Congrats to the Winners and Finalists of the 2014 Faulkner-Wisdom

Although my novella The Act of Theft came up short as a finalist in the 2014 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, and two of my novels A Perfect Day for an Expat Exit (finalist 2012) and The Lonely Affair (The Resurrection of Jonathan Brady) were short-list finalists for the 2014 Novel category, congrats to the winners and the other finalists and all those who took part. 

Again, this was the fourth time that one of my works has made it the Faulkner-Wisdom finals in four categories:  novel, novel-in-progress, novella and short story (“Malaysian Games”,  runner up in 2007).

Winners for the Novella:

1^st place:  Give Me You by Kay Sloan, Cincinnati, OH

2^nd place:  Tickfaw to Shongaloo by Dixon Hearne, Madison, MS

Finalists:

A Different Life by Philip Erickson, St. Paul, MN

Cold War by Farah Halime, Brooklyn, NY

Further by Deborah Jannerson, New Orleans, LA

Juanita by Kent Dixon, Springfield, OH

Not the Usual Sleep by Tim Knowles, Brewster, NY

Resistance by Amina Gautier, Chicago, IL

Tansy by William Thrift, Columbia, SC

The Act of Theft by Robert Raymer, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

The Little Girls by Lori Fennell, Lake in the Hills, IL 

The Year We Froze by Stan Kempton, New Orleans, LA

Witness by Melanie Naphine, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Yankees Angels by Robert H. Cox, New York, NY

        Winners for the novel: 

1^st place:  Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradel, Los Angeles, CA

2^nd place:  The Talented Tenth by Ladee Hubbard, Champaign, ILL

3^rd place:  The Invention of Violet by Amy Boutell, Santa Barbara, CA

4^th place:   Sunrise for Asphodel by Dan Turtel, New York, NY

Finalists:

Advice for the Wicked by Glen Pitre, New Orleans, LA

A Stone for Bread by Miriam Herin, Greensboro, NC

Mask of Sanity by Jacob Appel, New York, NY

Scoop the Loop by Charles Holdefer, Brussels, Belgium

The Lenin Plot by Barnes Carr, Houston, TX

The Truth Project by Tad Bartlett, New Orleans and L. Ed Marston, Chattanooga, TN

                —Borneo Expat Writer 

Here are links to four of my author to author interviews of first novelists:

Ivy Ngeow author of Cry of the Flying Rhino, winner of the 2016 Proverse Prize.

Golda Mowe author of Iban Dream and Iban Journey.

Preeta Samarasan author of Evening is the Whole Day. 

Chuah Guat Eng,  author of Echoes of Silence and Days of Change. 

Plus:

Five part Maugham and Me series

Beheaded on Road to Nationhood: Sarawak Reclaimed—Part I