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Friday, 11 November 2011 09:04

 

...whose complete version of his creative nonfiction "Sis Nell" has been accepted for print publication in the United Kingdom's Vapid Kitten magazine. The piece originated in a workshop led by Marjorie Hudson in Pittsboro. A fifty-word version appeared earlier in a Blink Ink print anthology.

 

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Hats Off! to Edith Pearlman, who has won Hadassah magazine's Harold U. Ribalow Prize, which honors an author who has created "an outstanding work of fiction on a Jewish theme," for Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Lookout Books).

The panel of judges, who included Elie Wiesel, N. Scott Momaday, and Jonathan Freedman, praised Binocular Vision, which they said contains "thirty-four short stories that take place around the world and across time. Among the worlds she creates are those of tsarist Russia and modern Boston, London during the blitz and a post-World War II refugee camp, the humid interior of Central America and the coast of Maine."

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