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Marian Pierce Wins Short Fiction Competition
Excerpt from Portland Monthly, October 2009.
Marian Pierce’s The Grocery Store Cart is the winner of the 2009 short fiction competition of the Wordstock book and literary festival.
Chosen this year by Oregon writer and National Book Award winner Barry Lopez, Pierce’s short story earned her $1,000 and publication in Portland Monthly. Look for the story, along with this year’s nine other finalists, in The Wordstock Ten, an anthology.
Wordstock begins October 8 with a special presentation of live music and stories from the renowned Chicago troupe Second Story. It continues October 10 & 11 with readings, interviews, and a book fair at the Oregon Convention Center. For information, visit wordstockfestival.com.
About Marian Pierce
Marian Pierce’s short stories have appeared in GQ, Creative Writers’ Handbook, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997 and The Japan Times. She won the Frederick Exley fiction competition and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Literary Arts, the MacDowell Colony and KHN Center for the Arts. Pierce works as a freelance editor and teaches creative writing at Marylhurst University and online for UCLA Extension.