A Literary Valentine's Day in Spokane, 2/14/16

There's nothing better to do on Valentine's Day than to read strange, dark fairy tales . . . except to hear new fairy tales performed by the writers themselves. I'll be one of several poets and fiction writers telling stories at The Bing Crosby Theater. So, join us.

All you need to bring is your heart in a box, or a ticket.

When? 7 PM

Tickets: $17

A Chapbook: The Unique Stocking Stuffer for Readers

Dimensions of this Chapbook: 4" x 6"

Typical dimensions of a stocking: More than 4" x 6"

Stuffable?

Yes.



"How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble"
by Erin Pringle-Toungate

What's the Chapbook? "How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble" is a longer story that revolves around the disappearance and death of a sister, an agricultural fair in the rural Midwest, and a man who has been shot.

Beginning Excerpt:

                But aside from the black crepe ribbons that flap on the white poles of the fair entrance archway, anyone who didn't live in the town last summer or close enough to hear the nightly news or who didn't ask about the luminaries lining the dirt avenue that ran along the fair's midway last night, wouldn't know that a young woman named Helen Greene disappeared from last summer's Agricultural Fair.
                Under the fair entrance archway linger the men who served pancakes at the church last month and sell fabric poppies at the one lighted intersection on Memorial Day weekend. They wear neon yellow vests over their T-shirts and bellies. Just before dark, the traffic into the fairgrounds will become steady, and when dark falls, they'll swing their flashlights and raise their hands in greeting to the people they recognize, and they recognize most everyone.

                Tonight, the carnies will speak in tongues and the town will drop screams from the rides, buy tickets, carry whorls of cotton candy back to their trailers and leaning homes--until somewhere in the middle night, the sound of the fair will become one constant chord, like the interstate in the distance or the light rushing through glass bulbs.

Publisher: The Head and The Hand Press, Philadelphia 2015

Original Publisher: The Minnesota Review

Awards: Finalist in The Kore Fiction Contest, nominated for Pushcart Prize

Length: 43 pages

Price (including shipping): $6.25

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Call for Fiction, Literati Quarterly Winter 2015/16 Issue

Hello, you!

Fall Issue!
The Fall Issue of The Literati Quarterly is now up, which I'm very pleased to announce for a number of reasons:

• I'm the fiction editor over there now
• The poetry editor and I designed this issue
• I interviewed Tara Snowden (see page 63!), the featured artist of the issue, whose work I have admired for a number of years
• We have new fiction by Michael Martone, Kate J. Reed, Jack Kaulfus, GJ Jensen, and Austin Eichelberger

Winter Issue!
Call for Winter 2015/2016 issue of The Literati Quarterly 

The Literati Quarterly is now accepting poetry, fiction, plays, translations, essays, art, interviews, reviews, or a hybrid thereof, for the Winter Issue. Work that touches on life, loss, darkness, love and friendship are preferred. The issue will be dedicated to the life of the editor-in-chief's significant other, who died tragically this Summer.

More information for the fiction side of the issue:

• Longer stories preferred over flash (stories of at least 10 pages and capping at about 20 pages)
• Stories desired that prize the language as much, or more than, the plot
• Cleverness-for-the-sake-of-cleverness is not an asset here

Deadline for submission is December 6th.

Go read the Fall Issue now!
And here's the LQ on Facebook

 

Midyear Memo: Words, Here

Untitled by Crystal, via Flickr
Used under CC license

Fall is threatening, friend, and so I wanted to update you on my projects this year, and let you know where some of my words will appear this Autumn.  I started working on a memoir-in-verse this Spring that I hope to have completed by mid-Winter. Luckily, I've been receiving good feedback about the poems, or micro non-fictions, as I'd like to call them, which began appearing out in the world this summer.  As the pieces are published, I'll update this post with links.  Here's to a wonderful autumn, wet with leaves and love, love always, now that I'm a mother.

Available

•  "From The Wind-Up Swing" in Gravel"
• "When We Were This Many" in Gravel
• "The Joke" in 2River
• "That Was Your Sister's Dress" in 2River
• "Long Before My Sister Decides to Die" in 2River
• "The Way To My Sister's House" in 2River
• "Friday Nights" in 2River
• "There Was A Coupon in the Newspaper" in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
• "What's Left" in Gambling the Aisle (Issue 8, page 8)
• "How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble," chapbook from The Head and The Hand Press available in Philadelphia at Elixir Coffee or, from my author stash, if you'd like a signed copy ($6)
• "The Lightning Tree," a short story from Underground Voices e-story series ($1.50)

Old News
The Floating Order, my first collection of short stories, is still in print from Two Ravens Press (2009).

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I enjoy speaking with readers, sharing my work, and visiting classrooms. 

Please contact me to set up an event.