Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST (Dzanc Books, 2019), and SHOW HER A FLOWER, A BIRD, A SHADOW, the Foreword INDIES 2017 Book of the Year for Literary Fiction.
She is the founder and director of WTAW Press and of Why There Are Words. 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, Bending Genres, Entropy, Woven Tales Press, 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, has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, and twice received the (SC) Fiction Project Award.
Find Peg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. She sends out a personal newsletter (described by one reader as "the best email I receive all month") that you can sign up for here.
You can get in touch via the contact page.
She is the founder and director of WTAW Press and of Why There Are Words. 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, Bending Genres, Entropy, Woven Tales Press, 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, has been a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award, and twice received the (SC) Fiction Project Award.
Find Peg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. She sends out a personal newsletter (described by one reader as "the best email I receive all month") that you can sign up for here.
You can get in touch via the contact page.
