Author: Cliff

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.
March 28, 2009

>Tournament of Books–continued

>I got busy and the TOB fell of my radar screen for a while, but I see we are now in the Zombie Round,…
March 28, 2009

>LitMag Graveyard: Lunch Hour Stories

>It wasn’t around all that long–four years–but Lunch Hour Stories has announced that it will cease publication. LHS was an imitator of One Story:…
March 25, 2009

>ASC: The Blind Beggar of Alexandria

>Wednesday night I saw what is most likely my final performance of the 2009 Actors’ Renaissance Season at the American Shakespeare Center: The Blind…
March 25, 2009

>The New Yorker: "Julia and Byron" by Craig Raine

>Julia has cancer (oh, one of those stories). But she’s a scientist and so she agrees to an experimental treatment. When it doesn’t work,…
March 22, 2009

>VaBook.org–Saturday

>On Saturday at the Virginia Festival of the Book I moderated one panel and attended two, in addition to various hallway chats, meetings, and…
March 22, 2009

>2009 National Magazine Awards

>Finalists for the National Magazine Awards were announced this past week. See the full list: here. Virginia Quarterly Review is once again a finalist…
March 21, 2009

>VaBook.org–Friday

>I managed to get to two panels today and enjoyed both very much. First was “Searching for Our Roots: Memoirs” featuring Randall Kenan, whose…
March 20, 2009

>The Short Review: March 2009

>There’s a new issue of The Short Review up and it is, again, filled with fine discussions of short story collections. This month there…