What do you bury in holes so deep?

"Mist" by Marilyn Peddle, used under CC license

You can now read "Digging," the first story of the Awst Press feature. "Digging" is the story of a brother and sister who discover their family buried in the forest. "Digging" was originally published in Lake Effect, and is in my story collection, The Floating Order.

Awst will be featuring my work for the next several weeks. Please check back in for new work as the days unwind. Feature page here.

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To Be Curated, Inside a Project with Awst Press

AWST PRESS

IMPRESSIVE WORKS FROM DIVERSE VOICES

So, it's official, I have been curated.  And I couldn't be happier, really.  What does that mean?  I'm part of an innovative project run by Awst Press, an Austin-based small press, that specializes in new writers and writing.

The project: Awst chooses a guest curator who selects a handful of writers whose lives and work will be featured with Awst over the course of a few months; the project culminates in a chapbook of new work by those writers.

My curator is writer, filmmaker, teacher, and performer Owen Egerton. For the next two weeks, Awst Press will, from behind the glass of your computer screen, display my stories, words, answers to questions; my new story, "The Wandering House," will be available as a printed chapbook for purchase.

And so it has begun. Come with me to Awst Press: http://www.awst-press.com/erin-pringle-toungate/

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That Day in Southword Journal

"That Day," one of the pieces from my childhood memoir, The Girl's Made of Bone, is now available to read in the new issue of Southword Journal.  It comes from a cycle of memories from early childhood.

To read other pieces from The Girl's Made of Bone, see the following:

•  "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)

"I will be an arts president." ~ Senator Bernie Sanders

"You have my promise that, as president, I will be an arts president. . . Art is speech, art is what life is about." pic.twitter.com/tj3LKokjEG

— Project Bernie '16 (@ProjectBernie16) January 30, 2016

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