General updates from my writing life.
This $5,000 award—jointly funded by the state of South Dakota and the National Endowment for the Arts—is “designed to support emerging artists committed to advancing their work and careers by providing funding to produce new work.”
These funds will importantly help alleviate financial pressure, allowing me to more quickly push various projects toward conclusion.
Deep gratitude goes out to the NEA, and, as well, the South Dakota Arts Council.
Recently fiction was featured by the literary journal Conjunctions.
Follow the link below to experience “Camp Gesticulslapper”:
http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/ben-miller-05-26-2020
To read an interview exploring the roots of my recent NER essay “The Haunting of Byerly Hall: WC” follow the link below:
George Floyd’s last words speak for generations of Americans: “I can’t breathe.”
An excerpt from my novel What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights just appeared in the latest issue of AMP (#5), out of Hofstra University.
To experience the writing read on:
Daily, hour by hour, thoughts fly toward our friends, loved ones, and colleagues in New York, New Jersey, and Boston. The image below was recently drawn by my frequent collaborator Dale Williams in his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Not long ago my essay “The Rock in the Grate” appeared in the online journal VOL. 1 BROOKLYN. To experience the writing follow the link below.
Chapter 4 of it all melts down to this: a novel in timelines appears in this journal out of Emerson College in Boston:
To experience the writing go here:
“The Haunting of Byerly Hall: WC” appears in the latest issue of the New England Review. To learn more about the journal, click the link below.
A twelve-page excerpt from What Days Are Like When There Are Only Nights appears in the latest issue of New Delta Review, a journal out of Louisiana State University.
To experience the writing go here:
http://ndrmag.org/digital-media/2019/12/from-what-days-are-like-when-there-are-only-nights/
