Walking on
Water

Walking on Water gathers together an
engaging and compelling collection of short
stories by 24 of the many talented writers to
have graduated from The University of Alabama's
Program in Creative Writing over the past 20
years. Editor Allen Wier, who taught fiction
writing at Alabama from 1980 to 1994, offers us
in this celebration of writing a variety of
fictional voices that represent widely differing
sensibilities and visions. Some stories are by
writers whose literary careers are well begun,
while others appear here in print for the first
time. Wier named the collection after the story
by Kim Trevathan, this author's first published
fiction, because walking on water is such an apt
figure for what the fiction writer attempts with
each new story's beginning. Walking on Water
is an outstanding anthology, surprising in the
rich variety of its voices and stances,
extraordinary in the sustained quality of all 24
stories.
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