THE GEOGRAPHY OF FIRST KISSES
wins the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize!
Very happy to share this good news about my debut story collection!
Kallisto Gaia Press Executive Director Tony Burnett has selected The Geography of First Kisses as the winner of the 2022 Acacia Fiction Prize from the short list of finalists.
His praise for the collection:
“These ethereal stories, tenuously tethered by magical realism to the bays and backwaters of southern Louisiana, portray a quiet elegance reminiscent of early 20th century art films. Davidson saturates them with poetic illusion while powering the prose with a dark, pulsating circuitry. She combines joy, heartache, and tenacity in a recipe long forgotten but sorely missed in today’s super-structured literature. For an existential auto-erotic evening, read these stories slowly while dressed in your most sensory-stimulating loungewear.”
Forthcoming in 2023!