Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST, forthcoming from Dzanc Books, July 16, 2019, and SHOW HER A FLOWER, A BIRD, A SHADOW, which was the Foreword INDIES 2017 Book of the Year for Literary Fiction,
Peg lives in Northern California and is the founder and director of WTAW Press and of Why There Are Words, a national literary reading series and program of WTAW Press. She is a member of The Writers Grotto. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Her work has been published in Connotation Press, Waxwing, Scoundrel Time, 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, Your Impossible Voice, The Fabulist, Sugar Mule, Blotterature, Bending Genres, Entropy, and many other journals and anthologies. See this page for more info and to read some online publications.
Her stories have been performed at Stories on Stage in Sacramento and Stories on Stage in Davis. Her work has been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and the Best Microfiction, been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, and twice received the (SC) Fiction Project Award.
Peg enjoys presenting to conferences, writers salons, writing retreats, and workshop groups on topics such as creativity, editing, persistence, publishing from the perspectives of an author and an editor and publisher, and lit community building, among others. She enjoys speaking with book clubs and readers, in person and via Skype. You can get in touch via the contact page.
Find Peg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 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 is the founder and director of WTAW Press and of Why There Are Words, a national literary reading series and program of WTAW Press. She is a member of The Writers Grotto. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Her work has been published in Connotation Press, Waxwing, Scoundrel Time, 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, Your Impossible Voice, The Fabulist, Sugar Mule, Blotterature, Bending Genres, Entropy, and many other journals and anthologies. See this page for more info and to read some online publications.
Her stories have been performed at Stories on Stage in Sacramento and Stories on Stage in Davis. Her work has been nominated for numerous Pushcart Prizes and the Best Microfiction, been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, and twice received the (SC) Fiction Project Award.
Peg enjoys presenting to conferences, writers salons, writing retreats, and workshop groups on topics such as creativity, editing, persistence, publishing from the perspectives of an author and an editor and publisher, and lit community building, among others. She enjoys speaking with book clubs and readers, in person and via Skype. You can get in touch via the contact page.
Find Peg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 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.