Greensboro, NC, October 2019 ~ Billy Baites’s stories are so full of live-out-loud personalities, it’s hard to believe they are nonfiction. In true Southern storytelling tradition, Baites’s colorful cast of characters are his pied pipers, leading the reader through childhood experiences into adulthood, with pitch-perfect “you can’t make this up” brand of humor.
Chicago Quarterly Review has just published Baites’s story Hilda’s Work Camp in its 25th anniversary edition. The nonfiction story — both hilarious and touching — recounts Billy’s childhood with his hard-working, perfectionist, steel-magnolia mama Hilda Perth Whitesell.
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About Chicago Quarterly Review. The Chicago Quarterly Review is a nonprofit, independent literary journal publishing short stories, poems, translations and essays by both emerging and established writers since 1994. We’re proud to have had work from our pages chosen for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology as we continue our mission to stimulate, entertain, and inspire.