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Chad Simpson

Goodreads Author

Born

Monmouth, Illinois, The United States

Website

http://www.sadchimpson.com

Twitter

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Young Adult

Member Since

January 2009

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Chad Simpson is the winner of the 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. His short story collection, "Tell Everyone I Said Hi," is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in October 2012.

Chad was raised in Monmouth, Illinois, and Logansport, Indiana. His stories and essays have appeared in "McSweeney's Quarterly," "The Sun," "Esquire," "Barrelhouse," "American Short Fiction," and many other print and online publications. He also is the author of a chapbook of short fiction, "Phantoms," published by Origami Zoo Press in 2010. A recipient of an Illinois Arts Council fellowship in prose, he teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received the Philip Green Wright/Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching in 2010. H ...more

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September

Just a quick summary of some things that have been going on--or are about to go down in the near future:

A few weeks ago, I published a tiny little story over at WhiskeyPaper. This story, I think I originally wrote it as a 78-word story for some contest that Esquire was having. I'm not sure I ever sent it. Something else about it: Back in the day, Jane and I used to listen to a set of CDs called In

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	Tell Everyone I Said Hi 4.14 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays from Barrelhouse Magazine by Tom McAllister (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sarah Sweeney (Goodreads Author), Louisa Spaventa 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Freshman: 15 Lessons to Ace the Next Semester of Your Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Stories from the Midwest: 2012 by Jason L. Brown (Editor), John McNally (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Roderick N. Crooks (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantoms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars