Hill Press publishes first short story collection, “Stray Dogs and Saviors,” by Erin Connors

I’ve got two exciting pieces of news to share with you to kick off 2021. The first is that last year, I launched a small publishing company called Hill Press. It wasn’t meant to be a secret, but, as you’re well aware, the year didn’t go quite as planned. As for many of you, family obligations largely relegated my professional life to the back burner as 2020 progressed.

Hill Press doesn’t even have a shingle up on the internet yet (besides our new Instagram account), but we’ll get there. I look forward to sharing more with you about the company and our mission in a more official way this year. In the meantime, here’s a hint about where we’re headed: we’ll focus on identifying new voices and publishing perspective-shifting work.

The second news item is that, despite our quiet launch, Hill Press published our first short story collection at the end of 2020, Stray Dogs and Saviors: Stories, by Erin Connors. Not only is it our first foray into the world of short stories, it’s also the author’s debut collection. I can’t wait for you to read her bright, humorous, thought-provoking book. After you’ve spent time soaking up Erin’s unique and delightful writing, you’ll be glad to know she has a nonfiction book in the works, too.

Stray Dogs and Saviors book description: From the local schoolyard to the business districts of Singapore, from a pine forest to a luxury resort in India, the characters in these stories confront the reality that dreams don’t always come true. Power imbalances and gender expectations hem them in, and slow and steady doesn’t always win the race. Yet, as they move between the mundanities of their lives and their fantasies, they sometimes encounter the satisfactions that lie somewhere in between.

Erin Connors is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in various publications, including the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Journal for Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. Though she is not critically acclaimed, she did once win second place in a Lonely Planet travel writing contest. Then she had a family, with whom she now lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she rides her bike and blogs at writingforchocolate.com. This is her first short story collection.

Stray Dogs and Saviors: Stories is available for purchase here.

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