SOME NEWS FOR EVIDENCE OF V

EVIDENCE OF V: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS, FACTS, AND FICTIONS

Winner of Minnesota Book Award for Novel and Short Story

Winner 2019 Foreword Indies Editor’s Choice Prize Fiction

Winner 2019 Independent Publishers Gold Medal Best Regional Fiction

Marshall Project Best Criminal Justice Books of 2019

Entropy Best Fiction Books 2019

When Incorrigible Teen Girls Were Jailed. New York Times, November 14, 2019

Of Fact, Fiction and Resisting Literary Classification. Brevity. December 2019

Grandmother’s Sad Past is Story of Thousands. Minneapolis StarTribune, October 10, 2019

Heartbreaking Story of Family Secrets Told in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. St. Paul Pioneer Press

Sauk Centre Girls School Stirs Up Descendants, Stories of Trauma, U.S. News and World Report

NPR Books Author Interview Petra Mayer

MPR All Things Considered, Interview, November 15, 2019

NPR KAXE Interview, June 22,2020

Of Fact, Fiction, and Resisting Literary Classifications, Brevity

Finding Truth Across Genre and Shattering Shame: An Interview Slag Glass City

Evidence of V: Reviewed Another Chicago Magazine

An Unknown Origin Story: Minnesota Women’s Press

Evidence of V: Reviewed Drizzle Review

Evidence of V: Reviewed Smokelong Quarterly

Research Notes: Refusing to Conform: An Interview Necessary Fiction

SPD 150 Top Selling Books of the Decade

The Pseudonyms and Lies of a Professor’s Family History: The Oracle

Sheila O’Connor in Conversation with Brache James. Brooklyn Rail

Evidence of V: Most Anticipated Books of October, 2019, The Coil

Evidence of V: Featured in Ninth Letter

Evidence of V: Featured in Guernica

Evidence of V: Reviewed in Fictional Cafe

“Immoral, Incorrigible, Delinquent.” Sheila’s mini-course syllabus in Entropy.

WATCH Book Trailer for Evidence of V

UPCOMING PUBLIC EVENTS FOR EVIDENCE OF V

JANUARY 23, 2020, 7:00 Panel Discussion, “The Legacy of Incarcerated Girls” Eastside Freedom Library.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020, Schulte, Roth and Zabel Law Firm, New York, Author Talk

FEBRUARY 29, 2020, 10:00 Red Wing Public Library, Author Talk

MARCH 1, 2020, 10:30 Dakota Unitarian Universalist Church, Author Talk

MARCH 7, 2020, 9:00 AWP PANEL: The Past is Present, Writing the Legacy of Historical Injustice. Room 214D Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

MARCH 7, 2020, 10:30-11:15 AWP Book Signing Rose Metal Press Table

MARCH 11, 2020, 9:00 Stearns County History Museum Breakfast Club, Author Talk

VIRTUAL EVENTS

MARCH 27, 2020 Meet the Finalists, Minnesota Book Award

APRIL 23, 2020, Inver Groves Heights Community College Research Symposium

APRIL 23, 2020, St. Thomas University

MAY 18, 2020, DePaul University Virtual Author Visit

JUNE 8, 2020, Rochester Community College

JUNE 17, 2020, Beagle and Wolf Bookstore

JUNE 19, 2020, Edina TV From the Author’s House to Yours

JUNE 22, 2020, Brainerd Public Library, Brown Bag Lunch Series

AUGUST 4, 2020. Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Dream Big Book Club Event

INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES FOR SHEILA’S OTHER BOOKS

UNTIL TOMORROW MR. MARSWORTH

READ Feature story in St. Paul Pioneer Press

READ Review of Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth in Minneapolis StarTribune

READ "On Penpals and Protests" an interview with Sheila at Barnes and Noble 

READ Review of Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth in Publisher’s Weekly

READ "My Writing and Reading Life" and interview with Sheila at Children’s Book Review

READ Sheila’s Interview with The Oracle

LISTEN Sheila’s Radio Interview with Superior Reads WTIP

KEEPING SAFE THE STARS

READ Interview with Sheila in St. Paul Pioneer Press.

READ Sheila's piece on Writing for Resiliency. 

SPARROW ROAD

LISTEN To Sheila's MPR Interview with Euan Kerr.

READ Interview with Sheila in Edina Magazine.

READ Why Teaching Poetry Matters.

READ The Pleasures and Perils of the Novelists Craft

READ Sheila's interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith.

READ Sheila's interview with Mother Daughter Bookclub.