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“Engineering the Apocalypse”
Many thanks to Mandy Haynes and Well Read Magazine for publishing my story, “Engineering the Apocalypse.” What a nice thing to wake up to first thing on New Year’s Day 2024. This story is one I wrote initiallly for a flash fiction contest, and while it did well in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction competition…
Working with Small Presses
Greater Denton Arts Coucil400 East Hickory, Patterson Appleton Arts CenterDenton, TexasNovember 4, 2023, 11AM Working with Small Presses will be the topic of a talk to be given by Kimberly Davis tomorrow. New authors today face a lot of choices. Should they seek an agent? How hard is that? Should they try to find a…
TACWT23
Who is TACWT? I have just returned from TACWT 23. That stands for the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, and next year, I’ll post that as TACW 24. The name of the organization isn’t changing, just the name of our EVENT, since we hope to attract some new writers to the organization. It is…
One of my oldest stories
“The Messenger” Many thanks to Michael Simms at Vox Populi for selecting this story for republication. (To read the story, click the link above.) I’m pretty sure I started writing it in 1976, in one of those headlong panics the night before a paper or story is due. I would have been 16, and I…
Interview with Jade & Wilnona
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jade & Wilnona, the “And I Thought” ladies last week. Jade & Wilnona are two multi-talented ladies who really know what’s going on in the publishing world right now. I pulled this introduction from their website: The Ladies of And I Thought [are] an award winning group of…
Cheating Songs
I wrote Cheating Songs for an online workshop I participated in last year, lead by Siobhan Wright. That workshop has generated some of my best work to date. It was called Tell Us a Story. This is the third piece from that workshop to be published, and I’m continuing to work with Siobhan Wright, who…
Screenwriting?
Cinematic short stories can lead to screenwriting Screenwriting is not an area I’ve been brave enough to compete in before, but over the last few months, recognizing that I’ve been writing a lot more than I’ve been submitting, I tried submitting to this one on a lark. I feel vindicated in my writing that somebody…
Three Publications in a Week
It’s a rare week to receive printed proof that someone thought enough of it to include it next to other people’s work they thought enough of to publish in a journal. So I was triply delighted this week when not one, but three publications I’ve been waiting for appeared in my mailbox. They are: A…
A Simple Twist of Fate
“A Simple Twist of Fate” is going to appear in Kestrel! “A Simple Twist of Fate” is my latest short story, and it has just been accepted for publication by Kestrel: A Journal of Literature and Art. It will be included in Issue 43, which will be out by September 1 at the latest the…