Skip Horack
Encyclopedia
Personal Life/Education
He was raised in Covington, LouisianaCovington, Louisiana
Covington is a city in and the parish seat of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 8,483 at the 2000 census. It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River....
where he attended St. Paul's School
St. Paul's School (Covington, Louisiana)
Saint Paul's School is a private all-boys Lasallian high school, located in Covington, Louisiana just to the north of New Orleans, United States. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans, the school is run by the Christian Brothers and is one of the 1,000 Lasallian schools in more...
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Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
. He worked as a lawyer for five years in Baton Rouge, LA before committing fully to writing and teaching.
He is Jones Lecturer
Jones Lectureship
The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellows. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support needed to complete book-length literary projects. Jones Lecturers...
at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
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Career
His short-story collection The Southern Cross, which won the Bakeless Prize, was published in 2009 by Mariner BooksMariner Books
Mariner Books, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, was established in 1997 as a publisher of fiction, non fiction, and poetry in paperback. Mariner is also the publisher of the Harvest imprint backlist, formerly published by Harcourt Brace/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.-Publisher bibliography:*The...
. The contest was judged by Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.-Life and education:Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas....
who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent", Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt" and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human". The sixteen stories in this collection have appeared in Epoch
Epoch (magazine)
Epoch is a three-times-a-year American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. The widely respected magazine has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later included in The...
, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine
Narrative Magazine
Narrative Magazine was founded in 2003 by former Esquire editor Tom Jenks and author, Carol Edgarian. Narrative is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age. Its online library of writing by established writers, such as T. C...
, and other journals.
Published Works
His work has appeared in Oxford AmericanOxford American
The Oxford American is an American quarterly literary magazine "dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South."-First publication:...
, The Southeast Review, New Delta Review
New Delta Review
The New Delta Review is a respected literary quarterly in the United States in print since 1984 and now with an online publication. The journal is published by Louisiana State University and has the second largest circulation of any literary publication in Louisiana.Recent contributors include...
, Louisiana Literature
Louisiana Literature
Louisiana Literature is a literary magazine. Founded in 1984 by Southeastern Louisiana University, it publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction quarterly.-Honors and awards:...
, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly
StoryQuarterly
StoryQuarterly is an American literary journal based at Rutgers University–Camden in Camden, New Jersey. It was founded in 1975 by Pamela Painter, among others. Works originally published in StoryQuarterly have been subsequently selected for inclusion in The Prize Stories: The O...
, Epoch
Epoch (magazine)
Epoch is a three-times-a-year American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. The widely respected magazine has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later included in The...
, and Narrative Magazine
Narrative Magazine
Narrative Magazine was founded in 2003 by former Esquire editor Tom Jenks and author, Carol Edgarian. Narrative is a nonprofit dedicated to advancing the literary arts in the digital age. Its online library of writing by established writers, such as T. C...
.
His novel The Eden Hunter was published in August 2010.
Critical Acclaim
THE EDEN HUNTER:Longlist, 2011 SIBA Book Award
SIBA Book Award
SIBA Book Award is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance , first awarded in 1999. Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of...
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Southern Favorites of 2010, Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Best of 2010 Books by Bay Area Authors, San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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Ten Best Books of 2010, Hudson Booksellers.
New York Times Editors' Choice.
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
Fall 2010 Indie Sleeper Pick.
September 2010 Indie Next List Notable.
Recommended Book, Atlanta Journal Constitution Southeastern Book Preview
THE SOUTHERN CROSS:
Shortlist, 2010 William Saroyan
William Saroyan
William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...
International Prize for Writing.
First Fiction Finalist, 2010 California Book Award.
Longlist, 2010 SIBA Book Award
SIBA Book Award
SIBA Book Award is an American South literary award given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance , first awarded in 1999. Nominated books must be southern in nature or by a southern author, have been published the previous year, and have been nominated by a SIBA-member bookstore or one of...
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Fiction Finalist, 2010 Northern California Book Award.
2009 Best Debuts, Times-Picayune.
Notable Bay Area Books of 2009, San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...
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Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Trivia
- Skip Horack was a 2006 Stegner Fellow with Molly Antopol, Stacey Swann, Joshua Tyree and Abigail Ulman.
- Skip Horack was a contributing editor to the Stanford Graphic Novel Project.
- According to Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
in 2011, Brian FronsBrian FronsBrian Frons is an American television executive, and president of ABC Daytime.- Educational background :Frons holds a Master of Science degree in Communications from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the State University of New York at Fredonia.-Television...
approached Horack about becoming a story consultantCreative consultantCreative consultant is a credit that has - particularly in the past - been given to screenwriters who have “doctored” a movie screenplay. It is often given by producers in lieu of official credit. Those given this credit in the television field work closely with an Executive Producer, Head...
for ABC DaytimeABC DaytimeABC Daytime is a programming block on the ABC Network which has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows and talk shows.-Schedule:...
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External links
- http://www.skiphorack.com/home