Susan Stinson - Venus of Chalk

Venus of Chalk ebook Launch with Susan Stinson and Alison Bechdel

More information and video of the event on Vimeo here.

One of Publishing Triangle's Top Ten Lesbian Books of the Year

"Venus of Chalk is a classic road novel, full of unexpected revelations and parallels between Carline's old world and her new, but her interior and physical life are like nothing you've ever read before. "
Chicago Reader

Like her characters, Stinson is "chronically interested" in every aspect of life and her incredible eye for detail is astonishing and translates movingly into the pages of this wonderful novel."
Altar Magazine

"The magic of this elegant novel is that it embraces both the surreal and the so real with sublime charm."
Richard Labonte, Book Marks

"Stinson's prose style is reminiscent of some independent films--quiet, plain, quirky and true."
The Women's Times

"...one of the best books of the year."
Midwest Book Review

"Susan Stinson uses her exceptional literary vision to take the readers along on a wild bus ride of our own, all the while facing ourselves, and returning, renewed, to our extraordinary lives."
Janet Mason
This Way Out

Selected Works

Novels

Martha Moody Twenty-fifth anniversary edition from Small Beer Press!

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

Spider In a Tree

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

Venus of Chalk is by turns tender and ruthless, dark and funny, haunting and starkly contemporary. In spare, eloquent prose Stinson mines depths most writers shy away from. This is one ride you won't want to miss. -- Alison Smith, author, Name All the Animals. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Or as a new ebook from Small Beer Press

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

Misc. Writing

Belly Songs

Poetry and personal essays about fatness. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Novel Excerpts

Three Excerpts from MARTHA MOODY

Link: Lavender Review

Anthology

The Letter Q

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

Venus of Chalk

In this shimmering novel, three friends drive from Massachusetts to Texas to unload an old bus, and in the process become the selves they were meant to be.