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Arkansas Literary Festival
Arkansas Literary Festival from Steven B Yates on Vimeo. It was an honor to take Morkan’s Quarry (Moon City Press 2010) back to Arkansas and talk about it at the Arkansas Literary Festival. As I say in the vimeo here, Arkansas gave Tammy and me eight of the best years of our lives, at the…
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Dan Bush and Missouri Skies on the cover of Some Kinds of Love: Stories
It’s pouring this Sunday morning in Mississippi. But I am listening to spring peepers from Missouri on Dan Bush’s website, Missouri Skies (http://www.missouriskies.org/). Bush is a really wonderful photographer from Albany, Missouri, a way up north from the Ozarks. His photograph, Milky Way and Fairview Church, McFall, Missouri, 2009. Photo © Dan Bush, is the…
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Q & A with Steve Yates author of Some Kinds of Love: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press)
Steve Yates won the 2012 Juniper Prize for fiction, established in 2004 by the University of Massachusetts Press in collaboration with the UMass Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers, presented annually for an outstanding work of literary fiction. His collection, Some Kinds of Love: Stories, will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in…
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What does the title, Some Kinds of Love: Stories, mean? What’s it from?
So what does the title, Some Kinds of Love: Stories, mean? What’s it from? Well, this collection of twelve short stories, all published in literary journals from 1992-2010, is dedicated to my wife, Tamara Gebhart Yates, also of Springfield, Missouri, for a lot of reasons. For a major inspirational reason in that she was the…
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The Uses, Misuses, and Boundaries of History in Fiction about Missouri’s Civil War
[March 22, 2013, I’ll be on a panel at the Missouri Conference on History in Cape Girardeau put on by the State Historical Society of Missouri. A double honor, in that all through graduate school and my stint at University of Arkansas Press I was a subscriber and devoted reader of the Missouri Historical Review,…
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Howard Bahr and Steve Yates discuss civilians in the Civil War at Lorelei Books, Vicksburg
Saturday, June 9, from 5-6 p.m. Vicksburg, Mississippi, is certainly a fitting spot to discuss civilians in the American Civil War. Vicksburg’s citizens, trapped by the battle, were subjected to the most fierce bombardment in warfare up to that date. Even civilians in Sebastopol in the Crimean War were not so thoroughly pounded. I’m honored…
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Eleven mistakes of the writer to a producer OR how I blew my chance to be on The History Channel
I write this as quickly as I can both to remember it all, and because I think it’s funny. A well-meaning and very talented writer, Steve Wiegenstein, who wrote the new novel Slant of Light, suggested my name to a producer for a company that makes shows at the History Channel. She was scouting for…
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Place Horse Syndrome: Finalist Again? The Oddities of Short Story Collection Contests
Finalist for the 8th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, 2012 Finalist for the 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award Finalist for the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Book Award Finalist for the 2009 Bread Loaf Bakeless Literary Prize Finalist for the 2009 Iowa Prize in Fiction That’s the list of finalist-lists that my collection, Some Kinds of Love:…
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The Writer You Were Before: Revising or Accepting Your Own Monstrous Writing History
Here’s a conflict I never supposed I would face; for the most it is a welcome dilemma, certainly a worthy struggle. I learned early last week that my short story collection, Some Kinds of Love: Stories, won the 2012 Juniper Prize and will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. So over…
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