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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Monstress

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection Monstress, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Joshua Duke (@joshmduke) Meaghan Mulholland (@Meagho) Kathryn McGowan (@comestibles) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: Monstress, by Lysley Tenorio

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Lysley Tenorio‘s debut collection, Monstress (Ecco). His short fiction has appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. He lives in San Francisco, where he is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. In our upcoming interview with Tenorio, the author speaks with Quan Barry about identity politics: While Monstress is full of Filipino and Filipino-American characters, I see them first as individuals caught up in weird, sometimes ridiculous, and always (I hope) emotionally complex circumstances that have nothing to do […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Arcadia

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Lauren Groff’s new novel Arcadia, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Patricia Selbert (@HouseofSixDoors) Helen Page (@bulkarn) Heather Galaska (@heatherlgalaska) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: Arcadia, by Lauren Groff

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Lauren Groff‘s new novel, Arcadia (Voice/Hyperion). Groff’s past works include a collection, Delicate, Edible Birds and Other Stories (2009), and a novel, The Monsters of Templeton (2008). Her short stories have appeared in a number of journals, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, One Story, and Subtropics, as well as in the 2007 and 2010 Best American Short Stories , Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. In her recent review of Arcadia, Founding Editor Anne Stameshkin writes: In Lauren Groff’s second novel, Arcadia, the community of this same name […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: A Land More Kind Than Home

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Wiley Cash’s debut novel A Land More Kind Than Home, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Zohreh Ghahremani (@SkyOfRedPoppies) Diane Dunning (@diane_dunning) Braden King (@braden_king) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: A Land More Kind Than Home

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Wiley Cash’s debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home, released this week by William Morrow. Cash’s stories have appeared in such places as the Crab Orchard Review, Roanoke Review and The Carolina Quarterly. He holds a B.A. in Literature from the University of North Carolina-Asheville, an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He and his wife currently live in West Virginia where he teaches fiction writing and American literature at Bethany College. He also teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Fiction […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Let the Birds Drink in Peace

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Robert Garner McBrearty’s Let the Birds Drink in Peace as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Bonnie Jo Campell (@bonniejocampbel) LorenaBathey(@LorenaBathey) Theresa Lemieux (@mama_theresa) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: Let the Birds Drink in Peace, by Robert Garner McBrearty

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Robert Garner McBrearty’s new collection, Let the Birds Drink in Peace, which was published last fall by Conundrum Press. McBrearty is the author of two previous collections of stories: A Night at the Y (John Daniel & Company, 1999) and Episode (Pocol Press, 2009). He received his MFA in creative writing from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa, is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, was the winner of the 2007 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches at […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Salvage the Bones

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Last week we featured Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: stacey said, (@staceysaid) Leila N (@LeiNili) joann spears (@JoAnnSpearsRN) Brett Wilcox (@wilcoxworks) Donna Bailey (@DBailey_GirlInk) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Book of the Week: Salvage the Bones

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

This week’s feature is Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award winning novel, Salvage the Bones, which was published last year by Bloomsbury. Ward is also the author of Where the Line Bleeds (Agate, 2008), which was an Essence Magazine Book Club selection, a Black Caucus of the ALA Honor Award recipient, and a finalist for both the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan in 2005, was a Stegner Fellow from 2008-2010, and served as the 2010-2011 John and Renée Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of […]




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