Pamela Erens

About Pamela Works Links Appearances/News Press

Quick Links

contact author's agent (Anna Stein at Aitken Alexander U.S.)

order The Understory

E-mail the author

Goodreads.com

Selected Works

1. Novel

The Understory

Winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

A finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

2. Short Stories

Gaarg. Gaarrgh. Gak

Originally published in The Literary Review; winner of the Charles Angoff Award; reprinted in the anthology Visiting Hours

The Things You Don't Know

Originally published in Redivider

3. Essay

The Very Idea: on David Shields's Reality Hunger

Originally published in Gently Read Literature

Breastfeeding

Originally published in Michigan Quarterly Review

Links

Blogs and websites of interest to writers:

Mary Akers
Capone's Hit List
Myfanwy Collins
Ron Currie, Jr.
Katrina Denza
Erika Dreifus
Xujun Eberlein
The Elegant Variation
The Emerging Writers Network
Endless Knots
Everything Is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts
Charles Lambert
LitPark
Linera Lucas
Los Angeles Review of Books
Sharon McGill
Ellen Meister
The Millions
No Name Writer
PEN American Center
Perpetual Folly
Press 53
Regarding Dr. Olaf
Sewanee Writers' Conference
Stephan Clark
Vermin on the Mount
Meredith Sue Willis
The Writers Studio
Zen of Writing

Literary journals and presses

Bellingham Review
Boston Review
Chicago Review
Draft: the Journal of Process
Engine Books
ForeWord magazine
Gently Read Literature
Hobart magazine and Short Flight/Long Drive Books
The Literary Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
Rain Taxi
Redivider
Skidrow Penthouse
Tin House Books
The Smoking Poet
Upstreet

Good recommendations for readers:

Books For Readers
Five Star Literary Stories
The Elegant Variation
Goodreads
Head Butler
Writers Read

good bookstores that support literary fiction and area writers:

Words bookstore, 179 Maplewood Ave., Maplewood, NJ
McNally Jackson Booksellers, 52 Prince Street, NYC
Barnes & Noble, Springfield, NJ

order The Understory from:

Amazon

Amazon Kindle Store

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