Hellions Book Launch with Julia Elliott and Ray McManus
Thursday, May 1 | 5:00 – 6:45 p.m. | Reading and discussion at 5:30 p.m. | Book signing at 6:15 p.m.
Join CMA Writer-in Residence Ray McManus for a celebratory launch of Julia Elliott’s new book, Hellions (Tin House), one of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025. From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic and from the horrific to the wondrous, presenting earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly. Grab a glass of sparkling wine, buy a book, and join McManus and Elliott for a reading and conversation followed by a book signing courtesy of All Good Books.
Free.
Julia Elliott is also the author of the aforementioned story collection The Wilds, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the novel The New and Improved Romie Futch (both from Tin House). Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, Granta (online), and the New York Times. She has won a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award and her stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Elliott teaches English and women’s and gender studies at the University of South Carolina and lives in Columbia with her husband, daughter, and five hens.