Nancy Hartney

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About Nancy Hartney
Nancy Hartney writes short stories and, although she has lived in Texas and California, she is a daughter of the South loving its sweaty beauty and feeling grief about its dark underbelly.
Her debut novel with The Wild Rose Press and should be on shelves by 2021. It is the tale of a Marine returning from Vietnam to a South Carolina tobacco farm, a place no longer home, now filled with strangers. The Civil Rights Movement is uncoiling. The Women's Movement is redefining relationships. War protestors fill the streets. Ghosts call. What does it take to survive physical violence, moral fatigue, and a changing love?
If You Walk Long Enough is fiction for adults that lived through the Vietnam War, millennials that never knew the conflict, the LGBTQ community, Nam vets, and fans of the historical narrative.
Washed in the Water, an award-winning debut collection, was published July 2013. A second short story collection, If the Creeks Don't Rise, came out November 2016. These wide-ranging tales put the reader eyeball-to-eyeball with people struggling to live when grit, and sometimes love, is their only currency. Both titles reflect the religious threads binding the deep South - a guiding light and worrisome footnote.
She has contributed to Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, The Ocotillo Review, Arkansas Life, The Chronicle of the Horse, Sidelines, and the Horsemen's Roundup. Her book reviews have appeared in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, motorcycle touring articles in American Iron, general interest pieces in Do South, Fayetteville Free Weekly, and Ozark Mountaineer. Her fiction has appeared in mid-west regional anthologies while Cactus Country, Frontier Tales, and Rough Country have featured her western tales. She writes for the Washington County Historical Journal Flashback (AR).
Recently Dash Lit Journal (CA), Stonecrop Magazine (ID), and Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (NC) have published her poetry. She lives in Arkansas.
Her debut novel with The Wild Rose Press and should be on shelves by 2021. It is the tale of a Marine returning from Vietnam to a South Carolina tobacco farm, a place no longer home, now filled with strangers. The Civil Rights Movement is uncoiling. The Women's Movement is redefining relationships. War protestors fill the streets. Ghosts call. What does it take to survive physical violence, moral fatigue, and a changing love?
If You Walk Long Enough is fiction for adults that lived through the Vietnam War, millennials that never knew the conflict, the LGBTQ community, Nam vets, and fans of the historical narrative.
Washed in the Water, an award-winning debut collection, was published July 2013. A second short story collection, If the Creeks Don't Rise, came out November 2016. These wide-ranging tales put the reader eyeball-to-eyeball with people struggling to live when grit, and sometimes love, is their only currency. Both titles reflect the religious threads binding the deep South - a guiding light and worrisome footnote.
She has contributed to Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, The Ocotillo Review, Arkansas Life, The Chronicle of the Horse, Sidelines, and the Horsemen's Roundup. Her book reviews have appeared in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, motorcycle touring articles in American Iron, general interest pieces in Do South, Fayetteville Free Weekly, and Ozark Mountaineer. Her fiction has appeared in mid-west regional anthologies while Cactus Country, Frontier Tales, and Rough Country have featured her western tales. She writes for the Washington County Historical Journal Flashback (AR).
Recently Dash Lit Journal (CA), Stonecrop Magazine (ID), and Dead Mule School of Southern Literature (NC) have published her poetry. She lives in Arkansas.
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Blog postEver stand on a cliff precipice and look down? Feel the exhilaration and fear?
When I finish a book—be it a collection of short stories or now my debut novel—those feelings take over.
And then, when a publisher selects the book for publication, my thoughts and feelings intensify as the process of editing, revising, formatting, design layout, and cover selection begins.
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Blog postAmericans enter their long holiday season—and really the only big one—in November (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kaawaza, Winter Solstice, New Year’s Day) ending the eating-visiting-drinking-gift giving rounds January 1.
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Blog postHere’s link to my poem “A Matter of Perspective” published in Blue Mountain Review. You’ll have to click on link, click on full screen, and scroll to p. 130. This is a great publication so take the opportunity to read as much of the magazine as you have time given your shelter-in-place status.
In the meantime, I’ve copied the poem below for you to read.
A Matter of Perspective
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Blog postHere’s another comment from a veteran who served with Armed Forces Radio Vietnam on my novel, If You Walk Long Enough. He served during the time DJ Adrain Cronauer was in Vietnam. Good Morning Vietnam was based on Cronauer and portrayed by actor Robin Williams. Dan Baxter, my reviewer, a writer and copious reader, returned home to practice medicine.
“Nancy writes sensitively and powerfully about the after effects on both the veteran and those who love him. As with all wars, the pain i3 months ago Read more -
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Blog postAs a kid growing up in the South, stories of haints and ghosts were told with great enthusiasm and frequency by our elders. Small children were admonished to be careful of beings they could not see, of noises in the night. Blue bottle trees were a favorite yard decoration to ward off haints that might float into a house and cause trouble. I’ve included several bottle tree references in my novel, If You Walk Long Enough, for readers that enjoy having goosebumps creep up their arms.
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Blog postWhen Bill McCloud returned from Vietnam, he began sorting out what to do with his life. His war experience, added to his love of history and affair with words, eventually coalesced into a life path.
A three-time winner of the Woody Guthrie Poet Award (2019, 2018, 2017), he is as plain as the red dirt of Oklahoma and as distinctive as the land rush that marked the territory called “Sooner State.” His poetry and nonfiction persuade readers to think, empathize, and reflect on just4 months ago Read more -
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Blog postIf You Walk Long Enough is one step closer to being published and placed on bookstore and library shelves. One step closer to being available for personal purchase and gift giving. The gift part is timely with the holidays just around the corner. Adults that lived through the Vietnam War, millennials that never knew the conflict, the LGBTQ community, veterans, and fans of the historical narrative will enjoy this novel set against the backdrop of two green, tangled places.
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Blog postIf You Walk Long Enough (with apologies to Alice, from Wonderland)
Where shall I go from here? asks the dog.
Why bother? It is perfectly fine here in the sun, says the cat.
I don’t think it matters, if you have a mud wallow first, grunts the pig.
Keep walking, pull your share, wheezes the mule.
All roads lead somewhere, offers the cow, chewing her cud.
The world is a marvelous place, declares the spider.
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Books By Nancy Hartney
If the Creek Don't Rise: Tales From the South
Nov 17, 2016
$4.97
A Creole beauty. Eccentric sisters and a black rose. One granny woman and a red button. Church suppers and bingo nights. A poet out of his element. Dreams of Mexico. The shadowy world of thoroughbred horse racing. If the Creek Don't Rise is a collection of hard-used characters, tangled relationships, family angst, and fortitude. Step into the Deep South and experience the lives and hardships, hopes and dreams, of folk who have nothing except grit—and sometimes love—as their currency.
Eighteen tales and six postcard vignettes, highlighted with artwork by Susan Raymond, make this collection a skillful and moving exploration of the commonplace, the hidden, and the unforgettable.
Eighteen tales and six postcard vignettes, highlighted with artwork by Susan Raymond, make this collection a skillful and moving exploration of the commonplace, the hidden, and the unforgettable.
Washed in the Water: Tales from the South
Dec 4, 2013
$3.97
President's Award for Best Published Book, 2014, Awarded by the Ozarks Writers League
Washed in the Water: Tales from the South offers vignettes of folks living the best they know how as they reach out for redemption. Set between 1950 and 1980, each tale stares at an individual as unique as the humid landscape of the South. Hard lives, daily survival, and lessons about getting on with the business of living reverberate among the characters.
". . . compelling, wide-ranging stories. Hartney brings to mind both Caldwell and Allison, but her voice at last is her own. 'Last Love' is both gritty and warm, and 'The Fig Trees' is deftly nuanced."
~ Robert Cochran, Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas
"This brief collection of stories deals with such diverse experiences as a river baptism and coon hunting while it embraces emotions of love, jealousy, and altruism. The seven southern tales contain some real gems."
~ Pat Carr, author of One Page at a Time and The Radiance of Fossils
"No better voice of the south can be found than Nancy Hartney, with her touching stories of life looked at in a most extraordinary way. Hartney writes about people we can love or despise, but most of all sympathize with and enjoy."
~ WILLA Award-winning author Velda Brotherton
Washed in the Water: Tales from the South offers vignettes of folks living the best they know how as they reach out for redemption. Set between 1950 and 1980, each tale stares at an individual as unique as the humid landscape of the South. Hard lives, daily survival, and lessons about getting on with the business of living reverberate among the characters.
". . . compelling, wide-ranging stories. Hartney brings to mind both Caldwell and Allison, but her voice at last is her own. 'Last Love' is both gritty and warm, and 'The Fig Trees' is deftly nuanced."
~ Robert Cochran, Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, University of Arkansas
"This brief collection of stories deals with such diverse experiences as a river baptism and coon hunting while it embraces emotions of love, jealousy, and altruism. The seven southern tales contain some real gems."
~ Pat Carr, author of One Page at a Time and The Radiance of Fossils
"No better voice of the south can be found than Nancy Hartney, with her touching stories of life looked at in a most extraordinary way. Hartney writes about people we can love or despise, but most of all sympathize with and enjoy."
~ WILLA Award-winning author Velda Brotherton
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