Archive for November, 2008
Fictionaut Tayari Jones is one of the writers to win a 2008 United States Artist Fellowship, along with Jeff Chang, Joy Harjo, and Barry Hannah. Tayari’s first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming-of-age story that centers on the Atlanta child murders of 1979–81 and won the 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, The Untelling, traces the legacy of a fatal accident that haunts a family. Read more.
Mad to Live, Randall Brown’s (very) short fiction collection, has won the Flume Press Fiction Prize. Read more…
In other news, Fictionaut now has its own Facebook page. Stop by if that’s your kind of thing!
“I’m in love with Pia Ehrhardt’s ‘Baby Hater.’ I think it’s a perfect story because it fulfills the purpose of the best kind of fiction–it helps you to understand the drama of other people’s lives. On a personal level, ‘Baby Hater’ clarified a comment my mother made many years ago: she said she hadn’t slept well since the day I was born.”
A former science journalist living in Jerusalem, Tania Hershman has been named named the European regional winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s short story competition. Her debut collection The White Road and Other Stories has been praised for its “unique combination of narrative extravagance and human intimacy” by Melvin Jules Bukiet.
We’ve expanded the Fictionaut blog and added a few bells & whistles: you can now follow Fictionaut news via RSS feed, and you can leave comments. Also, the blog is now publicly visible — you don’t have to be logged in to see it, so tell all your friends to stop by!
- Congratulations to Tayari Jones for winning a 2008 United States Artist Grant!
- Elizabeth Crane’s short story Ad aired on NPR’s radio show Selected Shorts. You can download the podcast.
- Kyle Minor’s debut collection In the Devil’s Territory is now available from Dzanc Books.
On the eve of the election, we asked Richard Nash, publisher of Softskull Press, to pick a favorite piece on Fictionaut. Without much hesitation, he cast his ballot for Laurel Snyder’s poem The Poor Little: “I know it is because I’m a new father, and everything hurts and is joyful, all at once, like my [...]
“Sign me up as a member of the Keith Lee Morris fan club. His characters are as real, fallible, and surprising as anyone I’ve ever met, and his novel has all the textures of real life: precarious, tender, and utterly engrossing.” That’s Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners, on Fictionaut Keith Lee Morris’s new [...]
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