Bold Stories & Unexpected Connections
Sun, Jun 25
|Zoom book event
Authors Jolene McIlwain (SIDLE CREEK)Authors Jolene McIlwain (SIDLE CREEK) and Shena McAuliffe (WE ARE A TEEMING WILDERNESS) will discuss the bold stories and unexpected connections in their new story collections, in conversation with Julie Zuckerman. In partnership with Press 53 and Melville House.
Time & Location
Jun 25, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT
Zoom book event
About the Event
About the authors:
Jolene McIlwain’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appears in numerous online and print literary journals including West Branch, Florida Review, Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, Smokelong Quarterly, New Orleans Review, LITRO, Prime Number, and more. Her work was included in 2019’s Best Small Fictions Anthology and named finalist for 2018’s Best of the Net, Glimmer Train’s and River Styx’s contests, and semifinalist in Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize and two American Short Fictions contests. She’s received a Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council grant, the Georgia Court Chautauqua faculty scholarship, and Tinker Mountain’s merit scholarship. She’s taught literary theory/analysis at Duquesne and Chatham Universities, and she worked as a radiologic technologist before attending college (BS English, minor in sculpture, MA Literature).
She was born, raised, and currently lives in a small town in the Appalachian plateau of Western Pennsylvania. Her debut, SIDLE CREEK, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and Shelf Awareness calls it…