Mixed Bag of Tricks: A Short Story Anthology
Description
Multicultural stories from women about women that will delight, entertain and occasionally break your heart.What happens when eleven women from around the world team up and challenge each other to write a story outside their genre? The result: the Mixed Bag of Tricks, eleven short stories that explore cross-cultural clashes, relationships on new planets, mutual grieving, a humorous otherworldly visit to a bachelorette party, the laugh-out-loud complexities of married life, and so much more. This multi-genre mashup of stories, experimental in conception, celebrates the process of storytelling and the art of collaboration.
Sixty percent of profits from the sale of this book will benefit the Writers' League of Texas, a nonprofit that serves writers around the world with its online programming for authors of all genres. Learn more about the organization at writersleague.org Featuring stories by: Antonia Pròtano Biggs, Ishita Fernandes, Roanna Flowers, GESS, Ilene Haddad, Hollie Hardy, Britta Jensen, Heidi Kasa, N.J. Knight, Kara Stockinger, E.A. Williams
Product Details
Price
$20.00
$18.60
Publisher
Murasaki Press
Publish Date
November 17, 2023
Pages
218
Dimensions
5.25 X 8.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.56 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781736383568
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About the Author
N.J. Knight grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where her family owns a haunted wood. She earned degrees in journalism and anthropology from the University of Maryland before working as a journalist for more than a decade. Knight has been published in The Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, and L.A. Times. She is currently writing her first novel in Austin, TX, where she lives with her husband, son, and many, many books. Find her online at njknight.com; or as nancethepants on all major socials (except Instagram, where it is someone's puppy account that you should also check out).
Heidi Kasa is the author of Split, a fiction chapbook published by Monday Night Press in 2022. Her work has been a finalist for a Black Lawrence Press award and shortlisted for a Fractured Lit award. Her writing has appeared in The Racket, Meat for Tea, The Raw Art Review, and Ab Terra, among others. Kasa works as an editor, makes small print runs of handmade artist books, and designs necklaces. See more of her work at www.heidikasa.com.
Britta Jensen's novel, Eloia Born, won the 2019 Writers League of Texas YA Discovery Prize. Her stories explore themes of persevering through disability, found family and the intersection of various cultures on real and imagined worlds. Other published works include Hirana's War, Ghosts of Yokosuka, and her short story, "Why Not Ophelia?" in the Castle Anthology of Horror- Femme Fatales. For the past twenty years Britta has edited books and taught creative writing. She lived in Japan, South Korea, and Germany for twenty-two years before settling in Austin, Texas with her awesome capoeirista husband. You can learn more about her work as an editor and author at www.brittajensen.com
