Twenty Bellows Editor to be Featured in Upcoming Anthology from Mud Flat Press
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Twenty Bellows Editor to be Featured in Upcoming Anthology from Mud Flat Press
Twenty Bellows founder and editor James Stuart will be featured in an upcoming anthology slated for publication this summer. Titled Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction), the book includes 31 stories from 19 writers, many from the Puget Sound Region of Washington, where Stuart lived and worked from 2018 – 2020 and was an editor for Creative Colloquy. Included in the anthology by Stuart are the short stories “Feet of Clay,” “Marlowe’s Leap” and “Any of 100 Days.”
Olympia writers include:
A memoir by Dawud H. Al-Malik who at 19 was wrongfully convicted of murder and spent 50 years on death row before being exonerated.
Keith Eisner, 2018 Big Muddy magazine Short Story Contest winner, O’Henry Award winner and writing teacher at the Olympia Senior Center, with the stories “Falcon” and “Shrine.”
Ned Hayes, author of the popular YA novel The Eagle Tree (former Olympian now living in Portland), with “Holy Trinity,” a novella about Eagle Tree hero March Wong.
Oly Arts editor and writer Christian Carvajal, with three si-fi shorts stories: “Division by Zero," "Blow Out the Candles" and "Time Capsule.”
“The Death of R&J,” “Selling the Fishing Camp,” and a novel excerpt from Spawn: The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson by Alec Clayton, writer for Oly Arts.
“The Boy” by Megan Kruse, author of Call Me Home, a recipient of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Book Award.
“The Baton,” a story of a mother’s gift to her daughter before passing, by Meenu Madhavan.
A non-fiction memory of a tech conference in Hawaii and victims of the Rwandan genocide by Shree Nath.
“The Break Up,” a love letter to Olympia by CK Combs.
“Another War Story: Best Teaching” by Works in Progress writer James O’Barr.
“Greeted by a Protest,” an excerpt from the murder mystery Kickback by Tracy Gunn (a pseudonym for Olympian John Knold).
From Tacoma, the collection includes the short stories “Pro” and “Stage Four” by Jenni Prange Boran and “Godsend” and “Til All the Bones are Buried” by Samuel Snoek-Brown, author of Hagridden and production editor for Jersey Devil Press. Former Tacoman James P. Stuart is featured with three short stories.
Also included are three stories from international bestseller and award-winning novelist Jack Butler, whose novel Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and whose sci-fi story about a vampire on Mars, Nightshade, was chosen as one of the New York Times best books of 1989. Finally, there is a novel except from James Robert Peery, who died in 1950 and left behind an unpublished novel, Angels Sleep Alone, which 72 years later came into the possession of Olympia resident and local writer/publisher Alec Clayton. Peery’s novels Stark Summer and God Rides a Gale were bestseller in the 1940s.
Olympia-based Mud Flat Press is owned and operated by Alec and Gabi Clayton.
For further information or to arrange author interviews, email contactus@mudflatpress.com.