Belle Point Prose Series: Blunschi & Brown

Check out these October releases from more Mid-Southern writers

We’re back with more installments in the Belle Point Prose Series! Prose #3 features two short pieces—one fiction, one memoir—by Jane V. Blunschi. Prose #4 is a previously unpublished story by Cassie E. Brown that shares the same world of her story, “Thawing,” in our Mid/South Anthology. Check them out in our shop and learn more below!

#3: “San Miguel” and “Call the Carmelites” by Jane V. Blunschi

• (Mexico and Louisiana) In these pieces, the speaker recounts unusual experiences with the divine in the midst of grief, addiction, and a hope for something more.

Jane V. Blunschi holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arkansas. She was a 2014 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices fellow, and her collection of stories, Understand Me, Sugar, was published in 2017 by Yellow Flag Press. Jane’s Pushcart Prize-nominated work has appeared in Paper Darts, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Foglifter, among others. Originally from Louisiana, Jane lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

#4: “Picking Blackberries” by Cassie E. Brown

• (Missouri Ozarks) A young girl provides testimony for a complicated family case.

Cassie E. Brown is a writer of long- and short-form fiction and essays. Her work draws inspiration from her childhood in rural Missouri, classic children’s literature, and her experiences as a queer misfit. Cassie’s work explores what is ugly, beautiful, and true about rural places and fairy tales. Apart from writing, she is a clinical social worker and a tea aficionado.

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