GOURNAY PRIZE AND Good news i can't share

Did I report that THE LUNATICS' BALL is the first runner-up for The Gournay Prize at Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press? Really exciting news that I can share. Here's the winners' list.

Just got more good news yesterday that I can't share, and more good news last month that I still can't share yet.  

Here's what I posted on Facebook instead of my usual year-end link to a longer summary on my author website:

"Very grateful to Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, where my manuscript THE LUNATICS’ BALL was named first runner up for the Gournay Prize. Grateful also to the following magazines for publishing my work this year: Hunger Mountain, NUNUM, Bending Genres, Ghost Parachute, FlashFlood Journal, Fictive Dream, Does It Have Pockets?, and SoFloPoJo. Grateful to Assay for reposting my essay there, to Claudine for a review of my chapbook THE MISSING GIRL, and to Flash Boulevard for publishing the micro included in the 2025 Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Very grateful to W.W. Norton for including “The Lunatics’ Ball” in the textbook THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING ACROSS GENRE, and to Cornerstone Press for including my essay in the anthology THE PAST TEN. Participating in their reading was the highlight of my AWP, along with seeing so many writer friends, some for the first time in person. Thanks also to writers and editors who included me in readings in San Francisco and online. Thanks to all of you for your support and your own publications. You are a light in this year’s darkness. May you all prosper in your lives and creative endeavors in 2026."

If I'd had more space, I would have mentioned the interviews I did with Naomi Cohn and Grant Faulkner for CRAFT and also how gratifying it has been to work with authors and my great colleagues at CRAFT. How inspiring and supportive my writing group The Leporine Conspiracy has been.  My forthcoming work in LUNCH TICKET, CLEAVER, AND NERVE TO WRITE. 2025 was a very good year! Amazing really.