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Book of the Week: Little Raw Souls, by Steven Schwartz

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Our current feature is Steven Schwartz”s newest collection, Little Raw Souls, which was published last week by Pittsburgh-based indie press Autumn House. Schwartz teaches in the residential MFA program at Colorado State University and the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College. Recently, he has become fiction editor at Colorado Review. He is the author of two story collections, To Leningrad in Winter (University of Missouri) and Lives of the Fathers (University of Illinois), and two novels, Therapy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and A Good Doctor’s Son (William Morrow). His fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Tell Everyone I Said Hi

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Our most recent feature was Chad Simpson’s debut collection Tell Everyone I Said Hi, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Melanie Jennings (@mjennings26) Marisa Birns (@marisabirns) Turtleberry (@turtleberry) 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: Tell Everyone I Said Hi, by Chad Simpson

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Our current feature is Chad Simpson’s debut collection, Tell Everyone I Said Hi, which was the winner of the 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award from The University of Iowa Press. Chad was raised in Monmouth, Illinois, and Logansport, Indiana. His stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s, The Sun, Esquire, Barrelhouse, American Short Fiction, and many other print and online publications. He also is the author of a chapbook of short fiction, Phantoms, published by Origami Zoo Press in 2010. A recipient of an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in prose, he teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Beach at Galle Road

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Our most recent feature was Joanna Luloff’s debut collection The Beach at Galle Road, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Abraham Hidalgo (@Abraham_Hidalgo) emmjae (@emmjaepenniman) KellyMHart (@KellyMHart) 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: The Beach at Galle Road, by Joanna Luloff

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Our new feature is Joanna Luloff’s debut collection, The Beach at Galle Road, which was published this fall by Algonquin Books. Luloff received her MFA from Emerson College and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Prior to graduate school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Baddegama, Sri Lanka. Her short stories have appeared in The Missouri Review, Confrontation, Memorious, and New South. She is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Potsdam. In Tyler McMahon’s recent review of Luloff’s collection, the stories of which take place in Sri Lanka, he writes: The author lived and worked in […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: Dare Me

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Our most recent feature was Megan Abbott’s Dare Me, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Peter Mountford (@PeterMountford) Alan Heathcock (@alanheathcock) Gina Ardito (@GinaArdito) 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: Dare Me, by Megan Abbott

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Our current feature is Megan Abbott’s new novel, Dare Me, which was published earlier this year by Reagan Arthur Books. She is also the Edgar-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, and The End of Everything. Dare Me is a crime novel set in the world of competitive high school cheerleading. It has been short-listed for the Steel Dagger Award for the Crime Writers’ Association and optioned for a feature film by Fox 2000. Abbott’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Believer, […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Lighthouse Road

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Our most recent feature was Peter Geye’s The Lighthouse Road, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Benjamin Verdi (@BenjaminVerdi ) Jeremy Barker (@ZombieBarker) Fritz Swanson (@fritzswanson ) 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: Wild Girls, by Mary Stewart Atwell

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We’re particularly pleased to feature Mary Stewart Atwell’s debut novel Wild Girls as our current Book of the Week, because Atwell is one of our contributors. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she is months away from finishing a Ph.D. in literature, and over the last several years it’s been our great pleasure to publish her reviews and interviews on FWR. Her short fiction has appeared in Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Faultline, and other journals, and in the anthologies Best New American Voices and Best American Mystery Stories. She lives in Missouri with her husband […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: A Working Theory of Love

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Our most recent feature was Scott Hutchins’s A Working Theory of Love, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Karen Ferrero (@karenferrero) Ranee Dillon (@RaneeDillon) Jamie Fewery (@jamiefewery) 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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