George Singleton

George Singleton is a Southern author who has written eight collections of short stories, two novels, a collection of essays, and an instructional book on writing fiction. He was born in Anaheim, California, and raised in Greenwood, South Carolina. Singleton graduated from Furman University in 1980 with a degree in philosophy and was an inductee into Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds an MFA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Singleton was the longstanding teacher of fiction writing and editing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina.^[1] In 2009, Singleton was a Guggenheim fellow,^[2] and in 2011 he was awarded the Hillsdale Award for Fiction by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.^[3] In 2013,^[4] Singleton accepted the John C. Cobb Endowed Chair in the Humanities at Wofford College, where he taught until 2020.^[5] Singleton was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers in April 2015, and was awarded the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence in 2016.^[6] In 2024, Singleton appeared on the SEC Network television program TrueSouth Presented by YellaWood.^[7]

George Singleton
Born	George W. Singleton III (1958-05-13) May 13, 1958 (age 66) Anaheim, California, United States
Occupation	Writer, writing teacher, professor
Genre	Fiction, Southern Fiction
Literary movement	Grit Lit, Rough South

Works

Fiction

Short story collections

• These People Are Us: Stories (2001)^{[citation needed]}
• The Half-Mammals of Dixie (2002)^{[citation needed]}
• Why Dogs Chase Cars: Tales of a Beleaguered Boyhood (2004)^{[citation needed]}
• Drowning in Gruel (2006)^{[citation needed]}
• Stray Decorum (2012) ^[8]
• Between Wrecks (2014) ^[9]
• Calloustown (2015) ^[10]
• Staff Picks (2019) ^[11]
• You Want More (2020) ^[12]
• The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs (2023)

Novels

• Novel (2005)^{[citation needed]}
• Work Shirts for Madmen (2007)^{[citation needed]}

Nonfiction

• Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers (2008)^[13]
• Asides: Occasional Essays on Dogs, Food, Restaurants, Bars, Hangovers, Jobs, Music, Family Trees, Robbery, Relationships, Being Brought Up Questionably, Et Cetera (2023)^[14]

References

1. "George Singleton, Writer". Retrieved 21 February 2007.
2. "George Singleton - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". George Singleton. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
3. "Awards". Hillsdale Award for Fiction. Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2011.
4. "Short-story writer George Singleton will teach Wofford classes". Archived from the original on 31 July 2016.
5. "George Singleton: The People's Satirist". THE BITTER SOUTHERNER. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
6. "George Singleton inducted into Fellowship of Southern Writers". Archived from the original on 31 July 2016.
7. Callahan, Katie (1 November 2024). "SEC Network's TrueSouth Presented by YellaWood Drives the South Carolina Upstate on Monday, Nov. 4". ESPN Press Room U.S. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
8. Singleton, George (2012). Stray Decorum: Stories. Dzanc Books. ISBN 978-1938103544.
9. Singleton, George (2014). Between Wrecks: Stories. Dzanc Books. ISBN 978-1938103797.
10. "Calloustown by George Singleton".
11. "Staff Picks".
12. "You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton | Fiction".
13. Singleton, George (22 October 2008). Pep Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensable Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for Writers. F+W Media. ISBN 978-1582975658.
14. Singleton, George (7 November 2023). Asides. EastOver Press. ISBN 978-1-958094-29-7.

External links

• Interview with George Singleton