I am honored that Boswell Books chose my story “Go Yonder” as the winner of their recent fiction contest inspired by Ben Percy’s new book The Wilding. The challenge was to write a story with a traditional conflict (such as man vs. fate or man vs. technology) and replace ‘man’ with ‘nature.’ The prize? I was the opening reader for Percy at his October 5th signing in Milwaukee, WI.
I know you are wondering whether we are playing favorites for our writing contest winners, being as we love Todd and all that. Just to put this in perspective.
a. Different judges for both contests
b. Picked blindly–we stripped the entry names off the Berg contest.
Daniel