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Celine Keating is an award-winning author living in Rhode Island. Her most recent novel is THE STARK BEAUTY OF LAST THINGS (2023). Portions of the novel awarded her first place winner of the Tucson Literary Festival Award in fiction in 2021 and the 2014 first place winner of the Hackney Literary Award in short fiction. Keating's second novel, Play for Me (2015) was an International Book Award finalist in literary fiction; her first novel, Layla, published in June, 2011, was chosen by both HuffPost and Poets & Writers as a must-read book. Keating is also the co-editor of On Montauk: A Literary Celebration, an anthology of prose and poetry. Her stories and other writing have appeared in Echoes, Emrys Journal, Mount Hope, The North Stone Revie ...more

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	Layla 3.97 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2011 — 7 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 Stark Beauty of Last Things 4.13 avg rating — 160 ratings — 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
	Play for Me: A Novel 3.83 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	On Montauk: A Literary Celebration by Celine Keating (Goodreads Author), Ed Johann (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 5 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

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My Search for Three Pines

(first published in Creativity & Constraint, Wising Up Press)
Most literary pilgrimages are to where an author has lived or worked; mine involved an imaginary place

Canada's Eastern Townships, L'Estrie, the region of Québec less than two hours' south of Montreal and just over the border from Vermont, is an area rich in beauty, culture, and history. After the American Revolution, some who were loyal Read more of this blog post »

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Triage: On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life (A Vintage Short)

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