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G.M. Monks

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G. M. Monks recently moved to Pennsylvania from California where she grew up. Her work has been published in Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The RavensPerch, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Kansas City Voices, Alehouse, and elsewhere. Awards with publication include: one of two finalists in the 2020 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and runner-up in the 2016 Big Wonderful Press Funny Poem contest. She was a finalist in the Arts and Letters 2020 Unclassifiables Fiction Contest and she received an honorable mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award competition. Bedazzled Ink published her debut novel and nominated it for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award for New Fiction and the Commonwealth Club of Californ ...more

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Iola O

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“Then something in me heard the stars, the pawpaws, trilliums, the whippoorwills, crawdads swimming in the creeks and cousin Alma all calling. Like the air had shimmered them.”
― G.M. Monks, Iola O

tags: discovery, fiction-novel, love-story, war

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“There’s no skin in heaven.”
― G.M. Monks, Iola O

tags: fiction-writing, love, secrets

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“All of us were drunk on fun. A celebration of Kool-Aid puddle and little-kid noise, cake, cakey fingers, singing and yucky yucks”
― G.M. Monks, Iola O

tags: fiction-writing, life-and-living, women-s-strength

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