SHORT AND SWEET - GREAT ESSAY AND SHORT STORY WRITING
What makes a great short story? Stephen D. Gutierrez should know. His collection of short stories and essays, Elements, won the '96 Charles and Mildred Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. He appears regularly in highly esteemed publications such as The Minnesota Review, ZYZYYVA and Fiction, and his work will shortly appear in two anthologies - Many Mountains Moving and Fantasmas - Supernatural Stories by Mexican American Writers.
His latest collection, La Gloria Meets La Helen en la Marqueta: A Fresno Montage, is just out, but he is already working on another book, California Considerations. Somehow he manages to find time to write and still handle a demanding teaching job at Cal State Hayward.
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Elements
Nilon Award
Charles H. and N. Mildred Nilon Award for Excellence in Minority
Fiction
from the University of Colorado and FC2.
$1,000 and publication for an unpublished
novel or collection of short fiction. FC2, formerly called Fiction
Collective
Two, sponsors the contest, which is open to citizens of the United
States
who are of one or more of the following racial or ethnic minorities:
African
American; Hispanic; Native American; Asian; or Pacific Islander. Only
original, book-length fiction manuscripts
are considered.
ZYZZYVA See especially the link to Past Issues
A page or two on Many
Mountains
Moving
Their books on Amazon.com