- Tom Benz
- http://www.indielit.net
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I have a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Notre Dame and recently won the 2017 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for a short story collection sponsored by Snake Nation Press. (The resulting book Home and Castle was released in January, 2018). I have had sixteen stories published with magazines such as The Madison Review, William and Mary Review, the Mud Season Review, Blue Penny Quarterly, the Beacon Street Review, Willard and Maple, Blue Lake Review, Carve and others. I’ve written several feature articles for the Evanston Roundtable. I won the Solstice Short Story Contest in 2011. I was a finalist in the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Collection Contest in 2013 and 2015. I received honorable mention in the New Millennium Short Fiction Contests in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
I have also been associated with a few writers’ organizations in the Chicago area, including Off Campus Writers Workshop, Northwestern professor Fred Shafer’s novel workshop, the Writers Workspace and Story Studio Chicago. My website is www.indielit.net.
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