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Tara Mantel

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Tara’s fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Harpur Palate, The Gettysburg Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, The William and Mary Review, pacificREVIEW, The Evansville Review, and the Southern Women's Review. She was the recipient of a full writing fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.

Her story “These Woods” was a finalist for the 2006 John Gardner Fiction Prize, and her story “Negotiations” was a semifinalist for the 2007 Mid-American Review Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. In 2009, her story “Confessions” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received an honorable mention.

Tara’s film scripts have placed in several major competitions. Her feature-length script “The
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Elemental: A Novel in Stories

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"It is not only the act of writing that forces Davis to write fiction; reading is a danger, too. 'I don't need to go to other writers to get excited,' she says. 'The problem is almost the opposite. Certain kinds of writing will give me too many ideas. I have to keep stopping and reacting.' She recently got a collection of lectures Roland Barthes gave at the Sorbonn Read more of this blog post »
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