Archive - August 21, 2018

To further fulfill its goals to encourage, recognize and promote Peace Corps writers, RPCV Writers & Readers, the newsletter that was the precursor of PeaceCorpsWriters.org and PeaceCorpsWorldwide.org, presented its first annual awards for outstanding writing in 1990. A total of 143 awards have been given since that time. Winner of the 2017 Award for Best Short Story Collection Spectators (Flash fiction — stories) by Rob Davidson (Grenada 1990–92) Five Oaks Press May 2017 $16.00 (paperback) Reviewed by D.W. Jefferson El Salvador (1974-6) & Costa Rica (1976-77). This is a slender volume of only 56 pages, but, unlike a novel of similar length, it should not be a quick read. These essays deserve re-reading and study. Ultimately this book is about the compulsion to write or engage in other artistic endeavor, the need to give meaning to life by expressing oneself. For that which one cannot help but do becomes that which one . . .