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Anthologies and Collections of 
Florida Literature

* personal favorites

3 books

Blackwell, Christine, Philip F. Deaver, and Stephen Caldwell Wright, eds. The Orlando Group and Friends. 
   
Orlando: Arbiter Press, 2000.

Bowers, Barbara, et. al. Once Upon an Island: A Collection of Short Fiction, Poetry and Non-Fiction from 
     New Key West Writers.
Key West: Key West Authors' Coop, 1997.

Bruce, Annette J. and J. Stephen Brooks. Sandspun: Florida Tales by Florida Tellers. Sarasota: 
    Pineapple Press, 2001.

Castaneda, Omar S., et al. eds. New Visions: Fiction by Florida Writers. Orlando: Arbiter Press, 1989.

*Congdon, Kristin G. Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 2001.

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman. Nine Florida Stories. Ed. Kevin McCarthy. UP of  Florida, 1990.

Ellingham, Patrick M. and Eileen Eliot, eds. Polyphony: An Anthology of Florida Poets. Panther Press, 1989.

Gardner, Joanne. Running with Words: A Collection of Poems from Florida's Youth Shelters. Tallahassee: 
     Anhinga, 1997.

Garrison, Webb B., ed. A Treasury of Florida Tales. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1989.

Harris, Terry K and Alexandra M. Zannis, eds. Word Weavers: An Anthology of Verse by Members of the 
     Association of Florida Poets
. N.p., 1999.

*Hospital, Carolina and Jorge Cantera. A Century of Cuban Writers in Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1996.

*Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. 1935 rpt. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

*Jones, Jane Anderson and Maurice O'Sullivan, eds. The Poetry of Florida:  A History of the 
    Imagination
. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1995.

Kaminsky, Stuart, ed. Mystery in the Sunshine State: Florida Short Stories. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1999.

*Laramore, Vivian Yeiser, ed. Florida Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse. New York: Henry 
     Harrison, 1931.

_____. The Second Florida Poets. New York: Henry Harrison, 1932.

_____. Florida Poets: Being An Anthology of Poetry Published in the Miami Daily News. New York: Henry 
     Harrison, 1933. Laramore published annual volumes in this series through 1938 with Henry Harrison and 
     from 1939-1941 with Manfred, Van Nort and Company of Dallas.


*Long, Donna J., et al. Isle of Flowers: Poems by Florida's Individual Artist Fellows. Tallahassee:     
    Anhinga, 1995.

*McCarthy, Kevin, ed. Florida Stories. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 1989.

_____, More Florida Stories. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996.

Murphy, George, ed. The Key West Reader: The Best of Key West's Writers 1830- 1990. Key West: 
    Tortugas, Ltd., 1989.

*Morris, Alton C., ed. Folksongs of Florida. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1950.

*O'Sullivan, Maurice and Jack C. Lane, eds. The Florida Reader: Visions of Paradise. Sarasota: 
    Pineapple, 1991.

*O'Sullivan, Maurice and Steve Glassman, eds. Orange Pulp: Stories of Mayhem, Murder and Mystery. 
    
Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2001.

Reaves, J. Russell, ed. Florida Folktales. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1987.

Ripple, Jeff and Susan Cerulean, eds. The Wild Heart of Florida: Florida's Writers on Florida's 
     Wildlands.
Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999.

Rittenhouse, Jessie N., ed. The Rollins Book of Verse. Winterpark: Angel Alley Press, 1929.

*Ryals, Mary Jane and Donna Decker, eds. North of Wakulla: An Anhinga Anthology. Tallahassee:         
    Anhinga, 1989.

Stinemetz, Morgan. Bubba Whartz Stories. Pelican Publishing, 2002

*Wilber, Rick and Richard Mathews, eds. Subtropical Speculations: Anthology of Florida Science 
    Fiction
. Sarasota: Pineapple, 1991.

 

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