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I’d like to share some ideas on beginnings that occurred to me after a recent run through the slush pile. REM wrote a great song called Begin the Begin on their album,
2013 was my first year publishing stories. Prior to that I had written things and thrown them up on my BlogSpot blog without much revision. I had started sharing them
I wrote this story in a weekend workshop at Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival taught by Crazyhorse editor, Anthony Varallo. The premise of the class was the “three-jump story.” This was
2016 was a big year for me. I got 2nd in the Spring Bath Flash Fiction Award. They really run a great event. They announce quickly and the long/short
A highlight of 2017 for me was publishing a story in Bull. I’m a huge fan of it for many reasons. While it’s true that, for too long, all publications
One of my highlights of 2018 was having a story accepted by Hobart. They have been a dream publication of mine since I dedicated to this effort in 2013. I
