Nonfiction Writing Contest XII (2001)
First Place
Don’t write about something interesting, write about something odd, like nose hair, or the guy who tried to pogo-stick across Czechoslovakia while playing ‘Freebird’ on a viola the whole time. No other songs, just ‘Freebird’.. — Trent Moorman
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Award-winning author Annie Rehill shares her winning writing advice with NMW
“Get feedback from writers who are more experienced than you are. I cannot speak highly enough of…
Award-winning author Katy Grabel shares her winning writing advice with NMW
“My father is a well-known magician who traveled the country with his magic show. I was inspired to…
Award-winning author Jodi Varon shares winning writing advice with NMW
“Persevere. Emulate fine writing. Find a workable pace and…
Award-winning author Sarah C. Honenberger shares writing advice with NMW
“A well-told story should heighten all the reader’s senses, drawing him into the character’s world so that…
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It was two years ago, on the Sunday before Leslie Garrett died, that he craved lemonade. The kind his grandmother Florence Bradley used to make. If you come across a…
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Leslie Garrett hated to be called a little man. But there it was. Physically, I dwarfed my novelist friend when we walked down the street to our favorite haunts to talk…
Leslie Garrett Cast A Long Shadow | Don Williams Read More »
In the 1960s Leslie Garrett was positioned to claim a place in the pantheon of important American writers. The Knoxvillian-to-be was living the life of expatriate writer in Paris in 1966 when he learned that his first novel, The Beasts, had won the prestigious Maxwell Perkins Award, named for the legendary editor of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner. Then Garrett disappeared from view…
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