Growing Up: Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction

by Ethan Laughman (Editor), Tony Ardizzone (Contribution by), Rita Ciresi (Contribution by), Mary Clyde (Contribution by), Tom Kealey (Contribution by)

Overview

Growing up can mean growing pains and the joys of new independence. With maturity comes the shift from infinite possibilities to imminent realities. These thirteen stories describe the slow and subtle experience of growing up, allowing us to reflect upon the forces that pushed us toward adulthood and away from the familiar ground of youth that must be left behind if we are to learn how to soar on our own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820358710
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	03/01/2021
Series:	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Series , #117
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ETHAN LAUGHMAN is among the few who have read every Flannery O’Connor Award–winning volume. He collaborated closely with the series’ authors in compiling these new anthologies. He currently teaches high school English.

CAROL LEE LORENZO leads the fiction workshops at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta. She has taught creative writing at Emory University, Oglethorpe University, and Georgia State University. Her short stories have appeared in Five Points,Epoch, Pennsylvania Review, Painted Bride,Chelsea, and Sou'easter, among other literary journals. Lorenzo is the author of three novels for young adults.

DEBRA MONROE is the author of The Source of Trouble, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection A Wild, Cold State; two novels, Newfangled and Shambles; two memoirs, On the Outskirts of Normal and My Unsentimental Education (both Georgia); and the essay collection It Takes a Worried Woman (Georgia). She is the editor of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. She lives in Austin, Texas, and teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University.

PAUL RAWLINS' fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review,Tampa Review, and Prism. He lives in Salt Lake City.

KELLIE WELLS teaches in the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals.

ETHAN LAUGHMAN is among the few who have read every Flannery O’Connor Award–winning volume. He collaborated closely with the series’ authors in compiling these new anthologies. He currently teaches high school English.