On Zoom. Preregistration is required.
Join us to hear brief readings from four authors featured in the short story collection Eccentric Circles, Vol 1.
Discussion will be led by the collection’s editor Cynthia Brackett-Vincent.
This event will be recorded and, once edited, published here.
Information on the book from the publisher, a Massachusetts company:
This eclectic collection of short stories, edited by Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, features various genres, all penned by the authors of Encircle Publications. Their novels represent mysteries, thrillers, literary fiction, humor, historical fiction, romance, and more. We are very proud of our amazing authors and their work, and now Encircle has brought their short fiction together, amounting to twenty-five stories, for readers to explore and enjoy.
Featured authors: Sue Baumgardner, Mike Befeler, Richard J. Cass, Dane Cobain, Matt Cost, Sharon L. Dean, Catherine Dilts, Bruna Gomes, Vaughn C. Hardacker, Joe Kilgore, J. K. Knauss, Scott Lipanovich, BJ Magnani, S. Lee Manning, Alison L. McLennan, Anne Britting Oleson, Saralyn Richard, Jay Ruud, Lois Schmitt, CB Shanahan, Kevin St. Jarre, Karen Hanson Stuyck, A. J. Thibault, and Lara Tupper.
Sharon L. Dean grew up in Massachusetts where she was immersed in the literature of New England. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of New Hampshire, a state she lived and taught in before moving to Oregon. Although she has given up writing scholarly books that require footnotes, she incorporates much of her academic research as background in her mysteries. She is the author of three Susan Warner mysteries and of a stand-alone novel titled Leaving Freedom. Her new mystery series features librarian and reluctant sleuth Deborah Strong. In that series, she draws on her memories of New England and especially of libraries like the one in Becket.
BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, is Professor of Anatomic & Clinical Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA, and an award-winning pathologist. Dr. Magnani, named one of the Top 100 Most Influential Laboratory Medicine Professionals in the World by The Pathologist, uses her knowledge of toxicology to create medical thrillers featuring Dr. Lily Robinson, a physician who doubles as an assassin for the U.S. Government. Fictional works include The Queen of All Poisons, The Power of Poison, and the recently released, A Message in Poison.
Dr. Magnani is committed to helping women receive free cancer screening through the College of American Pathologists Foundation. A portion of the proceeds from her novels helps support this effort.
Kevin St. Jarre is the author of Absence of Grace (April 2022), The Twin (Oct. 2021), Celestine (May 2021), and Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle (Nov. 2021), all from Encircle Publications. He’s a published poet, an essayist, and his Pushcart-nominated short fiction has appeared in journals such as Story and Solstice Literary Magazine. Kevin has been invited to present at numerous conferences. He has worked as a teacher, a newspaper reporter, an international corporate consultant, and he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program. Twice awarded scholarships, he studied at the Norman Mailer Writers Center on Cape Cod, with Sigrid Nunez and David Black. He is a member of International Thriller Writers. Follow Kevin on Twitter @kstjarre. He now lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, but was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and grew up in the Maine’s northernmost town of Madawaska.
Lara Tupper is a proud resident of Washington, MA and the author of three books: Amphibians, a story collection (winner, Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize), Off Island (finalist, Housatonic Book Award) and A Thousand and One Nights. She is the founder of Swift Ink Stories, a writing/teaching platform for creative expression. She is also a jazz/folk performer; her latest album is This Dance.
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent (moderator) is Lead Editor at Encircle Publications, and is a Pushcart Prize nominated and award-winning poet. Her co-edited anthology, Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland), was named “One of 100 Best Books for Writers” by Poets & Writers magazine. Originally from Plymouth, Massachusetts, she holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of Maine at Farmington, and she lives nearby in Farmington on twenty acres of woods with her husband and two socially-challenged rescue cats.