Carter Sickels
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). He has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and VCCA. Carter earned an MFA in Fiction from Penn State and a MA in Folklore from...
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Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury USA, 2012). He has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and VCCA. Carter earned an MFA in Fiction from Penn State and a MA in Folklore from UNC-Chapel Hill. Carter lives in Portland, Oregon.
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I liked this for the most part, though granted I skipped over at least 5 of the stories. I am pretty sure my favorites were Greenhorn by K. Tait Jarboe (rape tw), To The New World by Ryka Aoki, Runaways by Calvin Gimpelevich, Ramona's Demons by Susan Jane Bigelow, Dean & Teddy by Elliot DeLine, and ...
This was a good read. No surprises, but solid storytelling. The main character, Cole (whose name is a little too on the nose for most readers), is a likeable underdog who is doing well for himself with small-time illegal drug trading in a fast-decaying rural town. He is too smart to ignore the twin ...
Gay marriage has been one of the defining fights of the gay rights movement, and this book brings honest, insightful commentary about that topic from the people whose opinions on this subject matter the most: The LGBTQ community. It's not so cut and dry, and the opinions are diverse - you may not ex...
I won’t re-summarise the story of The Evening Hour as the synopsis says it all. This is an often bleak, sometimes depressing story with some shocking insights into the dramatics and politics of a small town, ravaged by poverty, drugs and the mining industry. I found it easy to sympathise, in some wa...
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