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OUR PARTICIPATING 2007 WRITERS
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Chris Bernard recently moved to central Maine's Kennebec Valley from Portland, Oregon. An
award-winning journalist and photographer, he's worked for newspapers and magazines in
Alaska, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and runs a freelance writing and photography
business. Last year he completed a novel for which he and his agent are currently seeking
a home. Mr. Bernard is the author of our featured story, New Myths Of Man And Spider.
Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of a novel, Climbing the God Tree, Helicon Nine Editions, 1998, winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and the short stories collection Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile, Zephyr, 1994, winner of the Zephyr Prize. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tampa Review, Connecticut Review, and New Letters, among other journals, and broadcast on NPR's "Selected Shorts." A new book, the stories cycle Dream Lives of Butterflies, is forthcoming from BkMk Press in September, 2007. Originally from Hawaii, she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY, Binghamton University. Ms. Wriston is the author of our featured story, Girl Dreaming.
Jeff Dougherty is a Boston based fiction writer and playwright. Most recently published in America’s Funniest Humor: George W ’ s Speakin’ Like Me Tapes (Second Prize Winner Fall 2005) and Too Poor To Pledge A-Plenty (Finalist, Spring 2006). Several of his plays have been produced in the Boston area and his play Blind Date was awarded a ‘Charlie ’ Award for Best Play at the Acme Theatre ’s Festival of New Plays in Maynard, MA in 2003. He is currently working on his first novel: The Deep Dish Pizza Jacuzzi Debacle, due out before the end of the current millennium. Mr. Dougherty is the author of our featured story, The Man With The Wine-Stained Face.
Perry Glasser has published two collections of his short fiction, Suspicious Origins (St. Paul: New Rivers Press) and Singing on the Titanic (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press). Most recently, two of his novellas appear in Next Stop Hollywood (May 2007, St. Martin's Press). He is the Coordinator of
the Professional Writing Program at Salem State
College. His work has twice been read on National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing" and has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. His fiction and memoirs have appeared in more than 50 literary journals. He is a Contributing Editor at the North American Review and has enjoyed residencies at Yaddo, Ucross and the Virginia Center of the Arts. Mr. Glasser is the author of our featured story, Like I Was Gandhi. Learn more at www.perryglasser.com (new window)
William Orem's works have appeared in over 60 journals,
including The Princeton Arts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Sou'Wester and
The New Formalist, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both
poetry and fiction. His first collection of stories, Zombi, You My Love, won the
Great Lakes College New Writers Award, formerly given to Louise Erdrich,
Richard Ford, Sherman Alexie, Alice Munro and others. His first play, The
Seabirds, just won the Maduzmar Prize at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo and will be
produced in the upcoming season. He lives in Waltham, MA and works as a freelance
writer. Mr. Orem is
the author of our featured story, Three Shipwrecks.
Michael Reitema lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA
in Creative Writing from Chatham College by finishing his thesis, New
Dawn, which is
ridiculously
violent. One of his stories will appear
in the Fall issue of Dirty Goat. He was a featured reader at the Paper
Riot Project in Pittsburgh. In the fall, he will be starting work on
his PhD in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Mr. Reitema is
the author of our featured story, A Little Help.
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the novels Tetched and Roughhouse. Both books were finalists for an Asian American Literary Award. His work is anthologized in Up Is Up, but So Is Down: The New York Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and other collections. His stories have appeared in Fiction, Crowd, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fiction International, Global City Review and other magazines. He teaches fiction writing at the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York. Mr. Rutkowski is the author of the selected works: Louie Boots and Seeing Things.
Susanna J. Sturgis is a Massachusetts native and a resident of Martha's Vineyard since 1985. From the late 70s to the early 90s her essays, reviews, and poetry appeared in numerous feminist, lesbian, and/or gay publications. Subsequently, she wrote and edited for the Martha's Vineyard Times. She is the author of three one-act plays, and has also edited three anthologies of women's fantasy and science fiction. Showing at Makonikey, her featured work, is from her first novel, The Mud of the Place (currently in search of a publisher). She supports herself, her dog, and her horse as a full-time copyeditor, part-time stable hand, and occasional horse-sitter. Visit Ms. Sturgis's blog at
www.susannajsturgis.com. (new window)
Emma Wunsch lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Bellevue Review, Natural Bridge, Lit, The Brooklyn Review, PoetryMemoirStory, Fugue and Passages North. For five years, she taught composition and creative writing at Brooklyn College. Ms. Wunch is the author of our featured story, I Don't Know Anything About This And By The Time I Tell You It Will All Be Forgotten.
Our Noted Writers
We would like to acknowledge the following semifinalist writers for sharing wonderful stories with us. While- due to constraints of time and money- we were not able to feature their works in the Festival, we certainly found their fiction to be "Festival-worthy" and have a strong suspicion that their stories will find their way to print very soon (some have already).
California-
- Ali Sherwin for Little Dead Things (excerpted) email Ali Sherwin.
- Susanna Solomon for Montana Rhapsody
Georgia-
- William Torgerson for Suicide Hill
Maine-
- Catherine Gentile for Until You Get There
- Bruce Pratt for Split Ticket
Massachusetts-
- Victoria Joseph for Inhale
- Lauren Myers for Preservation Park
- Wendy Palmer for Rescue email Wendy Palmer.
- Dawn Paul for Crane
- Walter Pierce for Johnny Mack Sings the Frank Sinatra Songbook. email Walter Pierce.
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