Gene Hayworth

Featuring the winning entries from the Owl Canyon Press Short Story Hackathon No. 3, chosen from 1100+ entries received from 40 countries.

The Autumn 2019 Owl Canyon Press Hackathon Winners

When the ride ends

Eugene Hayworth

From his birth in rural Kentucky during the Great Depression to his suicide in Manhattan in 1985, Coleman Dowell played many roles. He was a songwriter and lyricist for television. He was a model. He was a Broadway playwright. He served in the U.S. Army, both abroad and at home. And most notably, he was the author of novels that Edmund White, among others, has called "masterpieces." But Dowell was deeply troubled by a depression that hung over him his entire life. Pegged as both a Southern writer and a gay writer, he loathed such categorization, preferring to be judged only by his work. Fever Vision describes one of the most tormented, talented, and inventive writers of recent American literature, and shows how his eventful life contributed to the making of his incredible art.

Gene Hayworth

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