"Award-winning literary fiction in the 2020s is a set of established best practices and outcomes: the vivid sensory detail, the labor-landscape-memory entwinement, the identity-group narrator who matches the identity-group author (market segmentation and differentiated sales FTW, gotta get on that pastel-colored front table at the local indie bookstore!), the melodic voice that lingers long after the final line, the prose that pulses with restraint and quiet authority." —Oliver Bateman Does the Work via
"BUILD A SUN (Anagrammed Lines)
I build a sun. Feted, it rises.
Inside its beautiful reds,
in its dust, a blue fire dies."
—Anthony Etherin
"I have passed through the doorway of a broken branch."
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