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...
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...
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 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...
