Excerpt from In Circling Flight (upcoming novel from Brighthorse Books)

JOURNAL OF THE VIRGINIA WRITERS CLUB Spring 2021

Excerpt from In Circling Flight (upcoming from Brighthorse Books)

NEW SQUARE, the journal of the Sancho Panza Literary Society

Fall 2020, Volume 3, Issue 1

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BIG FICTION, Winter 2020

In Circling Flight

Winner of the 2019 BRIGHTHORSE PRIZE IN THE NOVEL

 "The Wandering the World: A Prequel to Oscar Wilde's 'The Star-Child'"

"We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at 'The Star-Child,' a Fairy Tale by Oscar Wilde"

New Square, Vol 2, Issue 1, Fall 2019

"Settling" 

Published in Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene, ed. by Jessica Cory, West Virginia University Press, 2019; short-listed for the 2016 Colm Tóibín International Short Story Award, Wexford Literary Festival, Ireland.

"The Elf Lord"

Published as fiction feature, Port Yonder Press, November 2017.

"You. There. Now"

Published in Feminine Collective, June 2017.

“Poet Wanderer”

Published in Claudius Speaks, Issue III: Buried, 2017.

“Ossein Pith”

Published in Eastern Iowa Review, Issue 3, 2017.

“The Die is Cast” and “An Apology Tour”

Published in Who Want the World Like It Is? A 2016 Election Anthology, 

Birds Piled Loosely Press, January 2017.

 "Strangers On The Road"

Published in Circa: A Journal of Historical Fiction, April 2016;

now part of the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).

“Unanswered: An Essay on Research” 

Published in Copperfield Review, February 2016.

"Dear John, I've Fallen for a Dog"

Published in Chautauqua (UNCW), Volume 11, 2014, under the title “Sirius";

now part of the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).

“All God's Children Gonna Take A Ride”

Published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Shepherd), Volume 7, 2015;

nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize;

now part of the novel In Circling Flight (Brighthorse Books 2021).

"Moving Day"

Published in Mom Egg Review, Volume 12 (2014);

Long-listed for Anam Cara Short Fiction Contest (2012). 

“The Waiting Room”

Published in Mom Egg Review, Volume 13 (2015).

“John Harrington”

Published in Irish America magazine, Vol. 30 Issue 2 (2015).

“Watching—The Fall”

Published in Portland Review, web feature (2015).

“She'd Like A Fish, Without Water” 

 Published in The Washington Post, Metro section, “With Apologies to Art Linkletter” column (2008).