Archive - September 19, 2013

On Sunday, September 22, 2013, from 2:00 pm to 4: pm, RPCV writer, Clifford Garstang will be reading at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Garstang’s novel, What the Zhang Boys Know, has been named a finalist for the 2013 Library of VirginiaClifford GarstangAward in Fiction. (The other finalists are The Right-hand Shore by Christopher Tilghman and The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers.) Garstang’s award-winning collection of linked short stories, In an Uncharted Country, was published by Press 53 in 2009. This book won the 2010 Peace Corps Writers Maria Thomas Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Blackbird, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Cream City Review, Tampa Review, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere and has received Distinguished Mention in the Best American Series. He is the editor of Prime Number Magazine and currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street Bethesda, . . .