I’m honored that Samantha Zimmerman, editor at Pine Hills Review, spent so much time with Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle, and asked such thoughtful questions in this interview!
Pine Hills Review Interview for “Green Light”
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Sam Szanto Interview for “Green Light”
Fellow Alien Buddha Press author Sam Szanto interviewed us about Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle.
Blackout Poetry ala Green Light
Want to find your own poetry from pages of The Great Gatsby just like Janet Dale? She created a PDF of the last page of each chapter of the book so you can find poems.
Share them with us on social media (or in the comments here, or via DM/email/etc) when you’re done! We’d love to see and share what you create.
Happy Book Birthday to Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle!
I’m thrilled to announce that Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle, my hybrid chapbook written with Janet Dale, is out today!
Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle offers a striking reimagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, told as a collaborative chapbook of found poetry and flash fiction. Using only the first page of each chapter from the novel, Dale and Renner craft a fresh meditation on the classic story—one that explores a boy’s struggle to break free from the place that made him, questioning the very notion of the American Dream.
The authors create a seamless dialogue with Fitzgerald’s work, transforming familiar passages into something entirely new. Each flash fiction piece and poem reflects themes of ambition, yearning, and the pursuit of freedom, while offering a thoughtful exploration of the literary masterpiece.
You can buy a copy directly from me and get it delivered in a shiny green mailer along with a book cover postcard and sticker.
In the meantime, add it as “Want to Read” on Goodreads and The StoryGraph, then share your thoughts when you’ve read it.
Buy Signed Copies
You can now purchase signed copies of my book directly from this site! (I mean, you still have to go through PayPal, but you can avoid Amazon, so it’s still a win.)
If you buy a copy (or multiple) of Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle, you’ll also get a book cover postcard and sticker!
If you buy a copy (or multiple) of Won’t Be By Your Side, you’ll also get a custom bookplate!
NEWS! Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle
I’m excited to announce that my second fiction collection is coming out April 10th!
Does that date sound familiar? It might to literary nerds (me) and English majors (also me)—it’s the 100th Anniversary of The Great Gatsby! Since our upcoming book is inspired by that classic, it only seemed fitting to release it on that landmark publication date.
The book is now in public domain, so Janet Dale used the first page of each chapter to create found poetry (aka blackout poetry) and I used a sentence from the first page of each chapter to write an entirely new flash fiction piece.
We’ll share some more insight and glimpses behind-the-scenes in time, but we can’t wait for you to read the finished product in just six short weeks!
Allison Renner Writes 