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My short story collection-in-progress, Black Diamond City, won first place in the Santa Fe Writers Project 2010 Literary Awards, judged by Robert Olen Butler.
Thanks much to Andrew Gifford and the folks at SFWP for all their hard work. Thanks also to Mr. Butler, whose work I highly admire. I am very honored to have been chosen for this award.
Black Diamond City is a collection of very short stories set in or inspired by my hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. You may notice if you click on my novel page that BDC is the title of that as well. I have decided to condense that novel significantly (from 500 pages to 25!) and try something completely different. Fingers crossed it works.
My story “Only a Number,” published by decomP in September 2009, was noted on Wigleaf‘s Short List for their Top 50 of 2009. Also, my short story “Like Everyone Else” made storySouth‘s list of Notable Online Stories of 2009. Sweet!
I was lucky enough to have three new stories published in March. The lovely and talented Laura Ellen Scott was guest editor of Everyday Genius this month and published my prose poem “Day 72” there.
I was also honored to be in the amazing all-flash issue of JMWW for my story “Small Craft Warning.” And honestly, if you haven’t read the issue yet, you need to. Kick ass stories from Erin Fitzgerald, Sheldon Lee Compton, Matt Bell, Meg Pokrass, Scott Garson, Robert Swartwood and others.
Third, I was extremely excited to have my etiquette story, “The Etiquette of Adultery,” published over at Necessary Fiction. This is the first in what I hope is a series of ‘etiquette of atrocities’ stories if I can pull them off.
I had the pleasure of interviewing the delightful Lee Talbot for an article in AARP The Magazine. Dr. Talbot is a professor at George Mason University in environmental science, but he’s also a professional racing car driver. Oh, and he’s 80 years old. He’s definitely one of the coolest people I’ve ever met.
Read about his amazing adventures here!
