Celebrate with Back Cove Books and MWPA as we help launch local author Rebecca Turkewitz's debut short story collection into the world! Rebecca will be joined in conversation by Taryn Bowe, MWPA’s Associate Director.
The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced.
With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with all manner of hauntings, these stories traverse a boarding school in the Vermont woods, the jagged coast of Maine, an attic in suburban Massachusetts, an elevator stuck between floors, and the side of an unlit highway in rural South Carolina.
At the center of almost every story is the landscape of night, with all its tantalizing and terrifying potential. After dark, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, boundaries loosen, expectations fall away, and even the greatest skeptics believe--at least fleetingly--that anything could happen.
These stories will stay with you.
Pre-order your copy today and Back Cove Books will have it signed and waiting for you at the event!
Rebecca Turkewitz is a writer and high school teacher living in Portland, Maine. Her fiction and humor writing have appeared in The Normal School, The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from The Ohio State University. Here in the Night is her first book.
Taryn Bowe’s recent work has appeared in Epoch, The Sewanee Review, Indiana Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Joyland and is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories 2023. She serves as the Associate Director at the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.