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Peggy Duffy's short stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Newsweek, The Washington Post, Notre Dame Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, Octavo, Three Candles, So To Speak, Literary Mama, Brevity, and Main Street Rag, as well as in various Cup of Comfort and other anthologies.
Peggy's fiction has been recognized by the Virginia Commission for the Arts as a finalist in the Individual Artist Fellowship program for literary artists. One of her short stories was selected by storySouth as one of the Notable Online Short Stories for 2004, and two of her stories were selected as Notable Online Short Stories for 2003. A Temporary Measure was awarded second place in So To Speak's Spring 2001 Short Story Contest, judged by Susan Vreeland.
Peggy has an MFA from George Mason University.
First Thing in the Morning, published by Three Candles.
The Girl at the Side of the Road, published by Literary Mama.
What it is to Say Goodbye, published by Electica Fiction, April/May 2006.
To Have and To Hold, published by Wild Violet, Vol.V, Issue 2.
Fran and Chloe, published by Wild Violet
Cuban Cigars, published by Edifice Wrecked
Happy Like Me, published by Octavo, Winter 2003
Essays
Sick Days, published by Imperfect Parent.
Dress for Distress, published by Notre Dame Magazine, Autumn 2006.
A Relic of Fold-Up Chairs and Flying Dirt, published by The Christian Science Monitor, September 21, 2005.
Painting Walls, published by Ink & Ashes, Vol.1 Issue one.
My Morning Run is a Moving Meditation, published by Newsweek.
Peaked Performance, published by Banyon Review, Winter 2004.
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An Austrian father in the 1940s hides the truth in order to give his son one last birthday gift. Honorable Mention, Flashquake contest; Second Place, So to Speak contest.
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P.D.: I do consider myself a short story writer. I am drawn to the compactness of the form. I have a short attention span and am also a compulsive editor. Short works allow me to obsess over each word and still produce a polished story within a reasonable period of time. As to other forms of writing, let's just say I am perpetually working on something longer (although I hesitate to use the "n" word).
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