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Steve Yates reading from The Teeth of the Souls at The Eudora Welty House, Jackson, Mississippi
JACKSON, Mississippi — Steve Yates reads from his new novel The Teeth of the Souls at the Eudora Welty House in Belhaven subdivision. The Eudora Welty House, located at 1119 Pinehurst Street, is open for tours by reservation only Tuesdays through Fridays at 9 and 11 a.m. and 1 and 3 p.m. Admission prices are…
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A Springfield History of Race and Faith
FOR IMMEDIATE NEWS RELEASE Contact: Missouri State University Office for Diversity and Inclusion Email: DiversityandInclusion@MissouriState.edu Telephone: 417-836-3736 A Springfield History of Race and Faith: A Reading and Panel Discussion Featuring Novelist Steve Yates With a Special Dance Performance by God’s Chosen Ministry (MSU’s Student Praise Ministry Group) 7:00-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25 In the Historic…
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A Q&A with the author of The Teeth of the Souls from Moon City Press
A QUESTION AND ANSWER with Steve Yates author of The Teeth of the Souls: A Novel from Moon City Press Born and reared in Springfield, Missouri, Steve Yates is an M.F.A. graduate from the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas. He is the winner of the Juniper Prize in Fiction and in 2013,…
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How research fires writing: wills, inventories, archives, photographs, and what I learned in Howard Bahr’s Research and Writing class
The conductor went back to his paperwork, and Artemus looked past him out the window where the woods, the moss, the houses—some of them on stilts now—passed in winter array, made soft and ephemeral in a light the color of old pearls. That sublime passage is Howard Bahr from his extraordinarily beautiful novel, Pelican Road.…
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Why the villain?
Why are the villains often so much more fun to write and so much more enjoyable to read about than our angels? Consider John Milton’s dilemma—the most exciting parts of his great epic poem, Paradise Lost, all involve Satan, the Fallen Angel. Look at Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. When the Duke of Bilgewater…
Fiction and History 