{"title":"BOA Short Fiction Prize Winners","description":"Previous winners of the BOA Short Fiction Prize.","products":[{"product_id":"the-era-of-not-quite","title":"The Era of Not Quite","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDouglas Watson\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es debut story collection is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves. People fall in and out of love, walk in and out of buildings, take two steps forward and two steps back. Futility is a theme of the book, but so is the necessity of trying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eSigned copies available in limited quantities\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Era of Not Quite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eHerein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson’s first collection of stories, \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Era of Not Quite\u003c\/i\u003e, can mend a broken world.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christine Schutt, author of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eProsperous Friends\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eOnce upon a time, an acquaintance of Kurt Vonnegut, having read all of the writer’s books, accused Vonnegut of putting bitter coatings on very sweet pills, and I am here to level the same charge against Douglas Watson. Yes, this collection is a relentless catalogue of frailty, folly, and mortal misery, but if you look beyond the cholera, the neck wounds, the burning feet, the bleached bones, the voids, the caves, the deaths at sea, the stillborn babes, the senseless yearnings of the heart, the grief and despair and profound loneliness, then what you will find, reader, is a tender, lovely, elegant celebration of the very idea of life, of living. These are vital and exceptional tales.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChris Bachelder, author of \u003ci\u003eAbbott Awaits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublication Date: April 19, 2013\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e978-1-938160-10-3\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45961813491941,"sku":"9781938160103","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":45961813524709,"sku":"9781938160104","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/THE_ERA_OF_NOT_QUITE.jpg?v=1527683368"},{"product_id":"the-tao-of-humiliation","title":"The Tao of Humiliation","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e Best Book of 2014\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe Last Satyr\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eThe satyr apologized to whatever powers cast him into the human world as the last of his kind. He apologized for despoiling, yanking, mewling. For adopting the language and mannerisms of every woman he touristed, for \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eshedding on the camp bed,\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e for \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003esundry pharmaceutical trips.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e For his preference for the wives of easily dissatisfied men.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eIt was on the curdling skin of the swimming pool that he caught sight of the future--his gruesome hairy face out of which his eyes winced. He told himself he did not want to know why at some future moment he was wincing. The water flashed and sparkled and the future disappeared, filling instantly with the reflection of a diving board.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eSigned copies available in limited copies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eReaders will want to live inside this wonderful book — not just in its parties and wrecked gatherings and sophisticated conversations but in the sentences themselves, which are genuine shelters: long, erudite, warmhearted and capable, brimming with scholarship and knowledge. In its own way, each sentence is a container filled with something revelatory.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, Sunday Shortlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cimg width=\"28\" height=\"28\" alt=\"\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e Star:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e“Masterful stories by a writer of great lyrical gifts. Upton focuses on personal relationships, especially the immediacy and estrangement that emerge from the intensity of family life … Upton specializes in ending her stories with epiphanies that can be searing in their poignancy. These 17 tales explore personal and familial relationships with both pathos and humor—and all are well worth reading.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e *Starred* Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Upton’s stories are playful, full of clever allusions that are deftly presented … Upton’s story openings tend to be vivid; they’re great hooks … This is a smart and highly entertaining book.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —PW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Upton, award-winning poet and literary critic, shows her mastery of the short form … This entertaining collection will appeal to fans of a variety of literary authors, such as Grace Paley, Edith Pearlman, and Lewis Nordan\u003cem\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eUpton elicits tremendous sympathy on the part of the reader for these and other characters facing existential crises, often with great aplomb ... These well-imagined stories bear the mark of the poet in the best sense, and the reader will not soon forget them.”\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e —Library Journal \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Starred* Revie\u003ci\u003ew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLee Upton\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es stories in The Tao of Humiliation are startlingly original, emotionally compelling, and delicately crafted, making them that most satisfying of finds: a great read.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bathsheba Monk, WDIY, Lehigh Valley’s NPR Affiliate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Simply put, this is one of the finest short story collections published in 2014. Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, Upton’s stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a woman who searches through her past lives to recall a romantic encounter with the poet Yeats; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the poignant scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman. This is short story writing at its best.” \u003cstrong\u003e—BUSTLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e “\u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eIris and Jacob slept with their backs to one another, as if even during dreams they were headed in opposite directions.' If you’re charmed by that sentence—the opening sentence of 'Touch Us,'—then Lee Upton’s gracefully written collection of storie\u003ci\u003es T\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003ehe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/i\u003e is for you. For Upton, fiction is a primary form imagination assumes to reveal the contours of the inviolable mysteriousness of human relationships. Her stories are at once deeply insightful, and wise enough to leave the mystery intact.”\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\" data-mce-style=\"color: black;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Stuart Dybek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lee Upton’s new story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/em\u003e is funny and wise, in the way that Grace Paley’s and Edith Pearlman’s stories are funny and wise. Which is to say, the humor and wisdom in Upton’s stories are never cheap, always hard earned, and the stories themselves are beautifully written and moving, even, or especially, at their most perverse ... What a collection! Another remarkable book by one of our most remarkable writers.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Brock Clarke, author of \u003cem\u003eExley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Imagine if M.C. Escher had taken up the short story form, or Borges had constructed labyrinths not out of libraries but lives of quiet desperation, and you have a sense of Lee Upton’s sublime \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the rare book that reminds us how, once upon a time, storytelling was both a maker’s and seer’s art; Upton’s stories have the quality of winding dreams—illusory, intricately textured and architectured—and you emerge from them with the uncanny feeling that their world hasn’t quite let go of you yet. \u003ci\u003eThe Tao of Humiliation \u003c\/i\u003eis transcendent.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Joseph Bates, author of \u003ci\u003eTomorrowland: Stories  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"\u003eA poet, fiction writer, and essayist, Lee Upton is the author of thirteen books. Her poetry appears widely in such venues as \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic, American Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, and more than three dozen of her short stories have been published in various places. Upton’s awards include the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer\/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, and the National Poetry Series Award, among many others. 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They retaliate for bad marriages, derail their lives with desires and delusions, and wait decades for lovers. How far will we go to escape to a better dream? What consequences must we face for hope and fantasy? Probing the dark underbelly of human nature and want, Robin McLean’s stories are strange, often disturbing and funny, and as full of foolishness and ugliness as they are of the wisdom and beauty all around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eOnce you’ve read these nine stories, forgetting them is as unlikely as discovering the end-point of pi. Kissing cousins to George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and perhaps even Don DeLillo, they are nonetheless powered by a distinctive new voice. McLean dives fearlessly through the Looking Glass; she scrubs the psyche raw, perhaps in an effort to get even closer to what constitutes 'reality.\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Jim Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eRobin McLean\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es debut collection is electric. I recommend that you get a copy and put it at the top of your stack.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Jodi Angel\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eReptile House is so wonderful. It\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es full of (almost) unbearable tension and what a wild ride through so many worlds. 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Her characters are carried along by those cascades, often unwittingly. Sometimes, as with the two young men in \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eNo Name Creek,\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e they are carried to a happy end. More often, they seem to be, like Lilibeth in \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eCold Snap,\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e overtaken by events beyond their control. Characters’ own words, often inept or pathetic in light of their situations, offer ironic counterpoint. Much is laughable in these stories. Don’t be deceived. Through her sly wit and humor, Robin McLean is luring readers into deeper questions.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Frank Soos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Tonally and structurally, these marvelous stories have no discernable influences. In her debut collection, Robin McLean emerges as a writer with a singular voice and vision. I admire this book immoderately, and I hope that readers will find it.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Chris Bachelder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Robin McLean\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es fiction is harrowing and wry and compassionate, and always both fiercely rooted in the world and fearlessly willing to take chances.   I love her keen sense of our inherent strangeness, and her heartening sense of just how important it is that we never stop trying to close the gap between who are and who we aspire to be.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Jim Shepard\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLike [Flannery] O’Connor’s work, \u003cem\u003eReptile House\u003c\/em\u003e is rife with moral ambiguity and extreme violence—elegantly written, abruptly erupting, and starkly moving—as well as other forms of human and inhuman darkness. . . . 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McLean has a knack for stunning sentences that resonate with her characters’ circumstances. . . . [She] stages yearning and stasis with poignancy and wit.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eMcLean’s debut collection of short stories moves seamlessly from adultery to kidnapping, from assassination plots to extreme geothermal events, all in a voice that is spare and darkly poetic. . . . McLean’s characters are lonely in their marriages, isolated from the world around them, and not generally given happy endings. What this book does offer, however, is strangely realistic glimpses into conflicts that are equal parts surreal and hyper-realistic, rendered by a voice that gracefully juxtaposes terse reportage and lyrical insight. 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Her pen contains some sorcery in its ink.\" —\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Sayre Baptista, for \u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes writes with the poetic fierceness of Lorca, exploring multiple subjectivities in this lyrical story collection on love and art, loss and violence. 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