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George Singleton is a Southern author who has written eight collections of short stories, two novels, and an instructional book on writing fiction. He was born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina. Singleton graduated from Furman University in 1980 with a degree in philosophy and was an inductee into Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Singleton was the longstanding teacher of fiction writing and editing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. In 2009, Singleton was a Guggenheim fellow, and in 2011 he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2013, Singleton accepted the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford College, where he currently teaches. Singleton was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in April 2015, and was awarded the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence in 2016.

Works

Fiction

Short story collections

• These People Are Us: Stories (2001)
• The Half-Mammals of Dixie (2002)
• Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood (2004)
• Drowning in Gruel (2006)
• Stray Decorum (2012)
• Between Wrecks (2014)
• Calloustown (2015)
• Staff Picks (2019)
• You Want More (2020)
• The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs (2023)

Novels

• Novel (2005)
• Work Shirts for Madmen (2007)

Nonfiction

• Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers (2008)

References

1. "George Singleton, Writer". Retrieved 21 February 2007.
2. "George Singleton - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". George Singleton. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
3. "Awards". Hillsdale Award for Fiction. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
4. "Short-story writer George Singleton will teach Wofford classes". Archived from the original on 31 July 2016.
5. "George Singleton inducted into Fellowship of Southern Writers". Archived from the original on 31 July 2016.
6. Singleton, George (2012). Stray Decorum: Stories. Dzanc Books. ISBN 978-1938103544.
7. Singleton, George (2014). Between Wrecks: Stories. Dzanc Books. ISBN 978-1938103797.
8. "Calloustown by George Singleton".
9. "Staff Picks".
10. "You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton | Fiction".
11. Singleton, George (22 October 2008). Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers. F+W Media. ISBN 978-1582975658.

External links

• Interview with George Singleton

• Writers from South Carolina
• Furman University alumni
• Living people
• People from Greenwood, South Carolina
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
• University of North Carolina at Wilmington faculty
• University of South Carolina faculty
• People from Anaheim, California
• Writers from California
• 1958 births
• American male writers