Walking on Water, and Other Stories

Walking on Water gathers together an engaging and compelling

collection of short stories by 24 of the many talented writers to have

graduated from The University of Alabama's Program in Creative Writing

over the past 20 years. Editor Allen Wier, who taught fiction writing

at Alabama from 1980 to 1994, offers us in this celebration of writing

a variety of fictional voices that represent widely differing

sensibilities and visions. Some stories are by writers whose literary

careers are well begun, while others appear here in print for the first

time. Wier named the collection after the story by Kim Trevathan, this

author's first published fiction, because walking

on water is such an apt figure for what the fiction writer attempts

with each new story's beginning. Walking on Water is an outstanding anthology, surprising in the rich

variety of its voices and stances, extraordinary in the sustained quality

of all of the 24 stories.