STORIES BY STEPHANIE SOILEAU. A debut story collection from a rising star, revealing Louisiana and its characters with stark honesty and empathy as they grapple with homesickness, desperation, and desire. Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is a vivid and evocative portrait of the last-chance towns of southern Louisiana, where oil development, industrial pollution, dying wetlands, and the ever-present . “Last One Out Shut Off the Lights”, is a short story collection by Stephanie Soileau, interestingly, there are 11 stories here, but none of them shares the title of the collection, instead it is referring to a bumper-sticker noted in one of the more desolate stories, and sums up the ethos therein.4/5(51). · The following story, "Camera Obscura," is excerpted from Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau. Soileau‘s fiction has appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, and Glimmer Train, among other magazines, and has been reprinted numerous times in New Stories from the South. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been a Stegner Fellow at Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Readings, lectures and other events. Stephanie Soileau is the author of LAST ONE OUT SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS: Stories, forthcoming from Little, Brown Co. in Spring Join us for a conversation between Stephanie Soileau, author of the debut story collection Last One Out Shut Off the Lights, and fellow writer Elizabeth Wetmore, author of the debut novel Valentine. The discussion will be held at noon on Wednesday, August 19th. All of the characters in Stephanie Soileau's debut short story collection, Last One Out Shut Off the Lights, either live in, or do their best to get away from southwestern Louisiana, where the author was www.doorway.ru stories are intimate and questioning, examining the most personal impacts of coastal erosion, racism, and "the complex and ambivalent relationship" Louisianians have with the.
This year’s fiction contest judge, Stephanie Soileau, is the author of the short story collection, Last One Out Shut Off the Lights (Little Brown Co., ). Her work has also appeared in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tin House, New Stories from the South, and other journals and anthologies, and has been supported by fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts. Stephanie Soileau's collection of short stories LAST ONE OUT SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS is forthcoming from Little, Brown Co. in Summer Her work has also appeared in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Ecotone, Tin House, New Stories from the South, and other journals and anthologies, and has been supported by fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, the Camargo Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Last One Out Shut Off the Lights was a stunning debut collection of short stories taking place in the bayous of southwestern Louisiana by author Stephanie Soileau. This area has long been plagued by natural disasters such as hurricanes, flooding and erosion, as well the man-made disasters imposed by the presence of oil refineries and chemical plants leading to the industrial waste, contamination and pollution that has ravaged this area.
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