In the writing world, we celebrate when we can, so while my
work didn’t win a Pushcart Prize this year, my story “The Circle” was
given a special mention in the list in the back as an “important work”
published during the year. Yay for
bridesmaids!!
And yay for The
Gettysburg Review, the journal where it first appeared, and yay for writer Mark
Wisniewski who nominated the story. And
yay for everyone in the Pushcart organization who must work SO HARD to compile
this 655 page book, which you should read and support. And yay for VCCA (Virginia Center for Creative Arts) where I drafted this story.
My story is not online, but I can send you a PDF if you
would like to read it and you didn’t see it in the Gettysburg Review. First let
me warn you:
--it is really LONG (40 pages)
--it is really SAD
--my PDF is not pretty as in the journal pages; it’s just a
typescript file from Word
--I’m slightly disorganized at the moment, so it might take
a couple of days for me to get back to you
And, this is important:
--please, PLEASE send the request to my personal email
address, lesliepietrzyk@gmail.com If you subscribe to the blog feed and “reply,”
that goes to a different email address, one loaded up with neighborhood listserve
notices and emails about sales at Ann Taylor and restaurant menu changes etc. and
your email will get lost if I don’t answer immediately, which I probably won’t
be able to. Also, trust me when I say
you don’t want that email in your computer as “my” email address.
So, if you want to read my really long, really sad story, let me know here: lesliepietrzyk@gmail.com
