Announcing the Authors in the 2021 UP Reader
This year’s UP Reader jury chose the following authors and submissions for 2021:
- Barbara Bartell, “Your Obit”
- Don Bodey, “Deal Me Out” and “How to Hunt Fox Squirrels”
- Craig Brockman, “The Fairy in the Berry Can”
- Stephanie Brule, “The Walk”
- Larry Buege, story, “A.S.S. for State Slug”
- Tricia Carr, “A Matter of Time”
- Ann Dallman, “A Little Magic”
- Deborah Frontiera, “The Lunch Kit”
- Elizabeth Fust, “Alphabet Soup”
- Charles Hand, “A Night to Remember”
- Kathy Johnson, “Feeling Important”
- Sharron Kennedy, “Blew: Incarnation” and “Thomas: Fortitude”
- Chris Kent, “Spearing Shack” and “Death So Close”
- Tamara Lauder, “Right Judgement” and “That Morning”
- Teresa Locknane, “My Scrap Bag”
- Ellen Lord, “Another Covid Dream” and “Guillotine Dream”
- Becky Ross Michael, “Sumac Summer”
- Hilton Moore, “Requiem for Ernie” and “A Dog Named Bunny”
- Gretchen Preston, “Old Book”
- Donna Searight Simons and Frank Searight, “Calamity at the Devil’s Washtub”
- kilgore splake, “upper peninsula peace” and “holy, holy, holy”
- Ninie G. Syarakin, “A Luxury by the Michigamme River” and “Morning Moon above Norway”
- Tyler Tychelaar, “A Poetic Grief Diary”
- Donna Winters, “My First Kayak Trip”
PLUS:
- transcript of Victor Volkman’s Interview with Karen Dione
- transcript of T. Marie Bertineau’s presentation “Memoir as Healing”
AND: Winners of the Dandelion Cottage Short Story Contest
