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Leslie PietrzykLeslie Pietrzyk is a novelist/short story writer. Most recent book: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE, stories of DC, published by Unnamed Press (2021). THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (Univ of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. www.lesliepietrzyk.com
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Tampa Review
Tampa Review #22 (2001) includes my story “Men Who Have Seen the Ocean,” a decent title for me in those days of self-inflicted titling woes (TOC below). This is the only time my work has appeared in Tampa Review, though not for lack of tryi...
Permafrost
Here’s “Daylight Savings Time,” published in Permafrost, Volume 31, Summer 2009. At the time, Permafrost was a print journal run by grad students in the Department of English at University of Alaska Fairbanks and, according to the helpful n...
Story magazine
Perhaps you’ve heard this depressing news: Story magazine will be on hiatus for an undefined length of time. The journal’s editor shared the news in an email over the weekend.
I’m sad. Story has been part of my literary life since the beg...
Voices West
It almost feels like a rite of passage for a writer to be published by a journal with the world “Voices” in the title, doesn’t it? Here’s Voices West, Spring 1997, and my story “What It Comes To.” (Remember last week when I said many of my...
Whetstone
Here’s Whetstone, Volume 13. The issue is undated, but my story won “The Whetstone Prize” for 1996, so that gives us a date. But why would a journal not include a date?
Maybe because this journal was put together by “the Barrington [IL] Ar...
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Novelist/short story writer. Most recent book: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE, stories of DC, published by Unnamed Press (2021). THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. www.lesliepietrzyk.com
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