Fiction writer, Joe Ponepinto posted a powerful piece a few weeks ago about how important it was to pimp your writing buds. So — herewith the first of a series of talented folks who are all connected somehow to the STEPHANOS etymology.
Here is a story by the amazing fabulist Stefanie Freele. Stefanie’s new book Surrounded by Water is available here, but here’s an older sample of her meta stylings. Stefanie writes work that is magical, expressionistic, but always somehow connected to a recognizably (wonderfully weird) American sensibility.
Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a magical realist prose fiction writer, novelist, occasional essayist, and a committed, intermittent poet, as well as a passionate instructor of writing. A 7-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize she has published work in Hayden's Ferry, Pearl, CRATE, Rhapsoidia, NYCBigCityLit, the East Jasmine Review, Apeiron, Inlandia, Literary Alchemy and the Bellevue Literary Review among other places. She is the author the fabulist novel THE PUPPET TURNERS OF NARROW INTERIOR (Urban Farmhouse Press), a novelette, RESCUE PLAN (Bamboo Dart Press), a prose poem chapbook collection, SEX WITH BUILDINGS (dancing girl press), and a poetry collection, HOW FORMAL (Spout Hill Press).
Stephanie's new novel PRETEND PLUMBER is available for order from your favorite bookstore, and her poetry chapbook CITY SLICKER appeared in July 2022. Stay tuned for her novella, JOURNEY TO MERVEILLEUX CITY, coming out in 2023!
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4 thoughts on “Pimp another stef/ph No.1@ Storytime Sunday: Stefanie Freele’s “Sweet Venus””
No doubt. Freele is amazing. Her stories are everywhere and always worth reading.
A note about the pimping: One time a week. Just do it. Soon it will move beyond the cloistered world of writers, and maybe, eventually, into the mainstream. Then “regular” people will check out the work of a deserving writer. Imagine that.
Fiction writer, Joe Ponepinto posted a powerful piece a few weeks ago about how important it was to pimp your writing buds. So — herewith the first of a series of talented folks who are all connected somehow to the STEPHANOS etymology.
Stephanie Barbé Hammer Writing (Un) Real 
So Sweet of you to post 🙂 Stefanie
No doubt. Freele is amazing. Her stories are everywhere and always worth reading.
A note about the pimping: One time a week. Just do it. Soon it will move beyond the cloistered world of writers, and maybe, eventually, into the mainstream. Then “regular” people will check out the work of a deserving writer. Imagine that.
true, that. thanks for getting the ball rolling!
Oh, this is cool!