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Spillway, a short-story collection, published by Stephen F. Austin University Press.

“SPILLWAY”

Silver medal winner in the 2022 Florida Book Awards General Fiction category.

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Spillway Reviews

 

“Kim Bradley is an enchanter, casting her spell with fresh and provocative language, hypnotic sentences, illuminating details, and irresistible characters. Here is a world of the lost and lonely and of troubling revenants, where the past is present, and the present is often unbearable. “Visitation” alone is worth the price of the book. This five-act drama—think Shakespeare in Wallace County, Alabama—unfolds at the funeral of a man who won’t stay dead. In every story in this luminous collection, there is a great sense of the value of human life. Spillway is a revelation and an inspiration for those of us who love stories. Oh, and, by the way, Emory Pellicer will haunt your dreams.”

—John Dufresne, author of I Don’t Like Where This Is Going

 “A passage through shadow and bramble, a deep dive into the rough waters of grief, regret, forgiveness, and dogged hope, Spillway will chase you like a water moccasin, deliver you to hope.” These stories are Southern gothic leavened with knockout realism, finespun humor, and prose so fine it hurts. We know these characters. We are these characters.”

   —Laura Lee Smith, author of Heart of Palm and The Ice House

“Kim Bradley’s Spillway is a magical, glorious debut. Nestled in the water hyacinth and wild mallow, tangled in cypress roots and the aftermath of hurricanes, readers find not only alligators and broken families and solitude’s cruelty, but the utter beauty of hard-earned wisdom, forgiveness, and redemption. My heart soared reading this collection. Revel in the lush, gorgeous world Bradley paints. Let’s all hope this journey is only the first of many more this talented writer will gift us.”

 —Amanda Boyden, author of I Got the Dog, Babylon Rolling, and Pretty Little Dirty

“These stories are an invocation, binding us forever to the twin lakes and tidal rivers, unheated cabins and coquina walls of North Florida, with its alligator teeth and jasmine tenderness. Bradley is a clear-eyed guide to this overlooked stretch of American landscape, conjuring those who leave and those left behind in fierce and finely wrought prose. An exquisite heartbreaking collection whose people and places you will not soon forget.”

 —Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread  

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PUBLICATIONS

  • Natural Bridge

  • The Louisville Review

  • Bayou

  • Southern Indiana Review

  • Real South Magazine

  • Needle: A Magazine of Noir

  • Southern Humanities Review

  • The Broadkill Review

  • Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art