Fiction and History

Tag: Arkansas Ozarks

A Q&A with the inaugural Knickerbocker Prize Winner Steve Yates and Big Fiction’s Lauren Hohle

In August 2013, Big Fiction, published in hand-set type on a letterpress and dedicated to the long short story, the novella, issued its inaugural Knickerbocker Prize. Chosen by acclaimed novelist and short story writer Lauren Groff, the first prize novella, “Sandy and Wayne,” is a love story set in the Arkansas Ozarks on the interstate…

January 16, 2016
A Q&A with the inaugural Knickerbocker Prize Winner Steve Yates and Big Fiction’s Lauren Hohle

In August 2013, Big Fiction, published in hand-set type on a letterpress and dedicated to the long short story, the novella, issued its inaugural Knickerbocker Prize. Chosen by acclaimed novelist and short story writer Lauren Groff, the first prize novella, “Sandy and Wayne,” is a love story set in the Arkansas Ozarks on the interstate…

August 25, 2013
Working definition: Emotional truth

Emotional Truth A visceral, heartfelt connection that arises between reader and character or characters through the unfolding (and possibly the resolution) of an invented, narrated conflict, a connection so powerful that the reader perceives reality and truth in what is known to be pretend, known to be fiction. This truth arises through a combination of…

March 3, 2010