GREG DOWNS Spit Baths


Selected Works

Book
Spit Baths
Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of short stories

Short Stories
I Do Not Support the Troops
This story about a young woman and her tense and tender ties to her nephew is the first post-Spit Baths story I have published, in serial form in the arts section of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Black Pork

A "simultaneously excruciating and deeply insightful commentary about race," this story follows the intertwined lives of two neighboring families, one white, one black.

Adam's Curse

The first, shortest, and (according to Kirkus) the best short story in the collection, forthcoming from New Letters.

Indoor Plumbing

Short story from the collection that appeared in StorySouth

Field Trip

Short story from the collection that appeared in Philadelphia Stories

Other published stories in the collection

Ten of the other eleven stories in the collection have been published or are forthcoming this fall.

Published stories not in the collection

Short stories I've published that are not in the collection.



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Events

Thursday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m., reading in Milledgeville, Georgia at Georgia College and University for Flannery O'Connor Award ceremony

Friday, Oct. 13, 3 p.m., reading at Kennesaw State University, The Jolly Room, 1000 Chastain Avenue, Kennesaw GA

Friday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., reading with fellow Flannery O'Connor Award winner Randy Nelson at the Southlake Barnes & Noble just south of the Atlanta airport, 1939 Mount Zion Road, Morrow GA 30260

Saturday, Oct. 14, 6 p.m., signing at The Writers Conference at Penn, Philadelphia PA, www.sas.upenn.edu/CGS/cultural/writersconf

Sunday, Oct. 15, class on Historical Fiction at The Writers Conference at Penn

Tuesday, Oct. 17, reading and Q & A at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Q & A at 6:30, reading at 7:30 in Mead Hall

Thursday, Oct. 19, reading at St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia PA

Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:00 p.m., reading at Penn Bookstore, 3600 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA, with after-party with musicians Amy Pickard and John Train featuring Mike (Slo-Mo) Brenner at The Jumping Bean, 40th and Spruce Streets (under the Copabanana)

Thursday, Nov. 2, 6 p.m., reading at Davis-Kidd Bookstore, 2121 Green Hills Mall, Nashville, TN. http://www.daviskidd.com/

Thursday, Nov. 16, reading and talk at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.

Saturday, Nov. 18, 1 p.m. (time is tentative) Lemuria Books, Jackson, Mississippi, 202 Banner Hall, 4465 I-55 North, http://www.lemuriabooks.com/

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Philadelphia Stories-sponsored reading with Alison Hicks and Jay Morgan at Voices and Visions Bookstore, 111 S. Independence Mall, on 4th Street between Market and Chestnut, in the lower level of the Bourse. http://vandvx3.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp and www.philadelphiastories.org

Monday, March 19, 2007, 7 p.m. staged reading by InterAct Theatre Company, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia PA, $12, with other staged readings by writers Clare Keefe Coleman, Jim Ray Daniels, and Niama Leslie Williams. http://www.interacttheatre.org/programs/writing-aloud/index.html

Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, 7:30 p.m., 3rd floor, 305 Gist Street, Pittsburgh PA http://www.giststreet.org/html/about_the_series.html



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