was a finalist for the 2020 Elixir PressBook Prize, the 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize, and the 2019 CRAFT First Chapter Contest. Non-fiction Selgin is also the author of two non-fiction books on the craft of fiction writing, By Cunning & Craft, and 179 Ways to Save a Novel. His first book of essays, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was published by the University of Iowa Press / Sightline Books in October 2011. His memoir, "The Inventors," was published by Hawthorne Books in 2016. It won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award for non-fiction. His book on the craft of narrative fiction and non-fiction, "Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us About the Pages That Follow Them," was published in 2017 by Serving House Books. Plays As a playwright, Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, A God in the House, based on Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his “suicide machine,” was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for off-Broadway. A God in the House also won the Mill Mountain Theatre New Plays Competition (1990). Night Blooming Serious, another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993). Visual art Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Outside, Fine Gardening, San Francisco, Boston, Forbes, U.S. Art, American Illustration, Time-Out New York, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR's Weekend Edition, Fox's Good Day New York, and CNBC's Great Stuff. As a commercial artist, he storyboarded several motion picture scenes, including the gargoyle special effects sequences in Tales from the Darkside. For eight years, beginning in 2005, he served as art director of Alimentum: The Literature of Food. He is currently art director of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal operating from the MFA program at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. Selgin is also a book cover designer. Children's books Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic. Awards “Duplicity,” Semi-Finalist 2020 Elixir Press Book Prize “Duplicity,” Finalist 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize “Duplicity,” Finalist 2019 Craft First Chapter Contest “The Inventors,” Winner, 2017 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction “The Opening Credits to Rebel Without a Cause,” Best American Notable Essay 2018 “Noise,” Best American Notable Essay, 2017 “The Strange Case of Arthur Silz,”