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Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart

Winner of a Florida Book Award Gold Medal
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kimberly is a native Floridian. She has an MA in English from Florida Gulf Coast University and an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst's Poet's and Writer's Program. Her stories have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and have appeared in PANK, Drunken Boat, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her story "Baba Yaga's House of Forgotten Things" won a 2013 Best of the Net Award. "One For the Crow'  was included in Ellen Datlow's Recommended Horror List of 2019.

Her debut story collection, Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a Broken Heart, published by Burrow Press, is a winner of the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Rumpus Book Club Selection.

PRAISE FOR WORM FIDDLING NOCTURNE…

“Stories pulsing with imagination and incarnate joy… Lojewski too, as Padgett Powell said of Barry Hannah, has her ear to the oracle hole in the ground.” –JEFF PARKER, author of Ovenman

“Magic realism meets bildungsroman… In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS

“Channeled through the swampy terrain of fairy tale and folklore, these stories of misfits and runaways will open and break your heart by their searing and unsentimental honesty.” –JAMES BROCK, author of Nearly Florida

“Delightfully subversive… Often teetering on the boundary between dream and nightmare, this collection is a satisfying and eerie journey into wild realms.” –FOREWORD REVIEWS

In this wildly imaginative debut collection, whimsical fairy tales of princesses and farm girls turn dark, and dark tales of mistreated sideshow freaks turn whimsical. An itinerant marionette falls prey to a lusty mesmerist. An alcoholic camp counselor is haunted by her dead best friend. A juvenile delinquent languishes in a boot camp run by authoritarian grandmas. Be they human monsters or reluctant moth-girls, the outcasts that populate these eleven compelling stories all long for escape, community, acceptance, and self-discovery.

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IN THE PRESS

"Magical realism meets bildungsroman.

In just a few pages, Lojewski creates deeply imaginative and textured worlds. However mundane the plights of her characters—a crush on a boy, a tense mother-daughter relationship—those surreal environments make magic of the moments.

 

Eleven enchanted and enchanting stories of change."

KIRKUS

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  • Sat, Feb 29
    12211 Walsingham Rd
    Feb 29, 2020, 10:00 AM EST
    12211 Walsingham Rd, 12211 Walsingham Rd, Largo, FL 33778, USA
    Learn the Ins and Outs of Publishing: Speaker Panel with Kimberly Lojewski
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  • Fri, Feb 21
    World Golf Village Renaissance Resort
    Feb 21, 2020, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM
    World Golf Village Renaissance Resort, 500 S Legacy Trail, St. Augustine, FL 32092, USA
    Florida Book Award Winners: Researching, Crafting, Submitting and Promoting Award-Winning Fiction. With Tara Lynn Masih and Gale Massey
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  • Thu, Oct 24
    UT Plant Hall
    Oct 24, 2019, 1:00 PM
    UT Plant Hall, 374 UT University Dr, Tampa, FL 33606, USA
    A panel of authors discuss their award-winning works.
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  • Tue, Oct 01
    Lil Indies
    Oct 01, 2019, 8:00 PM – Oct 02, 2019, 10:00 PM
    Lil Indies, 1036 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803, USA
    Local writers share new work inspired by the last 30 days of news.
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  • Sat, Jul 20
    Emerald City Comics Games Toys
    Jul 20, 2019, 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM
    Emerald City Comics Games Toys, 4902 113th Ave N, Clearwater, FL 33760, USA
    Florida Writers Discuss Getting Inspiration from the Unusual: Nerdier Than Thou
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  • Fri, May 17
    Orange County Convention Center - West C
    May 17, 2019, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
    Orange County Convention Center - West C, 9800 International Dr, Orlando, FL 32819, USA
    Women in Genre: Speakers Panel
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  • Sat, Apr 13
    1001 S Gadsden St
    Apr 13, 2019, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
    1001 S Gadsden St, 1001 S Gadsden St, Tallahassee, FL 32301, USA
    Florida Book Award winners panel
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  • Fri, Dec 07
    1123 Thomasville Rd
    Dec 07, 2018, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
    1123 Thomasville Rd, 1123 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USA
    Midtown Reader is very excited to welcome author Kimberly Lojewski for a reading and signing of her debut short story collection.
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