Unpublished Julie
Most of Julie Showalter’s fully edited and buffed writings are already available on this site at Julie’s Writings. I had hesitated to include her other work that ranges from workshop exercises to story fragments to projects set aside to finish at a later day to pieces that appear, at least to me, to be fully as polished and effective as her published stories.1
Beyond casual conversation (her mention, for example, over dinner of a conversation with an editor who planned to use one of her stories), I was not routinely privy to the status of any of her writing projects until they were accepted for publication so the extent to which Julie was or was not satisfied with any of these efforts is unknown to me.
I have, however, read and re-read these unpublished pieces and have found several moving and wonderful so, fully acknowledging that I am hardly an unbiased critic, I have decided to share them.
Footnotes
- As might be expected, some of the documents in this section have more grammatical and spelling errors than Julie’s other work, and many are incompletely processed as literature. I chose to include each piece as it stood, warts and all, rather than subject it to my uneven editing. ~back~
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