowLancelot Schaubert External link opens in new tab or windowLynley Shimat External link opens in new tab or windowOlena Jennings External link opens in new tab or windowRachel Sun Endoso


The New Wei Collective replaced The New Wei Salon that met from March 2023 to December 2024. The goal of the Salon was to bring together authors and artists from different scenes to learn from one another and foster collaborations: External link opens in new tab or windowSalon FB Page

 

Follow External link opens in new tab or windowThe New Wei blog, External link opens in new tab or windowThe New Wei Wordpress, External link opens in new tab or windowThe New Wei YouTube page, External link opens in new tab or windowThe New Wei Facebook page, External link opens in new tab or windowThe New Wei Substack or Tejas Desai's primary External link opens in new tab or windowFacebook page 


Tejas Desai is also writing feature articles on dynamic, visionary artists in NYC. Here are our first two features:

"External link opens in new tab or windowThe Light Side of the Moon: Scarlett Taylor's Veil"

"External link opens in new tab or windowCassidy's Circus: Confessions and the NYC Underground Literary Scene"


The New Wei Literary Movement was founded by Tejas Desai in External link opens in new tab or window2012 to promote provocative, dynamic and significant narrative artists. Authors who push the envelope and transmit new ideas and perspectives, whose work reflects their life philosophies and dynamic personalities. Writers who challenge and engage readers with brutal truths and provocative thought, moving the boundaries of literature in the process. Artists who are possessed.


These narrative artists can write traditional novels, stories, plays and screenplays, or they can create and disseminate their works through unconventional methods and forms: self-publishing, blogging, social media posts, zines etc.


The New Wei is also branching out to promote and support provocative artists in other forms, including film, visual art, dance and music.


Like previous "new waves" and art movements of the past (Sturm und Drung, Romanticism etc.) The New Wei will take time to foment a renaissance and influence the cultural scene, but we are determined to help usher in a more dynamic era of literature and art, reflecting the Turbulent Twenties and beyond.



Some of the other authors The New Wei recognizes are speculative religious novelist External link opens in new tab or windowAllan Avidano, prolific blogger External link opens in new tab or windowBrienne Walsh, grotesque feminist subversives External link opens in new tab or windowDylan Krieger and External link opens in new tab or windowJoanna C. Valente, provocative gay authors External link opens in new tab or windowBrontez Purnell and the late External link opens in new tab or windowAnthony Veasna So, literary terrorist External link opens in new tab or windowJay Sizemore, Indo-Guyanese queer pundit External link opens in new tab or windowRajiv Mohabir, and the late comic novelist External link opens in new tab or windowRichard Livsey. These authors aren't necessarily associated with The New Wei, but they transmit a unique worldview within their respective literary forms.