Paul J. Willis

Amie M. Evans

Saints and Sinners 2010: New Fiction from the Festival contains a mixture of short fiction representing many genres and styles as well as a diverse number of themes and experiences. It was truly a difficult task for the judges to select a winner and two runner-ups from over a 100 entries. The completely-blind, three-tier judging process that was used yield what we think is a wonderful set of stories. The finalists for our first annual short fiction contest were Danny Bracco, Nathan Burgoine, Emily M. Danforth, James Driggers, Jack Fritscher, Wayne Lee Gay, William Holden, James Nolan, Steve Scott and Shawn Syms.

Saints & Sinners 2010: New Fiction from the Festival

Tracy Cunningham

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2019 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival. Brody's Family Secret by J.R. Greenwell Figures of Speech by Lewis DeSimone Foxes by Jonathan Harper Omaha by Michael H. Ward Fixing Uppers by Maureen Brady Stones with Wings by Louis Flint Ceci Flawed by Felice Picano The Grove of Mohini by J. Marshall Freeman Shopping for Others by William Christy Smith Solid Gold Saturday Night by W.L. Hodge Washington's Retreat by Stephen Greco Salvage by Karelia Stetz-Waters Trick Hearts by Michael Graves The Importance of Being Jurassic by Daniel M. Jaffe Arundel's Name by Jamieson Findlay The Unit by Aaron Hughes

Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2019

David Starkey

Showcasing poems by more than ninety contemporary American poets, In a Fine Frenzy reveals what Shakespeare's poetic children have made of their inheritance. Particularly interested in Viola, Miranda, Prospero, Desdemona, Iago, Lear, Cordelia, Hamlet, Horatio, and Ophelia, the poets respond to the sonnets, the comedies, the tragedies, the romances, and, to a lesser degree, Shakespeare the man. In so doing they reveal the aspects of his work most currently captivating to modern writers. Those who cherish Shakespeare's mercurial wit will delight in the rapid shifts, from grief to hilarity, so characteristic of the bard himself. Comic poems about tragedies follow decidedly somber poems about comedies. Single poems contain multiple emotional twists and turns. Some pay homage; most interact directly with the original Shakespearean text. Collectively, they corroborate Ben Jonson's assertion that Shakespeare is "not of an age, but for all time."

Poets Respond to Shakespeare

In a Fine Frenzy

An anthology of short fiction featuring the finalist selections from the 2019 Saints + Sinners Literary Festival.

Thirteen-year-old Erica Pickins does not want to play the piano--and she definitely does not want to go to England. But her father must take family and students for a fall semester abroad, and her mother insists she still practice, every day. In England, their new home becomes Hengrave Hall, a sixteenth-century manor house presided over by a group of nuns. While exploring with her new friend Pedro, Erica walks through a chamber door...into the Year of Our Lord 1578. There she is startled to find a music master in doublet and hose impatiently waiting for her. He mistakes her for Margaret, the elder daughter of the house, who is late for a lesson on the virginal--a forerunner of the piano. It seems that in a matter of days Queen Elizabeth will arrive on a formal visit, and the girl is to play for her as part of the planned entertainments. Erica has no choice but to play along and pretend that she is Margaret. With a little help from her brainy friend Pedro, and after making a few whopping social blunders in welcoming the Queen of England, Erica manages to pull off her final performance--but not before the real Margaret reappears at exactly the wrong moment....

Paul J. Willis

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