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.
February 28, 2007

>Mistake Number 9

> Don’t Duck Trouble. More good advice, and it bears some resemblance to advice I heard once from Charles Baxter: Make a Scene. By…
February 27, 2007

>LitMag Wave: One Story Number 86

>“What Passes Over” by Celeste Ng is a good story. In it, a teenage girl’s father has died of a heart attack and her…
February 26, 2007

>Blackbird Interview: Albergotti, Parks, Yakich

>Check out this interview at Blackbird of three writers who recently published chapbooks: Dan Albergotti, Cecily Parks, and Mark Yakich. (Yay, Cecily!)
February 26, 2007

>LitMag Wave: The New Dominion

>It’s not really a literary magazine, as it turns out, but I had hopes for The New Dominion. And I suppose it’s too soon…
February 25, 2007

>LitMag Wave: Black Warrior Review

>Volume 32 Number 2 of Black Warrior Review isn’t the most recent issue, but it’s the one I pulled off the shelf to read…
February 24, 2007

>Beltway Poetry Quarterly–Resource Bank

>I was delighted to learn about this listing of literary blogs in DC, DE, MD, VA and WV at the Beltway Poetry Quarterly website….
February 24, 2007

>The Brats of Clarence at ASC

>Each season, the American Shakespeare Center tosses a little non-Shakespeare into the repertory mix, usually a play by a Shakespeare contemporary, or something modern…
February 23, 2007

>BASS news

>Dan Wickett at EWN broke the news today that “Wait” by Roy Kesey, first published in The Kenyon Review and soon to appear in…
February 22, 2007

>LitMag Wave: One Story Number 85

> “The Cure” by Owen King is, for the most part, an engaging story. Abe, ex-Air Force, 38, works construction and is reluctant to…
February 20, 2007

>Bare-Breasted Mama

> Be sure to read the latest gripping Bare-Breasted Mama column by Gail Konop Baker at Literary Mama.