Background
Crews was born and raised just outside Sandersville, Georgia.
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Ashlee Adams
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Crews earned an English degree from the University of Georgia and later earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University.
Career
The city promotes itself as “the Kaolin Capital of the World”, in recognition of one of Georgia’s most important minerals, kaolin, a white, alumina-silicate clay. The fictionalized version of her hometown plays a key role in many of her stories as her characters seek to find a sense of home somewhere between the place they know and the greater world that they seek to discover. Ashlee Crews has published several short stories and is currently writing her first novel.
“Called Out” appears in The Southern Review, Autumn 2010.
Her story “Bulletin of the Woods” appears in Prairie Schooner, Summer 2011. Her story “Restoration” was published in Shenandoah in February 2012.
"Church Time" was published by Southwest Review in Volume 98, Number 1. The award is given out by the Southwest Review.
Achievements
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Her story “Bird Feed” appears in McSweeney’s issue #27 and won a Pushcart Prize in 2010. Her story "Church Time" won the 2011 James Hurst Prize for Fiction, sponsored by North Carolina State University and judged by Ron Rash. Her story "Church Time" also won the 2013 McGinnis-Richie Award for fiction. Her short story collection "Called Out" was named a finalist for the 2012 Flannery O"Connor Award for Short Fiction. Crews was named a 2013 winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers" Award.
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Awards
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Pushcart Prize; Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.