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The Saroyan Prize and Laura Marello's Work
Yesterday, I was rereading an out-of-print book by Nancy Packer, The Short Story. About the short story, Packer says, "Like a fine lyric poem, the short story requires the reader's utmost attention, a focusing of the mind on each detail in order to realize the final fullness of effect. The short story depends on concreteness, on sensual impressions that deliver their meaning without waste...The characters, few in number, are revealed, not developed. The background and setting are implied, not rendered."
Packer taught in Stanford University's Creative Writing program where author Laura Marello was a Stegner Fellow. Stanford's is one of the finest writing programs in the country, an incubator for books that cannot be chugged like Riunite, but that must be savored like a fine Chateau Margaux.
Judges for the William Saroyan Prize just named Marello's short story collection
a finalist in this year's prestigious, literary competition.
If you haven't read a short story collection in a while, then read this one.
Packer taught in Stanford University's Creative Writing program where author Laura Marello was a Stegner Fellow. Stanford's is one of the finest writing programs in the country, an incubator for books that cannot be chugged like Riunite, but that must be savored like a fine Chateau Margaux.
Judges for the William Saroyan Prize just named Marello's short story collection
a finalist in this year's prestigious, literary competition.If you haven't read a short story collection in a while, then read this one.
Writing and Caregiving
My novel, MONTPELIER TOMORROW is about a mother and daughter trying to resolve old grievances, while caring for a dying man. The book won a Gold Medal for Drama from Readers' Favorites' International
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