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Wanda Suttle Duncan

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Wanda Duncan earned her Bachelor’s degree at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, and her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Wake Forest University, where her academic focus was on Southern literature and creative non-fiction. She has been a contributing writer to The Digital Forsyth Project, Early American Music Magazine, Winston-Salem Monthly Magazine and Our State Magazine, the state magazine for North Carolina. She was the 2018 Library Partners Press David Coates Non-Fiction Award Winner. "Cracker Gothic: A Florida Woman’s Memoir" is her first book.
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My essay, “The Letter H and a List – How I Connected the Stories in My Memoir,” is featured today on The Brevity Blog. My memoir started out as a collection of unrelated essays, loosely tied together by place and memories. When it became apparent that, surprisingly, I was actually writing a book, I was faced with how to string together all of these ideas and essays into chapters that would flo

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The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays

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