I helped incorporate the Berkshire Writers Room (Massachusetts) in the mid-80's, and it's still going strong. Although I write just about anything, including commentary, court investigative reports, and novels, I have a special fondness for those wee little fictions: the short-shorts, the best of which can be as powerful as good poetry.
Publications and Prizes
Anthologies:
Looking for America (Systime, Denmark, 2002), Sudden Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Company, 1989)
Journals:
Berkshire Review, Great River Review, Quarterly West, Wind Literary Journal, Witness, World of English
Prizes:
AWP Short-Short Competition, Four Consecutive PEN Syndicated Prizes, Bobst and Capricorn Runner-Ups, others.
Personal Favorites
What I'm Reading Now:
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Winesburg, Ohio by Anderson, Justine by Durrell, Wuthering Heights by E. Bronte, Best of/Short Story Collections by Many
Favorite Books:
I subscribe to about thirty literary periodicals and read contemporary fiction and non-fiction books, but I end each day reading selections from one or more of the classics noted above.
Favorite Authors:
All who grind it out. My best to the youngsters out there who write from the heart.
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Listing last updated: November 11, 2009