Taboos & Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings

Luanne Smith (Editor) Devi S. Laskar (Editor)

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Description

Taboos and Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings, is an anthology that includes fiction and nonfiction. It was edited by Luanne Smith, Kerry Neville, and Devi S. Laskar, and focuses on breaking the rules with stories by Pam Houston, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kim Addonizio alongside exceptional work by both noted and emerging writers. The anthology offers a scope of voices, styles, stories, and wrongdoings. From infidelity to family prejudices, from breaking the law to broken promises, from losing everything to finding empowerment, characters in these pieces offer a look at stepping over the line in all too human ways.

Edited by Luanne Smith, Kerry Neville, and Devi S. Laskar, the anthology represents the best of both solicited and unsolicited work. Unsolicited material has been read by judge Maurice Carlos Ruffin and prizes awarded to one winning story and two runners up.

Contributors:

Kim Addonizio - Paco Aramburu - Lisa Lynn Biggar - Bonnie Jo Campbell - Yohanca Delgado - Walter Evans - Michael Gaspeny - Molly Giles - Pam Houston - Kyle Ingrid Johnson - Soniah Kamal - Sabina Khan-Ibarra - Jen Knox - Dalton Monk - Hadley Moore - Joyce Carol Oates - Pamela Painter - Francine Rodriguez - J.C. Sasser - C.J. Spataro Sarah Stone - Melanie Rae Thon - Chavisa Woods - Lee Zacharias

Product Details

Price

$20.95

Publisher

Madville Publishing

Publish Date

March 04, 2021

Pages

268

Dimensions

5.5 X 8.5 X 0.61 inches | 0.76 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781948692649

BISAC Categories:

Anthologies (multiple authors)

Literary

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About the Author

Luanne Smith is a native Kentuckian who now lives in Florida. She is recently retired after 30 years of teaching creative writing and film at West Chester University near Philadelphia. Her fiction has appeared in Puerto del Sol, The Texas Review, Oxford Magazine and other literary journals and anthologies. She has published poetry and nonfiction as well. Luanne has hosted well-received AWP Conference panels focused on women writers and the challenges women face writing gritty material and bad-ass female characters. She last presented a panel on the double-standard women writers encounter compared to men when writing sexual content.

DEVI S. LASKAR is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award and the Crook's Corner Book Prize, and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. She is an alumna of the OpEd Project and VONA and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kerry Neville is the author of two collections of stories, Necessary Lies, which received the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize in Fiction and was named a ForeWord Magazine Short Story Book of the Year, and Remember to Forget Me. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, Triquarterly, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Her fiction and nonfiction have been named Notables in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. In 2018, she was a Fulbright Fellow at University of Limerick in Ireland, where she was Visiting Faculty in the MA in Creative Writing Program and continues as faculty in the Frank McCourt/University of Limerick Summer Writing School. She is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the MFA and Undergraduate Creative Writing Program at Georgia College and State University.

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