Eliot Parker Spins Short Stories With Strange, Creepy and Sometimes Poignant Twists in “Snapshots”
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In this episode 147, we visit with Eliot Parker, author of “Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories,” which is set largely in Eastern, Kentucky, Southern Ohio and West Virginia. It was a 2020 finalist in the American Fiction Awards for short story anthology.
Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review, says that these stories “challenge readers to think about their expectations and prejudices” and are “strong in tension development, plot, and the ability to craft something unexpected and different from disparate life experiences.”
Meredith Sue Willis, author of “Out of The Mountains and Re-Visions,” says that “Eliot is an observer and imaginer of life’s quirky, ironic, random pay backs. His stories almost always have some twist or turn or surprise at the end– in many cases the punishment of a nasty main character.”
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Eliot Parker is the author of SNAPSHOTS: A Collection of Short Stories (2020 finalist in the American Fiction Awards for short story anthology), and four novels, most recently A Knife’s Edge, which was an Honorable Mention in Thriller Writing at the London Book Festival, and is the sequel to the award-winning novel Fragile Brilliance. His novel Code for Murder was named a 2018 Finalist for Genre Fiction by American Book Fest. He is a recipient of the West Virginia Literary Merit Award and Fragile Brilliance was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Thriller Writing. He recently received with the Thriller Writing Award by the National Association of Book Editors (NABE) for his novels.
Eliot is the host of the podcast program Now, Appalachia, which profiles authors and publishers living and writing in the Appalachian region and is heard on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network and Blog Talk Radio.
A graduate of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University with his MFA in Creative Writing and Murray State University with his Doctorate in English, he teaches English at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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