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BONNIE STANARD

I began to enjoy fiction in the fifth grade at Pelion School when Miss Elsie Hook read chapter novels to our class after recess. It was the moment when I realized school could be enjoyable.

In college, after a tryst with nursing, I worked toward a degree in English education, graduated, and taught school. My experience teaching reflected my temperament. The good years were very good and the not-so-good years were, well, not-so-good.

I spend most of my time writing historical fiction. Let me restate that— working on historical fiction, for researching background takes a chunk of time. I write poetry, mostly because I love words and like to mess with their meanings.

AWARDS POETRY

Born Again - Second Place, 2009 Carrie McCray Literary Award

Guitar, Hips, History - Honorable Mention, 2005 Carrie McCray Literary Award

HIM and HER - Finalist, 2008 Del Sol Press Poetry Book Contest

Incidents of Estrangement - Winner, 2008 River Poets Journal Short Poem Contest

Marked by Progress - Winner, 2008 Ecolit Contest, Knock magazine

River Voices - 2007 Pushcart Prize nomination

Some Subjects - 2011 Honorable Mention, Medical Humanities Writing Event

Stealing From the Dead - Finalist, 2008 Marsh Hawk Book Contest

SHORT STORIES published

Veronica's Wills (Mystery Weekly, March 2016)

Til Next Time (Kestrel, Fall 2015)

Wadsworth of Dragonmead (Dark Gothic Magazine, Spring 2015)

The Disappearing Act (The Legendary, Issue 47)

Maggie and the Snake - Awarded Third Place, Savannah Authors Anthology 2013 Writing Contest

A Sound Sleep in the Deep Woods (Lumina, Vol.V)

Amy's Lunch (Reflections Literary Journal, Vol VII)

Foul Evidence of Play (Lullwater Review, Vol. XIV, No.1)

George's Flower Garden (Confluence, Vol.15)

Sour Milk (Petigru Review, Vol.4)

Suspended Relief (The MacGuffin, Vol XXIII No.2)

The Cash Box (Distillery, Vol. IX)

The Pocket Watch (The Binnacle, Fall 2005)

The Smell (RiverSedge, Vol. XXI No. 2)

The Trouble with Perry (Petigru Review Vol. 1)

Time's Undertow (The Awakenings Review, Vol. 4 No.2)

Too Long in the Company of Rain (North Atlantic Rev., No. 16)

Uncertain Accident (Primavera, Vol. 30)

POEMS Published

Akin to a Rooster's Crow (Belle Reve Literary Journal) —A Natural Deceit (Scarlet Leaf Review) —About Barns (Taproot's Tree Series, Vol. 14) —A Literary Affair (The Griffin) —Adjustment to Eve's Onset (Slipstream) —Another Wife's Man (Catfish Stew) —At Ocean's Edge (Barrier Islands Review) —August Afternoon (Petigru Review) —Belief Without Life (Catfish Stew) —Bungee Jump (Catfish Stew) —Carbon Copyy (Scarlet Leaf Review) —Computer Hacker (Beacon and Down In the Dirt) —Country Song of Carolina (CN Review) —Crossroads Store (Persimmon Tree) —Demented Insomnia (Constellations) —Fairview Farmhouse (Phi Kappa Phi Forum and Down In the Dirt) —Family Plot (Last Stanza Poetry Journal) —Fed Up (The Hollins Critic) —Feed Sacks (Silver Boomer's From the Porch Swing —Fig Tree (Scarlet Leaf Review) —Foreign Origin (Pettigru Review) —Girl, Headlights On (Eclipse) —Grand Mal (The Human Touch ) —Incidents of Estrangement - (Leaf Gatherers Pocket Poems) —Journaling Faith (Lalitamba) —Marked by Progress (Knock) —Master of the Leash (Iodine Poetry Journal) —Middle of Ages (Scarlet Leaf Review) —Modern Instances (Constellations) —Monday Morning Service (The Museum of Americana) —Mother Tongue (Slant) —My Adulterating Practice (Kestrel) —Natural Piety (Lalitamba) —Relative Inadequacy (The Human Touch) —River Voices (Petigru Review) —Shades of Gospel (South Carolina Review) —Shallow as a Peach (Scarlet Leaf Review) —Soul Food (Petigru Review) —Suburban Habit (Stone Country) —Sunset On the Veranda (RE:AL) —The Payoff (The Moon) —The Procedure (Chest) —The Separation (The Human Touch) —The Vows (RE:AL) —The Wasp and the Fig (Harpur Palate) —Under the Influence (Route Seven Review) —Washday (Silver Boomer's From the Porch Swing) —Weather and Time (RE:AL) —Weather Forecast (Chiron Review) —Zealots (Cumberland Poetry Review)

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