Author Archives: Peter Selgin

About Peter Selgin

Peter Selgin is the author of Drowning Lessons, winner of the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, Life Goes to the Movies, a novel, two books on the craft of fiction, and several children’s books. His memoir, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was short-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize. His latest novel, The Water Master, won the William Faulkner Society Prize, selected by Random House Senior Editor Will Murphy. His work has won the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, the Dana Award, six Best American Essay notable essay citations, and two selections for the Best American series. A second memoir, The Inventors, is forthcoming from Hawthorne Books in April of 2016. He teaches at Antioch University’s MFA program and is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University.

As I sit in My Dockside Chair

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Peter Selgin

I sit in my dockside chair and watch the water and the sky and the reflections that ripple in the waves as the fishing boats go by, and hear the birds and smell the air and feel the cold breeze … Continue reading →

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To a Friend on his 60th Birthday

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Peter Selgin

On the occasion of my friend Michael’s 60th birthday, his daughter asked people to share their reminiscences. My brother George wrote something beautiful. An excerpt: First, a confession: when asked to write to you reminiscing about old times, I was at something of a … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Peter Selgin

Welcome! Pay here if your First Page has been selected for a critique by me.

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The Tiresomeness of the Hedgehog: Some Books on Tape

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Peter Selgin

Lately I find I can’t read anything, or maybe I can’t find anything worth reading, I’m not sure. I get halfway through a book, or less than halfway, a third of the way, a quarter, a chapter, three pages, two … Continue reading →

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