Carrie Knowles Shares Fiction From “Black Tie Optional,” “The Inevitable Past,” and “A Garden Wall in Provence”
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In this episode 74, author Carrie Knowles, the 2014 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate for Short Fiction, reads from her forthcoming novel, “The Inevitable Past,” her novella, “A Garden Wall in Provence” and several stories from her short fiction collection entitled “Black Tie Optional.”
We also will discuss Carrie’s column for “Psychology Today” called “Shifting Forward” that captures her personal perspectives.
We start the show with a reading from “The Inevitable Past,” which is a fictional account of the woman who gave birth to Carrie’s father who Carrie never knew.
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Carrie Knowles was the 2014 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate for Short Fiction, and has numerous other accolades. Her short stories have won a number of awards, including the Village Advocate Fiction Contest, the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series, the North Carolina Writer’s Network Fiction Syndication, and Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Competition. And she has been named a finalist in Glimmer Train competitions six times, a finalist in the Doris Betts Fiction Contest and received an honorable mention in the National Literary Awards.
Carrie has written three novels: Lillian’s Garden, Ashoan’s Rug and A Garden Wall in Provence, a collection of short stories, Black Tie Optional and a memoir, The Last Childhood: A Family Story of Alzheimer’s.
Carrie also writes a regular Personal Perspectives column for Psychology Today, called “Shifting Forward.”
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