by kate horsley
Kate Horsley served as associate judge in the SFWP year 2000 literary awards program. She is the author of Crazy Woman, A Killing in New Town and Confessions of a Pagan Nun. Stop by the SFWP Features section for more information.
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by jody a. reale
2001 Finalist Jody A. Reale is an essayist and humorist from the Rocky Mountains. She maintains a strong web presence at Jodyreale.com.
Comments (0)by rawlins mckinney
This story was born as an assignment for the late Fred Bonnie’s fiction workshop at UAB over 20 years ago. Fred was a master of the short story and the most effective teacher of the craft of fiction writing that I have ever known. Fred loved the story and urged me to polish a bit and get out to the markets. Unfortunately I was swimming with the sharks in the Birmingham, Alabama, business community and was unable to spend much quality time with my creative writing. When I was finally able to retire to the Redneck Riviera of northwest Florida three years ago, I began to work on the manuscripts I had accumulated over a twenty-five year period.
“The Gully School” was the first one I pulled out of the box.
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by paula morris
2001 SFWP Finalist Paula Morris was born in Auckland, New Zealand and now lives in Iowa. She is a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. It’s our pleasure to present an excerpt from “Queen of Beauty.” The novel will be published by Penguin Books New Zealand in October of 2002.
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