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

I’ve spent a fair amount of time this week getting entries ready for some contests with May 1  deadlines: stories, novellas, novels in progress, novels.  The entry fees are usualy $15, but some go as high as $40.  It’s a terrible business. You don’t hear for months, and then often the announcement is “we had 768...Read More