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Elizabeth Bruce

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Elizabeth Bruce’s debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Award, ForeWord Magazine’s Bronze Fiction Prize, and was one of two finalists for the Texas Institute of Letters’ Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. Her short story collection, Universally Adored and Other One Dollar Stories, will be published by Vine Leaves Press in 2024. She has published prose in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malawi, India, Yemen, and The Philippines, including in FireWords Quarterly, Pure Slush, takahē magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Inklette, Lines & Stars, and others, as well as in anthologies by Vine Leaves Press, Paycock Press, Madville Publishing, Weasel ...more

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And Silent Left the Place

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Elizabeth Bruce rated a book it was amazing The Fate of Others: Stories by Richard Bausch (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Richard Bausch’s recent story collection, THE FATE OF OTHERS (Alfred A. Knoff, 2025), again cements his place as one of the planet’s most astonishing and insightful writers of literary fiction. A collection of tenderly nuanced works (one of which is ...more
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Elizabeth Bruce rated a book it was amazing Horse Show by Jess Bowers (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Jess Bowers’s recent story collection, Horse Show (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2024) includes 13 short fictions that all—miraculously--feature a horse (of course!) in some pivotal way. Bowers, herself a horse owner who “can be found riding horses” (amo ...more
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The Book of Losman by K.E. Semmel (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2024) wraps itself around the reader and doesn’t let go. An extraordinarily intimate third-person narrative, the novel chronicles the interiority & external struggles of Daniel Losman, a co ...more
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A tender and lovingly told chronicle of girlhood, family, displacement, and longing, Maria Karametou’s THE AMALGRAM (Vine Leaves Press, 2026) immerses the reader in 1980s Athens, as well as a Greek village in Asia Minor in 1915 and the Maryland subur ...more
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Martha Engber’s forthcoming novel, SCATTERED LIGHT, is a taut, intimate exploration of love and trauma between two crusading attorneys in Chicago at the end of the 20th century. Scrappy, workaholic labor lawyer Mary Donahue meets Ugandan atrocity sur ...more
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Elizabeth Bruce rated a book it was amazing Surrender (Veterans Writing Award) by Brian O'Hare (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Brian O’Hare’s linked story collection, SURRENDER, won the 2021 Veterans Writing Award (Syracuse University Press), and it is obvious why. These 17 stories are visceral and muscular and tender at the same time. O’Hare, a writer and filmmaker who is b ...more
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Elizabeth Bruce rated a book it was amazing A Fractured Life by Shabnam Samuel (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
In her acclaimed memoir, A FRACTURED LIFE, writer & trainer Shabnam Samuel entrusts the reader with the dreams and heartbreak of a lonely young girl grown into a strong, resilient international woman. Abandoned by her mother and rejected by her fathe ...more
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Elizabeth Bruce rated a book it was amazing The Shape of Normal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Embracing a Different Kind of Perfect by Catherine Shields (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Retired early childhood teacher Catherine Shields’ memoir of motherhood, THE SHAPE OF NORMAL: A MEMOIR OF MOTHERHOOD, DISABILITY & EMBRACING A DIFFERENT KIND OF PERFECT, invites the reader into an intensely personal and revelatory journey of motherin ...more
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