First runner-up for the 2024 international William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Prize
Lawrence William Coates, final judge for that prize, wrote this: ‘Hurt People burdens its main character with an impossible and anguishing task. Garrett has a painful backstory of parental abuse and a motorcycle accident that left his face scarred and has made him feel unlovable. He embarks on a dark odyssey, seeking to understand himself and his fate. The journey, which takes him to the graves of his parents and to other points of his past, is deeply moving. The journey also shows the author’s power in creating scenes of intense dramatic conflict. Hurt People takes readers to painful places while offering a signpost of hope at the end.’
In the hands of critically acclaimed author Randall Silvis, Hurt People is gritty realism at its finest and most moving.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Lawrence William Coates, final judge for that prize, wrote this: ‘Hurt People burdens its main character with an impossible and anguishing task. Garrett has a painful backstory of parental abuse and a motorcycle accident that left his face scarred and has made him feel unlovable. He embarks on a dark odyssey, seeking to understand himself and his fate. The journey, which takes him to the graves of his parents and to other points of his past, is deeply moving. The journey also shows the author’s power in creating scenes of intense dramatic conflict. Hurt People takes readers to painful places while offering a signpost of hope at the end.’
In the hands of critically acclaimed author Randall Silvis, Hurt People is gritty realism at its finest and most moving.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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