Awards

• Winner of Kindle Project Maker's Muse Award 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Kindle Project Maker’s Muse Award 2018 (United States)

Overview

APT TIMING: The Decriminalize Nature Movement has gained traction in major cities, resulting in a recent surge of public interest in the appropriate use and legalization of psilocybin mushrooms and other plant-based medicine. A TRAILBLAZING MEMOIR: With the lyricism of Charlotte Runcie's Salt On Your Tongue and in the way that Gabriela Wiener's Sexographies transformed how we think of the human body and mind, The Wild Kindness is a lyrical, unprecedented portrayal of psilocybin mushrooms as a source of personal healing and transformation. RESPECTED AUTHOR: Williams has published two books previously and her work has also been published by Lenny Letter, Out Magazine, and the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. BUILT-IN AUDIENCE: Williams and her partner, Beth Hill, produce a podcast called No Cures, Only Alchemy, for which they won the 2018 Kindle Foundation Maker's Muse Award. CONTEMPORARY THEMES: As a timely response to the current flood of New Age products in mainstream culture, Williams reminds us of the implications of race, cultural appropriation, and indigenous rights surrounding psilocybin mushrooms.

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An exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. -KIRKUS Like any good memoirist, Williams performs surgery on herself and holds up each organ for inspection...This is a book that requires you to go with the flow, but the flow is awfully inviting. -MOLLY YOUNG, Vulture Like a trip, the book builds and plateaus but never settles down...Williams can be brainy, funny, wounded, macho, nurturing, self-absorbed, reverent, and absurd...For the sake of all those newbies seeking psychedelic transformation out there, I almost hope she becomes a guru. But she'd hate it, and that's why she's awesome. -ERIK DAVIS, The Burning Shore Bett Williams is a renegade...this book is a useful tool. -THE ROGUE LITERARY SOCIETY The Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It's not only the subject matter, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William's voice is untamed and inspired, full of gonzo humor, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal, the political, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. -MICHELLE TEA, author of Valencia, Black Wave, Astro Baby, and more On the surface, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. -KRISTIN HERSH, singer-songwriter Bett's writing has brains, charisma, beauty and wit. -DENNIS COOPER, author of the George Miles cycle

An exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. -KIRKUS Bett's writing has brains, charisma, beauty and wit. -DENNIS COOPER, author of the George Miles cycle

An exuberant endorsement of the use of psychedelics as an instrument of self-discovery. -KIRKUS The Wild Kindness is absolutely electric. It's not only the subject matter, which is mystical and fascinating. Bett William's voice is untamed and inspired, full of gonzo humor, ambitious daring and high-vibrating heart. The personal, the political, the spiritual and the unknown come together into a mesmerizing read that is full-on literary fireworks. -MICHELLE TEA, author of Valencia, Black Wave, Astro Baby, and more On the surface, a book about mycology. Immediately beneath this, a safe trip facilitated by a guide who places herself between heaven and earth, between the fight for love and the fight itself; wholly engaged by both magic and the material plane. -KRISTIN HERSH, singer-songwriter Bett's writing has brains, charisma, beauty and wit. -DENNIS COOPER, author of the George Miles cycle

Author Information

BETT WILLIAMS is the author of The Wild Kindness; A Psilocybin Odyssey (Dottir Press, Fall 2020), a memoir about growing mushrooms in the high desert of New Mexico. Her novel,Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin's Press) was mentioned as one of the 10 Best Young Adult Queer Novels in Vogue magazine. Dennis Cooper said of her 2003 memoir,The Wrestling Party (Alyson Press), Fantastic. An absolute dream of a book. Bett Williams writing has brains, charisma beauty and wit. She was a featured speaker at Kai Wingo's 2015 Women and Entheogen's Conference and the Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference in 2018. She and her partner, Beth Hill, hostNo Cures, Only Alchemy, an event series and podcast centered around psychedelics and culture making. In 2018 they received the Kindle Project Maker's Muse Award. She has written for many publications, including DoubleBlind, OUT Magazine, Flaunt, Lucid News and Lenny Letter.

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