{"id":14216,"date":"2025-05-14T09:34:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=14216"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T13:46:23","slug":"kevin-allardice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/kevin-allardice\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Allardice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My grandfather was a playwright who also wrote for television, and I grew up poring over his old scripts: the drafts dated, scribbled with corrections. The form seemed to invite messiness, imperfection. When, as a teenager, I started writing, it was that hospitality that I gravitated to\u2014pecking out scripts on an old typewriter to replicate the look of my grandfather\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I was a working actor, the scripts I wrote existed only for me, and yet the form draws implicit attention to the performers and production professionals who bring those stories to life\u2014people, I was becoming increasingly aware, whose existence was just as imaginary as the characters in these plays (less so, perhaps\u2014at least my characters had names). This realization helped me begin writing fiction, shedding the pretense that this wasn\u2019t, in the words of E.L. Doctorow, \u201ca private excitement of the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet my turn to fiction was not solipsistic. Indeed, the skills that propelled me through those early novels (unpublished and gleefully bad) were skills I\u2019d first developed not in the isolation of reading but in the community of theater. The principles of improvisation\u2014which had taught me to stay attuned to the ways spontaneous quirks of language can erupt into character\u2014were now teaching me how to write a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, I have completed an MFA from the University of Virginia and published six novels, the first of which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction\u2019s First Novel Prize. My seventh novel is forthcoming in 2027: Phantoscope and the Double<\/em>. My work has won the Donald Barthelme Prize, earned me a Jack Hazard Fellowship with the New Literary Project, and been a finalist for Fiction Collective 2\u2019s Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Originally from California, I now live in the Midwest and teach at the University of Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Kevin Alladice’s Phantoscope and the Double<\/em> in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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