Interview with Steve Eoannou, 2013 Fiction Finalist

Introducing Steve Eoannou, one of SFWP’s 2013 Fiction Finalists! His collection, Muscle Cars, will be published by SFWP in 2015. Sheila Lamb: Your short story collection, Muscle Cars, was a finalist for the 2013 Literary Awards Program. What made you decide to...

Lost Things by Steve Eoannou

It was cold the morning of my father’s surgery. Wind from Canada swirled across the lake and loosened the last grip of fall. Every brittle leaf that scraped across the pavement reminded me that snow would soon blanket the roofs, the gutters, and the limbs of skeletal...

2013 SFWP Literary Award Program Winner April L. Ford!

Introducing SFWP’s 2013 Literary Award program winner, April L. Ford! Here, she discusses writing, contests, and occasional misspellings.   Sheila Lamb: Your short story collection, The Poor Children, won the 2013 Literary Awards Program. How did you...

A Marmalade Cat for Jenny (an excerpt) by April L. Ford

We never left them dangling there for long, swaying back and forth between the fenceposts, little Jenny’s skipping rope suspending them above the ground in scuffed pink neckties. Sometimes Jenny would spy on us then come running over with glossy red eyes, flailing her...