Andy Duncan
Excerpt
For week after week, month after month, Cliffert messed at his kitchen table, and then in his back yard, with his gunpowder recipe, looking for the mix that gave a bullet the slowest start possible while still firing. First he ground up some snail shells and turtle shells and mixed that in. He drizzled a spoonful of molasses over it and made such a jommock that he had to start over, so from then on, he used only a dot of molasses in each batch, like the single roly-poly blob Aunt Berth put in the middle of her biscuit after the doctor told her to mind her sugar.
Bio
I attended Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1994, and I taught Clarion in 2004 and Clarion West in 2005. My first collection, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories, won the World Fantasy Award, as did my story “The Pottawatomie Giant.” My story “The Chief Designer” won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. I’ve been nominated for the Stoker once, Hugo twice, Shirley Jackson twice and Nebula six times. My second collection, The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories, is forthcoming in 2011. I was a full-time journalist for 12 years and have taught undergraduates for 17 years. I’m an assistant professor of English at Frostburg State University, in the western Maryland mountains, and an instructor in the Honors College of the University of Alabama.
Publications
Most recently:"Slow as a Bullet," Eclipse Four, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books, 2011).
"Zora and the Zombie," (2004) Nebula and Stoker Award nominee, reprinted in Zombies: The Recent Dead, edited by Paula Guran (Prime, 2010).
"The Pottawatomie Giant," (2000) World Fantasy Award winner, reprinted in Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow (2010).
"The Night Cache," (2009) Shirley Jackson Award nominee, reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four, edited by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade, 2010).
"Beluthahatchie," (1997) Hugo Award nominee, reprinted in Sympathy for the Devil, edited by Tim Pratt (Night Shade Books, 2010).
Writing Description
"If Harper Lee and Gene Wolfe had a love child, Andy Duncan is it." -- Craig Jacobsen, SFRA Review
Goals
In summer 2010 I wrote about 40,000 words, finishing my story "Slow as a Bullet" (just published in May 2011) and making great progress on what I now am willing to call not a novella, but a novel. I hope to continue that N-word progress in summer 2011.
Pledges of a penny a word would be great, but any amount will honor me. All my academic degrees aside, Clarion West is my true alma mater, and the world of science fiction and fantasy is healthier for having all the Clarions in it.
Website
http://beluthahatchie.blogspot.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/beluthahatchie/
