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Novel Excerpts

Lee and April

By Ed | April 4, 2020 | 0

Lee and April negotiate one of many troubled relationships in the novel.

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The Original Scene (novel deleted scene)

By Ed | May 19, 2019 | 0

When I talk to people about the novel I’m working on, they often ask how I came up with the idea. Here’s the answer.

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Readings / Performances

In January 2016, I recorded three of my poems for the Telepoem Booth project, a classic phone booth on which fans can dial up a poem for a listen on a rotary phone.

I read one of my short stories at Spillers 3 at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on February 1, 2016. You can listen to that reading here.

On June 21, 2018, I read new poems from my chapbook World Afire as featured poet at District 4 in Mesa, Arizona.

Publications

I've recently launched Read Write Repeat, a combination online publication and email newsletter. It's writing about writing and reading for writers and readers. Subscribe (for free!) for essays on the craft of writing, guided fiction study, book reviews, original short fiction, and ideas for shaking the words out of your head and onto the page. Let's get together in your email inbox and talk about books and writing.

Four Chambers literary journal cover image

An excerpt from The Distance and the Weight, my recently completed first novel, was published in the beautifully designed and illustrated Four Chambers issue 2. The limited run publication is sold out, but you can read an excerpt and more scenes from the novel here on my site.

spillers-book-feb2016

Four Chambers Press also published a collection of the stories that were performed at Spillers 3, including my story Until This Is Over. The limited run publication is sold out, but I'm using the story in my guided study of fiction over on Story Course, so you can read it there if you'd like.

Reviews

"The finest piece, the most consistently absorbing, the most affecting on a gut level, is Ed Tankersley’s [excerpt] from The Distance and the Weight. … Tankersley puts us in the head and senses of Gordie, a young boy waiting for his mother, who is late to pick him up….When his mother does come, we see that what might have been a story of abandonment is actually one about love and intense connection in the face of difficulties….We root for these two, in a big way."

Laurence Levey, The Review Review, January 2015

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