Tag: fiction
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Day 1: NaNoWriMo and Me
For the first time, I’m doing it. NaNoWriMo, that is. My plan: Expand on a pair of short stories that are linked with at least 50,000 new words. Who else has done it? How’d it go for you? At the end of Day 1, I’ve logged about 970 words in about 90 minutes of writing. […]
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Publication: ‘Slalom’ in The Sunlight Press
My short story “Slalom” has just been published in The Sunlight Press, edited by Beth Burrell and Rudri Bhatt Patel. Check it out.
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National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2017 Awards
The National Book Critics Circle has announced today winners of three prestigious prizes and nominees in nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, criticism and fiction. The awards will be announced on March 15. Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties (Graywolf), is being honored with the John Leonard Prize, which recognizes an outstanding first book […]
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I just pre-ordered Chuck Kinder’s Silver Ghost
Outlaw. Writer. Professor. Chuck Kinder was my professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s MFA program. Like many of his students, I benefited greatly from his imaginative approach to writing, the often imaginative worlds opened up by his constant question: “What if?” In an exciting turn of events, his 1978 novel “The Silver Ghost” is coming […]
Michael Janairo 