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Springfield College Award-Winning Fiction Writer Reads from Short Story Collection

Springfield College award-winning fiction writer and Associate Professor of English Justine Dymond read from her short story collection, The Emigrant and Other Stories, on Thursday, Sept. 23, in the The Forum, located inside the Harold C. Smith Learning Commons.

Springfield College award-winning fiction writer and Associate Professor of English Justine Dymond read from her short story collection, The Emigrant and Other Stories, on Thursday, Sept. 23, in the The Forum, located inside the Harold C. Smith Learning Commons.

 

Springfield College award-winning fiction writer and Associate Professor of English Justine Dymond read from her short story collection, The Emigrant and Other Stories, on Thursday, Sept. 23, in the The Forum, located inside the Harold C. Smith Learning Commons.

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Described as “smart and subversive” and “a masterful collection from a gifted stylist,” The Emigrant & Other Stories ranges widely in setting and era, including France during World War II, Maine in the early 18th century, and Tennessee in the 21st century.

The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won the 2018 Eludia Award from Hidden Rivers Arts. In advanced praise for The Emigrant and Other Stories, novelist Allison Amend notes, “Her stories’ astonishing breadth in style, time, and place allow Dymond to examine from all angles the powerful drive that propels us away from the familiar.”Dymond’s other awards and honors include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist grant, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer titled Brave of Worms, a 2007 O. Henry Prize, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her stories have appeared in PleiadesThe Massachusetts ReviewThe Briar Cliff ReviewMeat for TeaLowestoft Chronicle, and Cargo Literary.

Demeter Press issued her co-edited collection Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives in 2013. She has been honored with grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Writers OMI at Ledig House, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. On faculty in the Department of Literature, Writing, and Journalism at Springfield College since 2008, she is currently working on a novel based on the life of a woman who was tried for infanticide in Boston in 1733.

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