Excited to announce the literary fiction imprint of Sunbury Press is releasing my new story collection “Otherwise Wretched” in 2025. Cover reveal below.

Co-written with Donna Burtch, the screenplay adaptation of our biography W.G. (Sunbury Press 2022), also was a Semi-finalist in the 2024 ScreenCraft Competition. Has been a wonderful journey! https://austinfilmfestival.com/blog/news/2024-script-competitions-semifinalists-second-rounders/

Incredibly honored to have our screenplay adaption of W.G. (Sunbury, 2022) reach the semi-finals of the ScreenCraft Spring 2024 Pitch Competition. Congrats to the Finalists!

I’ll be presenting and reading at this wonderful conference with Donna Burtch and noted screenwriter William Bigelow. We will discuss the screenplay adaptation of our award-winning biography W.G. (Sunbury Press). Would love to see you!

My new short story, Animal Crossings, appears in this collection of nature & environmental writing. Available now!

My story Seasons of Chico appears in Northern Appalachia Review. A hunting dog tries to make sense of his owner’s deepening dementia. Honored to be included.

Join us to honor the 200,000 Black Civil War soldiers of the USCT on February 26 at 2PM. Dedicated to the late African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Readings, music, discussion and much more, with some truly special guests. Free with registration at NVMM. See you there!

Honored and excited to share that W.G. won the 2022 SUNNY Award for Nonfiction from Sunbury Press! Coauthor & sibling Donna Burtch & I are very grateful that W.G. Raymond’s life, and those of his troops, are recognized at last.