Wendy Thornton

Wendy Bio:
Wendy Thornton is a freelance writer and editor who has been published in Riverteeth, Epiphany, MacGuffin and many other literary journals and books. Her memoir, Dear Oprah Or How I Beat Cancer and Learned to Love Daytime TV, Memoir, was published in July 2013. Her mystery, Bear-Trapped: In a Trashy Hollywood Novel, was published in February 2015. And her latest book, Sounding the Depths: Memories with Music, was published in November 2017. She has won many awards for her work. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has been Editor’s Pick on Salon.com multiple times. She was the organizer and first president of the Writers Alliance (www.writersalliance.org). Her work is published in England, Scotland, Australia and India.
Recent Publications
• Rambling Man, BioStories, Featured Essay, Dec. 2017 – http://biostories.com/
• Physics as a Cure for Grief, Concho River Review, Department of English and Modern Languages at Angelo State University, November, 2017 edition.
• Never Underestimate the Ring of Fire, and Fire Tower, All for One, Issue #18, The Wild Word – July, 2017 http://thewildword.com/poetry-wendy-thornton/, and hard copy due 2018.
• Things You Should Know About Me, Steel Toe Review, Vol. 4, Jan. 2017.
• The Physics of an Empty Room, The Lake, United Kingdom (http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/ July 2016.
• In Summer, Men Die, and Sand Hill Cranes, White Ash Literary Magazine, March 2016.
• Exit Covenant, Fiction Fix special issue, Poetry Fix, March 2016, https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/fullscreen/54904907/poetry-fix .
• Beach Scenes, Sheepshead Review, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Spring 2015.
• Bear Trapped: In a Trashy Hollywood Novel, Mystery, Feb. 2015, Amazon.
• Out in the Country, Wrap Around South magazine, Jan. 2015, http://wraparoundsouth.org/winter-2015/essays/out-in-the-country-by-wendy-thorton/
• Don’t Call Her California, accepted for publication, Dec. 2014, Crucible, Barton College, Wilson, N. C., http://www.barton.edu/crucible/.
• Exit Covenant, accepted for publication, Fiction Fix special issue, Poetry Fix, Summer 2015.
• Crickets, Blue Heron Review, Feb. 2015, http://blueheronreview.com/blue-heron-review-issue-3-winter2015/
• Inside Voices, Blue Lake Review, January 2015, http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/inside-voices.html
• Hanging at the Library, published Belle Reve Journal, August 2014.
• The Affairs of Dragons, Hippocampus Magazine, published June 2014. http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2014/06/affairs-of-dragons-by-wendy-thornton/ Also, Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings, Jul 2014.
• Beautiful Women, Wretched Lies, White Ash Literary Magazine, April 2014, http://www.amazon.com/Moon-White-Literary-Magazine-Volume/dp/1496167910/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1403282287&sr=8-14&keywords=Wendy+Thornton
• Cognitive Flame-Out, Honorable Mention, Avalon Literary Magazine Poetry Contest, March 2014.
• Me and the Boys and that Fun Trip to New Orleans, Dirty Chai, Issue 2, Adventureland, March 2014, http://issuu.com/dirtychaimag/docs/dirtychaiadventurelandpdf
• Secrets like a Flock of Geese, Wind on the Horizon, Managing your ADHD, Connotation Press, Issue V, Volume V: January 2014 (http://www.connotationpress.com/fiction/2177-wendy-thornton-fiction).
• Don’t Call Her California, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Semi-Finalist, Editor’s Choice Award (http://editorschoiceaward.blogspot.com/).
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