Surreal South
Surreal South, Vol. 1,
edited by Pinckney and Laura Benedict
Cover art by Adela Leibowitz
9 x 6 aperback
$19.95
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Contributors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Ron Rash, Tom Franklin, Ann Pancake, Chris Offutt, Beth Ann Fennelly, Katie Estill, Jacinda Townsend, Greg Johnson, George Singleton, Lee K. Abbott, Julianna Baggott, Brad Vice, Benjamin Percy, Kyle Minor, William Gay, Dean Paschal, Daniel Woodrell, Pinckney Benedict, Laura Benedict, Rodney Jones, Jon Tribble, Andrew Hudgins, Joy Beshears Hagy, Susan Woodring, and Kathy Conner.
LAURA BENEDICT is the author of the novel, Isabella Moon. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and several anthologies. Her second novel, Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts, is available in hardcover from Random House. For the past decade she’s worked as a freelance book reviewer for The Grand Rapids Press in Michigan and other newspapers. She lives in Southern Illinois with her husband, Pinckney Benedict.
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PINCKNEY BENEDICT grew up on his family’s farm in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He has published two collections of short fiction and a novel. His stories have appeared in, among other magazines and anthologies, Esquire, Zoetrope All-Story, the O. Henry Award series, the New Stories from the South series, Ontario Review, the Pushcart Prize series, and The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. He is the recipient, among other prizes, of a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Literary Fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, a Michener Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and Britain’s Steinbeck Award. He is a professor in the English Department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
Visit Laura Benedict's personal website at www.laurabenedict.com
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About the editors:
Welcome to the Surreal South, the dream of the nation within the nation, the world within the world, shadowed by all the unmitigated horrors and illuminated by all the dubious glories of its distant and ill-remembered past, a puzzle, a slightly gruesome enticement, a boundless ambiguity, an enduring paradox, and an endless source of myth.
Surreal South is published every odd year (how apropos).
Surreal South '09
edited by Laura & Pinckney Benedict
Cover art by Minna Svensson
9 x 6 paperback
$19.95
$3 S&H
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Contributors include: Alexander Lumans, Becky Hagenston, Dan Mueller, Heather Fowler , J.T. Ellison, Jedidiah Ayres, Jessica Glass, John McManus, Josh McCall, Josh Woods, Kurt Rheinheimer, Kyle Minor, Lee K. Abbott, Melanie DeCarolis, Michael Garriga, Michael P. Kardos, Okla Elliott & Raul Clement, Oscar Hokeah, Sheryl Monks, Steve Patten, Tantra Bensko
Meet Our Cover Artists
Minna Svensson is a photographer and mixed media artist who enjoys working with digital art and collages. With her witty, playful imagery, Minna creates whole universes of mystical fables, often of the eerie, little, bizarre kind. She finds paradoxes utterly fascinating and likes to play with these in her work, which gives her a unique style that floats around somewhere in the borderland between fairytales and horror stories. At the moment Minna is studying art and film in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the future she wants to explore all the wonders of this world, expand her artistry, and live in the South in an old ghost house with a front porch. To see more of Minna's work visit: www.obsceneteaparty.com or contact her at: kuchimallan@gmail.com.
Adela Leibowitz's works are a masterly combination of light-quality and imagery and she arrives at both through inspiration: "A flash will go off of a still image, usually very quickly in my head. I see a very strong image, and it can happen anywhere. It usually does not work for me to begin a painting if that did not happen." The archetypal images and symbols which form the subject matter of these paintings must surely originate within the personal unconscious of the artist and in her perceptions into the collective unconscious of humanity. Her work represents a very significant and welcome addition to contemporary painting. Visit her online at www.adelaleibowitz.com
