CHILA WOYCHIK
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
Singing the Land: A Rural Chronology from Shanti Arts Publishing, Maine (May 2020), a collection of previously published essays reformatted into a month-by-month look at rural living.
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"A ... meditation on the wonder of small moments, artfully told." Kirkus Reviews
Amazon reviews:
"Maddie Hill is the next-door neighbor you crave, the friend you cherish, and the detective we have been waiting for."
"a delightful surprise: a mystery braided into Maddie Hill's small press business & well-rounded rural life."
"a character who's equal parts brilliant and brave. From strong women to tender vulnerability, this book will not leave you wanting!"
The Query (2nd edition) from Port Yonder Press, #1 in the Maddie Hill Mysteries series of novellas.
A small press publisher. Pan Am Flight 103. A strange manuscript query. How does it all fit together? Maddie Hill is passionate about her book press, but when last day submissions happen, she's also relieved. That is, until she receives several confusing emails, phony names, and veiled threats. Not to mention, she misses Sasha, though she’d never admit it. And is her mentor really who he says he is? Everything eventually comes to light after several cat and mouse hours of who-did-what-and-why.
The Trail (2025) The Appalachian Trail with Sasha: Maddie wants nothing more. But someone is hunting Sasha, and he doesn’t know why … until his father is poisoned. There's a stolen letter, a shady figure, a flashing website link. Maddie and Sasha follow a paper trail to discover a long lost relative of his, and at the same time, Maddie finds one of her own.
The Return (forthcoming)
The Years (forthcoming)
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Anne: “Don’t you ever imagine things differently from what they are?” Marilla Cuthbert: “No.” Anne: “Oh Marilla, how much you miss.” (Anne of Green Gables) The dragons of Chad and the Little Folk of Underwood. Lewis and Eliot of Tallwood, and the pirates of Ravenswood. Breezes and squirrels, moons and gardens, and a ship lost at sea. Ages 9-90. Amazon link. |
Brothers Lewis and Eliot love life on their Safe Trail travels around Tallwood -- until the day they must grow up and move on. First, they visit three cities where they learn about the world, and themselves, then on to three more, the final being Libertas, the land of Treowe and Thudor, and very near the beautiful Mount Eterna. Along the way they'll meet the evil Ubel, the sweet and lovely Cully, the nearly forgotten Charis, and the heavenly albs. Come along for a true adventure, a journey to be remembered. You might just find yourself longing for Camisia too.
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Note: the entire text of Adventures in Tallwood is contained at the end of SlipSail and Wander.
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Awards and Recognitions
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2022 Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Rumors of Death and Beauty" via Trampset) Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee (Midway Journal) 2019 Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Country May: 14 Days" via Mud Season Review) Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("The Rural Chronicles: Junctures" via Belletrist) Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Weeds" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich) Barry Lopez Creative Nonfiction Contest, Finalist ("Topography" via Cutthroat, Judge: Heid Erdrich) 2018 Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Twenty Rural" via Cimarron Review) Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Sister Lyric: In the Finding of You" via Citron Review) Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("A Rural Spring: 14 Days" via Portland Review) Best of the Net Anthology, Nominee ("Five Days in the Iowan Outback" via Whale Road Review) 44th New Millennium Writing Awards, Honorable Mention ("The Rural Chronicles") 2017 Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize, Finalist (Judge: Adriana Ramírez) Loren Eiseley Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("Guesswork" via Red Savina Review) 2016 Linda Julian Creative Nonfiction Award, Recipient Pushcart Prize, Nominee ("A Place Called Place" via Emrys Journal) |
