Home: An Anthology

Minnesota-connected short stories, memoir, and poetry about the meaning of “home.” (2019)

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About Home

28 authors explore hope and loss, promises kept and promises broken in their own personal search for home.

The anthology includes 40 works representing a wide range of Minnesota experiences and voices, urban to rural, historical to present day. Celebrating the feeling of connection to a community, the beauty of the north woods, struggling to find a way to keep our hard-earned home, or carving out a home in a sometimes hostile land, Home is a truly American story.

100 percent of profits go to Alliance Housing http://www.alliancehousinginc.org/, a Minneapolis non-profit dedicated to making it possible for individuals and families to create homes for themselves, regardless of income and background. 

“Alliance Housing enjoyed working with Flexible Press on its Home: An Anthology.  Not only did they share their profits with our affordable housing nonprofit, they organized a reading by many of the writers for our donors and tenants. It was a lovely event and really connected many people who had experienced housing instability or the power of home with our mission.”

—Barbara Jeanetta, Executive Director, Alliance Housing Inc.

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The authors

  • Heidi Arneson

  • William Cass

  • Nancy Louise Cook

  • Martha Grace Duncan

  • Michael Enich

  • Lisa Fay

  • Crystal Spring Gibbins

  • Wing Young Huie

  • Jayson Iwen

  • David Jauss

  • Jells (Angelica Daniela Bello Ayapantecatl

  •  Sandra Kacher

  • Mary Karlsson

  • Kristin Laurel

  • Enrique Lucas

  • Mbeke

  • Teresa Ortiz

  • Deborah Schmedemann

  • Alicia Smith

  • Bart Sutter

  • Thom Tammaro

  • William Torphy

  • Rodney Torreson

  • Susan Terris

  • Sarah Brown Weitzman

  • Vincent Wyckoff

  • Ahmed Ismail Yusuf

  • Yvonne

Editor:

Associate Editors:

Advisory committee / readers:

  • Ed Sheehy

  • Don Browne

  • Stephen Parker

  • Teresa Ortiz

  • Drew Danielson