There are landmines in the backyard

"Harvested Cornfield' by Kelly Sikkema,
used under CC license

We're at the end of the first week of Awst Press featuring my writing.  Today's feature is one of my favorite stories, "This Bomb My Heart."

"This Bomb My Heart," originally appeared in War, Literature and the Arts, and is the story of a girl whose brother comes home after multiple tours of war and begins planting landmines in the field behind the house. Please enjoy the story by following this link to Awst.

Awst is an independent press located in Austin, Texas. 

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A Couple Jumped Out of an Airplane

"Opposed" by Ben Seidelman,
used under CC license.

Awst Press has gathered a number of my stories and will, for the next several weeks, be displaying them on their website for all to enjoy. The feature also includes an upcoming interview and the release of my newest story, "The Wandering House."

Today, Awst is featuring my story "The Skydivers," which originally appeared in Emrys Journal.

Please stroll over to Awst to learn more about the wonderful work they're doing in Austin, TX, and to enjoy writing by a range of voices.

Add them to your Facebook page to receive updates in your feed there, as well as Twitter.

What do you bury in holes so deep?

"Mist" by Marilyn Peddle, used under CC license

You can now read "Digging," the first story of the Awst Press feature. "Digging" is the story of a brother and sister who discover their family buried in the forest. "Digging" was originally published in Lake Effect, and is in my story collection, The Floating Order.

Awst will be featuring my work for the next several weeks. Please check back in for new work as the days unwind. Feature page here.

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To Be Curated, Inside a Project with Awst Press

AWST PRESS

IMPRESSIVE WORKS FROM DIVERSE VOICES

So, it's official, I have been curated.  And I couldn't be happier, really.  What does that mean?  I'm part of an innovative project run by Awst Press, an Austin-based small press, that specializes in new writers and writing.

The project: Awst chooses a guest curator who selects a handful of writers whose lives and work will be featured with Awst over the course of a few months; the project culminates in a chapbook of new work by those writers.

My curator is writer, filmmaker, teacher, and performer Owen Egerton. For the next two weeks, Awst Press will, from behind the glass of your computer screen, display my stories, words, answers to questions; my new story, "The Wandering House," will be available as a printed chapbook for purchase.

And so it has begun. Come with me to Awst Press: http://www.awst-press.com/erin-pringle-toungate/

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That Day in Southword Journal

"That Day," one of the pieces from my childhood memoir, The Girl's Made of Bone, is now available to read in the new issue of Southword Journal.  It comes from a cycle of memories from early childhood.

To read other pieces from The Girl's Made of Bone, see the following:

•  "From The Wind-Up Swing" in Gravel"
• "When We Were This Many" in Gravel
• "The Joke" in 2River
• "That Was Your Sister's Dress" in 2River
• "Long Before My Sister Decides to Die" in 2River
• "The Way To My Sister's House" in 2River
• "Friday Nights" in 2River
• "There Was A Coupon in the Newspaper" in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
• "What's Left" in Gambling the Aisle (Issue 8, page 8)

"I will be an arts president." ~ Senator Bernie Sanders

"You have my promise that, as president, I will be an arts president. . . Art is speech, art is what life is about." pic.twitter.com/tj3LKokjEG

— Project Bernie '16 (@ProjectBernie16) January 30, 2016

A Literary Valentine's Day in Spokane, 2/14/16

There's nothing better to do on Valentine's Day than to read strange, dark fairy tales . . . except to hear new fairy tales performed by the writers themselves. I'll be one of several poets and fiction writers telling stories at The Bing Crosby Theater. So, join us.

All you need to bring is your heart in a box, or a ticket.

When? 7 PM

Tickets: $17

A Chapbook: The Unique Stocking Stuffer for Readers

Dimensions of this Chapbook: 4" x 6"

Typical dimensions of a stocking: More than 4" x 6"

Stuffable?

Yes.



"How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble"
by Erin Pringle-Toungate

What's the Chapbook? "How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble" is a longer story that revolves around the disappearance and death of a sister, an agricultural fair in the rural Midwest, and a man who has been shot.

Beginning Excerpt:

                But aside from the black crepe ribbons that flap on the white poles of the fair entrance archway, anyone who didn't live in the town last summer or close enough to hear the nightly news or who didn't ask about the luminaries lining the dirt avenue that ran along the fair's midway last night, wouldn't know that a young woman named Helen Greene disappeared from last summer's Agricultural Fair.
                Under the fair entrance archway linger the men who served pancakes at the church last month and sell fabric poppies at the one lighted intersection on Memorial Day weekend. They wear neon yellow vests over their T-shirts and bellies. Just before dark, the traffic into the fairgrounds will become steady, and when dark falls, they'll swing their flashlights and raise their hands in greeting to the people they recognize, and they recognize most everyone.

                Tonight, the carnies will speak in tongues and the town will drop screams from the rides, buy tickets, carry whorls of cotton candy back to their trailers and leaning homes--until somewhere in the middle night, the sound of the fair will become one constant chord, like the interstate in the distance or the light rushing through glass bulbs.

Publisher: The Head and The Hand Press, Philadelphia 2015

Original Publisher: The Minnesota Review

Awards: Finalist in The Kore Fiction Contest, nominated for Pushcart Prize

Length: 43 pages

Price (including shipping): $6.25

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Call for Fiction, Literati Quarterly Winter 2015/16 Issue

Hello, you!

Fall Issue!
The Fall Issue of The Literati Quarterly is now up, which I'm very pleased to announce for a number of reasons:

• I'm the fiction editor over there now
• The poetry editor and I designed this issue
• I interviewed Tara Snowden (see page 63!), the featured artist of the issue, whose work I have admired for a number of years
• We have new fiction by Michael Martone, Kate J. Reed, Jack Kaulfus, GJ Jensen, and Austin Eichelberger

Winter Issue!
Call for Winter 2015/2016 issue of The Literati Quarterly 

The Literati Quarterly is now accepting poetry, fiction, plays, translations, essays, art, interviews, reviews, or a hybrid thereof, for the Winter Issue. Work that touches on life, loss, darkness, love and friendship are preferred. The issue will be dedicated to the life of the editor-in-chief's significant other, who died tragically this Summer.

More information for the fiction side of the issue:

• Longer stories preferred over flash (stories of at least 10 pages and capping at about 20 pages)
• Stories desired that prize the language as much, or more than, the plot
• Cleverness-for-the-sake-of-cleverness is not an asset here

Deadline for submission is December 6th.

Go read the Fall Issue now!
And here's the LQ on Facebook

 

Midyear Memo: Words, Here

Untitled by Crystal, via Flickr
Used under CC license

Fall is threatening, friend, and so I wanted to update you on my projects this year, and let you know where some of my words will appear this Autumn.  I started working on a memoir-in-verse this Spring that I hope to have completed by mid-Winter. Luckily, I've been receiving good feedback about the poems, or micro non-fictions, as I'd like to call them, which began appearing out in the world this summer.  As the pieces are published, I'll update this post with links.  Here's to a wonderful autumn, wet with leaves and love, love always, now that I'm a mother.

Available

•  "From The Wind-Up Swing" in Gravel"
• "When We Were This Many" in Gravel
• "The Joke" in 2River
• "That Was Your Sister's Dress" in 2River
• "Long Before My Sister Decides to Die" in 2River
• "The Way To My Sister's House" in 2River
• "Friday Nights" in 2River
• "There Was A Coupon in the Newspaper" in Journal of Compressed Creative Arts (Matter Press)
• "What's Left" in Gambling the Aisle (Issue 8, page 8)
• "How The Sun Burns Among Hills of Rock and Pebble," chapbook from The Head and The Hand Press available in Philadelphia at Elixir Coffee or, from my author stash, if you'd like a signed copy ($6)
• "The Lightning Tree," a short story from Underground Voices e-story series ($1.50)

Old News
The Floating Order, my first collection of short stories, is still in print from Two Ravens Press (2009).

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I enjoy speaking with readers, sharing my work, and visiting classrooms. 

Please contact me to set up an event.