Erin Pringle

BOOKS

“Erin Pringle’s stories are true wonders – a beautiful mix of intimate feeling, thick syntax, and dangerous language.”
~Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody

“It is no mean achievement to sustain such a story-like lyricism over the long haul of a book-length collection. This is a remarkable debut. A keeper that keeps keeping on.”
~Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone

“The stories in Erin Pringle’s first collection possess the charm of fairy tales, the wisdom of poems, the hope of prayers, the weight of eulogies, and the intimacy of letters home. There’s an old soul at the center of this book, an old soul with a passionate, lyrical, exhilarating new voice.” ~Tom Noyes, author of Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories

"A collection of rather disturbing short stories. 'Enjoyed' really wouldn't be the right word. 'Impressed' would be nearer the mark." ~Scott Pack, The Friday Project

ISBN 978-1-906120-42-9; £9.99 Publication date June 15, 2009

Order The Floating Order from
Two Ravens Press
Tower Books
Amazon.com
Or, better yet, from an Independent Bookstore in your neighborhood.

AWARDS

The Only Child was named a Notable Nonrequired Reading for 2007

Shortlisted for the 2007 Charles Pick Fellowship

Winner of Pagitica in Toronto Short-Fiction Contest

Pushcart-Prize nominee for "The Only Child"

Finalist in Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

STORIES

Order issue #3 of Barrelhouse to read "The Only Child," illustrated by w craghead.

"Looker" in Adirondack Review

"Park" in Snow*vigate

"Moxie" in Bonfire: An International Conflaguration

"Losing, I Think" in Whistling Shade

"Stay" in Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine

"Raw As Hands" in Pagitica in Toronto

"Remember Ella"
"Wednesday Night Reflections, Edited Thursday"
"The Magnolia Lyric"
Issues 9-11 (respectively) in Quarter After Eight

"Digging" in Lake Effect (Issue 10)

"Skeletons/My Fourth Birthday/Hell is Channel Three" in SUB-LIT

"Trolls" in Whistling Shade

"Mabel and Ivy" in Downstate Story, Volume XIII

"Pygmalions" in Ugly Accent, Fall 2007

"All I Have Left" in Project for a New Mythology and Etchings

"Sanctuary" in Dark Recesses Press (Issue 9)

"Rabbits" in Interbirth Books.

"Why Jimmy" in Austin Chronicle Online Edition

"Drift" in pacificReview

"The Goblin Train" in kadar koli

"Sleight" in DogzPlot

"Every Good Girl Does Fine" in BIG PULP

"The Floating Order" in Electric Velocipede

"The Boy Who Walks Across Fields" in INTER 01

"Midwest in Memoriam" in New York TyrantVol 2. Issue. 1

POETRY

Thirteen Ways of Looking at My Father in Quay.

REVIEWS

The Only Child

Quarter After Eight review by Danielle LaVaque-Manty

Review of "Goblin Train"

Review in SFRevu and The Fix of Electric Velocipede with short nod to "The Floating Order"

INTERVIEWS

Austin, Texas NPR Interview regarding the Pushcart nomination of "The Only Child"

Interview with w craghead regarding his art, including a discussion of his illustrations of "The Only Child."

"The Great Escape" ~Austin Chronicle Interview by Kimbereley Jones about The Floating Order

Interview at Book Talk with J&J

MISCELLANEOUS

Erin Pringle introduces Carole Maso at Maso's reading in Kyle, Texas

SUMMER 2009 CALENDAR OF THE FLOATING ORDER READINGS/SIGNINGS

July 4 ~ Burro Coffee, Wimberley, TX @ Noon

July 8 ~ BookWoman, Austin, TX @ 7 PM

July 10 ~ Book Talk with J&J (online/no reading) I'll be giving away a signed copy of The Floating Order

July 18 ~ Signing at Bienville Books, Mobile, AL @ 12-2 PM

July 19 ~ Birmingham, AL: Greencup Books Reading with Michael Martone @ 8:30

July 20 ~ Charleston, SC (Monday Night Blues Series) @ 8 PM (at the East Bay Meeting House)

July 24 ~ Durham, NC Reading with Ken Rumble @ 8 PM in The Space (715 Washington Street)

August 1 ~ Atlantic City, NJ (Location TBA)
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