What We Are Becoming : 2024 Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Literary Arts

Edge, John T. (INT)/ Surkamer, Suzette M. (INT)

Hub City Press（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 152 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798885740562

Full Description

South Arts' Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Literary Arts acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality literary work being created in the American South. Beginning in 2024, the State Fellowships for Literary Arts will be awarded to writers with a commitment to literary excellence as evidenced by the quality of their work. This anthology contains the nine selected stories and excerpts chosen from the hundreds submitted for consideration over the previous year. The cohort of nine State Fellows included here were selected through a two-tiered selection process by a national jury. Jurors made their selections based on artistic excellence as reflected in the application package (writing sample and artist's statement) that reflects and represents the diversity of artistic expression of the region. 

This collection features work from Ashley Blooms, Camille Boxhill, F.E. Choe, Constance Collier-Mercado, Melissa Ginsburg, Joanna Pearson, Randi Pink, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and Yurina Yoshikawa. The selected stories are accompanied by an introduction by South Arts Board Member John T. Edge and foreword by South Arts President and CEO, Suzette M. Surkamer.

Contents

INTRODUCTION, John T. Edge vii
FOREWORD, Suzette M. Surkamer xi
RANDI PINK, Killed the Mockingbird 3
CAMILLE BOXHILL, Obeah 13
CONSTANCE COLLIER-MERCADO, from None of This Is Real 25
ASHLEY BLOOMS, from What the Wolf Wants 35
MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN, Caesara Pittman, or a Negress of God 57
MELISSA GINSBURG, from The House Uptown 63
JOANNA PEARSON, Amo, Amas, Amat 85
F.E. CHOE, The Singing Membrane 109
YURINA YOSHIKAWA, Dogwood 113
CONTRIBUTORS 133
SPONSORS, DONORS, & PARTNERS 137