The winners for the 2011 Literary Awards Program are in!
The grand prize goes to:
Lance Larson for Seventeen Ways to Float.
In second place is:
Angie Chuang for The Four Words for Home
In third place we have:
Emily Stone for In Search of Chocola: Love, Chocolate, and Language in Guatemala
The 2011 Literary Awards Program Winners
The winners for the 2011 Literary Awards Program are in! The grand prize goes to: Lance Larson for Seventeen Ways to Float. In second place is: Angie Chuang for The Four Words for Home In third place we have: Emily Stone for In Search of Chocola: Love, Chocolate, and Language in Guatemala
Last day for the 2011 Literary Awards Program!
Here we go… December 15th. Today is the last day for the Literary Awards Program. All postal entries must be postmarked with today’s date. For online entries, I’ll be taking down the forms tomorrow… So you’ve got all day, no matter where you are. No worries there. Any problems or last minute questions – shoot me an [...]
These Days
It was cool for that time of year, tolerable. The night was hidden by a hazy mist that clung to the van’s windshield. Larry almost didn’t see the kid until he was upon him—a ghost on the side of the road, neither coming nor going. Larry passed him—no hitchhikers, ever. Too dangerous these days. Maybe once, when he himself was a kid, but not now, not after Nixon, after Oklahoma City and Osama bin Laden. He’d spent over a decade on the road, one of the last hardy traveling salesmen, a dying breed he called himself, and he’d survived as long as he had because he didn’t pick up hitchhikers. Common sense kept you alive.
But a habitual glance in the rearview mirror caused him to pull over. Something about the slump of the figure’s shoulders suggested youth.