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Click on the photos below and enjoy some good reads from my latest online publications.
New and online! The Workplace Anthology, edited by Dennis Kaplan and Sharon Chelton, has just been published (including a story by your humble Cold Iron writer) and is available for readers for free! Here’s what editor Chelton has to say about the book:
I predict that our descendants will look back at our current work schedules with the same horror with which we regard the 12-hour workdays and child labor of the industrial revolution. For now, work is as ubiquitous and fraught a concept for us as is religion or love. It defines the daily reality of almost everyone I know. The stories that follow explore, identify, play with, and probe this reality in disparate ways. I think people will relate to them deeply and find them well worth their precious time. Just give a click on the photo above and sit back and enjoy. Fun News Right Below! Read On!
Rebirth Redux - In 1975 I published a story that went on (unknown to me) to win a major literary prize. Much later (also unknown to me) the story was read at Symphony Space in New York City and broadcast on National Public Radio. That story has once again been reborn in a comic book (known to me, this time) done by Brendan Herrick of Murphy Beach Studio. Because readers of the comic were interested in what the original story was like, you can see it featured on the Cold Iron page under "Cool Iron" (the archives). Just click on Cold Iron above and join the fun!
Buy the comic! You can buy a copy of the comic for two bucks by ordering directly from the publisher.
Quillifarkeag, MaineIt's easier simply to say, "Quilli" in referring to this small town in northern Maine - the product of a too-brief affair I had with Maine (seven years). So many odd things happened in that state while I lived there that I needed a place where I could begin to make sense of it all, where some of the villains could be cut down, and some of the heroes could be given a voice. Thus, Quilli came to be.
Really, Maine is a wonderful state, both wacky and cool and far, far more than its lobsteresque coastline, a truly strange blend of occasionally admirable sophistication, and a goofy, backward, hairy, wilderness ambience. 
There can be risks in having your photo taken in a fictional town.
An always haunting image ...
Many thanks for the website photos to Paul Rozycki of Flint, Michigan, Ardeana Hamlin of Hampden, Maine,and Brian Thomas of Rockford, Illinois. |
Welcome - News From Here!Updates - 7/1/2010: Cold Iron & Home
This is the website of U.S. author G. K. Wuori, an Illinois Arts Council Fellow and Pushcart Prize recipient. In it you will find excerpts from some of my writings, a bit of biographical information, a monthly column (see Cold Iron), and an e-mail link directly to me. I will answer those e-mails.
Don't forget to click the links under "Selected Works" for more on my books. Cold Iron this month: Iron Filings - 22. Just found out that "Missionaries On The Porch" received a Notable Story award from the storySouth Million Writers Award competition. "Missionaries" joins two other stories that received the award in 2008. Many thanks to Word Riot and Eclectica for bringing these stories to the world.
Some new online stories are coming out this spring in Eclectica, Awkward Press, The Nervous Breakdown and The Battered Suitcase. You'll find links on this page once the stories are published. Looks like a great spring! My prize-winning one-act play, "Doodle, Doodle," has found a home in the inaugural issue of the all-new TriQuarterly Online published by Northwestern University Press. I'll let you know when it happens! Just had a story, "Missionaries On The Porch," accepted by a great online journal, Word Riot. Here's the link: Word Riot Great news! My one-act play, "Wendy's Friend," was recently named a first runnerup in a playwriting contest sponsored by a local theater group, The Stagecoach Players. It was also selected for a possible staged reading sometime in the near future. Also, it has just been published in Blackbird, a great online journal from Virginia Commonwealth University. See the link at the left. Don't forget to check Cold Iron, too, for the July 2010 installment - Iron Filings - 22.
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...at home, with friend, in Sycamore, Illinois
A writer functions much like the great handbrake on one of the old steam locomotives. With a deafening screech and a terrible lurch, life as we live it is stopped for a moment. Words are wielded furiously as the writer says, "Look - this is how it is. This is how we are and what we are and why we are." Of course, that all changes once the giant engine starts up again, and the scenery and the light and the earth itself evolve into the stuff of yet another journey.
...Sycamore prairie
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