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Current Work
Venus of Chalk Finalist for Lambda Literary Award!
Through an ardent faith in the written word, Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities. -Alice Sebold I am writing a new novel based on the life and family of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth century preacher and theologian best known for his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God." Elizabeth Tuttle, Jonathan's wild grandmother, is central to the story. World views based on ideas, doctrine and spiritual insight are dangerous and incomplete without the bend, breath and force of mess and emotion. Tongued together, thought and experience can pull a world.
Venus of Chalk, my most recent novel, was published by Firebrand Books in 2004. It is the story of an awakening muse.
Read an excerpt here. For more reviews and interviews, click the "Review Excerpts" button below.
Venus of Chalk Chosen One of Top Ten Lesbian Books of 2004 by Publishing Triangle!
VENUS OF CHALK is one of BOOK MARK's top ten fiction books of 2004!
Readings
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Susan Stinson is not just a writer of considerable talent, she is an event. - Icon Magazine, Toronto Passionate performances of fiction and poetry that run on powerful language and a wide-ranging aesthetic sensibility.
Workshops
Explicit, liberating, painful and wonderful! I've never heard anything like it. -Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Body Language - Explore the possibilities for joy in the body (all bodies!) and responses to discrimination based on size using analysis, poetry, writing exercises and discussion.
Writing Fiction - Use the evidence of the senses, writing exercises, and the example of great art to find ways to give charactacters the things they need to be fully human.
Writing Coaching - Individual sessions designed to help writers set goals, plan projects, identify specific steps, and discover what inspires them to keep working. Single session or monthly follow up available. |
Short Bio
Susan Stinson's previous novels are Fat Girl Dances with Rocks(1994) and Martha Moody (1995). Belly Songs, a collection of poetry and lyric essays, was published in 1993.
Her work -- which has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Curve and The Women's Review of Books -- has received the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction as well as a number of fellowships. London's Diva magazine has called her "the most criminally underrated dyke novelist in the world." She was born in Texas, raised in Colorado, and now lives in Northampton, MA.
Susan has given workshops and also been a featured speaker, panelist and lecturer at Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Wheaton College, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts, and Smith College, as well as conferences such as the National Women's Studies Association, Nolose, NAAFA, OutWrite, and Saints and Sinners Literary Festival.
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Honors
Fellowships from the Vogelstein Foundation, Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, others |
Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Authors Guild
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Contact
PO Box 1272
Northampton, MA
01060
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Artist Location
Northampton, MA
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Type of artist
Writer
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General Themes
Body Image/Body Size, Sexuality, Feminism/Gender Issues, History |
Keywords
novels, fiction, writing, literature, poetry, fat, body, lesbian, queer, speculative fiction, western literature, New England, Massachusetts,Texas,Colorado, puritans, Jonathan Edwards |
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