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Thursday, December 01, 2005
 
PLOUGHSHARES FEATURES BILLMAN STORY: Jon Billman’s story “Inkneck” is in the fall 2005 issue of Ploughshares magazine. The story revolves around an ill-fated trip to El Paso by a Laramie Inkneck and his pal. Jon is the author of the story collection When We Were Wolves. One of those stories, “Calcutta,” appeared in the 2003 anthology, Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming, and also won the Zoetrope/Sam Adams Short Story Contest. He and his wife Hilary (also a writer) lived for a number of years in Kemmerer, where Hilary served as director of the Pioneer Country Museum. Jon documented their time living in Kemmerer’s old Assembly of God church in an original essay in Deep West. Wrote John: “The belfry houses a handsome working bell and the neighborhood kids are always knocking on the door to ring it. Pull the bell rope after 10 p.m., and the police show up…. When the snow melts or it rains hard the roof leaks. In summer, sip a beer and watch bats feed in the streetlights.” John and his family moved to Las Cruces, N.M., in 2004 and now live in Ames, Iowa, where Jon teaches at Iowa State. And just what is an “Inkneck?” You have to read the Ploughshares story to find out.
- posted by Michael Shay @ 9:19 AM
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