Thanks to all who came out for The Kind of Girl launch party on Sunday! Thanks to Cafe Aroma for providing a wonderful setting for our event, and thanks especially to Eduardo Santiago for hosting and interviewing. Thanks also to my wonderful co-readers, Abbie Bosworth and Katherine Factor.
Click here to read an article about the event in the Valley Chronicle.
On September 13, Idyllwild Arts faculty participated in the annual art opening and performance as a way to welcome students and kick off the school year.
Click to view the Idyllwild Arts faculty concert and enjoy music and dance performances and readings by some of the amazing people I get to work with! Make sure to check out Katherine Factor’s haunting, beautiful poem about the fire that threatened our town, around minute eight. My reading of “Muscle Memory” is around the 50 minute mark.
Click to hear Natalie Sypolt and Renee Nicholson’s discussion of The Kind of Girl on summerbooks.
And, since Renee and Natalie recommend pairing The Kind of Girl with the new release by singer/songwriter Neko Case (along with a tempting drink), check out the trailer for her new album (and why not try the drink recommendation, too?).
Next, Click to hear my reading of “Muscle Memory,” from The Kind of Girl on TNBBC’s Audio Series. And why not have another “American Sweetheart” (drink recipe found at the end of the summerbooks podcast)?
Drawing by Sarahana Shrestha
Click to read my interview and story recommendations! This is a great website for short story lovers–make sure to check out their story map.
This site is another great source for those interested in the short-short form!
My chapbook of flash fiction, The Kind of Girl, is now available!
The Kind of Girl press release
Winner of the Rose Metal Press Seventh Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest, Judged by Deb Olin Unferth
Thirteen-year-old girls sunbathe in a public park, watching boys they realize they will never have. Three young friends’ admiration for their P.E. teacher leads to unexpected consequences. A woman reflects on the brother who went missing when she was twelve, while another longs for a father just out of reach. One girl gives up on being bad while another wearies of being good. Kim Henderson’s collection The Kind of Girl ponders the ways girls and women find themselves defined—whether by their own hand or others’, their fantasies, or their unyielding environments. Here girls learn the complexity of adulthood and sexuality in stories of no more than 1,000 words each that are by turns absurd, realistic, and startlingly simple. Each story offers a fleeting but unflinching gaze into the mysteries, tragedies, and wonders of growing up.
“When you sit down to read this lovely set of idiosyncratic meditations and narrations and observations, you will find that, from the first sentence, Kim Henderson has her tensions in place: ‘We were thirteen and it was the summer of ugliness.’ In Henderson’s world, every detail is full of the dramatic luminosity of that age.” —Deb Olin Unferth
AUGUST 2013 ISBN 978-0-9887645-2-1 Chapbook, letterpress cover 56 pages Flash fiction $12.00
Find out more and order here.