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'5 Under 35' National Book Award nominees all women

Congrats to the '5 Under 35' National Book Awards honorees—for the first time, all women!

I’m honored to be interviewing the nominees on video at the annual party on November 18th at powerHouse Arena in Dumbo.

Carrie Brownstein, acclaimed musician and a creator, writer, and star of Portlandia, will host the event. Author Fiona Maazel, a 2008 5 Under 35 author, and a fantastic writer, will moderate a conversation among the young writers.

NOMINEES:
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans, (W.W. Norton & Company, February 2014)
Selected by Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award Winner in 2011 for Salvage the Bones

NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names, (Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown, 2013)
Selected by Junot Díaz, National Book Award Finalist in 2012 for This is How You Lose Her

Amanda Coplin, The Orchardist, (Harper, 2012)
Selected by Louise Erdrich, National Book Award Winner in 2012 for The Round House

Daisy Hildyard, Hunters in the Snow, (Jonathan Cape, Random House UK, 2013)
Selected by Kevin Powers, National Book Award Finalist in 2012 for The Yellow Birds

Merritt Tierce, Love Me Back, (Doubleday, fall 2014)
Selected by Ben Fountain, National Book Award Finalist in 2012 for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

I’m thinking back to a day long ago when Vonnegut told my Iowa MFA class (back in 2001) that women writers were “writing the most important and innovative work of the next generation.”

He was also chain-smoking in a dorm rec hall when he told us this, which made it feel even more magical!
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Published on September 13, 2013 12:28 Tags: 5-under-35, lit, literary-awards, national-book-award, publishing

Prep-reading for National Book Award '5 Under 35 Interviews

What I’ll be reading (and rereading) as I prep to interview the 8th annual ‘5 Under 35’ National Book Foundation authors on November 18th at powerhouse Arena. Hosted by Carrie Brownstein & moderated by Fiona Maazel.

The 5 Under 35 authors’ books: Daisy Hildyard, NoViolet Bulawayo, Amanda Coplin, Molly Antopol, and Merrit Tierce, whose book is out Fall 2014.

National Book Award winners (each selected a 5 Under 35 author): Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Powers, Junot Díaz, Ben Fountain and Louise Erdrich.

I’m feeling very fortunate to spend time with such amazing authors, and their books.

Plus, I got a National Book Awards tote bag. #booknerdheaven
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Cutting Teeth available for preorder & where I'll be teaching in 2014--Iowa City & Madeline Island

So much excitement in these past few weeks--Cutting Teeth has a cover (voila!) Cutting Teeth A Novel by Julia Fierro ; I interviewed fabulous women writers at the National Book Award '5 Under 35' party; tonight I'm heading to the NBA ceremony & dinner at Cipriani (in a gown, no less, my husband in a tux for the first time since our wedding); and…Cutting Teeth can be preordered:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Indiebound
Powell's City of Books
My publisher's website


If you preorder, email me your proof of purchase and I’ll enter your name in a special "preorder Cutting Teeth contest" to win a hand-knitted scarf/hat combo.
Knitted by yours truly, of course.

I hope to be knitting a lot in the next 6 months, outfitting CUTTING TEETH readers in warm woolly goods.

Thank you to everyone who has already supported me and Cutting Teeth, whether through pre-ordering the book, or sharing the book cover over the social media grapevine, or just sharing my excitement.
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Also, here is a discussion of sexism in the literary world I was honored to contribute to.
http://brooklynbased.com/blog/2013/11...
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Also, also, I’ll be reading at the amazing WORD Brooklyn bookstore on Friday, December 6th with Chelsea Hodson, Joseph Rippi, and special guest, Kevin Sampsell, to celebrate the release of Kevin new book, This Is Between Us, from Tin House Books.
The reading is sponsored by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
http://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2013/10/2...
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Workshop your fiction with me!
I promise it will be fun, inspiring, and the most thorough feedback ever. I love to talk, teach & discuss the craft of fiction.

July 2014: I’m teaching two workshops—a week-long MFA Application Prep Workshop and a weekend Novel-Writing Workshop in late July at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
The 2014 summer schedule and registration will be up, and open, soon.
http://bit.ly/1fVOXyU

September 2014: I’m teaching a week-long fiction workshop on gorgeous Madeline Island School of the Arts in Wisconsin from 9/15-9/19.
Registration for The Craft Of Fiction: Writing The Short Story And The Novel is open now.
http://bit.ly/I3Dqls
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Author of The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth

Julia Fierro
My second novel, The Gypsy Moth Summer, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on June 6th. Cutting Teeth, my debut novel was released in May 2014, and my work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Buzzfe ...more
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