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.
November 2, 2006

>On the Road

>I’m taking a little trip tomorrow, down to Charlotte, N.C., for the very first Queens University of Charlotte MFA Alumni Program. In addition to…
November 2, 2006

>EMU’s Writers Read Series

>A commenter on the previous post informs me of the Writers Read series at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg. Although I confess that I’m…
November 1, 2006

>Too bad they don’t live in Virginia . . .

>Ploughshares has been operating a blog for a while now, and recently brought to their readers’ attention the anti-illectual nonsense being spewed by the…
November 1, 2006

>Birds of Providence

>Jim Tomlinson‘s story, “Birds of Providence,” is being serialized in Velocity Weekly. It’s a terrific story. Stay tuned for future installments!
October 31, 2006

>Bare Breasted Mama

>My friend Gail Konop Baker has started a new column, Bare Breasted Mama, at Literary Mama, about her experience earlier this year with breast…
October 31, 2006

>Old Poets

> Old Poetsnever die;they justcometo the endof their line.
October 29, 2006

>Six Little Things

>I don’t pay enough attention to online literary magazines, and I don’t really love reading long stories online. But “little things,”–short shorts, flash, prose…
October 29, 2006

>Jim Webb’s Fiction

>I’ve mentioned here before that our Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Virginia, Jim Webb, is a novelist, writing mostly war stories from…
October 29, 2006

>Men’s Journal Recommends

>I’m generally disturbed by the short shrift men’s magazines give to books. They publish little or no fiction and spend far more time on…
October 28, 2006

>Harvard and Poetry

>There are two interesting articles about poetry in Harvard Magazine this month (not to be confused with 02138, discussed here recently). One is about…