Emrys

The 2012 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award was presented to Kathryn A. Brackett for her short story, The Buck. Kathryn, who lives in the Spartanburg area, received an MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh. Her works can be found in Dark Fire Fiction, Waccamaw Journal, Mythium: The Journal of Contemporary Literature, and Expecting Goodness & Other Stories, an anthology of fiction chosen by C. Michael Curtis, senior editor of The Atlantic. Her short story from that anthology was adapted into film for inclusion in the Expecting Goodness Short Film Festival, at which she won several prizes. She is currently in the midst of writing a paranormal novel. She also enjoys an emotionally taxing television show that lets you off the hook now and then with comedy.

The 2012 Nancy Dew Taylor Award went to M. E. MacFarland, for his poem They do move. A graduate of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, M. E. MacFarland resides in Valencia, California, though he works as an editor in Santa Monica. You can find his work in Precipitate Journal, and forthcoming publications will be in The Susquehanna Review, Barely South Review, and Action, Yes Online Quarterly. He has also had several poetry reviews published in The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review. He writes music reviews for the online music news magazine, Prefix. In his spare time, he enjoys a game of tennis, and his true life goal is to find a really good recipe for a gimlet.

The 2012 Linda Julian Essay Award winner is John R. Saylor, who won with his essay A Note to Lucy Grealy. John currently resides in Seneca and works as a professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University, an M.S. from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. John has been published in the Seersucker Rag and has publications forthcoming in the Seersucker Annual and Sandlapper Magazine. He was the 2011 South Carolina Arts Commission Fiction Project Winner and is an Emrys member.

Look for video or audio recordings of their work on the Emrys website this summer—or even better, buy your copy of the Emrys Journal here. NEW! Now you can download a full version for your Nook, Kindle, iPad, iPhone and all your mobile devices for only $4.99.

Print copies of the Emrys Journal are for sale at Fiction Addiction, the Greenville County Museum of Art, Hub City Bookshop, and others coming soon. Emrys members, if you haven’t received your complimentary copy yet, be sure to register here to attend the Annual Meeting celebration on May 17, and get your copy then.