Steven Wingate’s Interview with Jenny Shank
Sorry that the postings have been very light this past week, but I just found out last Friday that I had to move out by the end of the month! So I’ve spent the last few days packing and labeling boxes. I’m sitting in the corner of my new living room surrounded by boxes upon boxes of my stuff. Add to that, my husband and I picked up a stray cat (actually, she picked us) who is not getting along with my two dogs. Things are a bit hectic here. Does anyone want a very nice black-and-white kitty? We can’t decide on a name yet. I suggested Emily Mortimer, but my husband hates that so right now we’ve been calling her Meow Meow a.k.a. The Unnamed Emily Mortimer Project.
With all this going on, I haven’t been able to search the internet for short story tidbits. Luckily, Jenny Shank from Books and Writers newwest.net sent me a link to her interview with Steven Wingate, the winner of the Bakeless Prize last year for his story collection, “Wifeshopping.” He used his tax refund to enter a variety of short story prizes at literary magazines and won several of them. He sent his collection around eighteen times before he won Bakeless.
Let’s all use our tax refund this year to save the short story!The interview can be found here.
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