Just a reminder that March 1 is the deadline to apply for the The Chicago Literary Club $1000 prize and fellowship. This three year fellowship is for a serious writer (nonfiction or fiction). The Club meets weekly for dinner, conversation, and the presentation of an original essay by a member. The Fellowship consists of free...Read More
The Producers of the indie film based on One for the Ark have created a Facebook page, https://m.facebook.com/One-for-the-Ark-Movie-115958843127021/. Please visit for news as the movie develops. Soon, I’ll be posting a prize-winning story excerpted from the book called “When Walls Weep.”Read More
Happy to announce that my story, “The Visionary,” was selected for publication in Hemingway Shorts, Vol. 4, in a national contest sponsored by the Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It is my third story about Alzheimers disease to be published. All in tribute to my mom, Mary Jo Hutchings, an avid reader, librarian and visionary.Read More
Just found out that my unpublished novel, FREE LOVE, was a finalist for The Tuscarora Award for Historical Fiction from Hidden River Arts. This is my only historical novel, and deals with the status of women in the 1870’s, spiritualism and spirit photography.Read More
Happy to announce that the first chapter of my unpublished novel, Markers, was named “Honorable Mention” in the Chicago Writer Association First Chapter contest. Always happy to have my work recognized.Read More
Happy to report that ONE FOR THE ARK was named a finalist in the International Book Awards for General Fiction, sponsored by the American Book Fest. I enter contests in hopes that an agent/major publisher will notice, and to be able to offer this kind of “endorsement” to my indie-published works. I lose more than...Read More
Some time ago I discovered this YouTube concert and was enchanted by the music of a typewriter (which can never be replaced by a computer keyboard), but forgot to post it. Happy spring! And happy typing!Read More
So happy to announce that my short story, Herbert Saffir, Measurer of Hurricanes,” has been published in the current issue of Ars Medica, a Canadian arts-and-healing journal. You can read it online here. It is personally meaningful to me since my mother, Mary Jo Hutchings, suffered from Alzheimers. This is the second story of mine about the...Read More
I hope you can follow this link to hear about why you should vote for my friend, Jamie Shapiro, for judge in Cook County. Jamie is a fellow lawyer, and a writer, who entertained The Chicago Literary Club last night with his paper, “Wedding at the Ashram.” Also at last night’s meeting of The Club,...Read More
