FRANK O'CONNOR award long lists Safe as Houses

FRANK O'CONNOR award long lists Safe as Houses

Holy gravy, SAFE AS HOUSES made it onto the long list for The Frank O’Connor short story prize with fellow Iowa winner Chad Simpson and my hero, George Saunders!!! This means I get to go to the Cork Story Festival in Ireland. Thank heavens for my Irish Poetry professors in college, who warned us not to dare enter Ireland without “knowing your poems." I will finally get to put all of my Yeats to good use…