Atelier26 Books to Publish Debut by Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award Winner Woody Skinner

For immediate release: May 18, 2016

  
PORTLAND, OR — Atelier26 Books is delighted to announce acquisition of the short story collection A Thousand Distant Radios, the debut title by Woody Skinner, for publication in late 2017 or early 2018. Set throughout the American South, the stories in A Thousand Distant Radios are brilliantly bold, indelible, occasionally larger-than-life explorations of the passions and compulsions at the heart of American identity.  

Author Woody Skinner

Woody Skinner grew up in Batesville, Arkansas, and he holds a BA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and an MFA from Wichita State University.  His work has won the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award and appeared in Mid-American Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Hobart, Booth, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere.  He’s currently a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. 

“A Thousand Distant Radios came to Atelier26 through our open submissions,” said Atelier26 founder and publisher M. Allen Cunningham, “and this astounding manuscript brings to mind all the reasons the publishing industry ought to banish the term ‘slush.’ Skinner’s stories are wonderfully outsized, funny, raw, and touching — alive and expressive from first page to last. I knew we couldn’t pass this work up. I’m very excited to share A Thousand Distant Radios with readers, and I predict great things for Woody Skinner.”  

 

For the book’s launch, Atelier26 is planning intensive regional promotion in the South and in the Pacific Northwest, including author events.

Atelier26 Books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group/Small Press United, and available through Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Founded in 2011, Atelier26 exists to demonstrate the powers and possibilities of literature through beautifully designed and expressive books that get people listening, talking, and exchanging ideas. 

For more information, contact atelier26books [at] gmail [dot] com.