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Toby LeBlanc

Home Featured Authors & Panelists Featured Participant Lineup 2025 Toby LeBlanc

Toby LeBlanc lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and children. He grew up in Scott, Louisiana, surrounded by both English and French. Some of his writing can be found in Barrelhouse Magazine and Coffin Bell Journal. He is a review contributor for The Southern Review of Books. His novel, Dark Roux, was published by Unsolicited Press in 2022. Soaked, his short story collection, was released this year from Cornerstone Press.

Schedule

10:45 am to 11:45 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent B
Southern Currents: Short Stories of Place, People, and Possibility
Robert Busby, Bodock: Stories
Toby LeBlanc, Soaked: Stories
Marguerite Sheffer, The Man in the Banana Trees: Stories
with moderator Chris Tusa

Noon to 12:45 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Soaked: Stories

One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked. A nearly silent Cajun man is the last speaker of Louisiana French but doesn't know what he is saying. A Vietnamese woman recovering from the trauma of war looks for home in a hurricane. A farmer gambles his inherited land on the best marijuana Louisiana has ever known. Laughing in the face of oblivion, lending a hand to the hopeless, adapting in spite of tragedy, and enduring when everything else is gone, is what the people of Louisiana, Toby LeBlanc's people, do best.

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