Harriet A. Rose Legacies Contest – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:12:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Good literary news! https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2022/03/25/good-literary-news/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2022/03/25/good-literary-news/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:37:00 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=1907 I’m honored to have won the Harriett A. Rose Legacies Contest sponsored by the Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY, for my memoir “Graduation.” The contest was judged by novelist/memoirist Claudia Love Mair, who said of my story: “This piece was finely crafted, with a beautiful, sustained tone. The narrator was sympathetic, and I connected with them from the first word until the last. Great job!”

The memoir is about my retirement as a professor of legal studies at Sullivan University and how it affects my understanding of who I am. All you young people out there may not know, but retirement’s a major life event, like divorce or death of a loved one. I’ve sent the piece out to some literary magazines for possible publication. Most magazines only accept unpublished work, which includes not published on a blog, so I’ll post the piece on my blog after it’s published.

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