Hello fellow strange pilgrims,
A short and hopefully sweet update before you read our enthralling and visceral series of flash creative-nonfiction today: reading for the $3000 Strange Pilgrims Prize for Story of the Year & Essay of the Year is almost complete. Which is to say responses will start going out this weekend and the announcement of the winners and shortlist will be made next week! We also have some other cool things cooking, so you’ll hear more about all of that soon. One hint though: if you’re writing novels or memoirs…time to get your first pages ship-shaped.
Yours,
Romania, 1983
The curette is really a stylus, my mother insists as she wraps it gently, the way she wraps ştrudel, but in layers of white linen and tighter.