April 26, 2018

From the North Carolina Literary Review: 

I am pleased to report that final judge Stephanie Powell Watts has selected your story "Corin and Dorinda" for second place in the 2018 Doris Betts Fiction Prize. With your permission, NCLR would like to publish your story in NCLR Online 2019, due out in January. If that is amenable to you, please sign and return the attached publication agreement form. 

We ask you to keep this news of your 2nd place and pending publication confidential until the North Carolina Writers' Network posts the press release, around May 1. We will notify you when the news is public. 

Congratulations! 
Margaret D. Bauer, Editor

“Second Place,” he sighed. It is kind of a peculiar story, so I should be satisfied with that.

Yard Fathers completed my fence while I was gone, and I went this rainy AM and, nevertheless, planted the mulberry Jesse Israel had kept for me, and three roses, and devil’s pokers, and cyclamen for the autumn.  Finished in time for the chill and blessed rain to fallen in torrents upon them all.

Bill Cosby is convicted of rape. Let no man count himself as fortunate until he is in the grave.