{"id":123608,"date":"2022-04-28T15:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=123608"},"modified":"2024-01-04T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:56:14","slug":"ddn-wright-state-professor-nominated-for-prestigious-literary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/04\/28\/ddn-wright-state-professor-nominated-for-prestigious-literary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dayton Daily News: Wright State professor nominated for prestigious literary award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erin Flanagan is professor of English language and literatures and author of “Deer Season.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Erin Flanagan was\u00a0<\/b>napping when it was announced that her debut novel, \u201cDeer Season,\u201d had been nominated for a prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award. Though Flanagan\u2019s debut novel is certainly a triumph in many respects, she was still surprised to learn that, despite the book\u2019s limited exposure, it had reached enough readers to receive a nomination for such a distinguished prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Edgar Allan Poe Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced each year. The 2022 winners will be revealed at New York\u2019s Marriott Marquis Times Square on April 28.<\/p>\n

Flanagan, a professor of English language and literatures at Wright State University, first released \u201cDeer Season\u201d in September 2021 through the University of Nebraska Press. In the novel, a girl goes missing during the opening weekend of deer season in rural Nebraska. The first suspect thought to be involved in the girl\u2019s death is Bullard, a mentally-challenged farmhand who has only a flimsy story of why his truck is now sporting fresh blood and a dent near the headlight. Throughout the novel, a series of characters will give the reader a clear picture of what lengths some people would go to in order to fight for those they love.<\/p>\n

Flanagan\u2019s own hometown gave her inspiration for the novel\u2019s setting. When she was young, her family moved from a bustling Chicago suburb to live on a farm in the small town of Sanborn, Iowa. Similar to the characters in \u201cDeer Season,\u201d her parents moved to a rural farm where her father worked on the farm and her mother drove a school bus.<\/p>\n

The novel is set in the 1980s, mostly because Flanagan grew up on the farm during that decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine how much rural life has changed in that time with cell phones, Amazon Prime, and all these things that were just unimaginable when I was a kid,\u201d Flanagan said. \u201cWe were so insulated. I really wanted to capture that sense of community and how you existed in a bit of a bubble. A lot of information came through gossip and over backyard fences. I wanted to capture that in the novel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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