short stories/literary fiction

Pat Spears

Pat Spears’s second novel, It’s Not Like I Knew Her was released in July 2016 by Twisted Road Publications. It’s Not Like I Knew Her won a bronze medal in the 2016 Foreword Review Book of the Year Awards. Her debut novel, Dream Chaser, was released in 2014. She has twice received honorable mention in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition; first in 2013 for her story “Stranger At My Door” and again in 2015 for her story “Free Ride”.

Nancy Hartney

Nancy Hartney writes short stories, magazine articles, and poetry. Although she has lived in Texas and California, she is a child of the South. Washed in the Water, an award-winning debut collection, was published July 2013. A second short story collection, If the Creeks Don't Rise, came out November 2016. These wide-ranging tales put the reader eyeball-to-eyeball with people struggling to live when grit, and sometimes love, is all they have. Both titles reflect the religious threads binding the deep South - a guiding light and worrisome footnote.

Pat Stanford

Pat Stanford was born in Philadelphia. Her farming family moved to Delray Beach, Florida when she was one, looking for year-round growing seasons. She lived there until a brief stint in the Air Force took her to California.

She graduated Florida State University with a B.S.in Secondary Education, which was never used for its intended purpose. She won second place in the 2004 Seven Hills Contest with her short story, Divorce Sale.