DeWitt Henry has written a wonderful review of our first nonfiction publication, Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough's exquisite Objects of Affection.
Authors
excerpts from new and forthcoming titles, announcements about book tours, readings, and relevant links
07/18/2018
BAB author Catherine Gammon (Sorrow) has gotten some serious interest in her latest manuscript, Nightbirds in an Age of Light, a novel that explores the Salem witch trials.
06/24/2018
Tillman's collection had been picking up some very nice reviews lately, but here's a chance to catch Tillman himself discussing his connection to the short story form--and more--in his interview with Dan Wickett.
Street Talk
frank discussion by guest authors, editors, agents, and publishers who share insights into the literary life
Stacey Waite
06/20/2018
Braddock Avenue Books: Your book Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing came out this year. Was there a particular moment or set of moments that inspired you to write about queerness as pedagogy as opposed to your traditional platform of poetry?
Stacey Waite: My first love, even before poetry, was teaching. I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a teacher. My mother and step-father are two of the most dedicated teachers I have ever known. And the connections between teaching and writing have always felt inevitable to me. So the new book, while I guess it's a book of scholarship, also at times feels like a poem, or many poems.
Cameron Barnett
10/24/2017
Braddock Avenue Books: The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water is your first book. How long did you work on this collection before it won the 2017 Rising Writer Prize at Autumn House Press?
Cameron Barnett: I worked on the poems in the book during the three years of my MFA at the University of Pittsburgh between 2013 and 2016, with a couple of exceptions: the oldest poem in the collection, “Nigger,” is a revision of a piece I first wrote in 2008; the newest three, “Redwoods in the Hood,” “Muriatic,” and “Fresh Prince” were all written after I graduated. The title and concept of the book came well after most of these poems were written too—that is, I didn’t quite realize what I was writing toward for a couple years until some key conversations with peers and mentors. I made some tweaks to it a few months after graduation and began sending it out. That’s how it found a home with Autumn House Press.
Catherine Zobal Dent
06/03/2015
Braddock Avenue Books: Let’s start at the end. The final story in your collection, “Unfinished Stories of Girls,” is also the title of the entire collection. Why did you decide to use this title for the book and why did you decide to put that story last?
Zobal Dent: That last story is drawn from a novel I’m working on in which a daughter of Italian-American immigrants struggles with various accounts she’s been given of her family’s movement through time and space. This story, a narrative thread of the novel, draws from a folktale called Gatti sotto il mare, or “cats under the sea.” It’s this disturbing tale of good sister versus bad sister, and in the end, of course, the “good girl” wins and the “bad girl” loses.
The Best Small Fictions Editors 2018
Editors
Guest Editor: Aimee Bender
Series Editor: Sherrie Flick
Founding Series Editor: Tara Masih
Chauna Craig, Assistant Editor, Domestic
Michelle Elvy, Assistant Editor, International
The Best Small Fictions is the first contemporary anthology solely devoted to honoring the best short hybrid fiction published in a calendar year.
The series began in 2015, featuring seasoned and emerging writers. Flash, micro fiction, prose poetry, and haibun stories are just some examples of the hybrid forms honored. Tara L. Masih founded the annual series and serves as series editor; guest editors include Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Olen Butler (2015), PEN/Malamud Award winner and O. Henry Prize winner Stuart Dybek (2016), and Rea Award and PEN/Malamud Award winner Amy Hempel (2017).
