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What Will I Write and Publish in 2011?

I’ll be focusing on completing a number of overdue non-fiction projects, such as a Carver crit book and Carver sociological biography, the Vollmann annotated biblio, snd the updated paperback version of my auto/ethnography, Zona Norte.  Hopefully as well, my monographs on Barry malzberg and Robert Silverberg’s softcore titles from the 1960s.

Along with these, the only fiction title I have scheduled so far is a Wildside Double of a short novel with time travel elements, Poison from a Dead Sun, and a collection of time travel SF stories, The Chronotope.

But there will be more…

I have two collections of stories I am shopping around, Cardiff by the Sea and This is My Time.

Two crime noir novels are also on the market: Hard Cold Whisper and A Bra Full of Bullets.

I plan to finish my big novel\, Lunch on the Grass, and two YA novels for the agent to sell…

I might complete a book-length essay, The Moon Under Her Feet, about Americans in Tijuana.

Of course, there is the hope that my current collection of stories, Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, will garner decent reviews and get some attention…

I would like to find a home at a decent NY trade house this year.

And of course there is Tinsel Town: screenplays, TV pilots, and meetings…

I will return to this blog post this time next year and see what I did or did not finish, and what books I published.

Current Projects for 2010

Novels to finish:

Lunch on the Grass

Time Lust

A Bra Full of Bullets

Non-fiction:

Women in Carver’s Stories

Carver: An Interpretative Biography

Gordon Lish and His Influence on Contemporary American Fiction

Auto-ethnographies: Essays

The Reflexive Gaze of Critifiction

American Softcore: Those Sexy Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks

Collections:

First Person Sociology

Sunlight Reflections on a Crushed Beer Can

My Year of Collections

2010 has turned out to be my year of collections in book form:

The Other Eden (Dybbuk Press): Novellas.

Ourselves or Nothing (Traveller’s Companion): Poetry.

Pictures of Houses with Water Damage (Black Lawrence): short stories.

Auto-ethnographies: Toward a Systematic Sociological Introspection of Emotions (Cambridge Scholars): Socio-anthropological essays.

First Person Sociology (McFarland): Anthology of essays I have edited.

My Norman K. Denzin Award

Presented to me by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research for my paper, “Autoethnographic Fragments of My Grandmothers.”

The paper will be published in 2010 in the McFarland & Co. anthology, First Person Sociology:  Essays Towards Autoethnohraphy in Today’s Qualitative Research.

Two Articles in Forum: Qualitative Social Research

Have two articles in the new issue of the open access journal, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, the “Biography and Ethnicity” issue (Vol. 10, No.3):

“Anthropology of the Memorial: Observations and Reflections on American Cultural Rituals Associated with Death” Read here.

“Review of Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices” Read here.

Paper Published

I have a research paper in the new issue of the Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education.

See and order here.

Hemmingson Receives 2009 Norman K. Denzin Award

Have been informed I have won the 2009 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award for my paper, “Autoethnographic Fragments of my Grandmothers.”  The award is given  out by the Carl Couch Center.

Norman Denzin’s pic to the left.

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Dear Dr. Hemmingson,

Thank you very much for your application for the 2009 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award. The Award Review Committee has completed its review of this year’s applications. I am very happy to inform you that you the winner of this year’s Denzin Award.  Congratulations for a fine piece of work!

As the winner of this year’s Denzin Award, there are several items I would like to inform you:

(1) Please plan to attend the Ethnography Division Business Meeting in 2009 National Communication Association(NCA) Convention in [Chicago], where a plaque of Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award will be presented to you.  I will inform you the time, date, and place of the event in my later correspondence with you.  If you could not attend the award presentation, please arrange someone to accept the plaque on your behalf.

(2) Your name will be entered onto the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award Plaque, a 14”x 17’’ plaque, placed in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Award announcements will also appear in the newsletters and listserves of professional organizations.

The Carl Couch Center thanks you for your application of the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award. Congratulations for winning this distinguished award.  I will be in touch with you regarding the award presentation. Thank you again.

Sincerely,

Shing-Ling Sarina Chen

Program Manager, Carl Couch Center

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