{"id":1038,"date":"2023-12-05T16:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/?page_id=1038"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:22:08","slug":"fictions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/novellas\/fictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Ashley Honeysett<br><br>2023 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY Lee Upton <br>May 7, 2024<br>ISBN 9781881163749<br>$17.00: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fictions-Ashley-Honeysett\/dp\/1881163741\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/fictions-ashley-honeysett\/1144868578\">B&amp;N<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaybookservice.com\/products\/fictions\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pathwaybookservice.com\/products\/fictions\">Pathway<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When turmoil erupts in her private life, a struggling writer finds that her real-world problems have begun to cross over into her work, leading to a quest to better understand herself as an artist. Told in a fragmentary style that blurs the line between reality and imagination, <em>Fictions <\/em>considers the everyday tolls\u2014the personal as much as the aesthetic\u2014of getting our longings onto the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">Reviews &amp; Such<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Q&amp;A: Local author Ashley Honeysett on her award winning novella \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/evanstonroundtable.com\/2025\/03\/07\/qa-local-author-ashley-honeysett-on-her-award-winning-novella\/\">Evanston Roundtable, March 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chicago Writers Association&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagowrites.org\/book_of_the_year\">2024 Book of the Year Award in Fiction<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Ashley Honeysett\u2019s novella is innovative and subtly challenging, a work which suggests that, in 2024, reality and fictionality are intertwined, the relation between them fluid, vacillatory, indeterminate.&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/heavyfeatherreview.org\/2024\/08\/02\/fictions\/\">Mark Crimmins in <em>Heavy Feather Review<\/em>, August 2, 2024<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excerpt in <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/2024\/07\/fiction\/from-Fictions\"><em>The Brooklyn Rail<\/em>, July, 2024<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ashley Honeysett&#8217;s playlist for her novel <em>Fictions<\/em> \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/largeheartedboy.com\/2024\/06\/21\/ashley-honeysetts-playlist-for-her-novel-fictions\/\">Largehearted Boy, June 21, 2024<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twentystoriesla.com\/current20\">June 2024 &#8220;Current 20&#8221;<\/a> \u2013 Twenty Stories Bookshop<br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The style and tone work strongly together, juxtaposing the mundane and the dramatic in patchwork pieces of fiction, memoir, reportage, and journal&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/merliterary.com\/2024\/06\/07\/fictions-by-ashley-honeysett\/\">Elizabeth Brown in <em>Mom Egg Review<\/em>, June 7, 2024<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>May 2024 Books of the Month \u2013 <em>Vol 1 Brooklyn<\/em><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;The author slowly and artfully dispenses information about her unnamed protagonist, a 38-year-old woman struggling to be a writer&#8230;the character\u2019s fictions and her own remembrances start to blend into each other, challenging the distinction between them.&#8221;<br>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/ashley-honeysett\/fictions\/\"><em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>, May 7, 2024<\/a><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Fictions<\/em> is a love letter to the curious and often deeply absurd nature of the writer\u2019s life. Honeysett is a marvelous narrator of family, parental, and intergenerational stories, all the time wrestling with the question of how exactly stories get made. Here is a book in which imagination persists through the everyday, transforming and elevating ordinary observations into the same autofiction space out of which the writing of Ernaux, Didion, and Levy comes. Over and over again, this book took my breath away. <strong>&#8211; Annemarie N\u00ed Churre\u00e1in, author of <em>The Poison Glen<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simultaneously novella-in-stories, plague journal, memoir, and meditation on writing, Ashley Honeysett\u2019s <em>Fictions<\/em> illuminates and explores the mind of a storyteller wrestling with the essential strangeness of writing fiction at a time when a common story has eluded us all. A box of finely made enchantments. <strong>&#8211; Hugh Sheehy, author of <em>Design Flaws<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ashley Honeysett&#8217;s <em>Fictions <\/em>is fabulous. It&#8217;s hilarious and moving and full of the most unexpected and striking observations. Written from the perspective of a writer living in Ireland, the novella recounts the primary character&#8217;s rejections from magazines and publishers and the contradictory (and very funny) advice she receives about her writing, interleaved with the character&#8217;s accounts of her life with her young son and husband, and her reflections on a family member&#8217;s addiction, generational family dramas, cultural differences, an imagined threesome. I loved this novella, and I&#8217;m so happy that it will be out in the world. <strong>&#8211; Lee Upton, author of <em>Visitations<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I started to say that Ashley Honeysett\u2019s <em>Fictions<\/em> is dazzling, engrossing, urgent\u2014words I\u2019ve read many times about many different books. But I\u2019ve never read a book quite like it, so I find myself searching for other words, the same way Honeysett\u2019s narrator searches for stories and plots and protagonists that say something meaningful about being a writer, mother, daughter, sister, wife, and expat living in Dublin amid a pandemic. Full of insights, longing, and tales of false starts, <em>Fictions<\/em> poignantly evokes the artifice at the heart of all art.&nbsp;<strong>&#8211; Kelcey Ervick, author of <em>The Keeper<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-normal-font-size\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ashley Honeysett has lived throughout the United States as well as in Ireland and Japan and is now raising a child with her husband outside of Chicago, where she works as a fundraiser for environmental nonprofits. She studied creative writing at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and published poetry and prose in journals there and at Michigan State University. <em>Fictions<\/em> is her first book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-704x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Fictions by Ashley Honeysett\" class=\"wp-image-1084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-1056x1536.jpg 1056w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-1408x2048.jpg 1408w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_-600x873.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/honeysett.cover_.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Honeysett in an urban setting\" class=\"wp-image-1086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-2048x1356.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/miami-university-press\/files\/2023\/12\/Ashley-Honeysett-author-photo-600x397.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ashley Honeysett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Honeysett 2023 NOVELLA PRIZE SELECTED BY Lee Upton May 7, 2024ISBN 9781881163749$17.00: Amazon, B&amp;N, Pathway When turmoil erupts in her private life, a struggling writer finds that her real-world problems have begun to cross over into her work, leading to a quest to better understand herself as an artist. 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