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Lynne Barrett

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My most recent book is Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida, edited and with an introduction by Lynne Barrett, Jai-Alai Books. WLRN Public Radio interview:
https://www.wlrn.org/post/new-collect...

My work is in these Fall 2020 anthologies:
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing, edited by Elisa Albo, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, and Nikki Moustaki, published Beacon Press. And Miami Noir: The Classics, edited by Les Standiford, published by Akashic Books.

Magpies received the Gold Medal in General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards.

Publishers Weekly says of Magpies: "Barrett portrays adult lives with minimal flourishes and a powerful command of setting. Florida is el My most recent book is Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida, edited and with an introduction by Lynne Barrett, Jai-Alai Books. WLRN Public Radio interview:
https://www.wlrn.org/post/new-collect...

My work is in these Fall 2020 anthologies:
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing, edited by Elisa Albo, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, and Nikki Moustaki, published Beacon Press. And Miami Noir: The Classics, edited by Les Standiford, published by Akashic Books.

Magpies received the Gold Medal in General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards.

Publishers Weekly says of Magpies: "Barrett portrays adult lives with minimal flourishes and a powerful command of setting. Florida is electric with the tension of "all that can happen"--hurricanes, sinkholes, and a boom-and-bust history. It becomes as eerie as it is richly imagined, whether stories take place in an Art Deco building or a gas station. One of the year's finer university press offerings, the collection is especially noteworthy for "The Noir Boudoir," an atmospheric tale of unsettling realizations and the ways past events shadow the present." Full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...

Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and her third collection, Magpies, which won the Gold Medal in Fiction in the Florida Book Awards. Her mini book on submitting to magazines is ,i.What Editors Want,,/i> from Rain Chain Press. She co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook. Her work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Blue Christmas, Delta Blues, Miami Noir, One Year to a Writing Life, Simply the Best Mysteries, A Hell of a Woman, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Real South, Night Train, The Southern Women’s Review, and many other anthologies and journals. She has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery story from the Mystery Writers of America, the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short story, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. With her husband and son, she lives in Miami. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review. More information can be found at http://www.lynnebarrett.com ...more

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On Edgar Allan Poe's Birthday

On Poe’s 205th birthday, I’m thinking about the great American literary magazine that never was, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Stylus. In the 1840s, having edited Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine, Graham’s Magazine, and The Southern Literary Messenger, and desperately wanting literary control and a way to make some money, Poe circulated the prospectus of a magazine he would own and edit, called first The Pen Read more of this blog post »

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	A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir by Megan Abbott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Val McDermid (Introduction), Lisa Respers France (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miami Noir (Akashic Noir) by Les Standiford (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Kevin Allen (Contributor), Preston L. Allen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.70 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen by Joe Clifford (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Hillary Davidson (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magpies 4.56 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Miami Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir) by Les Standiford (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Contributor), Elmore Leonard (Contributor) 3.52 avg rating — 65 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Names of Women (CMU Series in Short Fiction) 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Land of Go: Stories 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Editors Want: A Must-Read for Writers Submitting to Literary Magazines it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FIfteen Views of Miami 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars