Much Loved and much missed. Kevin Lee Harris–my nephew–died less than a year after his grandfather.

https://news.ucmerced.edu/content/message-regarding-student-kevin-harris

The sorrow is that my father died last April. His work remains available: http://stephenharrisauthor.com

The joys are my children: Amaya has joined Isaac in the baby brigade.

New writing has emerged in several recent publications:

1. My short story “What You Know and What You Don’t” was an honorable mention in The Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction Contest for 2020: the story is available in The Saturday Evening Post’s annual anthology of top entries.

2. Another short story “The Nowhere Place” was published in the anthology Horror USA: California published by Soteira Press in late 2019.

3. A third story “Men of Integrity” was also published the end of 2019–in Pennsylvania Literary Journal. vol. 11. issue 3.

4. Earlier in Fall 2019 Writing Texas published a satirical tale I wrote called “Succulent Ribs.”

1. Glad to have my story “Grandfather Rat” in Marvels and Tales, the  Trickster Issue
2. Pleased that “The Cant of Winds” was published in Writing Texas Volume 5
3. Grateful to recently learn that my poem, “To Watch The World Burn,” was nominated for “Best of the Net” and a Pushcart Prize by Abyss and Apex.
4. Read a brand new story, “Succulent Ribs” at the Texas Association of Writing Teachers Conference back on September 29th in San Antonio, TX
5. Now,  something serious: one of my students needs help.  Please read here about the struggle with cancer that Steven Anderson is facing and see his Go Fund Me Page

1. Currently at AWP in Tampa.  Organized a panel for Friday at 12PM: (Re)Writing the Right Words: Revision Pedagogy. Has a great group of people (John Dufresne, John Lavelle, Gabriel Scalia, Susan Stabile) focusing on revision techniques to teach students.

2. Had a dedicated group of students read poetry and prose this last weekend in Bryan as the culmination of Texas A&M’s BlackBox Writers’ Residency, where Mick White, Flo Davies, and I worked with their drafts on revision as well as generation.  Visiting writers–Roger Reeves and Christine Granados also helped the students and then performed as well:

Looking forward to seeing my students present their literary works alongside 2D and 3D art that inspired them.

Glad to have my story, “Fires in the Dark,” included in Bull: Men’s Fiction.

Glad to have “Fallen” up at Jellyfish Review. This piece of flash fiction takes place at Crater Lake National Park, a place of both beauty and danger.

Got back yesterday from the Hill Country Film Festival in Fredericksburg, TX where one of my screenplays was a finalist. Very welcoming people there and compelling range of films: from shorts to feature length dramas, dromedies, and documentaries.

Today, quite gratified to have found a home for “The Fun that Clowns Can Be” at Body Parts Magazine.

I’ve worked with the fiction students who will be reading tomorrow night. Come check them out as well as the visiting writers!
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Black Box Speaks: Readings from the Writers Residency, an evening of fiction and poetry on Saturday, March 4th from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Texas A&M Memorial Student Center’s Stark Gallery. This event is brought to you by Texas A&M University Writing Center & Department of English.
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More info: http://calendar.tamu.edu/writingcenter/#event_id/22142/view/event

I’ll be joining other writers  tomorrow from the Texas Weather anthology for a reading at the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State in San Marcos, Tx.

http://www.txstate.edu/cssw/news-events/events/texas-weather-reading.html