Constance Bell Lindgreen

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Biography

Constance Lindgreen writes short stories, novels, and poetry.

She left her native United States over 30 years ago, and has lived in England, Denmark, and France.

A confirmed expat, she is passably fluent in Danish and French, capable of dramatic statements in Italian, and can order ice cream in Russian.

She treasures Tolstoy, Turgenev, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Shakespeare, Anton Chekov, Trollope, Proust, Henry James, Junichiro Tanizaki, and Homer. And many others.

Publications and Recognition:

2015: "A Restaurant in Venice" - Runner-Up International Club of Bordeaux competition.

2016: "A Case in Point,"- Gascony Writers 2016 Anthology. Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Prize XLII. ,

2017: Blue Fountain, Crossroads Writers Club anthology: short stories.

Silver Medal and Judges Pick prizes in Lost!, the 2017 Creative Writing Institute themed Anthology.

2019: Kaleidoscope, Short works from the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau: short stories and poems.

Destins Croisés/Intertwined Destinies - Montigny sur Loing et les Américains. (English translation)

Work in progress:

Danish Hospitality (working title)

Short Story collection

Kaleidoscope - reviews.

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- "What a joy reading the Kaleidoscope collection. I read Heat Lightning first. What a powerful story."

- "I've enjoyed your stories in Kaleidoscope . . . particularly 'What She Knew' and 'Bird of Passage.' Congratulations to all."

- "Recently finished reading Kaleidoscope. Congratulations to all the authors! I even better quality than 'Blue Fountain." I hope you will continue to publish the group's work."

Available from http://montigny-asme.fr/contact/

Richly illustrated, Destins Croisés/Intertwined Destinies pays tribute to the cross-cultural interchanges between local painters, sculptors, musicians, and politicians and their counterparts in the US/Canada.

All profits go the restoration of Montigny's cultural monuments.

Intertwined Destinies is available from the publisher, A.S.M.E (or the translator)

Selected Works

Fiction

Kaleidoscope: Short works from the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau

Crossroads Writers Club members hail from eleven countries. Stories, memoirs, and poems set in Jamaica, France, Pakistan, India, St. Kitts, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, England, the Netherlands, and the United States touch on themes both classic and contemporary. Religious tolerance, passion versus piety, the gritty reality of black lives, immigrants building new lives mix with reflections on aging, and the joys and perils of early love.

Blue Fountain: Short stories by the Crossroads Writers Club of Fontainebleau

Crossroads Writers Club's first anthology. Stories: Equilibrium, and Nine Minutes in the Metro, capture moments in France. Novella: The Thirteen-Hour Man finds a Japanese salaryman at a turning-point.

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Reviews:
- "I particularly liked Nine Minutes in the Metro, especially the passage about adolescence when everything seems possible but is at the same time beyond control."

- "I found Equilibrium very subtle and thought-provoking. And very contemporary."

- "I liked your story, The Thirteen Hour Man, very much. I'm Japanese and I don't know how you managed to understand us and write about us so well. Yoshi is a remarkable man."

- "Equilibrium made its point almost subtly, but the more I thought about it, the bigger the hammer became. Really well done. The tension in Nine MInutes in the Metro was equally subtle, really drew me in, and with a great ending.

- The Thirteen-Hour Man was my favorite. An incredible job of showing us who Yoshi was. He's got superpowers he doesn't know he has. I also loved how many years the story covered so effortlessly, I don't feel like I missed a minute of his life even though I'd just been given tiny slivers of it. I'd know him if I passed him on the street."

Creative Writing Institute’s LOST! - A Themed Anthology