Blog – Page 2 – Scott Alumbaugh

Success and Lack of

January 26, 2020

Here in the depth of the Davisville winter (grey mornings and sometimes full days of tule fog), I have decided to revamp my website. In doing so, I've been looking back on my desultory blog posts, and realize that in the last couple years they've mostly been just about publications and public performances of my work. It feels a little bit like braggery. I feel like I need to explain.

Fiction

“San Andreas’ Fault” to appear in Black Fork Review

November 26, 2019

Black Fork Review has just accepted "San Andreas' Fault" for publication. Not only is that just cool in and of itself, but with this news coming just a couple weeks after littlesomethingspress accepted "Peanut Butter" for publication, it's like manna from heaven.

Flash fiction Non-Fiction

“Peanut Butter” Accepted at littlesomethingspress

November 11, 2019

A nonfiction piece I wrote is going to be published early next year in a really cool little publication called little somethings press. Actually, the piece is a flash memoir, and is only 300 words long (the maximum they accept). I have trouble keeping short stories under 5,000 words, so it was quite a challenge.

Fiction Performance San Andreas Fault

“San Andreas’ Fault” Read at Stories on Stage-Sacramento

June 29, 2019

Ethan Ireland read my story "San Andreas' Fault" last night at Stories on Stage-Sacramento. The other story was an excerpt from An Excess Male by Maggie Shen. Together, our stories comprised a sort of quasi sci-fi evening of fiction. SOSS billed it as "dabbling in dystopia and tinkering with time." The "tinkering with time" part being my contribution.

Fiction

“DACAmented” to be Published in Kestrel

June 13, 2019

I just learned today that Kestrel has accepted my story "DACAmented" for publication. It should appear sometime next spring. That's a long lead time”nine months or so”but I'm grateful. This acceptance came out of the blue after a number of rejections.

Fiction

“Sailing Lessons” Accepted by Meat For Tea

March 5, 2019

Elizabeth MacDuffie, Editor-in-Chief of Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, contacted me to say she was going to publish "Sailing Lessons" in the next issue. I'm so glad this story is finally finding a home. Even though Stories on Stage-Davis acceptet it for reading, it has been rejected by forty other publications. So, either I finally edited it down to a publishable form, or, as is often the case, editors' tastes simply differ.

Performance

“Sailing Lessons” Read at Stories on Stage-Davis

January 13, 2019

Lisa Halko read my story "Sailing Lessons" last night at Stories on Stage“Davis, and she killed it. Lisa was kind enough to meet with me before the reading to talk about the narrator of the story, a sixty-something woman whose husband has just retired and decides they should sail around the world. Lisa did a great job giving voice to the character.

Performance

“Sailing Lessons” to be Performed at Stories on Stage-Davis

May 29, 2018

I just heard from Naomi Williams, Co-Director of Stories on Stage-Davis, that they've accepted my story "Sailing Lessons" for next season. Stories on Stage-Davis holds readings once each month featuring short works by two authors read by actors. The story will be performed in SOSD's Sixth season (2018-19).

Fiction

“The Rides of March” Accepted by StoryQuarterly

April 17, 2018

I just heard from Stephanie Manuzak, Managing Editor of StoryQuarterly, that they've accepted my story "the Rides of March for publication. This is a great publication, established back in 1975, and I couldn't be happier. The story is taken from a draft of a novel by the same name. I actually shopped the novel around to agents and drew zero interest. I mean zip.

Fiction Korean-American

“Fire Illness” is Named Runner-Up

November 2, 2017

My first short story, "Fire Illness," has just been published. It was named Runner-Up in the 2016 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize hosted by Hunger Mountain, the literary Journal of the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Matt Bell was the guest judge.