Yearly Archives: 2002

The Gully School by Rawlins Mckinney

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 [...]

Queen of Beauty by Paula Morris

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.