Stoning the Devil, Skylight Press, 2012 (linked short stories)

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Praise for Stoning the Devil:

'Stoning the Devil is a mesmerizing read. You will not find another book
like this one. Garry Craig Powell has an astonishing ability to create characters with
swift and haunting power. His intricately linked stories travel to the
dark side of human behavior without losing essential tenderness or
desire for meaning and connection. They are unpredictable and wild. Is
this book upsetting? Will it make some people mad? Possibly. But you
will not be able to put it down.'

Naomi Shihab Nye

'These linked stories are utterly mesmerizing and exotic. With a keen ear for dialogue and a sensibility of the best Conrad, Kipling, Orwell and Achebe, Garry Craig Powell has pulled off a masterful feat.'

George Singleton

Longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2013, and for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize the same year, Stoning the Devil was also praised in the feminist press, for example in The Feminist Wire and Lipstick and Politics.  

What Writers Are Saying About
​Our Parent Who Art In heaven:

Powell has penned what may be the anti-woke campus novel of our times, a rollicking satire equal to the wittiest and most keenly observed of Tom Sharpe or Evelyn Waugh."
David Joiner, author of Kanazawa

"When I started reading Our Parent Who Art in Heaven, I laughed so loud I scared myself - when I finished it, I realized I'd just read a brilliant book. If I taught English Lit., I'd put Powell's satire on my syllabus with such writers as Evelyn Waugh, DH Lawrence, and John Fowles. And when they (the woke mob of both plural and singular theys) came for Powell's book with pitchforks and Twitter, screaming for the book to be cancelled, I would fight for it, as it is a great book about this age of unreason."
Kirsten Koza, humourist, author of Lost in Moscow

"Hurry! Get this book before it's canceled! Brilliant and hysterically funny. Touches on everything wrong with today's so-called higher education. I can't wait to (anonymously) leave this dangerously hilarious book in my English Department Lounge. Pure comical genius. Unfortunately, it's all too true."
Gary Buslik, author of A Rotten Person in the Caribbean

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