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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Animals in Captivity

by (author) Kate Segriff

Publisher
Riddle Fence Publishing Inc
Initial publish date
May 2024
Category
Short Stories (single author), Contemporary Women, Literary
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781738151561
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $22.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781738151578
    Publish Date
    May 2024
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

International award-winning writer Kate Segriff’s debut short story collection is a sleeper hit in the making, loaded with fierce, unapologetic writing about women struggling against poverty, addiction, and a world that wants to drag them down. With hope and hilarity, Segriff transports us from speakeasies to heavy metal concerts on Hudson’s Bay, where we meet neurodiverse miners, opiate-dependent, train-riding teens, and a tree-murdering grandma.

In her unyielding debut story collection, Kate Segriff’s characters are fierce, unapologetic, and not afraid to plunge headfirst into chaos. Animals in Captivity takes us from the 1930’s to the present day, from Fogo Island, NL, to Lethbridge, Alberta, from speakeasies to heavy metal concerts on Hudson’s Bay, where we meet neurodiverse miners, opiate-dependent, train-riding teens, and a tree-murdering grandma. With matter-of-fact prose and dark humour, Segriff guides us through desperate times and unusual circumstances toward hope in an imperfect world.

For fans of We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin, David Huebert’s Chemical Valley, and Cary Fagen’s Great Adventures for the Faint of Heart, Animals in Captivity feature a motley cast, each ready to snatch their due from the clenched hand of the universe.

About the author

Kate Segriff (she/her) is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker. Her work has been published in Atlanta Review, The Malahat Review, Prism International, and Best Canadian Poets, among others. Her short films have appeared in over 50 independent festivals worldwide. She has won the Space and Time Magazine Iron Writer Award, the Pulp Literature Bumblebee Prize for Flash Fiction, the Wilda Hearn Prize for Flash Fiction, the Connor Prize for Poetry and the Edinburgh Short Story Award.

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