Inheritance Selections from The South Carolina Fiction Project Edited by Janette Turner Hospital ISBN: 1-891885-18-9  Paperback 288 pages, 6 x 9 Publication Date: April 2001 $18.00

Thirty-six stories from emerging and established fiction writers are collected inthis new anthology of award-winning stories from the South Carolina Arts Commission's long-running Fiction Project.

Inheritance marks the entry of novelist Janette Turner Hospital into the world of South Carolina story. Hospital, who serves as distinguished writer-in-residence at the University of South Carolina, selected these stories from more than 200 winners in 17 years of the statewide creative writing contest.

"These stories reveal a complex world," she writes in the introduction of Inheritance, "a world full of slippage and bewilderment, where the old binary oppositions between southerner and non-southerner, urban and rural, safe and unsafe no longer apply."

The authors represent an extraordinarily diverse cross-section of the state's literary community. Some are full-time writers or teachers; others find time during law careers or engineering jobs to produce their art. They live in small towns like Clemson and Ravenel; resorts areas like Hilton Head and Camden; and major cities like Columbia and Spartanburg.

Inheritance is a collaboration between the South Carolina Arts Commission and Spartanburg's Hub City Writers Project. The Fiction Project has been co-sponsored by the Charleston Post & Courier since 1993 and by The State newspaper prior to that.

Janette Turner Hospital was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1942, and came to the University of South Carolina in the fall of 1999 to fill the job of writer-in-residence vacated with the death of James Dickey. She is the author of nine internationally acclaimed novels and short story collections. The Ivory Swing (1982) won Canada's Seal Award, and her story collection Dislocations won the FAW Australian Natives Association Award.

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