Adam Sturtevant is the third place winner in the 2009 SFWP Literary Awards program. We’re excerpting a story from his winning collection, Ease Chest Tuck Hid Debt Art. The Most Important Thing in the World When I first asked my wife, Shelly, to be a bitch, it...
Nicole Reid is the second place winner in the 2009 Literary Awards Program. Below is the first section of her entry, This One Last Thing. Phenomenology of a Braid Enid I’m her girl, the second. The baby. Or third, if you count my brother who is dead. We live in...
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...
