I chatted with 2010 Literary Award Program Winner Tara Laskowski, who shared her insights on the contest, flash fiction, and novels. Sheila Lamb: Your chapbook, Black Diamond City, won the 2010 Literary Awards Program. How did you discover the SFWP’s Literary...
The winners of the 2013 SFWP Literary Awards in Fiction are here! The grand prize goes to: April L. Ford — The Poor Children The two runner-ups are: Daniel Mueller — Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey Stephen Eoannou — Muscle Cars...
The ninth year of Margarita Yurevna Platnikova’s life was the year that the village of the Lungs finally got its prized silver icon back. It was also the year that she was sunburned four days in a row and once in the dark. That year, from November to October, it...
At the party on Day of the Dead, a table spills over with marigold, pomegranates, votive candles, a life-sized, white chocolate skeleton that we cannibals feast on as though on our own bodies. The spine climbs into the ivory patina skull—one’s kingdom—filled...
You are fourteen years old and you spend all your time trying to get Bethany as your scene partner in drama. She is a natural-born actress, and you find yourself holding your breath every time she walks onstage. She looks like Audrey Hepburn and carries herself like...
“Nigger trumps faggot,” Andre told Frankie, spitting blood with the words, a twist of handkerchief stuffed into his left nostril, a line of red between the white cloth and the brown of Andre’s nose. They sat with their backs to the graveyard wall, looking out at the...
