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Sarabande Books, forthcoming August 2012
Recipient, 2011 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
"Binder has gone so deeply,
and with such mystical brilliance and loyalty, into her own world that she has brought mine to me in high relief. She both casts a spell and breaks it. To experience Rise is to experience wonder."
-- Laura Kasischke
"In one of these amazing stories a character says to her husband, 'Why are you smiling? You're scaring me.' That's how I feel about Rise.There is a yearning so deep in each story, something beautiful and urgent, that the book glows. L. Annette Binder arrives with worlds of empathy and strange surprise."
-- Ron Carlson
"Three years ago I read a story titled "Dead Languages." I came out of my chair. I've been in standing ovation position reading every subsequent story written by L. Annette Binder. They came exquisitely one by one, and now you are damn lucky to have them all in one wondrous volume. Rise."
-- Michelle Latiolais
L. Annette Binder is a stunningly talented writer. Her stories are the stories of outsiders, gripping and heartfelt, heightened with hidden undertones of the surreal. It is this tension that makes the worlds she creates so vibrant, and allows her readers to see so deeply into these characters' souls. Rise is a beautiful book, and Binder’s words cut clear and straight to the bone.
-- Hannah Tinti
available now for preorder on Amazon and Barnes and Noble
Individual Stories
"Ithaca," Phoebe (forthcoming, 2012)
"Sidewinder," Indiana Review (forthcoming, 2012)
"Lay My Head," Fairy Tale Review (December 2011)
"Black Eye," West Branch Wired (September 2011)
"Tremble," Quarterly West (September 2011)
"Paradiso," Water~Stone Review (Vol. 14, 2011)
"Rise," Crab Orchard Review (Fall/Winter 2011) (not the same as the Swink story)
"Sea of Tranquility," American Short Fiction (Summer 2011), Second Place in the 2011 American Short Fiction Contest (judged by Wells Tower, who called the story's premise "wondrously imagined" and "broadening a humane and humble portrait of a new family into something cosmos-size").
"Galatea," Third Coast (Spring 2011)
"The Last He Knew," Weber: The Contemporary West (Spring/Summer 2011) (entire issue available here)
"Nephilim," One Story 141 (October 15, 2010) (forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2012))
"Weights and Measures," Avery Anthology 6 (August 2010)
"Rise," Swink (August 2010)
"Wrecking Ball," Bellingham Review (Vol. 62, 2010) (full text available here)
"Halo," Green Mountains Review (Vol. 22: 2, 2009)
"Stealing Time," Oxford Magazine (Summer 2009)
"Nod," Beloit Fiction Journal (Vol. 22, Spring 2009)
"Dead Languages," The Southern Review (Vol. 45:1, Winter 2009)
"Castle Rock," The Fiddlehead (No. 238, Winter 2009)
"Hive," The South Dakota Review (Vol. 46:4, Winter 2008)
"Shelter," Short Story (Fall 2008)
"Ghost Girl," Storyglossia (Issue 30, October 2008), a storySouth Notable Story of 2008
"Mourning the Departed," Carve (Vol. IX.3, September 2008), Second Place in the 2008 Carve Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, judged by Cristina Henríquez
"What We Leave Behind," Rosebud Magazine (Vol. 42, Fall 2008)
"Taking the 11:10," Oklahoma Review (Vol. 9.1, Spring 2008)
"Walking the Reservoir at Night," Clapboard House (Winter 2008)
Awards and Honors
Recipient, 2011 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction (judged by Laura Kasischke)
Recipient, 2011 Dr. Neila C. Seshachari Fiction Award (for "Lay My Head," which appeared in Weber: The Contemporary West)
Pushcart Prize, Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2012)
Second Place, 2011 American Short Fiction Contest (judged by Wells Tower)
Finalist, 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
Finalist, 2010 Iowa Review Award
Semi-Finalist, 2010 Katherine Anne Porter Prize
Honorable Mention, 2009 Robert and Adele Prize for Fiction (judged by Brock Clarke)
Finalist, 2009 Tobias Wolff Award
Wigleaf Long List, 2009
Second Place, 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest (judged by Cristina Henríquez)
Honorable Mention, 2008 Red Hen Press Short Fiction Contest (judged by Ron Carlson)
StorySouth Notable Story, 2008
Finalist, 2008 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest
