Overview

This collection includes five fiction and eight non-fiction works, of varied length: flash fiction, novel excerpt, short story, international essay, humor, memoir vignette, creative non-fiction. The subject matter covers the world, from countries where the author lived: Germany, Malaysia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. The writing reflects diversity of settings, a style both comic and serious, and carefully edited prose. The thirteen works won multiple first and second place awards in the Soul-Making Keats (SMK) literary competition in San Francisco (now in its 30th year) and also in the NLAPW's 2020 biennial, in which the author won first and second in all five categories that she entered. Three Artists in Arrested Time won second overall of three genres in the NLAPW's Vinnie Ream 2019 competition. An excellent book for writers entering literary competitions or writing personal pieces for family as legacy. All thirteen treat the SMK theme from poet John Keats: Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul making.

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Love the presentation and layout of your book. Mary Kennedy Eastham, SMK Flash Fiction judge What a lovely book! The prologue tells its own story, and look where it has led. Wow! Congratulations. Sue Prunella, SMK Humor judge Gail Wilson Kenna has compiled a treasure of her award-winning writing. Precise and perceptive...the characters are imaginatively drawn to reflect a diverse, often funny, captivating voice. Readers will find stories written with feeling and sensitivity that are a joy to read. Dorie Battelle Gail Kenna's writings cover a range of topics from humorous memoir to thought-provoking intercultural essays. Whether fiction or non-fiction, her prose is engaging and luminous. A book to read more than once. I highly recommend it. Ilona Duncan, linguist, piano teacher, writer

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Gail Wilson Kenna, a college professor of writing and literature, has taught in Germany, Malaysia, Venezuela, Colombia, and throughout the USA. The author of five books, a recipient of many writing awards, which include the Donald Axinn Fiction Scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2012). In 2000 she received a grant from the Puffin Foundation of New Jersey to publish, Beyond the Wall, a nonfiction work about Venezuela's corrupt legal and penal systems, and their infamous prisons, in which North Americans were incarcerated. Since 2017, Gail has been the Creative Nonfiction judge for the annual Soul-Making Keats literary competition in San Francisco. A wife and the mother of two adult daughters, she lives on a creek of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia's Northern Neck, where she continues to teach for a community college, write for publication, play competitive tennis, give frequent presentations and speeches, and manage her LLC, Crosshill Creek Publications.

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