Spark: A Creative Anthology - Tapa blanda

A bold revival of the short story format, punctuated with classic and modern poetry forms, Spark: A Creative Anthology features the freshest work from a range of talented writers, from established professionals to newly-emerging authors and poets.

Contributors
Introduction by Traci L. Gourdine
Cover Art by Aaron John Gregory
Illustrations by Paul Pederson
Todd Walton, Going After Nathan
Margaret Dilloway, Ever Since I’ve Seen Your Face
Hunter Liguore, Momentary Forgiveness
Darrell Lindsey, tanka
George Wells, Last Rites
j.lewis, surgical mass
Linda G Hatton, Becoming
Katie Stephens, Faceless
Melana Plains, Not a Worry, My Lord
Alexis A. Hunter, By the Gun
D. Laserbeam, Five Hundred
Svetlana Kortchik, Forget Me Not
Hannah Weverka, Gingerbread Towns
Matt Lancaster, Old Age
Brian Reeves , Her Fruitful Shore
Valentina Cano, Image of a Treasure, as a Negative
Stone Showers, His Smile Fixed in Time
Kari Castor, Jael Stands Trial for Murder
Diana Fu, Confession
Scott Warrender, The Littleness of Susan Brauer
John Stocks, Vows
Peter Wood, The Fig Tree
Kaitlin Branch, One Cog Short of Paradise

Learn more about Volume I contributors and content at http://SparkAnthology.org.

TODD WALTON was born in San Francisco. His fiction began appearing in national magazines in 1975 with the publication of Willow in Cosmopolitan. In 1978, Todd published his critically acclaimed novel Inside Moves, which sold over 160,000 copies and was made into an Academy Award???nominated film in 1980. His second novel, Forgotten Impulses (Simon and Schuster, 1980) was chosen by the New York Times as one of the best of that year. Louie & Women was published by Dutton in 1983, and Night Train by Mercury House in 1986. Todd's fifth novel, Ruby & Spear, was published by Bantam in 1996. In 998, Avon published his first nonfiction work, Open Body: Creating Your Own Yoga. Of Water and Melons was published by Red Wing Press in 1999, and in May 2000, Ten Speed Press published The Writer's Path, Todd's book of original writing exercises, co-authored with Mindy Toomay.

Margaret Dilloway was a California Arts Scholar in Creative Writing and won a National Council of Teacher English writing award. She practiced writing in a variety of forms, such as being a theater critic and contributing editor for two weekly newspapers, doing technical writing, and playwriting, before publishing three critically acclaimed books for adults, How to Be an American Housewife, The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns, and Sisters of Heart and Snow.