A Soul-Making Keats Collection
Award-winning writing of Gail Wilson Kenna
Published on 25. September 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
154 pages
978-1-7341602-4-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection includes five fiction and eight non-fiction works, of varied length: flash fiction, novel excerpt, short story, international essay, humor, memoir vignette, creative non-fiction. The subject matter covers the world, from countries where the author lived: Germany, Malaysia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. The writing reflects diversity of settings, a style both comic and serious, and carefully edited prose. The thirteen works won multiple first and second place awards in the Soul-Making Keats (SMK) literary competition in San Francisco (now in its 30th year) and also in the NLAPW's 2020 biennial, in which the author won first and second in all five categories that she entered. "Three Artists in Arrested Time" won second overall of three genres in the NLAPW's Vinnie Ream 2019 competition. An excellent book for writers entering literary competitions or writing personal pieces for family as legacy. All thirteen treat the SMK theme from poet John Keats: "Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul making."
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Edition
A Soul-Making Keats Collection ed.
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7341602-4-6 (9781734160246)
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Gail Wilson Kenna earned B.A. USC 1965. Graduate work San Francisco State. Earned secondary teaching credential 1967, married 1968, taught in Los Angeles, San Antonio, and decade in Napa Valley. High school English teacher. Began writing 1970 after U/C Berkeley Bay Area Writing Project. First publication Redbook, 1981. Wrote for magazines & newspapers in 1980s, military audience, received awards. In Germany, completed MFA degree, then taught writing & literature for college & university programs in foreign countries & USA. Still teaching at 80. First book published 1982.Three editions, New Reader's Press, until 2003. In 2019, Along the Gold Rush Trail reprinted as Here to There and Back Again (Ingram). Five of Kenna's books currently available. Received U.S. State Department award for work in Venezuelan prisons. Beyond the Wall 2000 reprinted in 2020 (Ingram). A passionate teacher, tireless fighter for justice, lover of family, friends, students, literature & nature, Lives with 1968 husband on creek of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay. Two adult daughters live in Washington, D.C. Tennis competitor since 1953 & tennis instructor since 1960s. At 80 with new knees, plays tennis five times a week. Tennis Talk of a Nobody is her seventh book.