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David Winner’s first novel, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, won the Gival Novel prize and received advance praise from National Book Award winners, Shirley Hazzard and John Casey.  It will be published in 2010 by the Gival Press.  His short fiction, which has been nominated twice for the Pushcart, the Associated Writing Programs Intro prize and won the 2003 Ledge Magazine Short Story contest, has appeared in The Village Voice, Fiction, Confrontation, Dream Catcher, The Cortland Review and several other journals in the US and the UK.  Another story, “My Lover’s Moods” was made into a short film that played at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. http://www.roast.org/MLM/ He is the fiction editor of The American, www.americanmag.com, a international magazine based in Rome.

“Discoveries of individual existence in a great city illuminated by a keen observer and the women who cross, or linger on, his path. David Winner has a clear bright eye and as fine an ear for what is poignant as for what is absurd. I look for more of his profane comic sense.” Shirley Hazzard
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Brock Clark is the author of two previous novels and two short story collections. He lives in Portland, Maine and teaches at Bowdoin College. He reads from his novel: Exley
Praise for An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England “Wildly, unpredictably funny.” The New York Times

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,