The winners of the 2013 SFWP Literary Awards for Nonfiction are: Grand Prize: Annita Sawyer for Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass Runner-up: Allen Gee for My Chinese America Runner-up: Mary Quade for Ideal Uncertainties We will be featuring their work and interviewing...
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...
When I was nineteen, someone knocked on the door of my basement dorm room, and I opened it, ducking under the exposed water pipe on the ceiling, to find Bob. Blond, smiling Bob in a bow tie, a junior boy I didn’t talk to. He cleared his throat, then extended me an...
The pattern I saw as a small child when I closed my eyes: concentric ovals in purple, red, and electric blue, with the oval rings vibrating around a few dots in the center, which vibrated too. The sound of my mother sitting on a sofa in our quiet house late in the...
