Myrlin A. Hermes : I won an Oregon Literary Fellowship!
I won an Oregon Literary Fellowship!
"Writing, for me, is like trying to remember a vivid and complicated dream. You can see and understand the entire scene in a flash, but it gets slippery when you try to pin down the details."
Read the entire interview, as well as excerpts from the other honored writers, at the link above. And if you're an Oregon resident with a literary project in mind, there are still a couple of weeks left to get your application in for next year's awards. I've applied for several years running, so it just goes to show that you never know when your work will resonate with the judges. Good luck!
Myrlin Ambrosia Hermes (yes, that is her real name) is the author of the novels Careful What You Wish For and The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, winner of the Arch & Bruce Brown Prize and the 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. A graduate of Reed College and the University of London (Royal Holloway), she was born in California, raised in Hawaii, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Like Adam in my novel Careful What You Wish For, I find an unusual number of four-leaf clovers. View the collection.
*The epidemic inability to spell my name runs rampant. Some common variations include "Merlin Hermes" "Merlyn Hermes" "Merlin A. Hermes" "Merlyn A. Hermes" "Marilyn Hermes" and "Myrlina Hermes." Accept no substitutes for your Myrlin Hermes needs.