Happy day! I’ve just learned that my essay “Eleven Signs My Bipolar Moods Are Cycling” has been named the winner of the 2016 Redivider Blurred Genre Contest for Flash Nonfiction, judged by Jerald Walker.
Here are Mr. Walker’s comments:
“Outstanding prose coupled with the chaos of a mind in crisis results in a reading experience that is both pleasurable and troublesome. The writer so deftly builds her character on the page that you root for her as you would a relative or good friend, hoping against all evidence that she will suddenly, miraculously, break free of her disease. And even though she doesn’t, the reader can take comfort in the writer’s comfort that the cycle will invariably turn upward, allowing her to have, however brief, a reprieve.”
You can read the essay here:
A. Lyn Carol 