By Anne Pinkerton A.A. Balaskovits is the Grand Prize winner of SFWP’s 2015 Literary Awards Program for her book of stories Magic for Unlucky Girls, a collection that consists largely of re-imaginings of fairy tales, “though one is a retelling of Superman and one the...
By Lisa Marie Werhan Higher education? Check. Professional law career? Been there, done that. Successful career change? Piece of cake. Marathon? No problem. Published memoirist? Yes, Lisa Reisman has achieved that, too. Her personal and professional resumes speak...
GRAND PRIZE WINNER A.A. Balaskovits has work appearing in The Southeast Review, The Madison Review, Wigleaf, Gargoyle, Permafrost, and many others. She is the winner of Sequestrum’s 2015 New Writer’s Award. She currently lives in South Carolina. Magic for...
“Girl, you look beat.” Abraham’s freckled hands paused their whittling, and his ice-colored eyes slow-danced over me. “Where you been?” “Doing my job.” He pointed his knife at my boots. “And sidetracking into sand country.” He sniffed the air. Bastard can pull...
Mary Quade, finalist in SFWP’s 2013 Literary Awards Program for Nonfiction, is also a poet. We discussed writing essays and poetry. SL: Your collection of four essays, Ideal Uncertainties, was a finalist for the 2013 Literary Awards Program for Non-Fiction. What...
As a distant planet was destroyed by old age…” –Action Comics No. 1, 1938 He heaves the automobile into glowing sky, headlight popping off, bumper succumbing, windshield bursting, white rubber tire hurtling away. Machines beware of this force. The automobile...
