Below is an announcement from Wilmington Community Television’s “Book Stew:”
Hello and happy one-less-month-of-misery February!
I’m beyond excited that Shannon Sanders, author of the award-winning linked short story collection Company, succumbed to my fangirling and joined me this month on Book Stew. Shannon shares that she did not follow the standard path to publishing success. She did not attend an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) program, like the Iowa and Michigan programs that churn out so many current literary fiction writers. Instead, she joined a very supportive local writer’s group and used the wisdom and advice gained to survive endless rejections until one of her stories was accepted by a literary magazine, she won a major writing award, and then was discovered by an agent. The stories in her first collection reveal the tension between “what you do and say, versus what you think and feel”. The title is inspired by all the comings and goings between relatives and friends, and the repercussions of opening (and closing) that front door. It also features a family tree, such a welcome aid to enjoying the lives of the four sisters, their husbands, children, and the cousins who make up the universe of the book.
Please check out the links below, and, more importantly, check out Shannon’s remarkable short story collection Company.
Thanks for reading and listening!
Eileen MacDougall is the host/producer of 120+ episodes of Book Stew, a web series and podcast originating in 2013, featuring every variety of authors, illustrators, poets, and playwrights, plus a cat that survived a tornado and lived to write about it!
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