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News: Publication

12/23/2013

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picture, barn, rundown, field, dilapidated, forgotten, usa, cows, rural"Forgotten Lands," by Ryan McDowell
My nonfiction essay, "Bon Jellico," was published yesterday by Hot Metal Bridge. You can read it here. It's also available on the My Work page now.

The essay is the Featured Nonfiction piece for the Fall 2013 issue, and appears with this elegiac painting, "Forgotten Lands," by the talented Ryan McDowell, a BFA student at Bradley University.

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Lynn Hare link
1/5/2014 06:59:36 am

Tony,

"Bon Jellico" is brilliant. I especially enjoy your use of vivid imagery, which permits us to see the town and personal experiences. Personification and other colorful metaphors bring "Bon Jellico' to life in a powerful way. I absolutely LOVE these illustrations:

"the mountains refused to choke up any more coal."
"...he wore bifocals with lenses as dense as manhole covers."
"She was unable to speak or hear, two-thirds Helen Keller and not half as rich."
The ornery rooster they had for supper,
"There was nothing to fear but fear itself, and starvation and bankruptcy and nakedness."
"Each day drove the nail of embarrassment a little deeper."

Way to go, Tony!

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Py.smith@hotmail.com
9/16/2017 10:56:36 am

I loved this story
My father was from Bon jellco. Thank you so Much Pam Prewitt

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Anthony Otten link
9/17/2017 02:33:12 pm

Thank you so much for reading, Pam. Bon Jellico may be gone but it's a place worth remembering, especially for its people.

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     Anthony Otten has published stories in Jabberwock Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Wind, Still: The Journal, and others. He has been a finalist for the Hargrove Editors' Prize in Fiction. He lives in Kentucky.

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