Credit: Tom Rankin
Join us Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) for a reading and conversation with Erica Plouffe Lazure and Jill McCorkle. Erica will be reading from her new book, Proof of Me and Other Stories, and Jill will be reading from Hieroglyphics. Together they will examine short story writing and storytelling. We welcome questions from the audience!
Erica Plouffe Lazure is the author of three chapbooks, Sugar Mountain (Ad Hoc Press, 2020), Heard Around Town (Arcadia, 2015), and Dry Dock (Red Bird Press, 2014). Her debut story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories (New American Press, 2022), received the New American Fiction Prize. She is a former newspaper reporter who now writes, teaches English, plays music, and draws in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Learn more at Erica’s website.
Purchase Proof of Me and Other Stories here.
Jill McCorkle’s first two novels were released simultaneously when she was just out of college, and the New York Times called her “a born novelist.” Since then, she has published five other novels and four collections of short stories, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories several times, as well as The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Five of her books have been New York Times Notable books, and her novel, Life After Life, was a New York Times bestseller. She has received the New England Booksellers Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Garden and Gun, The Atlantic, and other publications. She was a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard, where she also chaired the department of creative writing. She is currently a faculty member of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is affiliated with the MFA program at North Carolina State University.
Learn more at Jill’s website.
Purchase Hieroglyphics here
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