Corinne Demas

Personal

Awards

• Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, Fiction Winner 2015.
• ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award for Saying Goodbye to Lulu.
• Finalist, Massachusetts Book Award 2001, The Disappearing Island.
• PEN Syndicated Fiction Competition winner.
• Lawrence Foundation Prize for the best story to appear in Michigan Quarterly Review.
• Breakthrough Contest winner, University of Missouri Press.
• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship.

  Publications

Books

• Returning to Shore, Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group, 2014
• Everything I Was, Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group, 2011
• The Writing Circle, Hyperion/Voice, July 2010. Paperback, 2011. German edition: Das Herz de Täuschung, Diana Verlag, 2012.
• The Donkeys Postpone Gratification, Finishing Line Press, 2009.
• Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway , Barnes & Noble Classics Series, 2004.
• Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948—1968, State University of New York Press, 2000. Paperback,2002.
• If Ever I Return Again, HarperCollins, 2000. French edition: Si Je Reviens, Bayard Jeunesse, 2002.
• What We Save for Last, Milkweed Editions, 1992.
• Daffodils or the Death of Love, University of Missouri Press, 1983.
• The Same River Twice, Athenaeum, 1982.

  Children's picture books and easy readers

• The Grumpy Pirate, Scholastic, 2020.
• Do Jellyfish Like Peanut Butter?, Persnickety Press 2020.
• Do Doodlebugs Doodle?, Persnickety Press, 2018.
• Are Pirates Polite?, Scholastic, 2016.
• Does a Fiddler Crab Fiddle?, Persnickety Press, 2016.
• Here Comes Trouble!, Scholastic, 2013.
• Halloween Surprise, Walker & Company, 2011.
• Pirates Go To School, Orchard Books/Scholastic, 2011. French edition: Pirates À L’École, Scholastic, 2013.
• Always in Trouble, Scholastic, 2009.
• Valentine Surprise, Walker & Company, 2008. Paperback, 2009.
• Yuck! Stuck in the Muck, Scholastic, 2006.
• Two Christmas Mice, Holiday House, 2005.
• Saying Goodbye to Lulu,, Little, Brown, 2004. Paperback, 2009.
• The Magic Apple, Golden Books, 2002. Random House, 2004.
• The Boy Who was Generous With Salt,, Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish, 2002.
• The Perfect Pony, Random House, 2000.
• Nina's Waltz, Orchard Books, 2000.
• The Disappearing Island, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
• Hurricane!, Cavendish Children's Books, Marshall Cavendish, 2000.
• The Littlest Matryoshka, Hyperion Books for Children, 1999.
• Snow Day, Random House, 1998.
• Electra and the Charlotte Russe, Boyds Mills Press, 1997.
• The Shortest Kid in the World, Random House, 1995.
• Matthew's Meadow, Harcourt Brace, 1992. Voyager Books, 1997.
• That Dog Melly!, Hastings House,1981.

  Short stories

• "Thanksgiving," Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, 2014. Winner of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in Fiction, 2015.
• "The Clock," Notre Dame Review, No. 37.
• "Last Stars," Notre Dame Review, No. 22.
• "After the Abernathys," The Women’s Times, Vol. 7, No. 4.
• "In Memory of a Lovely Afternoon," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XXII, Nos. 3/4.
• "The Village," Notre Dame Review, No. 2.
• "Mirrors," American Literary Review, Vol. VI, No.1.
• "Certain Treacheries," Harvard Review, No. 3.
• "Learning Greek," The Southern Review, Vol.28, No.3.
• "In the Perfect Privacy of His Own Mind," Glimmer Train, Issue No. 2.
• "Luba By Night," Fiction, Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2.
• "Swimming to Albania," Shenandoah, Vol. 41, No. 1.
• "The Other Side," The Agni Review, 28,.
• "Small Sins," Columbia, Vol. 14, No. 4.
• "Birthday Card." Special Report: Fiction,.
• "Forbidden Waters," The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 64,.
• "Breaking Trail," The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine,.
• "Babylove," The Agni Review, 24/25.Reprinted in Birth, A Literary Companion, edited by Kristin Kovacic and Lynne Barrett, University of Iowa Press. Fall, 2002.
• "The Dream Broker," Redbook,.
• "The Cutting Edge of the Snow," O. Henry Festival Stories, 1987
• "Memorial Day," San Francisco Chronicle ; St. Petersburg Times ; Kansas City Star. Produced by National Public Radio for NPR Playhouse: The Sound of Writing II.
• "What We Save for Last" The Providence Journal Sunday Magazine, January 3, 1987, New England Living, December, 1990.
• "Payment" McCall's,.
• "Headlines," Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 3.
• "American Authors Incorporated," Fiction Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 10.
• "Separate Lives," The Agni Review, 22.
• "Among the Lettuce," Cutbank 23,.
• "Ears," The Boston Review, Vol. IX, No. 5.
• "Margaret, Are You Grieving?," Mademoiselle,.
• "Consuming Passion," Mademoiselle,.
• "Third Street," The Boston Globe Magazine,.
• "Lester Schwabb I, II, III, IV, V," Ploughshares Special Fiction Issue,.
• "Roommates," Esquire, Vol. 93, No. 4.
• "Light Boat," The Madison Review, Vol. 1, No. 1.
• "Mt. Kisco," The Old Red Kimona, Vol. VII.
• "Secrets," Secrets and Other Stories by Women, Gallimaufry 14, 1979.
• "Horse Throws Rider in Field," Newsart, The New York Smith, Vol. 2, No. 5.
• "Daffodils or the Death of Love," The Agni Review, 9.
• "Rings," The Ohio Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 3.
• "McCaferty and Sons," Tales, Vol. 3, No. 1.
• "Mr. Lundy," Kansas Quarterly, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4.
• "Slow Moose," Transatlantic Review, Nos. 53/54.
• "Traveling During Pregnancy," The Little Magazine, Vol. 8, Nos. 3-4.
• "Fly," Women Becoming, Vol. 2, No. 1.
• "Holy Grail," Fragments, Vol. XIV, No. 1.
• "Winter-Tight Lodgings," Southern Humanities Review, Vol. 7, No. 4.

  Selected Non-fiction

• "Introduction to Ambrosia by Lee Upton," The Massachusetts Review, Working Titles, February, 2016.
• "How to Get the Most Out of a Writing Group," The Literary Digest: Chuck Sambuchino's Guide to Literary Agents Blog, April 18, 2011.
• "An Author's Adventures in Clamming," The Huffington Post, August 4, 2010
• Letter to the Editor, “Her So-Called Life The New York Times, March 7, 2008.
• Op-Ed, The New York Times, Sunday, September 3, 2006.
• Letter to the Editor, response to "The Upscaling of Stuyvesant Town," The New York Times, February 18, 2001.
• , The New York Times, Sunday, November 19, 2000.
• Review of The Tales of Arturo Vivante, Harvard Review, Premier Issue.
• "Coyotes," Columbia.
• "Against the Current: A Conversation with Anita Desai," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3. Reprinted in Anita Desai: Critical Perspectives, edited by Devindra Kohli and Melanie Maria Just, Pencraft International, 2008.

  Poetry

• "The Pond Alone," Turtle Island Quarterly.
• "The House on North Lane, Hadley," "Amherst Bear," and "Turkeys on the Track Near Mount Toby," Compass Road, Poems about the Pioneer Valley, edited by Jane Yolen, Levellers Press, 2018.
• "Melon," featured poem in Nourish the Body, Nourish the Soul: Northampton “April is Poetry” Celebration, 2013.
• "The Donkeys Stand on the Manure Pile," 5 AM, Issue #29.
• "Smalls," New England Watershed Magazine, June/July 2006.
• "To You There in Dayton" and "Diaphragm Poem," Images, Vol. 4, No. 1.
• "Pact," Poetry &, Vol. 2, No. 1.
• "Blue Hole," Poetry &, Vol. 1, No. 11.

  Plays

• Family Business
• Blue Straw Hat