News
November 3, 2010
“Pi Day” receives Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize 2011: Best of the Small Presses.
October 1, 2009
"Blunt Not the Heart" is now in print as the winner of Phoebe's 2009 Winter Fiction Contest. Contest judge Benjamin Percy has this to say about the winning story:
"I admired "Blunt Not the Heart" for its strongly realized characters, its striking treatement of child abuse, its expertly interwoven plot lines, its topical backdrop of rust belt deterioration, and the weirdly resonant transformation of its slump-shouldered hero."
May 1, 2009
"Blunt Not the Heart" has been selected by Benjamin Percy as the winner of Phoebe's Winter Fiction Contest.
More from Phoebe's website.
March 10, 2009
"Pi Day" appears in current issue of News from the Republic of Letters.
Editor Keith Botsford describes it as "a brilliant story,"in which the "hero, his stalking nemesis (a dreadful adolescent with a powerfully rich Dad), and his horrid principal, the nightmare kind, are artfully woven together and brought, via Andrew Marvell, to a deeply moving conclusion."
November 18, 2008
"Ars Poetica" wins the Yalobusha Review's Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. Contest judge Padgett Powell describes the story as "deft, true to Turkey and its American expats, and frightening."
More from the Yalobusha Review's blog and from the American School of Warsaw website.
November 17, 2008
Cimarron Review has nominated "Shakesteer's" for a Pushcart Prize.
November 30, 2007
River Styx magazine has nominated "Adult Education" for a Pushcart Prize.
January 18, 2007
"Snares" wins The Greensboro Review's Robert Watson Literary Prize for fiction.
From Poets and Writers. From the American School of Warsaw website.