Posts Tagged ‘Book of the Week’

Last week we featured Alexi Zentner’s debut novel Touch as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Barbara Buck, Hitesh Ratnani, and Megan Milks. Congratulations! To claim your signed copy of this novel, please email us at the following address: winners@fictionwritersreview.com To anyone who’d like to be eligible for our future drawings, visit our Facebook Page and “like” us. No catch, no gimmicks–just a great way to promote books we love. To everyone who’s already a fan, big thanks!

This week’s featured title is Alexi Zetner’s debut novel Touch. Alexi Zentner was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, and currently lives in Ithaca, New York. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as The Atlantic Monthly, Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Walrus, Slice Magazine, and Orion Magazine, and other publications. His short story “Touch” was featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 where it was chosen as a jury favorite. His short story “Trapline” was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize and named to the Best American Short Stories 2009 list of “100 Other […]

Last week we featured Deanna Fei’s debut novel A Thread of Sky as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Ellen Baker, Seher Yildiz, and Marlene Rotter. Congratulations! To claim your signed copy of this novel, please email us at the following address: winners@fictionwritersreview.com To anyone who’d like to be eligible for our future drawings, visit our Facebook Page and “like” us. No catch, no gimmicks–just a great way to promote books we love. To everyone who’s already a fan, big thanks!

This week’s featured title is Deanna Fei’s debut novel A Thread of Sky. Fei was born in Flushing, New York, and has lived in Beijing and Shanghai. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2003. The following academic year she spent in China on a Fulbright grant, conducting research for what would eventually become this novel. Published last year by Penguin, A Thread of Sky was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an Indie Next Notable Book. It has just been released in paperback. In the introduction to her recent interview with the author, Kate Levin […]

Last week we featured Carin Clevidence’s debut novel The House on Salt Hay Road as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Stephen Long, Linda White, and Alexandra Timm. Congratulations! To claim your signed copy of this novel, please email us at the following address: winners@fictionwritersreview.com To anyone who’d like to be eligible for our future drawings, visit our Facebook Page and “like” us. No catch, no gimmicks–just a great way to promote books we love. To everyone who’s already a fan, big thanks!

We’re pleased to announced that this week’s featured title is Carin Clevidence’s debut novel The House on Salt Hay Road. Clevidence is the recipient of such accolades as a Ronna Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Last summer she was also a fellow at the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, in Bulgaria, which she chronicled in a photo essay for Fiction Writers Review with fellow participants Kelly Luce, Charles Conley, and Paul Vidich. Her short fiction has appeared in such places as Story, The Indiana Review, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. In a […]