A  virtual conversation with Beth Gilstrap | Deadheading and Other Stories

A virtual conversation with Beth Gilstrap | Deadheading and Other Stories

October 19th 2021 | 7:00 PM - 7:45 PM

Join us for a virtual evening with award-winning Southern author, Beth Gilstrap on October 19th at 7PM! We will be celebrating the release of her new short story collection, Deadheading and Other Stories. This is a free virtual event which we will host on Zoom. Signed copies are available for purchase. Register for free at the link below!

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Deadheading and Other Stories

by Beth Gilstrap

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“These stories are little gardens—the words blooming, the rain too.”—Leesa Cross-Smith, author of This Close to Okay

Irrevocably tied to the Carolinas, these stories tell tales of the woebegone, their obsessions with decay, and the haunting ache of the region itself—the land of the dwindling pines, the isolation inherent in the mountains and foothills, and the loneliness of boomtowns. Predominantly working-class women challenge the status quo by rejecting any lingering expectations or romantic notions of Southern femininity. Small businesses are failing. Factories are closing. Money is tight. The threat of violence lingers for women and girls. Through their collective grief, heartache, and unsettling circumstances, many of these characters become feral and hell-bent on survival. Gilstrap’s prose teems with wildness and lyricism, showing the Southern gothic tradition of storytelling is alive and feverishly unwell in the twenty-first century.

“Beth Gilstrap doesn't write stories. She creates worlds. Living, breathing, meticulously crafted ecosystems we can walk and breathe in. Around every corner is someone familiar, some bleeding wound that hasn't quite healed, some inhabitant walking through their lives independent of our gaze. These are heartbreaking worlds, but nonetheless beautiful.”—Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be

 

Beth Gilstrap is the author of I Am Barbarella (2015) from Twelve Winters Press. Her work has been selected as Longform.org’s “Fiction Pick of the Week” and chosen by Dan Chaon for inclusion in the Best Microfiction Anthology 2019. She holds an MFA from Chatham University. Her stories, essays, and hybrids have appeared in Ninth Letter, the Minnesota ReviewDenver Quarterly, Gulf Stream Lit, and Wigleaf, among others. Born and raised in the Charlotte area, she has recently relocated to Louisville.

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