Peg Alford Pursell is a writer, editor, teacher, literary community builder, and all-around good egg. She is the author of SHOW HER A FLOWER, A BIRD, A SHADOW (ELJ Editions, March 2017; Second Edition WTAW Press, September 2017).
Peg lives in Northern California and directs Why There Are Words, a national neighborhood of literary readings she founded in Sausalito in 2010. She is the director and founder of WTAW Press, an independent publisher of literary books. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Her work has been published in Waxwing, Forklift Ohio, VOLT, The Journal of Compressed Arts, The Cortland Review, Soundings Review, RHINO, Permafrost, Eleven Eleven, Tupelo Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Quotable, Joyland, Staccato Fiction, Your Impossible Voice, Emprise Review, Annalemma, The Fabulist, Sugar Mule, Blotterature, Her Royal Majesty, Pure Francis, and many others. See this page for more info and to read some online publications.
Her stories have been performed at Stories on Stage in Sacramento and selections from her book, Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow were performed at Stories on Stage in Davis. Her ninety-word, one-sentence story "Fragmentation" is the title story of Fragmentation and Other Stories (Burrow Press, 2011). Her nine hundred and ninety-word story "Project," published in Annalemma Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She evidently has an affinity for stories with word counts that are multiples of nine.
Peg is known for her effective teaching, and enjoys visiting classrooms. (Her undergraduate degree is in education.) She is the founder of North Bay Writers Workshops, currently on hiatus. Peg has a wide range of experience in presenting to conferences, workshop groups, and writing retreats on topics such as creativity, editing, publishing from the perspectives of an author and of an editor, publisher, and lit community activist. You can get in touch via the contact page. Find Peg on Facebook or Twitter. She sends out a personal newsletter - described by one writer as "the best email I receive all month" - that you can sign up for here.
Peg lives in Northern California and directs Why There Are Words, a national neighborhood of literary readings she founded in Sausalito in 2010. She is the director and founder of WTAW Press, an independent publisher of literary books. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Her work has been published in Waxwing, Forklift Ohio, VOLT, The Journal of Compressed Arts, The Cortland Review, Soundings Review, RHINO, Permafrost, Eleven Eleven, Tupelo Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Quotable, Joyland, Staccato Fiction, Your Impossible Voice, Emprise Review, Annalemma, The Fabulist, Sugar Mule, Blotterature, Her Royal Majesty, Pure Francis, and many others. See this page for more info and to read some online publications.
Her stories have been performed at Stories on Stage in Sacramento and selections from her book, Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow were performed at Stories on Stage in Davis. Her ninety-word, one-sentence story "Fragmentation" is the title story of Fragmentation and Other Stories (Burrow Press, 2011). Her nine hundred and ninety-word story "Project," published in Annalemma Magazine, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She evidently has an affinity for stories with word counts that are multiples of nine.
Peg is known for her effective teaching, and enjoys visiting classrooms. (Her undergraduate degree is in education.) She is the founder of North Bay Writers Workshops, currently on hiatus. Peg has a wide range of experience in presenting to conferences, workshop groups, and writing retreats on topics such as creativity, editing, publishing from the perspectives of an author and of an editor, publisher, and lit community activist. You can get in touch via the contact page. Find Peg on Facebook or Twitter. She sends out a personal newsletter - described by one writer as "the best email I receive all month" - that you can sign up for here.