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.
June 9, 2007

>Bits of good news

>One nice thing that happened this week was the arrival of my contributor copies of The Ledge, No. 30, including my story “Saving Melissa.”…
June 9, 2007

>Blogging-lite

>It’s been a little slow this week, hasn’t it? Still recovering from Short Story Month, maybe? Spending too much time talking about politics? Getting…
June 7, 2007

>Mistake Number 12

>I can’t help feel that Bickham is a bit rigid in the way he states this rule. On the other hand, until a writer…
June 6, 2007

>The Thinking Blogger Award

>Do Bloggers think? Or do they provoke thought? Or is it both? I’m grateful to Kelly Spitzer for thinking of me here at Perpetual…
June 6, 2007

>Orange Prize

>The winner of the Orange Prize has been announced: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for Half of a Yellow Sun. I’ve got this and have been…
June 5, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Faith" by William Trevor

>Bartholomew and Hester are unmarried siblings who move to a village together when Bartholomew, a Church of Ireland vicar, takes over a small abandoned…
June 5, 2007

>The Page 69 Test

>An interesting reading blog: The Page 69 Test.
June 3, 2007

>Wine Tasting

>Nothing to do with literature (not directly, anyway). Just got back from a wine tasting at King Family Vineyards in Crozet. Virginia has lots…
June 3, 2007

>Time Travel

>Friday evening (June 1) was the launch party (and official publication date) for Logan Ward‘s See You in a Hundred Years, the book about…
June 3, 2007

>More Adventures in Screenwriting

>I haven’t been working on my script. ScriptFrenzy started on Friday but I’ve had some other things going on. Among them, I’ve got a…