DOROTHY RICE
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BOOKS

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paperback from Otis Books
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soft cover from Shanti Arts

GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK, Otis Books, 2019
Available from Small Press Distribution, Capital Books, Bookshop.org, Amazon and as an e-book


With incisive, lyrical prose, Dorothy Rice articulates something important about generations of women, especially those who find comfort in language, reading and writing and use these tools to discover why it was so important to them to fit in, to belong, to be wanted by a man, even a bad man, or the wrong man.  LIT PUB 

Her scenes are so well written and poignant that this is the type of reading one cannot put down, because the narrative flows so smoothly. hippocampus magazine

When I found Dorothy Rice’s memoir, GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK, the book felt like a cosmic gift. . . With incisive, lyrical prose, Dorothy Rice articulates a longing for a generation of women seeking an honest way to see themselves, a way to authentically exist in the world. Brevity
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THE RELUCTANT ARTIST, Shanti Arts, 2015
​Limited copies available form Amazon. Also available as an e-book. Limited signed copied available from the author. 


Dorothy Rice has not only written a memorial for her father, she's established herself as a different kind of artist in her own right: a gifted writer who, in eloquent and delicate prose, reveals the joys and costs of being an artist. Visual, emotional, and insightful, this book is a must read.
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Emily Rapp Black, Author of Poster Child: A Memoir and New York Times bestseller The Still Point of the Turning World

Joe Rice tackled diverse modes of art making throughout his long career in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exquisite highs and lows of the practice were central to his life to the exclusion of any effort to find an audience for his work.  Such a curious and passionate man deserves our notice.
~ Jim Melchert, Professor of Art Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

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OE RICE (Joseph Flavius Rice) was a prolific and skilled artist who continued to explore artistic expression into his eighties. 
Visit a photographic archive at www.josephflaviusrice.com
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Essays and short stories from Northern California authors are organized under the themes Masks, Resilience, Monsters, Kinship and Time, and touch many aspects of a year that proved catastrophic beyond anyone's imagining. The devastating toll of Covid-19, life under quarantine, the closure of schools and businesses, the murder of George Floyd, wildfires that swept the west, and more, all are touched on by diverse voices and points of view. 

Special thanks to Karen Bender, Anita Felicelli, Joan Frank, Debra Gwartney, Sands Hall, Pamela Houston, Vanessa Hua, Joshua Mohr and Peter Orner, award-winning, acclaimed authors—and valued friends of Stories on Stage Sacramento—who graciously agreed to include their work in the anthology.

All proceeds from the sale of Twenty Twenty support Stories on Stage programming, including the payment of authors and actors for their participation. Stories on Stage Sacramento is a registered California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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NONFICTION

Personal Essay
Write On - Sacramento Magazine, December 2022
Does the World Need Another Essay? Brevity Blog, April 2022
When the Contract Expires - Brevity Blog, May 2021
Does Writing Foster Self Acceptance - ​Women Writers, Women's Books, July 2020
My Fifty Shades of Gray, Sacramento Magazine - August 2020 
Words & Black Lives Matter - Brevity Blog, June 2020 
2020 - The View From Suburbia - decomp, January 2020
With a Little Help from My Friends - Brevity blog, October 2019
Late Bloomers and Perennials - Brevity Blog, August 30, 2018
Living the Dream - Brevity blog, December 2018
Finding the Form: From Fiction to Memoir - Brevity blog, February 16, 2016


Narrative Nonfiction
Girl Power - The Rumpus, January 2022
She's Still in There, Under the Sun -  May 2021 (finalist, nonfiction award)
Body Braille - Hippocampus Magazine, July 2019
In Photographs, winner, Second Place, Pegasus Review, Kalanithi Awards, February 2018 (not available online)
Prom and Other Fairy Tales, Longridge Review, February 2018
La Movida Madrileña - Belle Ombre, July 2018
White Rabbit, Memoir Mixtapes, June 2018, Vol 5, Freestyle
Sewing Lessons Minerva Rising, Issue 14, Ripples, November, 2017 (print journal, not available online)
Tianjin Daughter Proximity:  A QUARTERLY COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES Issue 14, April 2017
The Road from Santiago, Literary Mama, September 21, 2016
At Seventeen, Brain Teen 2016 The Magazine for Thinking Parents (no longer available online)
Black Tea, The Louisville Review, Fall 2015 (print journal)
When We Were Two, Brain, Child Magazine, September 2015
Belated Homage, Serving House Journal, Fall 2013 (no longer available online)
The Paintings in the Rafters, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Winter 2013 (print journal)

A Painting a Week, The Rumpus, July 2013

Flash 
Squirrel Nutkin thekeepthings - September 2022 
Apocalypse Now Five South - August 2022 

What Is It About Frogs? - MoonPark Review, Summer 2021 
My First Edible - Hobart, February 2020
Magic and a Young Girl's Soul - Under the Gum Tree (print), Summer 2020 (print journal)
Monkey Island, Memoir Magazine, February 2020
10 Reasons to Write, Flash Flood 2018 
Forever and Ever, Uppagus 2017 (Bowie Issue), January 2017 
Choke Point, Jellyfish Review, February 2017
The Blue Light Special - Tin House Open Bar. June 26, 2017 
Hi, My Name Is Dorothy and I'm a Sugar Addict, Gluttony, 7 Deadly Sins Vol. 2, June 2018, Pure Slush Books (print publication)
Our Younger Selves - Split Lip Magazine. Summer, 2016 
Peanut Butter - River Teeth, A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction, November 2015
Sucking on Lemonheads - Hobart, August 2015

To Dye or Not to Dye - Inspired by William Shakespeare ("To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy) Hags on Fire - Summer 2022

FICTION

Orchids in the Sun, Literally Stories, December 23, 2022
Art Everlasting, 
​Bewildering Stories, December 2020 
All Along the Wonder Wires, The Cabinet of Heed, June 2018 (Flash)
Home Movies, Mom Egg Review, June 14, 2018
Mud Under Glass, Cowboy Jamboree Magazine, Summer/Fall 2018

Tiny Dancer - Chrome Baby, August 2017 (​Pushcart nominee, Best of the Net Nominee)
I AM THE ART DEPARTMENT, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Fall 2016 (print journal)
Gregory, The Saturday Evening Post, June 2015
The Bell, Mused, Bella, Summer 2013

BOOK REVIEWS

How Far I've Come, a short story collection by Kim Magowan (Literary Mama, March 2022)
The Wolf Tone a novel by Christy Stillwell  (Literary Mama, July 2020)

​Brief Reviews for the Story Circle Network:
Dressing Modern Like Our Mothers by Peri M. Klemm

On the Ledge: A Memoir by Amy Turner
Untold: defining moments of the uprooted  edited by Gabrielle Deonath and Kamini Ramdeen
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All’s Fair and Other California Stories by Linda Feyder
An Impossible Life by Rachael Siddoway and Sonia Wasden
Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold
The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney 

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