Wake Up, We're Here

“…a gritty collection of fiction about people who live rough, complicated lives. Awesome endings in every story.” – Roxane Gay, Treehouse


“Hudgens doesn’t shy away from the brutality of life on earth – the illness, the decrepitude, the humiliations and the teen suicides – but the grittiness is never gratuitous, and his stories are infused with compassion and hope.” – Emily St. John Mandel, The Millions

Season of Gene

“Crime and baseball make for an irresistible combination in this raunchy, fast-moving caper, a second novel just as good as Hudgens’s wild debut (Drive Like Hell, 2005)…A nourishing slice of Americana, expletives and all.” – Kirkus (starred review)

“Hudgens has scored again. He’s given readers an engaging, knowing glimpse of an odd, but no doubt real, world of arrested development. And he knows his baseball” – Booklist

Drive Like Hell

“(Drive Like Hell) is so much fun that it’s easy to forget how difficult it is to portray decent people acting like morons with an artfulness sufficient to transform it into boneheaded genius.” – Kirkus (starred review)

“The twang and the heartbreak are real. Hank Williams would be proud, and deeply amused.” – Los Angeles Times

“Hudgens has captured these characters and this milieu with heartbreaking veracity. The writing is splendid.” – Charlotte Observer

Dallas Hudgens is a writer and publisher. His published fiction includes Drive Like Hell and Season of Gene (both Scribner), and Wake Up, We’re Here (Relegation Books). He is the founder of Relegation Books, an independent press in Washington D.C. and Stillhouse Press, a student-run press at George Mason University.