Dallas Woodburn

Books by Dallas Woodburn

3 a.m.: a collection of short stories

by Dallas Woodburn

iUniverse, Inc., 2005.

Dancing With The Pen: a collection of...

by Dallas Woodburn

iUniverse.com, 2011.

About Me

My blog: http://daybydaymasterpiece.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/writerdallas
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DallasWoodburn

Writing is my absolute passion and I feel incredibly blessed that I am able to pursue it as a career!

My short story collection WOMAN, RUNNING LATE, IN A DRESS was published in March 2018 by Yellow Flag Press as winner of their Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. Signed copies are available at bit.ly/womanrunninglate.

I have also self-published two collections of short stories for children and young adults, which are available through my website. My short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Zyzzyva, Superstition Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, The Nashville Review, and Monkeybicycle, among others. One of my stories appeared in American Fiction 13: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by American Writers (New Rivers Press).

In addition to fiction, I also enjoy writing nonfiction and plays. My articles and essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Modern Loss, Your Impossible Voice, Passages North, Prime Number, Motherwords, Writer's Digest, and nearly two-dozen Chicken Soup for the Soul books. My plays have been produced in Los Angeles and New York City.

I studied Creative Writing at the University of Southern California and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2013 I graduated with my M.F.A. in fiction from Purdue University. While at Purdue, I served as Fiction Editor of Sycamore Review and taught undergraduate writing courses, which I really loved. I was a 2013-14 Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University.

I am also the founder of a youth literacy foundation called Write On! that encourages kids and teens to discover confidence, joy, a means of self-expression and connection to others through reading and writing. Projects include fun writing workshops; short story, poetry, and essay contests; annual Summer & Winter Writing Camps; and a Holiday Book Drive that has collected and donated more than 12,000 new books to disadvantaged and at-risk youth. I am always looking for passionate people to join the cause. If you are interested or would like more information, check out my website at http://www.writeonbooks.org

Why do you write?

I cannot imagine not writing. I think I would go insane.

I find inspiration from music, paintings, friends, arguments. Dreams, long walks, the outdoors. A mug of tea. Chocolate.

Also, quotes. A few of my favorites:

"There is no perfect time to write. There's only now." - Barbara Kingsolver

"I nearly always write, just as I nearly always breathe." - John Steinbeck

"First, please yourself." - Elizabeth Berg

"Write with passion! Write with love!" - Ray Bradbury

Any favorite authors? Books?

Too many to list, but here is a sampling on my mind at the moment: Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Death of a Salesman, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Girl With a Pearl Earring, The Shipping News; short stories by Aimee Bender, Lorrie Moore, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolfe, Charlotte Holmes.