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George Singleton, Writer

"George Singleton is a big-hearted evil genius who writes as if he were the love child of Alice Munro and Strom Thurmond." ----Tony Earley

"The Madcap side of sobering up"

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George's Upcoming Appearances

  • April 15, 4:00, reading, Authors @ Upstate Visiting Writers Series, Administration Building Lobby, USC Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
  • April 17, 2:00, Spartanburg County Public Library, Main Branch, Spartanburg, SC. (Also appearing: William Price Fox, Dot Jackson, Ron Rash)
  • April 22, Earth Day celebration, reading, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  • May 6, 10:-11:30, reading, Temple of Israel, Greenville, SC
  • June 2, reading/dinner, Smoke BBQ Joint, Columbia, SC (please call 803.754.0270)
  • June 22, Noon-2:00, reading/ luncheon, The Lazy Goat, Greenville, SC (please call 864.675.0540)
  • July 30-Aug. 1, Hub City Writers Conference, Spartanburg, SC

Interviews with George

  • On Writing, Teaching, and the Best Way to Eat Possum
  • Work Shirts for Madmen
  • Work Shirts for Madmen
  • Half Mammals of Dixie
  • Drowning in Gruel

Read a Story Online

  • Trophies for All-Part One
  • Show and Tell

Past Appearances

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About the Author

George Singleton has published short stories in a variety of magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Playboy, Zoetrope, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, North American Review, Fiction International, Epoch, Esquire.com, New England Review, Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Arkansas Review, American Literary Review, and so on. His stories have been anthologized in eight issues of New Stories from the South, and also in 20 Over 40, Surreal South, Writers Harvest 2, They Write Among Us, and Behind the Short Story. His non-fiction has appeared in Bark and Oxford American, and has been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2005, Dog is My Co-Pilot, and Howl. He has published four collections of stories: These People Are Us, The Half-Mammals of Dixie, Why Dogs Chase Cars, Drowning in Gruel; and two novels: Novel and Work Shirts for Madmen.
George was born in Anaheim, California and lived there until he was seven. He grew up in Greenwood, South Carolina. He graduated from Furman University in 1980 with a degree in philosophy, and from UNC-Greensboro with an MFA in creative writing. Singleton has taught English and fiction writing at Francis Marion College, the Fine Arts Center of Greenville County, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. He has been a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina and UNC-Wilmington, and has given readings and taught classes at a number of universities and secondary schools.
His papers are reposited at the Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.
He lives in Pickens County, South Carolina, with the clay artist Glenda Guion and a number of stray dogs and one cat.
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LINKS

  • Algonquin Press
  • Harcourt Books

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