Once Upon An Island - Softcover

Foley, Theresa; Crean, Kevin; Meece, Allen; Williamson, William; Adams, Judy; Orlandi, Robin; Eggers, J.T.; Bowers, Barbara; O'Shaughnessy, Deanna; Congdon, Kirby; Bisztray, Margit; Hughes, Danne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575025159 ISBN 13: 9781575025155

Publisher: Key West Author's Coop, 1997

Synopsis

The first short story collection from the Key West Authors' Coop. A classic that has never gone out of print. Highly popular with locals and visitors for the colorful pictures it paints of the legendary island.

ONCE UPON AN ISLAND
A Collection of Short Fiction, Poetry & Non-Fiction from New Key West Writers

Key West. A place for boat captains from hell, men and women prowling for love, the dreamers, the lovers, the wanderers. Paradise has many faces, many stories, many charms. This collection from 16 new writers will take you through the little lanes and back alleys, to the cemetery, into the shaded backyards of broken down Conch houses and out beyond the reef in a literary exploration of the invisible side of this famous little island.

"Sometime these stories and poems talk and sometimes they sing...but the writing is always melodious and proves, once again, that Key West is alive and well in the writerly imagination. If you're interested in the literature of Key West, you can't afford not to read it."
David A. Kaufelt
Author of The Fat Boy Murders

About this title

From the Publisher:

Key West has always attracted writers who observed life on the 2 by 4 mile island. This collection of stories from the latest generation is as colorful as from those who went before -- Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Richard Wilbur and more.

From the Author:

William Williamson, one of the contributing authors to Once Upon an Island, is the author of SOME CAME FIRST and SOME CAME AFTER, the first two novels of his Florida Keys trilogy. The final novel, SOME CAME NAKED has a publication date for late 2014. His short stories have been previously published in three Key West anthologies, Once Upon an Island, Beyond Paradise and Mango Summers featuring new Key West authors. Those books are available at bookstores in the Keys and online at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. He is also the author of a collection of short stories titled, Jack, Beans and Muffins and sixteen books of prose poetry.

Bar Snatch
Tonight We're Serving Insanity for Supper
A Mere Miscellany of Midnight Madrigals
Millennium Maladies
Sixty Nine Poems on a Sundog Day
A Killing Frost Falls Down Tonight
Last Call, Selected Bar Poems
A Madness is Within Reach Inside of All of Us
A Murmur Escaped from her Lips as his Hands Traced her Hips
Accept No Presents and Give No Pardons, a Poet's on his Own
At Odds with the Flavor of the Union
First and Last Impressions from the Lost and Found
Forgotten Notes from Nights of Ill-gotten Grandeur
Last Night of the Orphan Poems
Redundant Ruminations of a Hand Well Stroked
You'll be my Monkey and I'll be the Proudest Palm Tree You ever Seen

To read more of William's work, visit William Williamson.com and Poetscrib.com Check William out @Facebook.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Key West Author's Coop
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1575025159
• ISBN 13: 9781575025155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150
• Editor: Foley Theresa