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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.
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Children of Dust shows how the unsettled questions from the past carry forward, creating searches for answers generations later
The breaks and turns give a vivid sense of how history is both made and survived.
With riveting prose, Barton proves he is a master storyteller
An immersive story that asks the hardest questions and answers them with powerful and propulsive historical fiction.
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The Carver and the Queen
The Carver and the Queen By Emma C. Fox Owl’s Nest Publishers, 2023 Hardcover: $20.99 Paperback: $12.99 Genre: Historical Fantasy, Young Adult Reviewed by Lynn Lamere Emma C. Fox’s The Carver and the Queen is reminiscent of a classic medieval fairy tale yet amplified with plot twists and intriguing characters. Right away, fifteen-year-old orphan Petr finds himself facing a public whipping in a new village for losing three of the master’s cows while shepherding the herd. However, Petr is an exceptional boy, and he does not lose the livestock because of a lack of maturity or discipline. Instead, Petr is quite gifted, and it is his talent for playing his zhaleika (a Slavic wind instrument also known as a “folk clarinet” or hornpipe) that causes his lapse in judgment. While tending his herd, Petr’s music attracts a woman who wears a crown and dresses in a long-bejeweled robe of green silk. When confronted about the livestock he loses, he tells the bailiff that the otherworldly woman asked him to play more, promising she could make him into something. [...]
