My first poetry chapbook will be released next year by Dancing Girl Press, a small press in Chicago that specializes in publishing innovative poetry by women authors! Through a feminist lens, Wolf Skin examines how fairy tales shape a person and the way she sees the world. In these poems, a woman reflects on the stories herContinue reading “Wolf Skin to be released by Dancing Girl Press in 2014”
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‘The Book of Gothel’ wins Sustainable Arts Award
I was thrilled to discover today that my novel-in-progress has received a Fall 2013 Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award! Set in 12th century Germany, ‘The Book of Gothel’ speculates about the historical roots of some of our most beloved European folktales. The grant will fund my trip to the Black Forest this summer to researchContinue reading “‘The Book of Gothel’ wins Sustainable Arts Award”
Reading Tuesday, Oct. 29
I’ll be reading Tuesday, October 29 with six other The Way North writers: Ellen Airgood, Julie Brooks Barbour, Eric Gadzinski, Sue Harrison, L.E. Kimball, and Janice Repka. Come out and see us, 7pm at the Superior District Library, Bayliss Library in Sault Sainte Marie.
Reading at Chelsea’s
I’ll be reading at Chelsea’s in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, Sept. 2 as part of an LSU Alumni Reading.
Signed with Literary Agent
The ink is dry: I just signed an agency agreement with Kathleen Anderson of Anderson Literary Management!
Offers of Representation
Since the conference, I’ve received two offers of representation and now am in the wonderful position of having to make a choice!
Words and Music
The Faulkner conference was unbelievable. I met so many contacts and amazing writers. Also I slept on high thread count sheets and dined on sinful food and wine. I highly recommend the Monteleone to anyone who can afford it (thank you, Faulkner Society!) It was so wonderful to meet P. Neofotis (winner, novella), Emily Lupita Plum (winner,Continue reading “Words and Music”
‘Wait’ Wins Faulkner Prize for a Novel in Progress
I’m so excited that Judge Janette Turner Hospital has announced my manuscript, ‘Wait,’ this year’s winner of the Faulkner Prize for a Novel in Progress! ‘Wait’ retells the Odysseus myth from the perspective of a soldier’s wife in the Deep South during the Vietnam War: “My clear choice for winner, this manuscript in progress is stunning for a number ofContinue reading “‘Wait’ Wins Faulkner Prize for a Novel in Progress”
MFA
Chuck Wachtel, writing teacher extraordinaire, has scrawled his reckless signature across the title page of my novel-in-progress, fulfilling the requirements for my MFA from NYU.
NYU Emerging Writers Series Reading
It looks like I’ll be reading as part of the New York University Emerging Writers Series at either Mo Pitkins or the KGB Bar on October 29!
MARY MCMYNE 