finals

Last week I found out that I'm a finalist for The Malahat Review's 2010 Novella Prize, for my illustrated story Broken Hill. The list of finalists are:
Darryl Berger, "Broken Hill (an illustrated story)"
Kim Clark, "Solitaire"
Cary Fagan, "The Hebrew Sorcerer"
Don McKay, "Gambari"
Tony Tulathimutte, "Brains"
D. W. Wilson, "Valley Echo"



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Another positive upon exiting March is that I've just finished editing Punishing Ugly Children, and doing many of the thousand things that come with helping to push a book out, and now the manuscript is back in the mail to the publisher. It's not 'done' -- not by a longshot -- but I'll get a breather before the next round of being too busy to notice Oona-related stains on my clothes.
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Anyway, there's no fear of my getting too comfortable or full of myself, as just the other night C told me, quite matter of factly, that my head is full of poop. I had just finished reading for the night.
"Well that was quick," she said. "What was that, like three pages?"
"My head is full," I said.
"Yes," she said, "full of poop."
Well, that would explain my aversion to flies and the sun then.
congratulations Darryl! well done :) and a book coming this fall - a lot of very hard work :)
ReplyDeleteHeehee and congratulations! So good!
ReplyDeleteI'd rather have nits in my head than poop
ReplyDeleteOh and congratulations - sorry I got blinded by the poop!
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