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From the Crooked Timber
a novella & stories by Okla Elliott
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All the Roads that Lead From Home
Stories by Anne Leigh Parrish
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My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself
A Robin Miura Memoir Selection
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Your Path to Publication
A Guide to Navigating the World of Publishing
by Kim Wright
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Molly Flanagan & the Holy Ghost
A Robin Miura Novel Selection
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In mid-1950s Memphis, twelve-year-old Molly Flanagan struggles with double vision, family drama, piano lessons, and her own self-confidence, all while feeling pulled between the religious instruction of her Catholic godmother, Byrd, and her puritanical, Baptist grandmother, Willie. Read more...
“Make room by the campfire, William Gay and Dale Ray Phillips and Chris Offutt and Robert Olmstead. Mr. Elliott has stories to burn and homey truths to brood about.” — Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories
“This volume of profoundly weird stories is, we believe, an almost-perfect nexus of the literary and the genre. The stories it contains offer brilliant prose and unabashed plots. They are highly intelligent and compulsively readable. And they all celebrate ghosts and monsters. We really like ghosts and monsters. We’re betting that you do too.” -- Laura & Pinckney Benedict
“In her debut collection, Anne Leigh Parrish gives us eleven sharp stories that lay bare the human need for connection, forgiveness, new life. Her working-class characters blaze off the page.” — Jill Meyers, Editor of American Short Fiction
Kelly Kathleen Ferguson needed to know—was connecting with her lifelong heroine the key to knowing herself? She decided to find out.
Your Path to Publication will help you on the long and sometimes bewildering journey from writer to published author. Kim Wright shares insights from her own successful publishing journey.
Prime Number Magazine
Editors' Selections, Vol 1
edited by Clifford Garstang, Valerie Nieman, Tracy Crow
Poetry, Nonfiction & Fiction
9 x 6 paperback, 200 pages
Welcome, Anybody
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“The luminous, compelling stories of Welcome, Anybody capture our yearning for connection; McConnell illuminates those rare moments in life we find both fleeting and transformative with the eye of a master jeweler.” — Tara Ison, author of The List
Elegant Punk
Flash Fiction & Stories by Darlin' Neal
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"Neal's stories are little starbursts of ferocity and heartache. Just when you think you have to look away, they make you laugh a bit, make you cock your head with intrigue, and draw you right back in. Taken together, these tales, like much of Carver's work, convince the reader there's no amount of punishment that the human spirit, plucky thing, cannot withstand." — Ron Currie author of Everything Matters!: A Novel
This Metal
Poetry by Joseph Bathanti
Introduction by Mary Jo Bona
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“In Joseph Bathanti’s book, This Metal, the poems coming out of the furnace of family history and memory strike me as being like a metamorphic rock, their structure rendered solid, yet all the while containing the pressures, the heat and kindling, of the context from which they came." — Kathryn Stripling Byer, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina, author of Coming to Rest
Stealing the Dog's Prozac
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“Charlotte Lowe’s Stealing the Dog’s Prozac, is witty, whimsical, and oddly, wise, not something often noted in American Poetry of the moment. I deeply enjoyed it and I guarantee the same pleasure to anyone who buys it. It is never shopworn and often brilliant. It is a wonderful book.” — Jim Harrison, author of Songs of Unreason
Cold Spring Rising
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“John Thomas York tunes a guitar strung from the stars to the dirt of a farm where memories grow. The melody may catch on tobacco or hemlocks, cobwebs or sleet, a dog or a dental appointment or the fate of a loon. And the voice shows a solid, barefoot familiarity with every setting, even when it's a two-ton Chevy flatbed that's left the ground.” — Sarah Lindsay, author of Twigs & Knucklebones
