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I just got back from an adventure in the UK, my second this year, all in aid of narrative accuracy. For the past year or so, I’ve been writing the third installment in the Aventurine Morrow series, Aventurine on the Border. The first part of this book takes place in The Kingdom of Hay, which…
Southport Memorial Library invites the public to meet author Anne Britting Oleson and find out about her new book, the second of the of the Aventurine Morrow Thriller series - “Adventurine on the Bailgate” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30. Anne sent...
Vose Library’s patrons and friends are invited to the Vose or Virtual Wednesday series: Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at 7 p.m., via Zoom, to hear from Anne Britting Oleson. Britting Oleson lives and writes from the mountains of Central Maine. She has...
OFF RADAR: ‘Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories’ and ‘Cow Palace’ New books by Susan Minot and Anne Britting Oleson By Dana Wilde “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” “Why I Don’t Write and Other Stories” by Susan Minot; Knopf, New York, 2020; 176 pages, hardcover, $25. The spare, journalistic prose style in fiction was more or less invented by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s and ’30s. Brief, straightforward sentences piled up to create a feeling of realistic, no-nonsense toughness. In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s it turned into a preferred style for short fiction ...
The Church of St. Materiana (2007), The Beauty of It (2010 and 2016); Alley of Dreams (2018), and Magic Somewhere Else (forthcoming). In recent years Britting Oleson has been awarded several residencies; she has had stories, poems, and book reviews published in literary magazines worldwide, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, as well as an award for Best Of The Net. She has taught English and creative writing for more than 30 years, to both high school and adult students. She is a founding member of Simply Not Done, a women’s reading, writing, and teaching collective. Please vis...