Robin McLean's Blog

Thanks to the editors at Panorama: The Journal of Travel Place and Nature for republishing one of my favorite stories, "Cold Snap" in their hot-off-the-presses issue on Ecology. It's both an amusing story (I think) and not very funny (you'll see). Put a sweater on before read it.

Thanks especially to Nicolas Sampson for recruiting my work for this wonderful new journal, and also, in general, for his tireless and ever-various efforts on so many important projects like Panorama.  The team there has collected an incredible range of works in Issue #11: tree experts and screenwriters. Critters and marshes. Poetry, fiction, essays, images.

I'm eager to dig in, and eventually to arrive at the Eaten Section, and "Ancient America's Corn Corridor" by my pal, Melissa Guerra. 

I really love their Mission Statement at Panorama too.

Happy Spring from Missoula, Montana!

Hey, if you're at AWP 24 in Kansas City, join me Thursday, Feb 8th at 9:00 am, and a panel of amazing writers of new kinds of American Westerns. 

A New Canon: Five Writers Remaking the American West

Room 2502A, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Thursday, February 8, 2024
9:00 am to 10:15 am

Otherwise, see you at the CutBank Table (#3009) in the Book Fair with all the Missoula writers!

See you there, Missoula. This should be fun....

All the details here.

This just posted.... A new Lost in Redonda episode with the brilliant book hounds Lori Feathers and Tom Flynn

We are talking about Ceremony, the great American novel by Lesley Marmon Silko. 

Listen now....

Australian short fiction writers will be gathering soon for a feast of words in Adelaide on Nov. 9-12 for the 2023 Australian Short Story Fest.

They have invited me along.

If you happen to be in Adelaide (or can send an Aussie friend), here's my schedule for the Fest. They will be keeping busy:

Thursday 9th, "Bridging the Divide, Exploring Dangerous Writing," A Workshop, 2-5pm
Friday 10th , in Conversation with Danielle Clode, 10.30-11.20am
Sunday 12th, "Looking Not to Settle" a Panel Conversation with Lisa L Hannett, 2.40-3.30pm

I'm so thrilled and honored to attend.

Thanks Anna Solding for inviting me.

Big thanks to Annabella Farmer and the Santa Fe Reporter for the great review and recommendation for Get'em Young. Read it here.

Please follow this link to Robin's recent Southwest Review book review about Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoe Perry. This wonderful new short novel is out from Charo Press just this last spring. It's good. 

Join us on May 23 in Reno for Music and stories of the West... Details here. 

READ IT!

Hey friends,

Get'm Young, my new collection of stories, just made the long list for the inaugural 2022 Republic of Consciousness Prize, a very fancy new prize only for small literary presses in the US and Canada. (I'm so thrilled!) It's been awarding amazing presses (and books) in the UK since 2017, but now they have come to North America.

If you have time, please sign up, put it on your calendar, and cheer me on March 1 at 6pm CST. I'll be reading from Get'em and talking about the book with all of the judges. I'll be joined by my genius editor Jeremy Davies and the brilliant authors and translators of the nine books on the long list. 

Five of the long list books will make it to the shortlist after this event. Crossing fingers for Get'em Young!

See you there!

Robin