Christine Sneed’s hauntingly wry love-ghost story, “Roger Weber Would Like to Stay,” is one of many reasons we can’t wait for our next issue, Emo, Meet Hole, to hit shelves. While we’re waiting, Sneed is already making big news.
The cover of Christine Sneed's award-nominated collection, Portraits.
Sneed’s story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry: Stories was nominated by the Los Angeles Times for the 2010 First Fiction Book Prize. Ms. Sneed is one of five finalists who will attend a private awards ceremony on April 29, to celebrate their nominations, and reveal the prize winner.
Published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2010, Portraits was awarded the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction by AWP in 2009, before its publication. The collection is available for order through Amazon.
Be sure to watch for the L.A. Times’ announcement of the winner (fingers crossed, Christine!) and be sure to look for her upcoming work in Emo, Meet Hole.
Hey - thanks so much for posting this lovely article about my story in The Literary Review and the L.A. Times book prize! It was so much fun to go out to L.A. and leave chilly and blustery Chicago behind for the weekend. Peter Bognanni’s novel The House of Tomorrow was chosen as the winner in the first fiction category and I’m really looking forward to reading it. We were on a panel the day after the book prize ceremony and he’s the nicest guy - congrats to him and to the other nominees. We were all so relieved when the winner was finally announced too; I felt like I was thinking about it way too much in the days leading up to April 29.