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411 W. Fourth St
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Surreal South '11
edited by Laura & Pinckney Benedict
2011 Press 53 Open Awards Anthology
edited by Kevin Morgan Watson
All the Roads that Lead From Home
She Hands Me the Razor
A Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection
My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself
A Robin Miura Memoir Selection
Your Path to Publication
A Guide to Navigating the World of Publishing
by Kim Wright
Molly Flanagan & the Holy Ghost
A Robin Miura Novel Selection
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
Winners and finalists of the 2011 Press 53 Open Awards, as judged by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (Poetry), Sherrie Flick (Flash Fiction), Stefanie Freele (Short-Short Story), Chris Offutt (Short Story), Bill Roorbach (Creative Nonfiction), and Josh Weil (Novella), featuring writing from First Prize winners Manda Frederick, Mesha Maren, Amanda Pauley, Ray Morrison, Ron Capps, and Carol K. Howell, plus 10 other Second Prize and Honorable Mention winners.
“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
"There are no nicks in these poems. They slice into the very heart of life." — Gloria Vando, author of Shadows and Supposes
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
“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