Foreigners are flocking to Palestine, but not for Holy Land pilgrimages or beach vacations. This book tells two stories that have become intertwined in the Middle East: the Palestinians who, tired of waiting for U.N. peacekeepers, have called upon the world’s activists for protection, and the people who are putting their lives on the line answering that call. Together these Americans, Palestinians, Israelis, and Europeans are making a non-violent, grassroots attempt to challenge the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.The core of this collection lies in the riveting eye-witness accounts of life under the Occupation. From the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to refugee camps under siege, these accounts give incontrovertible evidence of the terror generated by the Israeli army. Giving context to these stories is an interview with the founder of the Palestinian-led International Solidarity Movement, which brings "internationals" to Israel and the Occupied Territories, and essays by other human rights activists such as prominent Palestinians Hanan Ashrawi and Edward Said.While Bush’s "war on terrorism" continues to be hampered by the unresolved Palestinian quest for statehood, almost 100,000 activists converged upon Washington in April, 2002 to demonstrate against militarism and for global economic justice, with a particular focus on Palestine. In the only book capturing the new international movement to end the Occupation, these harrowing and poignant stories create a portrait of diverse people making unprecedented efforts for peace.Nancy Stohlman is co-organizer of the Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace. Her journals from Palestine have appeared in Counterpunch and Common Dreams.Laurieann Aladin is a writer and member of both the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Amnesty International. She lectures throughout the country.

Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Occupation

History

Stohlman, Nancy

Aladin, Laurieann

Americas

South End Press

Natalie's search is an intrepid journey through her own sexuality. Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, 'Natalie' begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.

Searching for Suzi

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Monkey Puzzle Press

Flash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy. Enter Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction. In this, her treatise on the form, veteran writer Nancy Stohlman takes us on a flash fiction journey: from creating, sculpting, revisioning and collecting stories to best practices for writers in any genre. It is both instructive and conversational, witty and practical, and presented in flash fiction chapters that demonstrate the form as they discuss it. If you’re already a flash fiction lover, this book will be a dose of inspiration. If you teach flash fiction, you’ll want it as part of your repertoire. And if you’re new to the form, you might just find yourself ready to begin.

Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Ad Hic Fiction

Flash Fiction Festival Four

Jones, Karen

O'Connor, Nuala

Pokrass, Meg

Hershman, Tania

Balagopal, Sudha

Carle, K B

Fish, Kathy

Festival, Flash Fiction

Elkes, K M

Literary

Ad Hoc Fiction

Hilarious, irreverent, twisted, bawdy, brilliant - these short shorts by Nancy Stohlman feel like a series of off-kilter encounters with the strangest characters you swear you've met before in a previous, more interesting lifetime. With sly humor and daring, Stohlman weaves tiny tales reminiscent of Etgar Keret, but with her own inimitable stamp. The Vixen Scream and other Bible Stories is an amazing collection. Do not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it. - Kathy Fish, author of 'Together We Can Bury It' The Vixen Scream is a collection of compelling and strikingly original stories - an imagination functioning at full throttle. Nancy Stohlman is a word-alchemist, and here is her book of wonders! - Robert Scotellaro, author of 'Measuring the Distance'

The Vixen Scream and other Bible Stories

Pure Slush Books

!! FINALIST IN THE 2019 COLORADO BOOK AWARDS FOR LITERARY FICTION !!Step right up and meet a woman so determined to be a star she’ll try anything, including spray on Instant Fame! Meet her reflection, who dreams of a life of her own and manages to find love on the Internet! See the man desperately trying to earn a world record in the most bizarre way possible! Learn the origins of the Four-Legged Woman and the Human Skeleton! Clown mothers, suicidal ringmasters, cult leader who teach the cha-cha and Alaska Jackson’s Traveling Medicine Show…each one takes center stage in this vaudeville of flash fiction. Flash fiction, microfiction, short-short stories… regardless of the name, it’s all the same—a compressed story that packs a punch. Enter a cabaret of the weird, the absurd, and the bizarre with this bold and bawdy new collection.
“Madam Velvet, Hah! This Cabaret of Oddities is pure Stohlman—wild world records, mothers as clowns, circus performers like the ape lady, the human pincushion, and dog-faced boy-- topped by the Fantasy Hand Job Brothel. We will all be returning to this startling and outrageous collection for years to come.” ~ Pamela Painter, Ways to Spend the Night 
“Nancy Stohlman’s writing is so damn sharp here. And each of these shards that make up Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities is connected by this silly-sad-hopeful-absurd-melancholic web that catches everything you do not want, and you’ll find yourself longing for what’s not caught. But you will end up caught in the web too, with all of that mess. I’ve never read a book like this, and I’m excited to hear all of the conversations surrounding it.” ~ Steven Dunn, Water and Power
“Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities is a work of irrepressible imagination, bawdy, dire, and endlessly appealing. It's also a memoir by means of dissociation—an exercise that goes to the heart of fiction, and anyone alive.”~ Robert Shapard, co-editor W.W. Norton anthology series in Sudden and Flash Fiction
 “Nancy Stohlman writes all of her stories with moxie and flare, and her singular verve vibrates through her latest collection. She takes the reader on a carnivalesque but touching ride through a hall of mirrors that includes misfits, eccentrics, and outcasts. Be careful to look twice through the mirrors in these stories because there is always more to see.” ~ Grant Faulkner, Fissures

Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities

Short Stories & Anthologies

Big Table Publishing Company

After the Rapture is a flash fiction hybrid book written at the intersection between flash fiction and the novel. A leader and innovator of the form, Stohlman fragments the long form narrative into the distilled intensity of micro and compressed fiction while still maintaining a larger story arc. After the Rapture is a flash fiction hybrid book written at the intersection between flash fiction and the novel. A leader and innovator of the form, Stohlman fragments the long form narrative into the distilled intensity of micro and compressed fiction while still maintaining a larger story arc. Nancy Stohlman has authored four previous books of flash fiction including The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, and Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities, which was a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her flash fictions have been anthologized in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Very Short Stories and in Macmillan's The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students. Her flash fiction craft book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, won the Readers View Gold Award and was recently re-released as an audiobook. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and runs workshops and retreats around the world. "In this world of Walmarts, Barbies, Kens, orgies/time-shares, 7-11s, clones, a red Lake Michigan, and dreams, Nancy Stohlman's humor and talent shines. The rapture becomes more than just a rapture: it's a world turning on its head, acceptance, and then finding a new normal. Redeeming and heart-felt, this dystopian novel-in-flashes is one not to forget. After the Rapture is a rapture!"--Kim Chinquee, three-time Pushcart Prize winner, author of seven collections and the novel, Pipette "After the Rapture is a startling, rhapsodic, brilliant tome. Stohlman dares to venture into an intricate mosaic of layered, futuristic identities, individualities, and lives both wasted and yet fully explored. A dazzling oscillation of scintillating prose, on the threshold between the ephemeral and the eternal. After the Rapture is a book full of surprise and wonder, a compelling and majestic book."--Robert Vaughan, author of Askew, Funhouse and Addicts & Basements "Mesmerizing, challenging, funny, awesome, entertaining, bewildering, full of doom, wisdom, absurdity, and heart. I love how gigantic and scary Biblical personages and events are swallowed up by commercial / pop culture. It's ridiculous, genius, and moving, all at the same time."--Robert Shapard, co-editor of the Norton Flash Fiction anthologies Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, and Flash Fiction International Fiction. Hybrid. Women's Studies.

After the Rapture

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Mason Jar Press

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