{"id":13691,"date":"2022-10-14T13:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/?page_id=13691"},"modified":"2023-02-28T20:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:01:21","slug":"brenda-peynado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/brenda-peynado\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Peynado"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"13691\" class=\"elementor elementor-13691\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a5c0f58 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a5c0f58\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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.elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Common Reader Keynote:<\/strong> Friday, March 31 at 3:45 p.m., followed by booksigning<br \/><strong>Conversation with Brenda Peynado:<\/strong> Saturday, April 1 at 9:30 a.m.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/brendapeynado.com\/about\/\">Brenda Peynado<\/a>&#8216;s genre-bending short story collection, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/book\/9780143135623?origin=sigma-tau-delta-international-english-honor-society-at-tattered-cover\/featured-books-at-the-sigma-tau-delta-2023-convention\">The Rock Eaters<\/a><\/em>\u2014featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones\u2014garnered starred reviews from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-1431-3562-3\">Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/brenda-peynado\/the-rock-eaters\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/em>, and was named one of NPR, the New York Public Library, and <em>Electric Literature&#8217;s<\/em> best books of the year. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>&#8216;s Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in <em>The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/em>, and over forty other short stories have appeared in places such as <a href=\"http:\/\/tor.com\/\"><em>Tor.com<\/em><\/a><em>, The Georgia Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, <\/em>and <em>Epoch<\/em>. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.<\/p><h4>Resources<\/h4><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/common-reader\/\">2023 Common Reader: <em>The Rock Eaters<\/em><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/store\/catalog\/sigma-tau-delta-international-english-honor-society-at-tattered-cover\">Tattered Cover Book Store<\/a> <br \/>purchase online titles featured at the 2023 Convention<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEYNOTE SPEAKER Brenda Peynado Website Common Reader Keynote: Friday, March 31 at 3:45 p.m., followed by booksigningConversation with Brenda Peynado: Saturday, April 1 at 9:30 a.m. Brenda Peynado&#8216;s genre-bending short story collection, The Rock Eaters\u2014featuring alien arrivals, angels falling from rooftops, virtual reality, and sorrows manifesting as tumorous stones\u2014garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13691","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13691"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14553,"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13691\/revisions\/14553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishconvention.org\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}