INDUSTRY

Fiction
Our Napoleon in Rags
"It wouldn’t be surprising if Our Napoleon in Rags winds up attracting a cult following. Gann’s writing is dense and interesting; he seems to be conducting a one-man campaign to stamp out the cliché, that withered figure of speech which is such a mercenary part of the thin landscape of contemporary fiction...."
—Sonya Jones
The Barbarian Parade
“Gann has a great story to tell, one that is by turns sensuous, carnal, tender, and often brutal. With its original theme and beautiful, yet effortlessly composed language, Parade makes a striking debut for a novelist of daring creativity and passion.”
—Edmund White
Anthology
A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play
An award-winning anthology of poetry and prose, coedited with Kristin Herbert.
Available Now

"There are abundant felicities of style that make this an enjoyable—as well as provocative—novel to read. If the proof's in the pudding, the pudding is language. And Gann knows his way around a sentence.... Gann has transmuted life into art."
—Frederick Smock, The Courier-Journal

ON THE ROAD



Workshop in Woodford County.
Revising Your Writing Workshop with Kirby Gann
Saturday, June 27 1:00p to 4:30p
at Woodford County Library, Versailles, KY

Part five of the "Finding The Writer Within" series at the Woodford County library. He will be discussing how authors who have a completed draft of work can revise their own writing. There will be a public lecture at 1:00 p.m., and a free interactive workshop by the author from 2:30-4:30
Price: Free
Phone: (859) 873-5191 registration required

Hill Street Press

A New Review Here
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"Alongside Gary Lutz and Sam Lipsyte, Kirby Gann is one of the more exciting writers to come along in recent years...."
—Scott Bryan Wilson, in Rain Taxi Review of Books


NEWS


Novel-in-Progress excerpted in The Lumberyard
Gann Leads Open Workshop in Lexington KY 27 June 2009
Profile on KET's "Kentucky Muse"
Gann contributed a short essay on how to clarify your own ideas for narrative in the new anthology Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers edited by Sherry Ellis, published by Tarcher.

Our Napoleon in Rags is a nominee for the Kentucky Award in Literature.

Frontiers Magazine, in Los Angeles, named Our Napoleon in Rags one of the Top 5 Novels published in 2005.

Also, at the literary blog Syntax of Things, they've posted an excellent list of what they're calling "underrated writers" — Kirby Gann is on the list, along with many other writers worthy of attention. Check out the site here: Syntax of Things.


Mad Hatter's Review has a review of ONIR here.
Gann's fiction makes a rare appearance online. Click here to visit STORYGLOSSIA.
Click here to visit The Litblog co-op discussion of Our Napoleon in Rags.
Kirby Gann is the author of the novels The Barbarian Parade (Hill Street Press, 2004) and Our Napoleon in Rags (Ig Publishing, April 2005). He is also co-editor (with poet Kristin Herbert) of the anthology A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play, which was a finalist for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (Anthologies). His short fiction has appeared in Witness and The Best of Witness, The Crescent Review, American Writing, The Louisville Review, The Southeast Review, and The Southern Indiana Review, among other journals. He is the recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship and two Professional Assistance Awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an Honorable Mention in The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Gann is Managing Editor at Sarabande Books, and teaches in the brief-residency MFA in Writing Program at Spalding University.

Kirkby Gann Tittle (his given name) is a musician and songwriter. Currently he plays lead guitar for the band Hipmonk, which is fronted by singer-songwriter R. Scot Payne. They have just released their debut CD, Pushing Stone.

Both Kirby Gann and Kirkby Tittle live in Louisville, Kentucky, with wife Stephanie, and two wild dogs.