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Elizabeth Bruce

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Elizabeth Bruce’s Universally Adored & Other One Dollar Stories, was recently released by Vine Leaves Press. Her debut novel, And Silent Left the Place, won Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Prize, with Foreword Magazine and Texas Institute of Letters’ distinctions. She’s been published in stories in the USA and thirteen countries.

Washington Writers’ Publishing House’s Fiction Award

WWPH Publications by Elizabeth Bruce

Testimonials

  • Bruce’s characters leap off the page at you; they have vividness and substance, and the result, reading her work, is that one feels the life there…a deeply gifted writer…

    Richard Bausch, WinnerWinner, PEN/Malamud and Rea Awards for the Short Story

  • Elizabeth Bruce has a great literary voice, interwoven with wonderful, authentic characters plopped down into their own real world of Patsy Cline, barbecue, Herbert Tarryton, Jack Daniels, Bob Wills, boots, sweat, and longing. The Saturday night dance has already begun; don’t be late.

    Mike Flanagan, authorThe Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Old West and It’s About Time

  • I laughed, I cried, I held my breath at times, holding the book tighter, not wanting to let go of these characters who were absolutely real to me.
    Elizabeth Bruce has an incredible writer’s voice.

    Lynn Stearns, Fiction Editor, The Potomac Review and Fiction Instructor Emerita, The Writers’ Center’s

Additional Awards

  • ForeWord Magazine’s Bronze Fiction Prize
  • Texas Institute of Letters’ Award for Best Work of First Fiction Finalist

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