Guernica Editions

An excerpt from Arianna Dagnino's The Afrikaner appeared in The Star (South Africa)

https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/saturday-star/20181229/page/6/textview

Jennifer Pederson reviewed Margo LaPierre's debut collection Washing Off the Raccoon Eyes in Canthius.

This book is the stark beauty of bones. It doesn't care about our normative judgments because it's too busy resisting its own. It’s not a book that wants our pity.

http://www.canthius.com/feed-2/2018/12/8/considering-the-wasteland-margo-lapierres-washing-off-the-raccoon-eyes?fbclid=IwAR0E23NTxGD2flGOodw7grc0jEAdFCWdFuvktwtbJuiaA-KZhP9lS7mYywQ

Panoram Italia interviewed Mary Melfi about her memoir In the Backyard.

“Strangely enough, writing this memoir didn’t come from an idea, but rather from a need. The need to find answers,” she explains.

https://www.panoramitalia.com/index.php/2018/12/25/mary-melfis-in-the-backyard/

Robin Blackburn McBride was interviewed on Open Book about her historical fiction novel The Shining Fragments. One of the things I explore in the novel is addiction, and at a time when there wasn't a term for it - no treatment or understanding, as we have today, that addiction is not the mark of a “bad person,” and indeed that it can even be the mark of a spiritual seer or seeker. There is to Joseph, I believe, something of the seeker. Yet, he doesn't fully want to find what it is he’s looking for. It’s that tension between desiring something and being terrified by it. His coming of age in The Shining Fragments, then, is really about coming into the fullness of an emotional experience. It’s difficult for Joseph to feel beyond obsessiveness. He loves to draw and paint, and it's through art that he finds solace, relief, and release. For the full interview:

http://open-book.ca/News/Robin-Blackburn-McBride-on-the-Child-Protagonist-of-Her-Novel-He-Said-Take-My-Hand-Which-I-Did-and-He-Led-Me

Congratulations to Bruce Meyer who won The Woolf 2018 Poetry Competition out of Zurich, Switzerland, for his poem "Tom Thomson, First Snow, 1915"

https://thewoolf.org/2018/12/01/2018-poetry-competition-winning-poems/

**Guernica Prize News**

KEVIN WILSON is the winner of the 2018 Guernica Literary prize for his manuscript AN IDEA ABOUT MY DEAD UNCLE, to be released in Fall 2019!

Congratulations to Kevin Wilson!

“A witty, sharp-edged, finely-crafted story about a young man struggling with identity issues, which causes relationship disasters and a quest for his long lost uncle in China.”