3/23/2023 0 Comments The rumpus![]() ![]() ![]() I was going through that experience feeling really alone. I started realizing I was queer when I was working that job on the river and the only people around me were straight older men. It’s difficult to understand yourself, not only in terms of what you like to wear and what you might like to eat, but also your sexual and gender identity, when you live in isolation. It was terrifying and exhilarating.īambrick: For sure. And it forced me to completely rethink how I wanted to walk through the world. Rumpus: That really resonates with me-when I moved from Walla Walla to Chicago it was the first time I saw female masculinity represented in a positive way. I have felt confused about how to navigate all of the access that a city offers, how to compose myself in an urban space. Now that I am living in Oakland, I’ve had a hard time adapting because it’s the first time I’ve lived in a big city. More:īambrick: When you grow up in a rural place you can develop a really strange style because you don’t have anything reflected back at you you don’t have examples. "Currently studying as a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Bambrick and I spoke recently over the phone about growing up in a town that prized rodeo queens over prom queens, how insidious it is to be underestimated, and being given permission to write something ugly," says Keown Vaux. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College, Boston, and has lead writing workshops at the Grub Street Writers Workshops, the Lighthouse Writers Workshops, the Writers’ League of Texas, Writespace Houston, and Inprint Houston.įor more information about CFA events, please visit The Rumpus, Taneum Bambrick, author of the debut collection, Vantage(Copper Canyon Press, September), is in conversation with Aileen Keown Vaux. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories and O. McNeely has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Ploughshares, and many other magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His first book, Ghost Horse, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press) is his second book. She lives outside Boston with her husband, Richie, and their many, many pets: a red-footed tortoise (Terrence), a chihuahua-pitbull mix (Seymour), a small flock of pigeons (Bert, Lieutenant Dan, and Murray), and fifteen African cichlids (all named Milton).Īn East Side Houston native, Thomas McNeely has received National Endowment for the Arts, Wallace Stegner, MacDowell Colony, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. also works as a freelance editor, a manuscript consultant, a writing coach, a tutor, and a senior editorial writer in the communications and public affairs department at Wellesley College. She also writes the monthly column Non-Fiction by Non-Men for Fiction Advocate, in which she interviews women, trans, and non-binary people who write nonfiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, The Believer, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Toast, The Butter, and the anthology The Places We’ve Been: Field Reports from Travelers Under 35, among others. Bartels is a nonfiction writer, a former Newtonville Books bookseller, and a GrubStreet instructor, with a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA from Columbia University. McNeely will speak about his short story collection, Pictures of the Shark.Į.B. Bartels will discuss her essay collection Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Herafter. Bartels and Tom McNeely will share insights about the art of writing collections. ![]() ![]() The Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present "Writing Collections: Essays & Short Stories", with E.B. ![]()
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