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Runner-up: Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize

My story “The Ghosts of Takahiro Okyo” has been selected as a runner-up in the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize.

Here’s what Gish Jen, this year’s judge, says about it:

“I found The Ghosts of Takahiro Okyo convincing, gripping, atmospheric, and shattering — a truly creepy, original, ambitious story that moves with great agility and touches on something profound.”

So yeah, stoked doesn’t even begin to explain it.  To be picked out of hundreds of submissions, to receive praise from someone who has been published in The New Yorker and The Atlantic and a B.A.S.S. anthology, is just unreal! Jen’s a freaking Guggenheim recipient! It feels good to be validated, to know there are people out there that like what you are do.

16 September 2011 · Comments

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• Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize
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