Six Pixels of Separation

by Beverly Akerman

"A couple of summers ago, I flew from my home in Montreal across the continent to Oregon for the first time, on points cadged from my husband. He travelled a lot for work. Because I quit science to pursue art several years back, I sponge off him shamelessly these days. And not just for plane tickets..."One evening, after an argument with her husband, Beverly Akerman wraps herself in a blanket and starts reading Raymond Carver. The writing that results is a melding of heartfelt reflections on love, sex, the Holocaust, evolution, literature, coincidence, windmills, and a trip to and from the Wallowa Lake, Oregon, celebration of writing and life known as Fishtrap. Read this moving essay by a major emerging talent. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize and National Magazine Awards in two Personal Journalism and One of a Kind.“What a fantastic essay! I love it more with each reading!”~ Sylvia Legris, Editor, Grain MagazineBeverly Akerman is the author of the award winning short story collection, The Meaning of Children.

19 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 27, 2012

About the author

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After over two decades in molecular genetics research, Beverly Akerman realized she'd been learning more and more about less and less. Skittish at the prospect of knowing everything about nothing, she turned, for solace, to writing—winning accolades for her prose ever since. THE MEANING OF CHILDREN won the David Adams Richards Prize, was a CBC-Scotiabank Giller Prize Readers' Choice Contest Top 10. Beverly won the 2011 Professional Writers Association of Canada’s Short Article Award and was an honourable mention for their Feature Award. Other honours include Pushcart Prize nominations in fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in over 20 literary journals, including The Antigonish Review, The Binnacle, cellstories.net, Cliterature, The Dalhousie Review, Descant, Exile Quarterly, Grain, Joyland.ca, The Nashwaak Review, The New Quarterly, Rampike, Red Wheelbarrow, Rio Grande Review, r.kv.r.y quarterly, Staccato Fiction, The Vocabula Review, and Windsor Review, as well as in newspapers, magazines, on CBC Radio One , and in numerous learned journals. It pleases her strangely to believe she’s the only Canadian fiction writer ever to have sequenced her own DNA.

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