I just had to point you in the direction of Carol Edgarian's wonderful letter to a young writer, in Narrative.
About Sue
- Sue Williams is a British writer who lives in the USA.She is currently editing a novel and working on a linked collection entitled, TOUCH ME, I'M A MONSTER. Sue is also an Assistant Book and Magazine Editor at Narrative and teaches creative writing.
You'll find some of her publishing credits below.
She can be contacted at:
- Sue also offers Writing Consultancy
Read Sue's Work
Awards
- Finalist in the 2010 Pank Little Books Contest
- Semi-Finalist in the 2009 New Millennium Writings Contest
- Finalist in the 2008 River Styx Schlafly Beer Microfiction Competition
- Semi-finalist in the Black Lawrence Press "Black River Chapbook Competition" (Fall '09)
- Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open Dec 2009
- The Glimmer Train Best Start Award (2009)
- First Place in Flashquake's 'Less is More' Contest
- Winner in the 2009 Tonto Books Short Story Contest
- Third Place in the 2009 Mary Mackey Short Story Prize
- First Place in the 2009 Carolyn A. Clark Flash Fiction Prize
Literary
- "A Heartbreaking Work" in "Monkeybicycle" (August 2011)
- "How to Tell if You're About to Burst into Flames" in "Even More Tonto Short Stories," ed. Caroline Smailes, by Tonto Books
- "Bedtime in Thorpe Drayton" appears in "Smokelong Quarterly"
- "Where the Apple Rolls" in "Gargoyle" (55)
- "Poised, Like Jellies" appeared in "Narrative"
- "Useless Sleeper" in "The Yalobusha Review"
- "Potatoes" in "Night Train"
- The opening pages of Sue's novella, "The Winged Hendersons of Welton-on-Sea," made the Glimmer Train Best Start list for the top 50 excerpts, in Nov. '09.
- "The Old Tom" in "Dream Catcher" No. 22 (Fall, '08)
- "The Beloved Boots of My Old Master, Pim", in Narrative
- "You Beat Me" in Redivider
Vol. 5 Issue 2 (Spring 08)
- "Touched" in "Controlled Burn" vol. XIV, Spring '08
- "The Moth Catcher" in Salamander (Vol.13, No.2)
- "Titania: True Confessions" in Night Train, Summer '08
- "The Lucifer Bird" in The Main Street Rag, Spring 08, vol. 13(2)
- "Crushing the Opal" in Quality Women's Fiction
- "The Old Tom" in LITRO, Original Fiction For The Underground
- "Bare Oranges", won first place in Flashquake's LESS IS MORE contest
- "Stealing from the Heart" in Tears in the Fence 44
- "Stealing from the Heart" in "Hacks", an anthology by Grub Street
- "Little Limbs" in Blue Earth Review
- "Igloo" in The Quiet Feather
- "Fish" in flashquake
Erotic
- Sue also publishes work about sexuality under a pen name. Her stories have been printed by major presses including Harlequin, Cleis and Xcite.
Readings
- "The Moth Catcher" at Newtonville Books for Salamander, Oct '08
Media
- Sections of this blog were read out by Brendan Gullifer on The Naked Novelist (show 31: Seeing Double).
Links
- Tara L. Masih - Author
- Tara Masih (Author of "Where The Dog Star Never Glows")
- KL's Dead Diciples Blog
- Art2Art, Boston's down-to-earth Arts salon
- Mike Schiavone - author
- Overmatter
- Birthdays of Poets Blogspot (Andrew Christ)
- e-Poetry Writers
- Fancy Some Great Shiatsu in Cambridge/Watertown?
- The Naked Novelist
Reviews
- "The Moth Catcher" reviewed in The Review Review
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January 23, 2010
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It is wonderful and inspiring.
Posted by: Katrina Denza | January 23, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Yes, such a beautiful letter.
Posted by: Sue | January 23, 2010 at 11:23 AM