Tartts Three: Incicisve Fiction from Emerging Writers

Tartts #3

by Joe Taylor (editor)

This is the third book containing editors' picks from the Annual Tartt First Fiction Award. With twenty-three authors, this anthology has the largest number of contributors yet. The editors have tried for a balance of tone moving from humor to tragedy, with styles running from gritty realism to the fantastical. Xujun Eberlein (winner), Steven Allaback, Gilbert Allen, CB Anderson, Jacob M. Appel, William Borden, Bonnie Roop Bowles, Michael Burke, Michael W. Cox, James Gish, Alta Ifland, Tyrone Jaeger, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Daniel Libman, Carol Manley (runner-up), Robert Maxwell, Ginny Mackenzie, Katherine Toy Miller, Pat Miller, CD Mitchell, Letitia Lehua Moffitt, James Nolan, and John Vanderslice

250 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 2007

About the author

I’ve had stories published in over 100 literary magazines. Pineapple, A Comic Novel in Verse, was published by Sagging Meniscus Press, as was Back to the Wine Jug, another novel in verse. NewSouth Books published The Theoretics of Love. Sagging Meniscus also published a story collection of mine, entitled Ghostly Demarcations. A previous novel of mine, Oldcat & Ms. Puss: A Book of Days for You and Me, was published several years ago by the now defunct Black Belt Press, and it was reviewed in Publishers Weekly. I have three story collections published, and I’ve edited several anthologies, notably, Belles’ Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama Women and Tartts One through Five. I recently published a novel with the imposing title, Let There Be Lite, OR, How I Came To Know and Love Godel’s Incompleteness Proof. I’ve been the director of Livingston Press . . . forever.