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Friday, December 7, 2007

Talks and Readings The L Mag Congratulates Literary Upstart Semifinalist Emily Nemens on the Publication of Her First Collection of Stories, and Is in No Way Jealous. Also Go Listen to Her Read.

Posted by on Fri, Dec 7, 2007 at 12:00 PM

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Emily Nemens was one of the readers at the L's Literary Upstart competition earlier this year. She read at the first semifinal; her story (actually a selection from a novel-in-progress) was about Medieval Day in an elementary school classroom, and the introverted budding architect who engrosses the class with his presentation on the Flying Buttress. It was a lovely story, sweet-natured in its outlook and narrated in an active, very visual voice. (She's also a painter, it seems.) And now, it appears, and hey that was quick, she has a book. Scrub is a small press-published collection of four stories (and illustrations by the author), three of them written earlier this year, during her time in The Kerouac Project, a writer-in-residence program in Orlando.

Tonight, at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery in Williamsburg, she'll be reading from Scrub, and you should maybe go.

(Also, this seems as good a time as any to note that Lit Up 2008 is coming next spring, so you should really start working on your 1,500-words-or-less stories for that, yes? As you can see, sky's the limit. More in a couple months.)

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