Sallie will be participating in the “Night of Literary Feasts” event to benefit the Lexington Public Library. This event is $250 per person for a guaranteed placement with one of your top two author selections or $150 for an unguaranteed placement. To register online, visit: … →
The Blue Box: Five Lives in Letters introduces Margaret Haskins, the four times great grandmother of Sallie Bingham. This story begins with Haskin’s capture by the Shawnee Indians in 1778 and recounts her years of captivity in their camp, ending with a fictional reconstruction of her life after she returned to Virginia. Bingham describes how she found the box and the effect that her childhood in Kentucky had on her writing. … →
For a very nice write up of this event, visit the High Road Artist blog.
My latest work, entitled The Blue Box, will be published in August of 2014 by Sarabande Books.
From roughly 2008—2011 (I think—time has a way of lengthening, then shortening dramatically), I’ve had the deep pleasure and privilege of working on a collection of papers found in the top of my mother’s closet after she died, letters from long forgotten relatives, mainly women, in Virginia, West Virginia and Georgia, covering more than 150 years.
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Sallie will be reading from her new book Mending: New and Selected Stories at Bookworks in Albuquerque. More information to come! … →
Sallie will be reading with Yiyun Li, a judge in this year’s PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize; Brigid Hughes, Founding Editor of A Public Space, will be introducing them. … →
What is a crucial event? How can “fact” be transformed through changes in point of view? Does it work to change name, place, time, etc.? Why is transformation not hiding? In this seminar, we’ll look at these questions and apply them to inspire and improve our writing! … →
Sallie will be reading from her new book, Mending: New and Selected Stories, published by Sarabande Books. A discussion will follow.
Alamosa Books is located on the northwest corner of Paseo del Norte and Ventura, next to Saxby’s coffee shop.
>In Mending, Sallie Bingham follows the often brutal course of yearning and its disappointments with an emotional acuity both unflinching and vigilant. From the first assertions and compromises of sexuality-those accommodations that tug and chafe-to the constrictions of adulthood and, finally, the fixed contours of a maturity where need has been winnowed down, but so has our ability to accommodate, Bingham’s stories radiate with an honesty that is as insistent as it is compassionate. These stories, spanning a career of 50 years and ranging from the fecund Kentucky of her youth to the starker landscapes of New Mexico, have been called “sharp, elegant narratives” by Entertainment Weekly and “luminous” by Publishers Weekly. Taken together, they offer a vision of our inexhaustible hope that there might be a fitting home for the heart. … →
Sallie will be presenting a two-part workshop on the short story, “Writing What You Don’t Know: Fiction as Transformation — Workshop in Short Story” on Friday and Saturday from 9 — 11:30 am. [This workshop is now full].
On Saturday from 1:30 — 2:45 Sallie will be reading from Mending, her new collection of short stories, which is open to all registrants.
Mending was a “PW Pick of the Week” and in their Starred Review, Publishers Weekly wrote,
“Bingham’s work, including favorites such as “The Wedding” and “Sweet Peas,” remains sharp and deliciously unsettling, ripe for discovery by a new generation of readers.” Other confirmed presenters include: Francine Prose, Danzy Senna, Tananarive Due, Lynnell Edwards, Krista Franklin, Kim Dana Kupperman and Katja Esson. For more information and to register, visit the 2011 Kentucky Women Writers Conference website.
August 1, 2014 (All Day)
