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The Letter Q

For more, check out The Letter Q Good Reads page.

As seen on ABC's The View.

Letters by Queer Writers to Their Younger Selves. 64 authors, including Gregory Maguire, David Leavitt, Armistead Maupin, Michael Cunningham, Jewelle Gomez, Carole Desanti, Diane DiMassa. Half the proceeds go to The Trevor Project.

Selected Works

Novels

Spider In a Tree

Coming Fall 2013 from Small Beer Press! "Like Jonathan Edwards, Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." -Alison Bechdel

Venus of Chalk

Single minded, indomitable Carline is on a fast bus to Texas. This is one ride you won't want to miss." -Alison Smith

Martha Moody

I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous intersection of body and soul.-Elizabeth McCracken

Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met.-Judith Katz

Anthology

The Letter Q

Letter to my young, queer self. As seen on The View.

Novel Excerpts

Honey, excerpt from SPIDER IN A TREE

Link: Frequencies: a collaborative geneology of spirituality

Novel Excerpts

Three Excerpts from MARTHA MOODY

Link: Lavender Review

Podcasts

Monthly Bookswap with Bob Flaherty on WHMP 1400 AM radio

The River Runs Through Us: Writers Voice

Interview and reading from SPIDER IN A TREE, The Writers Voice Syndicated Radio Show

Link: Reflections on Anti-Gay Methodist Decision, WFCR, New England Public Radio

Links

Blog

Writer in Residence, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA

Interview: How to Fall

Plum Magazine

At The Table Essay/Poem

Public Humanist

Boston Public Library Op Ed

Daily Hampshire Gazette

Being In The Letter Q

Lambda Literary

Fiction and Misdirection

The Public Humanist

Writing Life video

Susan talks with Paradise City Press about sustaining beautiful ambitions, having a structure, taboo topics and writing with others.

The Writing Room

The Common

Adrienne Rich: Send Something Back essay

Lambda Literary Review

Other Side of the Paper: Jonathan Edwards as Slave-Owner

The Public Humanist

Bundling, excerpt from Spider in a Tree

Necessary Fiction

Theology and insects: researching a novel

Necessary Fiction

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Lynne Gerber, Interview

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Interview with Paul Lisicky

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Interview with Sally Bellerose

Review of More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson

"Lesbian Writers on Forbidden Territory:" writing about Jonathan Edwards

Essay for WomenArts about why I persist in being an artist when the rewards are slow to come.

Radio interview and reading, The Writer's Voice, WMUA and syndicated.

Interview with Susan Stinson by Francesca Rhiannon starts at 42:41, after some great Roethke poems. Most of the show is an interview with novelist Nicholson Baker. Reading from Spider In A Tree.

Review of American Romances by Rebecca Brown

Webcast of Millay Colony reading at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY. WGXC

Not listed in the credits, but Susan Stinson is up first, reading from Spider in a Tree after a brief intro.

"Met Roof Garden," poem

"The Two Sams," review

Publishing Triangle: Top Ten Lesbian Books

Interview with Susan Stinson, Sharon Bridgforth and Lenore Chinn in the Women Arts Newsletter