Before becoming a novelist, I was (and am) a playwright. Over the years, I’ve noticed something. A lot of playwrights strive for the ninety-minute show—technically a full-length piece of theatre, but one that plays out without interruption. No intermission. No chance...
The results of the 2018 Landmark Prize for Fiction are in! The Winner is: Painted Oxen by Thomas Lloyd Qualls The Honorable Mentions: A Handful of Earth by Jesse Curran The Tides of Cecil Cove by Shannon Sausville River of Love by Aimée Medina Carr The Prince’s...
Several years back, I took a course with writer Chris Woodside on the connection between walking and writing. The class was an intimate group, and it turned out nearly all of us were from Deep River. So, for 6 weeks we were canvassing the pavements, woods, and...
The results of the first annual Landmark Prize for Fiction are in and the winner is: River’s Child by Mark Seiler! Mark Daniel Seiler lives on the island of Kauai with his lovely wife, Rebecca, in the little home they built overlooking the Pacific Ocean. His...
Amy Nawrocki reflects on her new collection, Four Blue Eggs, which was named finalist in the 2013 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize. The poems in Four Blue Eggs reflect a wide span of time, poetically and literally. The earliest poem was “born” when I was an...