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Leslie Pietrzyk is a novelist/short story writer. Most recent book: ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE, stories of DC, published by Unnamed Press (2021). THIS ANGEL ON MY CHEST (Univ of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. www.lesliepietrzyk.com
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The Nebraska Review (opens the original)
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I was inspired to write “Alaska Is the Part of Me Left Unexplored” when, back in the olden days of yore, an Alaskan travel brochure arrived in the mail, and that phrase was the marketing slogan. This was one of those upscale, lush booklets, and I remember admiring the photos—without turning obsessive, as does one of the characters in my story. These were my “salad days,” and money was tight, so it was lovely to flip the glossy pages and imagine escaping the Arizona desert where we were living an
The Gettysburg Review, 2013 (opens the original)
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The Sun (opens the original)
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I’ll write more about The Sun magazine more fully, eventually, as I’ve published several essays and stories there. If you’re unfamiliar, the publication emphasizes casting an unflinching eye on personal experience. Their motto is taken from Victor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor: “What is to give light must endure burning.” For a while, I was doing that sort of deeply intense personal writing, before finding I needed to step back. I greatly admire this magazine, and it’s a valued literary outlet li
Midwestern Gothic (opens the original)
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I’m not sure which AWP it was, since I’ve been to a million, but I remember wandering down an aisle of the Book Fair and coming across a new-to-me journal, Midwestern Gothic. The editors were friendly, so I bought an issue—which I loved—and determined that this journal was going to eventually have to publish something of mine. (They didn’t feel the same determination as I recall a couple of rejections.) But when I sent “The Devil’s Daughter,” I knew that if this wasn’t it, nothing would be.<a cl
Westview (opens the original)
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