Seeing pain as a wild animal By Monica Prince In the midst of hundreds of submissions to the 2017 Literary Awards Program, Kate Wisel’s manuscript Driving in Cars with Homeless Men caught the eye of judge Benjamin Percy. Wisel’s work, a linked short...
Writing when there are bills to pay: An exchange with author Doug Crandell By Monica Prince This year’s Literary Awards Program had stiff competition and stellar manuscripts for judge Benjamin Percy to review. Author Doug Crandell placed as one of two...
Science and the supernatural at war in Sadie Hoagland’s “Dementia, 1692” The thrill of the supernatural surrounds Sadie Hoagland’s short story “Dementia, 1692.” This historical fiction is set against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials in colonial...
On transforming the personal into the universal By Katya Ellis Kayleigh Wanzer sees writing creative nonfiction as a cathartic process. From drafting and revising to editing, “the experience becomes less about what I went through and more about what is on...
On the choose-your-own-adventure style and the “breakdown of control” Samantha Edmonds is featured as one of the all-star contributors in the inaugural issue of the SFWP Annual, a new release from the Santa Fe Writers Project whose debut on October 1 in...
Judge Benjamin Percy has decided on the winners! We’ll get right to it: The two runner-ups are: Doug Crandell for Tornado Season. Crandell is an author and teacher. He’s received awards and endowments from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Virginia...
