Nicole Reid is the second place winner in the 2009 Literary Awards Program. This week, we’ll be excerpting from the prologue and the first section of her entry, This One Last Thing. PROLOGUE Francie This was my boy. These are my girls. He, that man, is my...
Matthew Pitt was the the 2009 Literary Awards Program Grand Prize-winner, selected by judge Pagan Kennedy. This is the second half of Chapter Three from his winning entry, Listening for Life. Catch the first part right here. ——— Cut to: Training by...
Matthew Pitt is the the 2009 Literary Awards Program Grand Prize-winner, selected by judge Pagan Kennedy. We’ll be excerpting Chapter Three from his winning entry, Listening for Life. Chapter 3—Late Summer, 2001—Carlos Note the texture of the thorns. That’s a...
From The Woman Who Never Cooked by Mary L. Tabor, Mid-List Press, 2006; previously published by Chelsea. Mary Tabor is the inaugural grand prize winner of the SFWP Literary Awards Program. ——- Ruth had found one silver earring lying on her bureau, opened...
Chapter One — An Arranged Meeting On a Saturday noon in October, 1952, Rosalind Green stepped nimbly down Twenty-sixth Street in downtown Birmingham wearing her new black patent leather pumps. It was the fall of her senior year at the University of Alabama. She...
