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. A 6-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. Her novel _The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior_ appeared in March 2015 with Urban Farmhouse Press, and her Narrow Interior novelette, _Rescue Plan, appeared in February 2021 with Bamboo Dart Press. Her poetry collection _How Formal?_ was published in 2014 with Spout Hill Press and her prose poem collection _SEX WITH BUILDINGS_ was published in May 2012 by Dancing Girl Press. Stephanie flunked early retirement at the University of California Riverside and is currently feeding her teaching love at Edmonds Community College, Hugo House and the Inlandia Institute. iShe is currently managing editor for SHARK REEF literary magazine and is working on two new novels, and two new poetry collections, Her manual on how to write magical realism _Delicious Strangeness_ is available from Spout Hill Press.
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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.
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!