Belle Point Bulletin #8

Cover Reveal: the next book by Rilla Askew

As we get closer to finishing our spring books, we’re looking forward to sharing what else is on the way in 2024—including this stellar new collection in the fall:

Introducing The Hungry and the Haunted: the next story collection by Rilla Askew

From the author of The Mercy Seat and Fire in Beulah comes a new collection of six stories troubled by ghosts that linger in our present moment. Set primarily in eastern Oklahoma during the 1970s, The Hungry and the Haunted is Rilla Askew’s testament to young women and other outsiders navigating relationships, social change, and the power of place during increasingly precarious times. Some haunted by ancient wrongs, others yearning to escape or reckoning with primal griefs, each character wrestles with the bonds that wound them and the places that keep them tethered to their roots. This collection is not to be missed by anyone interested in questions of what becomes of our stories as we struggle to write them ourselves.

Known for her award-winning historical fiction, Askew evokes with resonant period detail the lives of earlier generations in these stories that speak to our current era of fragility and change.

We are honored to publish this remarkable book from one of Oklahoma’s most widely respected writers, and we know you’ll love it too. Learn more about Rilla Askew here.

Pre-orders are open now!

And for folks at AWP, we’ll have early copies of Askew’s complementary essay, “Dear Tulsa,” on hand as #21 in our ongoing print Prose Series. Be sure to stop by T1307 to check it out, and come hear Rilla read at our “Readings from Around Here” offsite Thursday evening!