I’m thrilled that my short story collection from Tin House was shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The jury describes Hellions as an “eerie, eclectic, genre-leaping collection [that] takes no half-measures; every sentence of HELLIONS crackles or crawls. Here, human folly moves against a backdrop of horror and magic. There’s folklore in these stories, and Southern gothic horror, and surrealism, and fantasy, and, at their center, a thread of uneasy, bodily realism. The work evokes writers like Angela Carter, Dorothy Allison, Gloria Naylor, and Kelly Link. But for all its wildness, there is tremendous control; Elliott is a gifted and thrilling writer.” Media coverage of the shortlist includes articles from People Magazine, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, Publishing Perspectives, Quill & Quire, and Shelf Awareness.
