EXCERPT FROM A NOVEL IN PROGRESS: Ventspils International Writers’ and Translators’ House Annual, Published in English and Latvian, Ventspils, December 2024.
SOB LAKE: represented by Transatlantic Agency; forthcoming with House of Anansi Press, Winter 2027.
From Transatlantic Agency website: Diana Svennes-Smith’s SOB LAKE, a lyrical, deeply nuanced debut work of literary fiction interrogating the complex relationship that unfolds between a farm boy and a charismatic hired man, as the two of them lose and find each other against the backdrop of the final years of the Great Depression and WWII, pitched as a gay Lolita meets Brokeback Mountain, to Shivaun Hearne at House of Anansi Press, for publication Winter 2027, by Eva Oakes and Samantha Haywood at Transatlantic Agency (North America).
THE END OF STEEL: under revision.
PLAYFAIR: in progress.
Diana Svennes-Smith 