I owe much thanks to the editors of The BroadKill Review for believing in “Samuel’s Wife,” one of my short stories, for sending me the most beautiful acceptance letter I’ve ever received after I submitted the story for publication, for relishing in its conflict, language, and metaphors, and for honoring me with a prestigious Pushcart Prize nomination.

I was in the mountains of Georgia when I received an email telling me of the nomination. It was the next morning before I realized I wasn’t dreaming. My husband said I was in shock, a delicious shock.

“Samuel’s Wife,” a story that takes place in Arabi, Georgia, will be published in the Nov/Dec 2018 edition of The Broadkill Review. I’ll post a link when it is published.

Brenda Sutton Rose is the author of Dogwood Blues.

ABOUT DOGWOOD BLUES

Change has come to Dogwood, Georgia, dividing the town, friends against friends, neighbors against neighbors. With the liquor referendum on the ballot, signs, declaring VOTE YES, others declaring VOTE NO, many signs as tall as billboards, pop up in yards throughout the city limits. All of Dogwood has an opinion. And the local newspaper, Dogwood News, reports it all.

When Boone Marshall, a blues musician who inherits the family farm after his father’s death, brings home a new bride not long after his first wife’s suicide, Nell Sauls, the town busybody, goes bat crazy spreading rumors that have no substance. And when Kevin Kilmer, award-winning author, moves back to Dogwood, the town where he’d grown up, and brings with him a husband, Nell makes it her business to drop gossip like bird poop up and down the historic district.

Compared to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, to Cold Sassy Tree, and to the movie Steel Magnolias, Dogwood Blues is as southern as a story can be.

DOGWOOD BLUES  by Brenda Sutton Rose was nominated for a 2015 Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel. She has been the guest at numerous books clubs that chose Dogwood Blues as their book for the month. She has taught writing workshops at conferences for new and upcoming writers. Her poetry, essays, and short stories have been published in numerous online and print journals.  Click here to purchase Dogwood Blues.