Description
A dystopic fiction for unsettling times, The Girling Season weaves a chilling tale about a society of “girlers” and young women they train and trade. In the tradition of Angela Carter’s fables and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, The Girling Season reminds us that the dynamics of gender, power and politics have long histories and far-reaching futures.
The Girling Season was published in June 2022 in an edition of 600 Classic Edition copies bound in letterpress printed paper wrappers; 150 Patrons’ Edition copies bound in handmade paste papers; 26 Centaur Patron copies hardbound in cloth and handmade paste paper boards; Patron and Centaur Patron copies are each individually numbered and signed by the publisher and author.
A 2022 Winner of the THORNWILLOW PATRONS’ PRIZE for emerging artists
Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: A Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction (2019) from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Best New American Voices, Iowa Review, Master’s Review, Denver Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Studies in the Novel, Zeta, Brooklyn Rail, American Letters & Commentary, Experimental Fiction and Buffalo News (among others). She is an Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo and co-curates the Exhibit X Fiction Series, a reading series based at UB for students and the wider WNY community. She is currently completing a new collection of stories, Now You See Her.
THE THORNWILLOW PATRONS’ PRIZE
Aimed at catalyzing the careers of talented up-and-coming authors and artists, the Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize is given in collaboration with New York Foundation for the Arts, and is supported by our Thornwillow Dispatch subscribers at the Patrons’ and Centaur Patrons’ tiers.
This prize celebrates outstanding new authors and artists with publication in fine press, limited editions, and distributes copies of these new publications to editors, critics, reviewers, and other opinion leaders in the literary and art worlds.
Thank you to every Dispatch subscriber who has made this project possible. When you subscribe to the Thornwillow Dispatch you are not only adding a beautiful volume to your shelves, but are also supporting our mission of perpetuating the arts and crafts of the written word. We are incredibly excited to be able to support the careers of such talented artists through the Thornwillow Patrons’ Prize.
