“My Tarot Card reader instructed me to be careful. Every person you sleep with, she warned, will leave an imprint on you, a little piece of their soul. You don’t want to take on a black soul. You don’t want that darkness in yourself.”
— Kelly Sundberg “Like Mourners’ Bread”

Congratulations to our very own nonfiction guru Kelly Sundberg. Her essay, “Like Mourners’ Bread,” won first place in Slice Magazine’s “Bridging the Gap Contest.” She won $100, and her essay will appear in the Spring 2012 edition of the magazine. Kelly was announced the winner at a recent conference. Kelly calls Slice a “special journal.” At the conference, she “was able to meet the publishers at the conference, and [she] could see how dedicated they are to fostering connections between emerging writers and the New York publishing world. Publishing is a long and difficult process, and it’s important to have journals that are dedicated to finding new talent.”

From the above excerpt, it’s no wonder that Slice recognized Kelly’s talent. Other literary journals are as well. Her essay “Demolition” is in the current issue of Flyway (as is fiction by our own fictioneer Justin Anderson), and she also has an essay, “Runaway,” forthcoming in Reed magazine.

Read more about Kelly’s work in her student spotlight.