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Love Songs for the Quarantined Now Available! |
Order Cook's newest award-winning collection at WillowSpringsBooks@gmail.com. Also available at Amazon.com, the Prescott College Bookstore and other fine bookstores. |
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2012 Best American Mystery Stories |
Cook's story, "Filament," originally published in One Story,has been selected for inclusion in the 2012 Best American Mystery Stories, edited by Otto Penzler. Forthcoming in fall 2012. |
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New Essay in Glimmer Train |
Cook's new essay, "The Pleasures of Form," is available for free online in the Glimmer Train Bulletin |
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Pushcart Prize Nomination |
The title story of Cook's new collection, "Love Song for the Quarantined," has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Louisville Review. |
Cook's Blog Post About
Love Songs for the Quarantined |
Read Cook's essay about the evolution of Love Songs for the Quarantined on the Spalding MFA in Writing Faculty Blog. |
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Story Wins 2011 Spur Award |
Cook's story, "Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard," wins the 2011 Spur Award for Best Short Story from the Western Writers of America. |
Love Songs for the Quarantined Wins
Spokane Prize |
K. L. Cook's new collection of stories, Love Songs for the Quarantined, wins the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and will be published in September 2011.
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New Stories in 2011 |
Cook's story, "Filament," published in One Story (March 2011, issue 147); read the interview about the story. "Love Song for the Quarantined" published in The Louisville Review (spring 2011, issue 69), and "Relative Peace" in Prairie Schooner (summer 2011). |
Story Selected as Distinguished
Story of 2010 |
"Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard" selected as a Distinguished Story of 2009 as noted in the 2010 Best American Short Stories anthology, guest edited by Richard Russo. Visit the anthology's website.
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Story Selected for Best of the West 2011 |
K. L. Cook's story, "Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard," selected for inclusion in the Best of the West 2011: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri.
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Essay in The Writer's Chronicle |
Cook's essay, "Narrative Strategy and Dramatic Design," appeared in the May/Summer 2010 issue of The Writer's Chronicle.
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Story in Glimmer Train |
"Bonnie and Clyde in the Backyard," a new short story, published in Winter 2010 issue of Glimmer Train Stories.
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Interview in Glimmer Train |
Interview with K. L. Cook in Glimmer Train Stories (Winter 2010). Read the interview.
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Stories in Wrong Tree Review |
New stories in inaugural issue of Wrong Tree Review (Winter 2010): "On the Strip," "Noise," and "Wedding Photograph, June 1963."
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Willie Morris Prize &
Prairie Schooner Book Prizes |
K. L. Cook serves as a judge for the 2009-11 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. He also began a five-year tenure as a member of the Advisory Board for the Prairie Schooner Book Prizes, including service as a judge for the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction.
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