Monday, May 18, 2009

Rebel Girl Toots Her Own Horn

Rebel Girl is happy to report that a short-short story of hers will be included in Sudden Fiction Latino, to be published by W.W. Norton & Co. next spring.

She simply adores the cover, a detail from a painting by Carmen Lomas Garza.

And did she mention that it's a Norton anthology?

Here's what they're saying:

For readers who love great short-short stories, this bountiful anthology is the best of Latin American and U.S. Latino writers. Following on the success of the Flash Fiction and Sudden Fiction series, Robert Shapard and James Thomas join with Ray Gonzalez in selecting works that each present a complete story in less than 1,500 words. Luisa Valenzuela, one of Latin America’s most lauded writers, provides the introduction. Readers will delight in finding stars such as Junot Díaz, Sandra Cisneros, and Roberto Bolaño alongside recognized masters like Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, and Jorge Luis Borges. They will discover work from Andrea Saenz, Daniel Alarcón, and Alicita Rodriguez, as well as other writers on the rise.

In Julio Ortega’s “Migrations,” a Peruvian writer explores how immigrant speech and ethnic origins are a force of meaning that evolves beyond language. In “Hair,” by Hilma Contreras, a Caribbean pharmacist is driven mad by a young woman’s luxuriant tresses. These stories stretch from gritty reality to the fantastical in a mix that is moving, challenging, humorous, artful, sometimes political, and altogether spectacular.

Rebel Girl likes good news.

It doesn't come often enough and then, well, there it is.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations.

Anonymous said...

That is some fine company to be a part of, RG.

Anonymous said...

congratulations!

Anonymous said...

Toot!

Anonymous said...

An achievement! When will the college toot your horn for you?

Candice said...

Yay!
I always see the Girl around campus but have yet to take one of her classes. Her long hair and skirts and smile always make me smile. I have been urged by my current lit teacher to take Prof. Alvarez's fiction writing class-- apparently it is a must.

Anonymous said...

The college will never toot its horn for her.

Anonymous said...

Toot!

Anonymous said...

Does Rebel Girl really smile all that much?

Anonymous said...

Nice horn.

Anonymous said...

12:42 took the words right out of my mouth (hands): some pretty nice company! Contratulations, RG--well-deserved.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!

Bohrstein said...

Ugh, I forgot to congratulate you! That last final was on my mind, so I shove the blame off to that.

Congratulations RG! I hope UCI was nice to you today, I heard there was some sort of panic today.

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