Category Archives: fiction

100 Notable Small Press Books, 2025

Today LitHub has published a list of 100 notable small press books of 2025, and I had the great honor of choosing two of them: The River People, by Liz Kellebrew, and Sixty Seconds, by Steven Mayfield. When the call came about a year … Continue reading

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One Writer’s Life: December 2024

Taking stock of your year? Here’s mine: Project 1: Creative nonfiction My father was alive one day in May 2021 and dead the next of a massive stroke. As executor, I became the keeper of the paperwork: obituary, hospital bill, … Continue reading

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