Ellen Birkett Morris

Ellen Birkett Morris

Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence, judged by Lan Samantha Chang, published by CSU Press. She is also the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award and finalist for the Clara Johnson, IAN and Best Book awards. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, among other journals. She is a winner of the Bevel Summers Prize for short fiction. Morris is a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship for her fiction from the Kentucky Arts Council. Morris is also the author of Abide and Surrender, poetry chapbooks. Her poetry has appeared in The Clackamas Literary Review, Juked, Gastronomica, and Inscape, among other journals, and in eight anthologies. Morris won top prize in the 2008 Binnacle Ultra-Short Edition and was a finalist for the 2019 and 2020 Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Her poem “Abide” was featured on NPR’s A Way with Words. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, AARP’s The Ethel, Oh Reader magazine, and on National Public Radio. Morris holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University-Charlotte. https://www.ellenbirkettmorris.com/
Internationally Acclaimed Author Stewart O’Nan Hunts for the “Emotional Center” of a Story

Internationally Acclaimed Author Stewart O’Nan Hunts for the “Emotional Center” of a Story

May 26, 2009 | ,

Stewart O’Nan provides Authorlink columnist Ellen Birkett Morris with insights into his writing life. O’Nan is the author of a dozen novels, including Snow Angels, The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, The Good Wife and Last Night at the Lobster. With Stephen King, he wrote Faithful, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. His newest novel, the international bestseller Songs for the Missing, named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and many others.

Write What’s Growing in Your Heart, Advises Janice Y. K. Lee

Write What’s Growing in Your Heart, Advises Janice Y. K. Lee

Mar 31, 2009 | ,

Reading the richly interwoven story of two women and the man they love in Janice Y. K. Lee’s THE PIANO TEACHER it is hard to believe that it was originally a short story. Lee, who started writing fiction in junior high school and never stopped writing, used to find the short story “the most natural form” for her writing.

Learn to Trust Your Vision Ed McClanahan Says

Learn to Trust Your Vision Ed McClanahan Says

Oct 27, 2008 | ,

  O the Clear Moment by Ed McClanahan Buy this book via Amazon.com   An exclusive Authorlink interview with Ed McClanahan On his latest book, O the Clear Moment by Ellen Birkett Morris November 2008 Fans of The Natural Man and Famous People I Have Known...