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Excerpt

Before she left, in the middle of the kitchen table for all eyes to see, she wrote on a piece of white paper in green crayon—Gone to Oz.

Bio

Jocelyn is a Clarion West 2007 graduate. She currently lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she’s writing up a storm on a novel about hurricanes. When she's not writing, she's working as a creativity coach and inspiring others to realize their creative life.

Publications

"Up, Up and Away," in Evergreen Review

“Fortunately,” my fifth-week Clarion West story, which received an honorable mention in the Asheville Writers Workshop 2011 Words of Love contest and was published January 2012 in Forge Journal

"Unaccounted For," in Cadillac Cicatrix

“Pigeon” in Texas Told ‘em, edited by Laurie Champion and introduced by Doyle Brunson (Ink Brush Press, Summer 2011), a collection of short stories that focus on gambling

My short stories and poems have also appeared in literary magazines such as Willard & Maple and Sanskrit

Writing Description

Wry, insightful, and tender. Haunting and sparse, my writing tends to go to uncomfortable places. I usually land somewhere between realism and magical realism and am sometimes transported into the past, future, or worlds unknown. The common thread in all my stories is humor and compassion.

Writing Goals

The next draft of my novel.

Website

www.jocelynpaigekelly.com

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