I’m a little afraid I’ve used that subject line before, because I certainly feel like an unreliable writer most of the time. In any case I am most defintely an unreliable and irresponsible blogger.
So first of all, last year something really cool happened. I took second place in the fiction category of the 2011 Press 53 Open Awards. What that means is that Chris Offutt chose my story as second out of ten, which is pretty awesome, but it also means that my story, “The House That Grandpa Built” was published in their annual anthology. I have a link to more info on my Publications page.
I’ve just started a new blog actually at http://absolutelyalexander.wordpress.com which will explain I think, where I’ve been, and while writing for me still has to take the backseat so often.
Well it’s the annual time of applying for things for the heck of it. I’ve got a UNCGÂ app out, an app out to Breadloaf, and getting ready to finish the stuff for Tin House, just in case I decide to go again and really work with Dorothy Allison this time.
